Domestic rabbits are quite unpretentious beings. But to keep their health, cheerful nature and beautiful appearance, it is necessary to feed small animals correctly and variously. It is especially important to observe a diet during the winter period.
It is required to you
- - hay;
- - the ready-made combined feeds;
- - root crops (carrots, turnip, swede);
- - fresh greens;
- - fruit delicacies;
- - fresh water;
- - salt stone.
Instruction
1. It is the simplest to feed rabbits twice a day – in the morning and in the evening. At this time they have a good appetite and they without whims eat everything offered. Try that the daily diet of a small animal included rough dry and juicy feeds. In a cage constantly there has to be a hay – it makes not less than 60% of a rabbit diet.
2. If the rabbit reluctantly eats, try to sprinkle him salty water or to strew with bran. One more way to interest a small animal in a breakfast – to offer it a small stalk of parsley or a little celery – greens increases appetite. From time to time offer rabbits ready complex mixes - then you do not need to add vitamins to food.
3. If you beforehand did not stock up with hay, buy ready. Before offering it to the rabbit, choose rigid and rough stalks. Some small animals prefer the crushed hay – do not refuse to them this whim. You can get and germinated oats - ready briquettes are on sale in pet-shops. However in the winter the fresh grass to rabbits with success is replaced by root crops.
4. Your rabbit had breakfast dry feeds? Then for dinner offer it vegetables. The carrots loved by rabbits can be given without restrictions, and here with cabbage it is worth being more careful, especially, if you offer it to young animals. From surplus of cabbage the small animals can have an indigestion. Try to replace a white cabbage with color or a kohlrabi – rabbits react to it less sharply.
5. Many rabbits willingly eat potatoes – best of all to give it boiled and pounded. Some like also potato cleanings. Turnip and swede are very useful to small animals – cut them large pieces together with a peel.
6. Pets can offer and I go from own table – for example, friable porridges or the dried black and white loaf. However do not give to rabbits too much food, containing carbohydrates, especially if small animals move a little – they can quickly gain excess weight.
7. Surely offer rabbits of a branch: birch, willow, maple or oak. In the winter small animals with pleasure gnaw branches of a fir-tree or a pine. Cut them on small sticks and enclose in a cage in the portions. Branches can be prepared since summer, but it is not forbidden to collect them and in the winter. Indulge the favourites with fresh needles – it very much is pleasant to many rabbits.
8. If you want to indulge a small animal, treat him with a small slice of apple or watermelon, raisin or a piece of banana. Do not offer rabbits the muesli, cookies and other delicacies containing sugar.
9. Do not overfeed pets, the two-kilogram rabbit needs no more than six tablespoons of a forage a day. You watch that in a drinking bowl there was always fresh water, and in a feeding trough - hay. Then your pet will be able to have a bite in any time, convenient for it. Do not forget and about a salt stone – the rabbit will gnaw it, receiving necessary mineral substances.