Agghh! Pepsi's building a nest.. AGAIN

[Spring]

She's on the road to her normal appetite. She ate some of her pellets and had a handful of hay and is now back to wolfing down her vegetables. Thanks!

Wow! I hope that's not true with the buns! I have no clue if it would or not:?.

 

[JimD]

Spring wrote:

Wow! I hope that's not true with the buns! I have no clue if it would or not:?.

Maybe Pam or someone has some input on this?

You could definately control fiber and fat in her diet, if those statments apply to buns too. Or at least know what to avoid if she has problems again.

 

[naturestee]

A low-fat diet is good for rabbits, but they digest fiber differently than humans do. Fiber does not cause bloat in rabbits, it's actually a good preventative for it. Humans get bloat from fiber because our seldom-used fiber eating microbes go into overtime and produce lots of gas. This decreases in time if you continue with a high fiber diet.

Rabbits on the other hand are designed to eat foods that are very high in fiber and low in nutrients. A diet too low in fiber can actually cause GI stasis or make it happen more frequently. Gas buildup in rabbits is more often caused by a GI slowdown which prevents the gas from moving through as normal or bacterial overgrowth from to many carbohydrates or fast changes in diet.

 

[JimD]

naturestee wrote:

A low-fat diet is good for rabbits, but they digest fiber differently than humans do. Fiber does not cause bloat in rabbits, it's actually a good preventative for it. Humans get bloat from fiber because our seldom-used fiber eating microbes go into overtime and produce lots of gas. This decreases in time if you continue with a high fiber diet.

Rabbits on the other hand are designed to eat foods that are very high in fiber and low in nutrients. A diet too low in fiber can actually cause GI stasis or make it happen more frequently. Gas buildup in rabbits is more often caused by a GI slowdown which prevents the gas from moving through as normal or bacterial overgrowth from to many carbohydrates or fast changes in diet.

So it's not possible for a rabbit to eat too much fiber, is what I'm understanding.

 

[naturestee]

Nope. Best thing for them is fiber. That's why hay is good for them and why we have to check our pellets and make sure that they have enough. Some of the el-cheapo Walmart stuff I've seen has fiber as low as 12%, which if it's the only fiber source the rabbit is fed is low enough to cause or contribute to stasis.

 

[JimD]

:thanks: