Recently rabbits are in special demand. More and more people seek to get this fluffy and lovely animal who differs in appeasable temper, perfectly get on with children and do not demand difficult leaving.
It is required to you
- - cage;
- - mineral stone;
- - bowl;
- - automatic drinking bowl;
- - forage;
- - tray;
- - hay.
Instruction
1. Along with purchase of a rabbit it is necessary to take care of acquisition of a cage. It is preferable that the cage was the big sizes that the pet did not experience difficulties in movement. At an adult animal the cage has to have a plastic pallet, cages with a trellised bottom as small pillows on pads of a rabbit are not intended for such floor are not acceptable. Do not put a cage on a draft or near the battery.
2. Use as a laying in a cage straw or sawdust. Equip a cage with the bowl feeding trough and a hinged automatic drinking bowl intended for rodents which has a metal tubule with a ball. The bowl has to have a wide and heavy bottom that the pet did not overturn it. It is possible to choose a hinged metal feeding trough, the support fastens in a lattice, and the bowl is easily taken for filling by a forage.
3. As the main forage of a rabbit serves compound feed and hay, add oat flakes to a diet. It is possible to use for feeding special mixes for young rabbits who are on sale in pet-shop. You enter new forages into an animal diet gradually, mixing with old. But at the same time consider that hay in a feeding trough has to be always. Water can be given otstoyanny, filtered or usual of the crane. In boiled water there are not enough oxygen, minerals and calcium, and bottled water is rich with salts therefore it can cause an urolithic disease in a rabbit.
4. If the rabbit is still very young, accustom him gradually to fruit, vegetables and a green grass. Begin a feeding up with apples and carrots, cabbage should be given to rabbits not more young than four months. Surely put a mineral stone of red-brown color in a cage. In case of the shortage of mineral substances the pet will be able to fill them thanks to a stone.
5. Daily let out a rabbit on walk. If the animal lives in house conditions, then remove excess objects and wires from a floor, otherwise the pet can take them for roots of trees or a branch, to begin to gnaw. That the rabbit sharpened teeth, put a branch of a fruit-tree or a piece of chalk in a cage. This animal is very clean, at growth start going to a toilet to one place. Over time it is possible to accustom him to do it in a cat's tray.
6. Never give to the favourite mouldy products, hay has to have a pleasant smell of a dry grass or pharmaceutical herbs. The rabbit always has to have a dry laying which should be changed at least two times a week. The wet and dirty laying can cause gastric diseases in an animal. Change a tray daily.