Peqaboo series
Baby rabbits have very different needs from adults: they run on their mother's milk, then protein-rich alfalfa hay and pellets to fuel fast growth. This overview covers weaning ages, what to feed at each stage, when to introduce greens, and the crucial switch to grass hay as an adult.
Pellets are a small but useful part of a rabbit's diet , if you pick the right kind and feed the right amount. This guide explains how to read a pellet label, why plain beats muesli mixes, how much to feed by weight, and when to adjust for age.
Fresh greens are great for rabbits, but adding them too fast causes soft stool, gas and sometimes a dangerous gut slowdown. This step-by-step guide shows how to introduce one green at a time, what to watch in the litter tray, and when a change in droppings means call the vet.
You can't judge a rabbit's weight by looks alone under all that fur. This guide shows how to body-score by feel, weigh at home, and slim an overweight rabbit safely with more hay and movement , without the dangerous crash diets that can trigger fatal gut stasis.
Master the golden rule of rabbit nutrition with our comprehensive guide to the 80-10-10 diet. Learn how to balance unlimited grass hay, portion-controlled pellets, and fresh leafy greens to prevent GI stasis and keep your rabbit thriving.
Not every 'rabbit treat' on the shelf is safe. This guide sorts fruit, herbs and shop-bought snacks into safe, occasional and avoid, gives realistic portion sizes, and explains how treats fit around the hay-based diet that keeps your rabbit's gut and teeth healthy.
Fresh herbs are a fragrant, low-sugar way to add variety to a rabbit's greens. This checklist sorts common kitchen and garden herbs into safe everyday choices and ones to limit, explains portion sizes, and flags a few herbs and myths worth being careful about.
Fresh vegetables add moisture, variety, and nutrients to a rabbit's diet, but only after hay. This checklist covers safe daily leafy greens, vegetables to limit, foods to avoid, how much to feed, and how to introduce new greens without upsetting a sensitive rabbit gut.
Rabbits explore by chewing, which makes a free-roaming home surprisingly dangerous. This checklist covers the human foods and common houseplants that are toxic to rabbits, the warning signs of poisoning, and exactly what to do in the first minutes if your rabbit eats something it should not.
Grass hay should make up most of a rabbit's diet, but the label choices are confusing. This guide compares timothy, orchard, meadow, and other grass hays on fibre, texture, and who each suits, plus why alfalfa is a treat and not a staple for adults.
Weight loss is the earliest measurable sign of most serious rabbit illness, and a rabbit can keep eating while losing it. This guide covers weighing and body condition scoring at home, reading droppings and hay intake, and the causes in order of likelihood, from molar root disease that a conscious mouth examination can
Most rabbit diarrhoea is not diarrhoea at all, it is uneaten caecotrophs, and the difference decides whether you have a this-week problem or a tonight problem. This guide gives the test that separates them, explains how the colon sorts fibre and why losing that mechanism is systemic, covers weaning enteritis, starch, c
A rabbit eating hay, greens and a measured pellet already makes its own vitamin C and recycles B vitamins through caecotrophy, so most supplements duplicate work the caecum is already doing. This guide separates the few products worth owning, chiefly a recovery fibre formula bought before you need it, from the water ad
Rabbits absorb dietary calcium largely in proportion to intake and excrete the surplus through the kidneys, which is why their urine is normally chalky and why calcium blocks, mineral licks and alfalfa pellets in adults cause bladder sludge rather than stronger bone. This guide sets out the diet that actually protects
Rabbits are herbivores, so a raw diet is a carnivore concept that does not apply; the real question is which fresh plants are safe and in what quantity. This guide covers what greens do and do not provide, the staple leaves and herbs worth using, the calcium and oxalate group, the plants that kill, safe foraging rules
An overweight rabbit cannot bend to eat its caecotrophs, which leads to soiling and flystrike, and fat also drives sore hocks, heat intolerance, arthritis and bladder sludge. This guide explains how to assess condition by hand rather than by eye, what is not obesity, and a staged reduction that never restricts hay, nev
Hay is not a supplement to a rabbit's diet, it is the diet. A rabbit living on pellets is under-worn in the teeth and under-fibred in the gut, but cutting pellets abruptly can stop a rabbit eating altogether. The change has to be made slowly, measured, and monitored through weight and droppings.
A healthy rabbit eats its caecotrophs directly and the owner never sees them. Finding them squashed in the hutch or matted onto the fur means either a diet too rich in starch and protein, or a rabbit that cannot physically reach round. This guide explains caecotrophy, separates the two causes by what is left behind, co
Rabbit food packaging is written to sell. The ingredient list, the crude fibre figure and the shape of the food itself tell you far more than the pictures on the front. Learning to read three parts of the pack rules out most of the products that cause dental and gut disease in rabbits.
