Prepping the rabbit salad. Rabbits are high maintenance pets. Don't let anyone tell you differently. Twice a week I buy about 25 bucks worth of greens and make the massive rabbit salad that they will consume stem to tip, twice a day.
I put it in that garbage bag over there to the side- Which they will empty to the very last green. Part of a rabbits "deal" is that they needs constant gut stimulation ( kind of like horses) because of the way they are "set up" - so unlimited hay, very limited pellets ( its their night time snack and they get the very high end, high fiber pellets) But the basis of their diet is Greens.
Two Rabbits , Robin - Coco, our little Dutch girl who we rescued and adopted in April 2008 and Jackson , who we adopted in August 2009 from the SPCA. He was a rescue after being abandoned in an apartment complex in July.
Until Coco, I had never even considered rabbits as "real" pets - but she charmed the shit out of me...and I came to understand that rabbits can be litter trained so they can be cage free - and move around the house like more traditional "pets". I can't imagine my life without the two of them hopping around my bedroom.
This salad was 3 heads of romaine, 4 heads of italian parsley, 4 bunches of mint, 3 bunches of cilantro, 6 small bunches of dandelion greens, and one large bunch of spinach. Sometimes I get them chicory, or dill, kale or other greens depending what is available. Aside from the cilantro roots that I toss, everything gets chopped and put in the bag. They eat it ALL.
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Wow! That's a lot of salad!!
I had no idea!
I put it in that garbage bag over there to the side- Which they will empty to the very last green. Part of a rabbits "deal" is that they needs constant gut stimulation ( kind of like horses) because of the way they are "set up" - so unlimited hay, very limited pellets ( its their night time snack and they get the very high end, high fiber pellets) But the basis of their diet is Greens.
Wow, I had no idea they required all that. Pretty fancy salad! How many rabbits do you have?
Two Rabbits , Robin - Coco, our little Dutch girl who we rescued and adopted in April 2008 and Jackson , who we adopted in August 2009 from the SPCA. He was a rescue after being abandoned in an apartment complex in July.
Until Coco, I had never even considered rabbits as "real" pets - but she charmed the shit out of me...and I came to understand that rabbits can be litter trained so they can be cage free - and move around the house like more traditional "pets". I can't imagine my life without the two of them hopping around my bedroom.
This salad was 3 heads of romaine, 4 heads of italian parsley, 4 bunches of mint, 3 bunches of cilantro, 6 small bunches of dandelion greens, and one large bunch of spinach. Sometimes I get them chicory, or dill, kale or other greens depending what is available. Aside from the cilantro roots that I toss, everything gets chopped and put in the bag. They eat it ALL.
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