Afraid I'm not feeding them enough

[JessicaK]

So, my two bunnies are about 5 pounds each.
They eat:
1/4 cup pellets in the morning
2-3 big leaves (about 1.5-2 cups worth) of lettuce mid day
a stalk of celery mid day
1/4 cup of pellets in the evening
a piece of fruit in the evening

They also have unlimited hay.

They don't always finish a handful of hay in a day. But they always act like they are very hungry when I give them pellets.

Should I be feeding them more?

 

[MiniLopHop]

Bunnies can be con-artists when trying to get you to feed them more of their favorite things.

I feed 1/4 pellets per 5 pound bun in the morning, two handfuls of greens in the evenings with fruit garnish. Two of my buns act like they havn't eaten in a week and scarf down the pellets and greens like there is no tomorrow. My other two dig in like they are starving, but don't finish right away. There's pellets left at mid day but gone by dinner. My crew tends to eat more hay, probably because they get less pellets.

Bottom line, as long as they are in good body condition and they have hay and water available all the time, I wouldn't worry that they are honestly starving. If they were they would be eating more hay. Perhaps try a differnt type of hay? I started mixing timothy and orchard which got mine to eat more of it. I wouldn't fret.

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Nope, your numbers are right on!
Could cut down on the pellets to 1/4 a day (that's the recommended amount for small buns)

When you look down on the buns, they should look more like hourglasses (wider shoulders and butt), rather than little fat breadloaves (like my rexy rabbit ahaha).

Yay for unlimited hay!

Mine also dance around like they are starving for pellets - I think it's pretty true of everybunny

 

[LakeCondo]

The stalk of celery should be cut up, so there are no long strings to block them up. You're probably doing that, but I wanted to make sure.

 

[silversky2668]

Sounds like enough to me I have a six pound rabbit--he gets unlimited timothy hay/meadow grass, a cup or so of veggies in the afternoon before I go to work, and 1/4 cup of pellets at night, which he goes crazy for. Rabbits are supposed to be excited about their pellets. Honey gets so impatient with me that he always grunts at me while I'm scooping them into his bowl and usually nearly causes the whole dish to go over in his haste to get there :rollseyes The hay is the most important thing.

 

[JessicaK]

Ok thanks

I'll keep an eye on my cute con artists.
(I think there would be a mutiny if I cut back their pellets any more)


And yep, the celery is cut up