Do you feed veggies? Fruit?

[bunnybunbunb]

I feed hay as "staple" then they get a small (very small) handfull of pellets, maybe 1/4th cup? Veggies are a must, they get them everyday(sometimes things happen and they just have to skip a day, sadly). Parsley, cilontro, collard greens, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, celery, radish, carrot, boc choy and kale,I think that is it. I want to add more but with prices it is currently a no.Fruit is very rare, they bounce off the walls enough without the extra sugar.

 

[ec]

Lots of fresh hay is always out here. I used to get one big box of Kleenmama's at a time and only feed that, but over the past several months, I've introduced some other grass hays and she loves them all. (Great way to help encourage your bun to eat hay.)

Veggies: 2x per day. She loves them, and it gives her some variety in her diet. I would really hate to have to cut down on them.

Pellets: a little under 1/4 cup of Sweet Meadows timothy pellets daily.

Fruit: very sparingly, as a treat. Her fave is banana, but she loves certain veggies as treats, too (a grape tomato, a hunk of carrot, etc.). I try to make sure she doesn't get all that much sugar, which is why she doesn't get daily treats.

Other treats: small pinches of alfalfa hay, but again, sparingly.

 

[mouse_chalk]

I voted once a day for fruit, as they get a little treat of something each- be it a small piece of banana, apple, a grape, or sometimes a bit of dried pineapple. The dried pineapple is rarer though.

They get veg twice a day. What we do is split their 1/4 cup of pellets into 2 servings. So every morning a half cup (1/8 cup per bunny) is poured into the bowls (2 bowls between 4 bunnies), and then we top with veggies until the bowl is overflowing. Same in the evening. So each bunny gets around 1/4 cup Oxbow BBT pellets and a bowl of veggies per day.

I couldn't not give them veggies everyday- they live for them! At about 7pm if the haven't been fed, they start jumping around and have recently started nudging the bowls to let us know it's dinner time lol They all do the dinner dance- on tip toes, dancing around, trying to knock the bowl out of Steve's hands! They eat the pellets, but aren't overly fussed about them and sometimes leave some behind, and they always eat lots of hay.

The veg we feed is romaine, sometimes red gem/red leaf lettuce, rocket, spring greens, kale, celery incl leaves, sometimes green pepper, coriander (cilantro), parsley, basil and carrot tops. Carrot in small amounts and occasionally. Probably more veg that I can't think of right now!

 

[Mom of Joy and Love]

(Fruit: very sparingly, as a treat. Her fave is banana, but she loves certain veggies as treats, too (a grape tomato, a hunk of carrot, etc.). I try to make sure she doesn't get all that much sugar, which is why she doesn't get daily treats.)


Aren't tomatoes poisonous to bunnies?

 

[Raspberry82]

Same as mom of joy & love.. mine get fruits sparingly unless we really need to bribe them for training or something I way don't want to risk gut problems. Usually 1 tiny piece of dried fruit 2x a week or small piece of carrot, banana, apple 2 x a week. Mine hate tomato, grapes, bell pepper, etc. Picky-poos! 2 cups veg daily (split into 2 meals), and I change them up weekly, so they consider them a treat too with some "treat" veggies like green beans or snap peas thrown in sometimes.

Oh, and I give a couple sunflower seeds and oat flakes as treats too every other day or so.

Minnie is only 8wks so she's getting 1 stalk of parsley per day to slowly ease her into veg.