Rabbits are herbivores, and their favorite foods are carrots, sweet potatoes, Chinese cabbage, pumpkins, spinach, cucumbers, radish leaves, oranges, bananas, grapes, apples, plantains, dandelions, goose intestines, bean curd residue, bread and so on. Some foods can't be eaten in large quantities: corn, peanuts, potatoes, etc.
Foods you can't eat: chocolate, coffee, wine, onions, leeks, green onions, garlic, etc. In particular, food should not contain too much water! ! Otherwise, it will lead to diarrhea and even death of rabbits! Wash the food before feeding, dry the water on the surface and give it to the rabbit. No cooked food or frozen food! There is also a granular rabbit artificial feed on the market, which has balanced nutrition and good tooth hardness. If it is not too expensive, it is also a good food. You can take artificial feed as the staple food and provide some vegetables or weeds.
Feed the rabbit without feeding it.
(1) Don't feed the grass with dew;
(2) Don't feed rotten feed and forage grass;
(3) Don't feed grass and materials with soil;
(4) Do not feed feed and grass contaminated by eggs and feces;
(5) Don't feed the feed with peculiar smell;
(6) poisonous weeds are not fed;
(7) Don't feed the grass and materials with pesticides;
(8) Don't feed the grass and materials contaminated by chemical agents;
(9) Don't feed frozen feed;
(10) Feed after washing and after rain cannot be fed immediately.
What rabbit to eat?
Young rabbit: avoid eating fruits and vegetables, otherwise it will cause diarrhea.
Adult rabbits: rabbit food+vegetables (preferably high fiber, rabbits need fiber). Vegetables must be dry, not very dry, but not stained with raw water, preferably lettuce, celery, carrots, lettuce leaves, etc. Vegetables must be clean and pollution-free.
Don't forget to feed water.
Personally, I feel that the rabbit's stomach is actually quite fragile, so it is a snack.
Prepare something to grind the rabbit's teeth, such as wood. Rabbits need to grind their teeth.
It is not recommended to stay in a cage all the time, but be careful not to let her destroy furniture, wires and the like.
You can eat whole wheat bread in moderation. My rabbit even eats steamed bread.
What is the best for rabbits to eat?
Introduction to raising rabbits-diet
Q: What does Tutu eat?
A: Rabbits are herbivores, and their huge digestive system needs a lot of fiber to keep running. Insufficient fiber intake will slow down the intestinal peristalsis of rabbits, lead to excessive reproduction of bad bacteria in the intestines, and rabbits will get sick.
When buying rabbit food, its fiber content is 12%. Rabbit food is a good source of nutrition. You can provide enough nutrition to keep rabbits healthy, but you can't just eat rabbit food! Because rabbit food is nutritious, if the consumption of rabbits is not limited, it will easily lead to morbid obesity of rabbits, so rabbits should not be supplied with rabbit food indefinitely.
Because of the high water content of fresh vegetables, rabbits will have diarrhea if they eat too much; Fruit has a high sugar content, and eating too much will make rabbits swollen. These can be used as "non-staple food" and fed to rabbits in small quantities every day.
So what does Tutu eat? The answer is: "Limited rabbit food, unlimited clean drinking water and hay".
Q: Can Tutu drink water?
A: The answer is yes. All living things need water to sustain life. The rumor that rabbits will die if they drink water is wrong.
Tutu can definitely drink water, and the drinking water for Tutu must be clean. Unclean drinking water will make Tutu have loose bowels, which will seriously kill him. It is best to use a pet-specific water dispenser (the one with steel balls). Bunny won't knock over and step on it, and dirty things won't easily pollute the water quality, which can ensure the hygiene of drinking water, but always clean the water dispenser!
Q: Are rabbits of all ages fed in the same way?
A: Rabbits of different ages need different nutritional structures. The following basic feeding standards are for rabbit owners' reference.
Feeding amount based on age or condition
0-3 weeks breast milk
3-4 weeks old breast milk and a small amount of alfalfa hay or rabbit food
4-7 weeks old breast milk and incremental alfalfa hay and rabbit food.
7 ~ 12 weeks old, rabbit food and hay can be given indefinitely.
12- 16 weeks old alfalfa hay was replaced by gramineous grass. Start giving vegetables a small amount once a day.
