too excited to eat?

[Sabine]

My new rabbit Oskar doesn't seem to have touched any of his foo since he arrived yesterday. I mixed some of his old food with the new pellets bu he doesn't seem to touch either. I am not sure if he is eating hay?
He spaent all day virtually running around in the garden. I've never seen a rabbit so excited. He may have eaten tiny bits of grass. I yhought he'd wolf down his pellets after all the excercise. But he's been back in his hutch for a few hours and still hasn't touched a thing. Is that normal?

 

[Maureen Las]

I would guess that he will eat later tonight and there will be poop in the morning. i think that you're right that he is too happy to eat..probably never had so much freedom.

 

[Sabine]

He only atea small bit of his crappy old food. Couldn't see any poops but they may be buried in the litter tray. He definitely drank some water. I'd love to tempt him with greans but he never had any before

 

[paul2641]

Sabine wrote:

He only atea small bit of his crappy old food. Couldn't see any poops but they may be buried in the litter tray. He definitely drank some water. I'd love to tempt him with greans but he never had any before

If I was you I would completely take out the old food, That is what I have done with my new bun and she is diving into her new food that I feed my other rabbits.

 

[Becca]

paul2641 wrote:

Sabine wrote:

He only atea small bit of his crappy old food. Couldn't see any poops but they may be buried in the litter tray. He definitely drank some water. I'd love to tempt him with greans but he never had any before

If I was you I would completely take out the old food, That is what I have done with my new bun and she is diving into her new food that I feed my other rabbits.

Can't that upset her system??? Which is why you have to change slowly??

 

[irishlops]

paul... rabbits can die if you do that!!!!!!!!!!!!
becca is right!!

 

[paul2641]

Becca wrote:

paul2641 wrote:

Sabine wrote:

He only atea small bit of his crappy old food. Couldn't see any poops but they may be buried in the litter tray. He definitely drank some water. I'd love to tempt him with greans but he never had any before

If I was you I would completely take out the old food, That is what I have done with my new bun and she is diving into her new food that I feed my other rabbits.

Can't that upset her system??? Which is why you have to change slowly??

Yeah I heard of that happening but I have tried it with all the bunnies and they seem grand with the direct change from one to another.

 

[Becca]

paul2641 wrote:

Becca wrote:

paul2641 wrote:

Sabine wrote:

He only atea small bit of his crappy old food. Couldn't see any poops but they may be buried in the litter tray. He definitely drank some water. I'd love to tempt him with greans but he never had any before

If I was you I would completely take out the old food, That is what I have done with my new bun and she is diving into her new food that I feed my other rabbits.

Can't that upset her system??? Which is why you have to change slowly??

Yeah I heard of that happening but I have tried it with all the bunnies and they seem grand with the direct change from one to another.

Okay, just make sure you keep an eye on the bun as an individual because they are a different remember Sorry for hi-jacking thread Sabine

 

[irishlops]

lol same

 

[JadeIcing]

Actually it is best advised to trastion slowly to a new pellet. Though honestly? I never have.

Sometimes fosters come in with such horrible food no way would I feed it. I won't give them alot, I will give them just a tiny bit of the new pellets and LOTS of hay. Than slowly increase the new pellets.

 

[Maureen Las]

It is best to transition to a new pellet so somewhere along the line somewhere bunnies must have got GI upset from the changes.
When the buns are shifted around at the shelter from their original homes to the vets for spays/neuters back to the shelter and then to Petco they are getting different pellets everywhere and nothing has ever occured.
I try to do transition whenI can (just in case) but nothing has evr happened to a shelter buns anyway so when Kathy Smith comes back (her huband is sick) we can ask her if that is a myth

 

[paul2641]

JadeIcing wrote:

Actually it is best advised to trastion slowly to a new pellet. Though honestly? I never have.

Sometimes fosters come in with such horrible food no way would I feed it. I won't give them alot, I will give them just a tiny bit of the new pellets and LOTS of hay. Than slowly increase the new pellets.

My new bun was on this terrible mixed pellet, So I had to take her off it and I'm only giving her a small bit of the new pellet I feed my other rabbits.

 

[Sabine]

I have both tupe of food in the same bowl and he has the choice of old and new. i am not sure if he is eating hay as i have at least three different types all around the cage and he messes around quite a bit. he is alert and hyper active. i kept him half of the day in his hutch to get him more settled but he still didn't each much and once he was back in the run he was just running, running, running.... The poor fellow probably doesn't know that he can have this every day!

 

[irishbunny]

I have never made the slow transition either, I think it may be a myth

 

[paul2641]

Don't want to frighten you but maybe he has something wrong with him, But I'm sure you can mention it to the vet when He is getting his neuter.

 

[Maureen Las]

Is he pooping ?

 

[Sabine]

Not much. What I saw looks a bit too soft to me

 

[Sabine]

Just checked again and the food bowl looks untouched. No idea if he is eating hay. i wonder should i start offering him the alfafa rich pellets for younger buns. He should be around seven months but is so skinny. i still have one bag left and was considering to open it for him.

 

[Maureen Las]

You know..
maybe you are letting him have too much freedom too fast for his system to adapt. if the poop is softI would be careful with the transition of pellets and give a lot of hay,.

can you get probiotics in Ireland. I'm fairly sure that you can get them for horses which are the same as benebac sold here.
Probiotics are microorganisms that live naturally in the GI tract of mammals. In the US the horse gel is called probios . the small animal kind is benebac.

I wouldn't let him run free tomorrow but watch him for awhile. he could be just plain stressed out.

 

[Maureen Las]

paul2641 wrote:

Don't want to frighten you but maybe he has something wrong with him, But I'm sure you can mention it to the vet when He is getting his neuter.

Maybe Paul is right but give it a little time..
he probably should have a vet check anyway.