Decorative rabbits are very lovely fluffy small animals who are not demanding especially difficult leaving. The most important is to pick up the correct forage. What is necessary for a rabbit for the good and balanced nutrition?
Instruction
1. As the rabbit generally eats food of plant origin, it needs very many forage. Take care of that the small animal was not left without food for one hour. The main diet – hay, root crops and a grain forage. Special fodder mix can be bought in any pet-shop, but as rabbits surely need cellulose, in summertime it is necessary to add to a diet a fresh green grass, and in the winter hay. Favourite food of rabbits – a damp forage, for example, carrots, beet and a beet tops of vegetable, a girasol. Contrary to popular belief, these animals cannot be fed with cabbage as it can lead to development of diseases of intestines.
2. Choose a suitable grass. Krolikovoda usually use the most widespread weeds: dandelions, plantain, nettle, burdocks, etc. Do not break plants unfamiliar to you that to a small animal did not get to food a dope, a henbane, a celandine and other poisonous herbs. Krapivny hay is very useful and available, in it there are a lot of vitamins and mineral substances. It is necessary to dry any grass at first a little in a shadow. Also often add fresh sprouts of trees to a forage. Collect plants far from highways and the industrial enterprises.
3. You watch that the rabbit in a cage always had a drinking bowl with fresh boiled water. The lack of water can lead to various diseases and even to death of an animal.
4. Add mineral fertilizing to a diet. They can be got in pet-shop, but it is possible to use also usual chalk or a salt stone. Without compounds of calcium and phosphorus vitamin D will not be acquired, the lack of salts of sodium will lead to diseases of kidneys. Also beauty of wool and the general condition of your favourite depends on existence in food of mineral connections.
5. Calculate necessary quantity of a forage. Hay and root crops can be given without restrictions, and here the norm of a grain forage usually is 30 grams – 3 tablespoons a day. The quantity of a forage is increased for pregnant women and the feeding females. Professional krolikovoda use the following scheme: at 6 o'clock – a half of a grain forage and a grass, at 15 o'clock – a grass, at 19 o'clock – the rest of grain and a grass.