7 weeks to 7 months of age are not limited to forage and rabbit food. More than 2 cups of vegetables with a small amount of fruit.
From July to 1 year-old, limit the food intake of rabbits and reduce vegetables to match the diet control after 1 year-old.
1-6 years old unlimited hay. Rabbit food 1/4- 1/2 cups/day /3 kg body weight.
Two cups of vegetables and a little fruit.
Over 6 years old, there is no limit to rabbit food and hay, 300g vegetables and 60g/ fruits/day /3kg body weight.
During pregnancy or lactation, the amount of alfalfa hay and rabbit food should be increased and fed 24 hours a day.
Give more rabbit food and vegetables in winter or when the cold current strikes.
Q: What should I pay attention to when feeding fruits and vegetables?
Answer: kohlrabi, spinach and cabbage are fed more than twice a week because of the high oxalic acid content.
Beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn are prone to flatulence due to their high starch content, so feed rabbits less.
Don't feed pumpkins, cucumbers and carrots at the same time as other fruits and vegetables, because it will destroy the vitamin C of other fruits and vegetables.
Q: How to choose rabbit food?
Answer: Please choose rabbit food with clear label and good and stable quality, so as to ensure the health and safety of rabbits. The following are the dietary composition standards suitable for rabbits:
Fiber:12 ~ 25% (more than18% is better, and 20 ~ 25% is best)
Protein: 14 ~ 16% (young rabbits or rabbits with large activity need 16 ~ 22% in protein).
Calcium: not higher than 1%
Fat: 1 ~ 2%
Q: Why should we pay attention to the contents of protein, fat and calcium when choosing rabbit food?
A: Humans are beginning to realize that we really need less protein than we once thought. Even vegetarians may eat too much protein. Rabbits don't need animal fat, and their bodies can't absorb it. Bunny's demand for fat is very small, and the content of 1-2% is enough for most bunnies. Rabbits and rabbits, like humans, eat too much cholesterol in animal fat and have diseases such as arteriosclerosis.
Rabbit nutritionist said: "The fat contained in vegetables is indeed more consumed than animal fat, and it can also give more energy to pigs and poultry. The same result was confirmed in rabbits. 」
So why do we sometimes see animal fat or its extension in the nutrition of rabbit food? Because rabbit food is originally made for breeding rabbits, most breeding rabbits have to bear greater pressure than rabbits, so many brands of rabbit food, advertised, will greatly increase the fertility of rabbits. These rabbit foods are high in protein (16-20%).
For rabbits who live in an environment without temperature regulation and constantly produce or breastfeed, a large number of protein may be necessary, because the physical, environmental and psychological urgency will require more energy for them to survive. (Excerpted from the HRS website)
Q: Why not recommend alfalfa for adult rabbits?
Answer: Because your rabbit is not the rabbit in the production plan, it needs a lot of protein and calcium in alfalfa, unlike breeding rabbits. Alfalfa leaves contain more protein and calcium than most hay. If you feed it with other foods with high calcium content, the calcium content in the digestive system will be too high, which is a very dangerous thing.
At present, alfalfa contains the highest amount of calcium and the least amount of fiber in the hay that is easy to buy in the market.
Q: What about rabbits that don't eat or eat rabbit food?
A: You can give more forage with high nutritional content to make up for the demand, such as leguminous forage.
Q: Is it okay not to eat hay?
A: No, as mentioned earlier, rabbits need a lot of fiber in their diet to help their intestinal peristalsis. Although rabbit food also contains fiber, grass fiber can stimulate intestinal peristalsis more than rabbit food.
You must think there is so much rabbit shit, right? ! Bunny is a herbivore, and the heat energy provided by plant food is low. Tutu will digest and excrete soon after eating, and then he will be hungry, so Tutu needs to eat a lot to maintain his physical strength. Because rabbit food is not suitable for unlimited supply, hay is the best staple food at this time! Hay is a good source of fiber, so there is no need to worry that rabbits will be overnourished if they eat too much.
Hay has another very important function! That is-grinding teeth.
Q: What can I give Bonnie to help her grind her teeth?
A: The best tool for grinding teeth is high fiber grass. Although some hard rabbit foods on the market are advertised as having the function of grinding teeth, the effect is limited, and the so-called "grinding tooth feed" is actually not high in fiber content.
