Top 6 Best Rabbit Food

Pet Care

oi-Anjana NS

By Anjana Ns

Monday, May 30, 2011, 10:16

Its not the just the youth but even the pets like Rabbits like all sorts of junk food especially chocolate and salty chips, but one should never feed these. Rabbits have a very delicate digestive system. Most of the digestion happens with the munching process they do. Rabbit is a herbivore and should be fed with the vegan food types. The diet should contain a full range of proteins, carbohydrates, fats together with vitamins and minerals. The fats and proteins will be from vegetables.

Here Are The Top 6 Types Of Rabbit Food:

1. Milk: Feeding them will enrich the rabbits with proteins and fats which is necessary for them. They should be given with a wholemeal bread which should be toasted and baked in oven to make it crisp as rabbits prefer dry food.

2. Pellets: Pellets should be fed from the time of their birth. This is very important as it helps in the growth of rabbit. This is said to be the rabbit's favorite and they never get bored of it. These Rabbit food are available at the grain stores.

3. Vegetables: Brussels sprouts, Cabbages, Carrots, Cauliflower, Turnip, Pod spinach, Peas given half boiled and the whole mixture and makes the meal filled with richness vitamins and carbohydrates. Mashing of boiled potatoes with the peel has a lot of carbohydrates and should be fed very less. Too much of carbohydrates as part of the rabbit food diet is not good.

4. Fruits: Apple is the most favorite fruit of rabbits, they don't prefer to eat any other fruits and apple is rich in vitamins. And it is a soft fruit so gets easily digested.

5. Grasses: Rabbits love to go around the garden and grab the green grasses like Agrimony, Coltsfoot, Comfrey, cow parsnip, goose grasses and wont stop munching which Is a very good exercise for its teeth. Its hard to control when it starts grazing around so keep them under control.

6. Cereals and hay: Maize, Oats, Corns,. Bran mashed up together with Luke warm milk will be a big nutritious treat for the rabbits. But the rabbit food should be served like once in two days.

People try feeding rabbits with lettuce, radish, yew, creeping butter cup which rabbits don't eat. They are also poisonous to them feeding them twice a day (day and night) is sufficient. They drink a lot of water and one needs to keep changing the water in the bowl as it wont drink again the water that was left.