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Pellets
are chock full of nutrients for easy feeding and to promote growth. They were originally made for commercial rabbit producers not
house rabbit pets.
Why
Not feed pellets?
- Pellets are high in
calories – you can end up with a fat rabbit.
- Rabbits will eat
pellets instead of hay which can slow down the digestive process and cause
digestive
disease.
- Pellets don’t promote enough
chewing which is bad for necessary wear on teeth. It only takes a
couple of chomps by those rabbit teeth to destroy a pellet instead of the 300
cycles of grinding back and forth on hay.
- The dry nature of
pellets does not provide water content so important to urinary health.
- Timothy hay based pellets
are much better than alfalfa pellets because they are not as rich if you are
going to feed your rabbit pellets.
- Pellets should not be
the total diet.
- Pellets should not be
offered constantly!
- Pellets are okay for
a recovering rabbit that needs to gain weight.
Alfalfa pellets would be fine under these circumstances.
- Pellets containing “treats” should not be given
- If you are trying to entice
the rabbit to eat, try vegetables and hay, too!
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