Why is molar feeding not effective? Because the main raw material of feed is grass powder, although it has been made into hard particles, rabbits are only "crushed" with molars, and the grinding effect is limited; Hay can make rabbits chew for a long time and grind their teeth at the same time. Not only can molars be ground neatly, but front teeth can also grind their teeth when cutting hay.
Q: Is it necessary to grind your teeth? How to choose good molar wood?
Answer: Rabbiniformes, like rodents, have long teeth, so biting can be said to be a basic routine for rabbits and rabbits every day. Since the fiber in food has the function of grinding teeth, do you still need to grind teeth?
Have you ever watched rabbits eat carefully? Bunny grinds food with molars. The fiber in the food can grind molars neatly and beautifully, but front teeth have to rely on other grinding tools. Molar wood is a good choice.
How to select molar wood from the dazzling array of molar wood in the market? The best molars are branches of apple trees, and fruits and vegetables are also sold in pet shops, colored or made into various shapes. In fact, they are only for rabbit owners, because rabbits are color blind, color doesn't mean anything to them, and they don't care about the shape of their molars. Therefore, it is better for rabbits to choose unprocessed molars when buying them.
It should be noted that you should not grind the branches of coniferous trees such as pine and Chinese fir for rabbits. Some poisonous plant branches should also be avoided. Some fruit tree trunks are poisonous, but they are not poisonous after being picked. When you can't judge for yourself, please consult a professional before deciding whether to use it for rabbits.
Q: Do Tutu need to eat salt bricks/wheels?
Answer: If Tutu doesn't eat rabbit food, it may be short of some minerals, so you can give it a salt wheel. Animals will adjust their nutrient intake, and rabbits will lick the salt wheel when necessary.
Q: Can I buy rabbit snacks for rabbits?
A: Actually, most rabbit snacks in pet shops are high-calorie, high-sugar and low-fiber foods. As a person who loves sweets, rabbits like them very much, but they are unnecessary food. The rabbit owner wants to spoil the baby at home, as long as he takes time to spend more time with it and touches its head, the rabbit will be satisfied!
However, it can also be selected according to the actual situation of the rabbit and the economic ability of the owner. These snacks can also be used occasionally to reward your favorite rabbits, or as bait when rabbits have a bad appetite.
Q: What foods can't be given to rabbits?
Answer: Cooked, frozen, rotted, fried, chocolate, coffee, candy, meat, spicy plants (such as garlic, onion, leek, onion, pepper, etc. ) and processed foods for human consumption.
Please pay special attention to chocolate, which contains alkaloids, and rabbits will be poisoned if they eat it by mistake; Candy and biscuits contain high carbohydrate, which easily leads to overgrowth of intestinal flora, flatulence or slow peristalsis, resulting in intestinal inflammation.
Q: Can rabbits eat meat?
A: Rabbits are completely herbivores. We know that rabbits need a lot of fiber to maintain the normal operation of gastrointestinal tract. Meat is a huge source of protein and fat, but it is not suitable for the digestive system of rabbits. Rabbits who eat meat for a long time will not only be morbidly obese, but also prone to gastrointestinal diseases and even cause intestinal necrosis.
Q: Can I give the rabbit cereal?
A: Cereals are rich in protein, and wheat contains vitamin E in addition to crude protein, which is a good additive food. However, this kind of food is high in calories and easy to raise the temperature of rabbits, so it is necessary to limit feeding.
Q: Pick weeds for rabbits?
Answer: Before picking weeds for rabbits, you must first confirm whether they are poisonous plants, and don't give them what you don't know. In addition, roadside weeds are easily polluted by automobile exhaust, and plants sprayed with chemical pesticides should not be given to rabbits.
Generally speaking, both Gramineae and Compositae plants can be eaten, but Compositae plants are cool and rabbits should not eat more.
Q: My rabbit is not weaned. What should I do?
A: Many unscrupulous businessmen sell their unweaned rabbits, and unsuspecting people often kill many rabbits because they can't take care of them. If the rabbits bought are not weaned and cannot eat solid food, then artificial breastfeeding is needed. When you meet a female rabbit who is unwilling to nurse her young, you also need artificial breastfeeding.
