Homemade Rabbit Feeding
One basic alternative feed is based on feeding alfalfa hay and rolled oats.
Homemade rabbit feeding. From 8th week to onward. 6 cups rolled oats 3 cups golden wheat berries 3 cups pearled barley 3 cups hard red wheat berries 3 cups split peas 3 cups black oil sunflower seed. My rabbits loved alfalfa hay even more than their grass hay but it s pretty high in protein and in calcium. Dried peas or split peas.
Buy kitten milk replacer kmr or goat milk to feed the babies. So your rabbit may become able to wean on solids. After feeding use warm water on the cotton ball or cloth and gently rub along the baby s genitals. Continue rubbing until the baby has stopped eliminating.
Feed your rabbit on formula milk and hay. The baby should begin to urinate and to defecate. You can purchase these at pet stores or sometimes at a local vet s office. Come feeding time which is between 7 8 a m i grab a large handful of the weeds grasses and scraps.
In the next 3 months from 5th to 7th. Fresh all natural rabbits food is ideal for your rabbits optimum health. Most of them will use gravity and only dispense more food as your rabbits eat. Your rabbit starts weaning.
Rabbit milk is the most caloric of all mammals milk so you ll need to make sure you get the proper replacement and amounts. Risk factors while feeding baby rabbits without a mother. The recipe is pretty simple all you have to do is mix all the ingredients in a plastic bucket or another container. Certainly it is possible to feed rabbits without pellets today.
Each rabbit gets a large handful. I feed my rabbits free choice alfalfa grass hay plus some grain wheat oats barley about 1 4 cup daily for bucks or dry does more for nursing does and fryers and as many free gathered greens as the season allows. You will need to stimulate the bunny to eliminate until he opens his eyes around 10 days of. Then they get the same amount of hay sometimes they nibble on this sometimes they eat all of it and sometimes they just use it as bedding.
My homemade natural grain based rabbit food recipe. A good example is the one made from pvc pipes. You can gradually decrease the amount of milk and increase the amount of hay. There is a ton of information in the sticky posts at the top safe plants list long thread on natural feeding etc.
Pvc automatic homemade rabbit feeders with a few tools and raw materials you can make your own automatic rabbit feeder. Remove milk formula from his diet. Switch to non pelleted non gmo alfalfa yard clippings and green forages.