What is the food a rabbit eats?

Answer 1

Rabbits like to eat grasses, leaves, and wood materials:

• Wild rabbits graze on fresh grasses, twigs, and green leaves.
• Pet rabbits graze on hay. Pet rabbits should have unlimited access to hay. Hay is important for a rabbit's dental health (to wear down the teeth), mental health (grazing is a natural and psychologically satisfying activity for rabbits), and digestive health (hay is an excellent source of fibre, which keeps the gut moving).
• Many pet rabbits also like eating apple wood twigs, willow twigs, and paper and cardboard products. So long as they're clean (no pesticides, herbicides, parasites) and non-toxic (plain cardboards and papers, no bleach, no shiny stickers, no toxic glues or inks), they're safe for the rabbit and add to dietary fibre! You can also turn these things into toys -- rabbits love to play so if you get an empty toilet roll and put hay in it to roll it around, it's fun for them!
• For the sake of variety, fresh vitamins and nutrients, and water content, pet rabbits can also eat a "salad" of fresh leafy greens (dark-coloured lettuces, herbs, and weeds) every day.
• To make sure they're getting a complete diet, pet rabbits should also eat high-quality (low fat and protein, high fibre) pellets daily.

Rabbits also have a sweet tooth but you shouldn't indulgethem because they also have a very sensitive digestive system, and too many treats can lead to serious illness (GI stasis) and to obesity, which in turn can lead to other health problems (sore hocks, skin infections from inability to groom, Arthritis, organ failure). Wild rabbits sometimes raid cultivated garden plots and farm land. Safe treats for pet rabbits include small occasional amounts of fresh vegetables (like carrot, or celery -- but cut up the celery because the strings can cause problems), fresh fruits (like apple, or banana -- but banana is super sugary so limit it an extra amount), flowers (like roses), and whole grains (like oat groats -- that's not the same as oatmeal or rolled oat). There are commercial rabbit treats on the market (like muesli mix or tasty nuggets) but these almost always have extra unhealthy additives and ingredients -- it's safer to stick to "natural" foods instead.

Be very careful before feeding your rabbit any new food:

• Research to make sure the food is safe for rabbits in general -- type the food name and "rabbit" into a search engine, or "rabbit eat" and the food name, and you should find something
• Start your rabbit out on very small amounts at first and wait about a week to make sure the food is fine for your rabbit

rabbits like alfalfa

Answer 2

Rabbits LIKE all sorts of "human foods," especially chocolate and salty chips, but you should ABSOLUTELY NOT feed your rabbit any of this junk. A rabbit's digestive system is delicate, so unless you want to make your rabbit very, very sick...

The bulk of your rabbit's diet should be timothy hay (alfalfa or too much pellet food can cause obesity, so watch out). Pellets should be fed sparingly to adult rabbits, about 1/8 cup per 5 lbs, because they are so high in protein and calories that they can cause obesity and other health and digestive problems. You should also give your adult rabbit about 4 cups of fresh veggies a day, but introduce new foods one at a time in case they cause diarrhea. Don't over do it on the treats (fruits included! they are very high in sugar); in fact, a lot of "rabbit treats," like yogurt drops, are not good for rabbits at all. For a list of good and bad rabbit foods, go herepetcaretips.

Rabbits also like cherrios every once in a while, especially banana nut cherrios!

Rabbit pellets (14 to 16 percent protein) do not cause obesity in rabbits. What causes obesity is putting rabbits on full or constant feed 24/7. Rabbits should be fed once or twice a day. Small breeds should be fed 2 to 4 ounces, medium breeds 4 to 6 ounces and large breeds 8 to? ounces. If your bunny has not cleaned up the pellets you fed in the morning DO NOT GIVE HIM MORE pellets until the next morning. Feeding rabbits greens should be done only as treats. Remeber they are not in the wild so they can not get the right balance of foods to keep them from getting a tummy ache. Timothy hay can be put into the cage 24/7. Treats like carrot coins, apple slices, cheerios, dry bread, orange slices should be fed only every other day.

Answer 3

Rabbit pellets are made from alfalfa hay, grain, vitamins and minerals,

Answer 4

Rabbits love to eat carrots and other vegetables.

Answer 5

Rabbits are furry animals most likely known as pets. They love carrots most. You may feed them with tiny bits of carrots.

Answer 6

They eat their rabbit food.

Answer 7

carrots, lettuce and other veggies