Artificial breastfeeding is fed by syringe. You can buy small animals or kittens sold in the market instead of milk. (If you really can't buy milk replacer, you can use milk powder instead, but you should soak it thin. Soak the milk powder in warm water and feed it every twelve hours. No more than 5ml each time for the first two weeks. After three weeks, it gradually increased to 7ml, and after four to five weeks, it was 10ml, and then the ground grass powder was added.
Because ordinary milk powder or cat milk powder lacks substances that can help rabbits digest, rabbits may have diarrhea. You can add some cecal feces of healthy rabbits to let beneficial bacteria enter the rabbit's stomach.
When you start feeding, you can put the syringe on the rabbit's mouth and gently push the needle. When the rabbit is sucking, it can continue to push the needle. Don't push too fast, lest you choke the rabbit. After feeding, you can gently massage the abdomen and anus of the rabbit to stimulate defecation.
Q: What is Mugua Pill used for? Do rabbits have to eat?
A: With more and more people raising rabbits, the peripheral products of pet rabbits are constantly innovating. Mugua Pill has become the new favorite of rabbit owners to prevent rabbit hairball disease.
Papain contained in Mugua Pills can help to expel hair and foreign bodies accumulated in rabbit intestines. If there is no papaya pill, fresh papaya (especially green papaya, which contains more enzyme) and pineapple will have the same effect. Feeding rabbits during the molting period can prevent the occurrence of hairball disease.
Does the rabbit have to eat Mugua Pills? The answer is different. In fact, as long as you give a lot of hay every day, you can prevent hairball disease. Grooming young rabbits every day during molting can not only enhance their feelings with rabbits, but also be a good way to prevent hairball disease.
Q: What is the feeding amount of Mugua Pills?
Answer: Under 6 months-short-haired rabbits take half a pill every 3 days, and long-haired rabbits take one pill every 3 days.
More than 6 months-short-haired rabbits take one pill every 3 days and long-haired rabbits take one pill every day.
If you have hairiness symptoms, short-haired rabbits take one tablet a day and long-haired rabbits take three tablets a day.
What to feed the rabbit?
The common mistakes of raising rabbits by farmers are 1, and the concentrate is biased. Some people mistakenly think that rabbits will grow fast as long as they are fed more concentrate, and some even feed concentrate only three times a day. Severe diarrhea leads to enteritis and death. The reason is that excessive concentrated solution decomposes and ferments into a large number of organic acids in cecum, which destroys the normal weak alkaline environment of microorganisms and leads to the imbalance of microbial ecological balance.
2. It is very effective for rabbits to replace granular feed with whole grains, but granular feed is not popular in rural areas at present, so some farmers use whole grains instead of granular feed. This feeding method is unscientific. When whole grains are fed, a considerable part of them enter the gastrointestinal tract without full chewing, which reduces the contact area with digestive juice, so that they cannot be completely absorbed by digestive juice and enter the cecum, where they will ferment abnormally, causing harmful bacteria to produce enterotoxin, leading to diarrhea or enteritis.
3. Abuse of antibiotics. In order to prevent rabbit diseases, some rabbit farmers often add antibiotics such as oxytetracycline, bacillary dysentery and gentamicin to their feed, which is harmful to rabbits and unscientific. Rabbits are herbivores, and the cellulose in feed mainly depends on the activities of various microorganisms in the intestine. When antibiotics are added to rabbits, a large number of beneficial microorganisms in their intestines are suppressed and killed, and at the same time, pathogenic bacteria in the intestines, especially salmonella, produce drug resistance and multiply in large numbers. Over time, once the rabbit gets sick. It will bring difficulties to cure diseases.
4. The vaccine is frozen and preserved. Some people often store the purchased vaccines in the refrigerator or freezer, so the stored vaccines often lose their medicinal value. The correct way is to store the purchased seedlings in the refrigerator at 4-8℃ or under the shading condition at room temperature.
5, improper use of drugs or misuse of drugs. At present, many rabbit farmers in rural areas still use the old method to treat rabbit scabies, that is, wash the affected area with soap and then scrub it with trichlorfon solution. As we all know, this method is very dangerous and extremely unsafe for rabbits. The reason is that soap is alkaline. When it encounters trichlorfon solution, it will have a toxic effect similar to the third section, which is easy to cause rabbit poisoning. The correct way is to wash the affected area with soapy water, then dry it with a cloth and then apply trichlorfon solution.