How To Keep Your Rabbit Satisfied And Healthy
Rabbits currently have a well deserved reputation for being great pets. They can be friendly, inquisitive, more than happy playing with their keepers and can happily be petted and held. Together with the right diet program, good care and handling both you and your bunny should have a long and happy lifetime with each other. This can be for around 12 yrs or higher.
There are various important matters you need to be aware of with your pet’s diet plan so that you can enjoy the experience of being a bunny owner.
What is generally not really recognized is that bunnies need high levels of a combination of 2 types of fibre inside their digestive system, classed as digestible and indigestible fibre. You will need to make sure you feed the correct proportions of the two types of fibre so the rabbit gets the most nutritional benefit.
Indigestible fibre is shifted throughout the digestive system and excreted as separate, rounded, hard waste. This acts to keep the digestive system moving and also encourages appetite. The digestible fibre is moved upward straight into an body organ named the caecum. The good bacterias within this organ ferment the fibre which in turn come out as sticky excriment. The rabbit then eats these droppings and their body extracts the important nutrition from them as the fibre passes through them for a 2nd time.
If you do not supply the needed proportion of fibre your bunny can quickly get ill, or even pass away. This is the reason muesli type rabbit feeds are such a major issue. Rabbits can be picky eaters and will eat sugary ingredients as a simple way to have a sugar hit. Consequently, they will select harmful bits in the muesli and leave what’s left. This is called picky feeding and will eventually inevitably lead to an imbalanced eating routine, lacking in calcium mineral, phosphorous and Vitamin D. Most importantly this particular behaviour can result in a lack of fibre with life-threatening effects.
These types of issues will be eliminated by adhering to a fibre full diet plan and you can decide to purchase specialist rabbit food that will meet all of your bunnies nutritionary needs. In addition, it’s also possible to give your rabbit an occasional treat. Be aware that not all fruits and veggies are beneficial for your bunny. Apples, bananas, grapes and cabbage are usually okay in moderation, but refrain from feeding potato, rhubarb and avocado.
