Rabbit Cage?

Question

I have a rabbit cage and i have all the supplies like hay , salt wheel, a cage,etc. Where should i pout the hay. Should i scatter it all over. Where should i put the bedding and litter, plus my rabbit barely eats rabbit food.He mostly eats grass. What should i do. I really need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Answer 1

The litter / bedding goes in the bottom of the cage. Bunnies like to dig, and will scoot it all over the place. If you have a corner litter pan, make sure you put more of the litter in it than in the rest of the cage. A rabbit will usually back into the corner of a cage in the same spot each time to use the bathroom.The corner litter pans can be removed and cleaned easily, without having to remove all of the bedding from the cage. Dump it out, wash the pan, replace the litter, and then put the pan in the same place inside the cage.

A bunny (in captivity) needs rabbit pellets, water and hay available at all times. The pet stores sell alfalfa and timothy hay. Place the hay in a hay basket on the side of the cage to keep it clean.My bunnies love alfalfa, but wont touch timothy. Pellets are a super food, by this I mean, that if all you ever fed was pellets and hay it would be nutritively sound, but very boring for the bunny. From experience, I have found that my bunny will eat any vegetable matter offered. Mine love apple peels and celery the best. I pick them fresh hackberry, peach, and mullberry leaves and twigs (the twigs are good because it helps keep their teeth smoothed down). They are gnawers. If you do not give them something to gnaw on, their teeth, which continuially grow, will eventually become too long for them to eat, and they will starve. If you do not have trees available that are safe for them, then buy the gnawing wood pieces available at your pet store. Also, I see that everyone has added to feed them lettuce... well yes they like lettuce, but remember this if you do not remember anything else I tell you,, iceberg lettuce has absolutely no nutritive value. it is bad for bunnies. Also do not feed potato peels as they contain a toxin, which is harmful to a bunny, and if feeding cabbage or broccoli do so in small quantities. I pick dandelions, wild fennel, and other weed type plants occasionally. Stay away from milkweed!! They like clover, and thistles, but not in large quantities, as it causes diarrhea. Also you can toast wheat bread for them in the oven, make it really dry, they like the texture and it is also a good gnawing source. Rabbits are herbivores, do not feed them meat products. for further suggestions go to your local library and check out books on rabbit care.. I did. Well, obviously

Answer 2

Rabbits need hay so you should only give other food enough for like a meal and then the rabbit will chew on hay all day.
We put our hay into toilet paper rolls, she loves to pull the hay out, they are cheap and easily replaced. We purchased one of those things to put hay into and the rabbit didn't really use it.
If your rabbit isn't litter trained you should put litter all over, the rabbit will usually choose a corner to go into, you can try putting a litter box in that corner and see if your rabbit is interested.
Rabbits need hay, pellets and veggies every day. You can get a list of veggies from rabbits.org.
I hope that helped.

Answer 3

Ok, relax first of all =)

The bedding should be scattered along the bottom. The hay you can attach to the side with a hay trough you can get from a store.

Its ok that he barely eats rabbit food. Grass and hay should be the majority of this diet anyways. Rabbit food is really meant as a substitute when there is no hay left. Hay will assure stronger bones.

=( I did not know this until my bunny got sick and sadly passed on.

http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/mybunny/miltonstand.jpg

Answer 4

I've had a rabbit for almost two years now and here's how we have her set up. Her bed is in one corner of the cage and her corncob litterbox is on the opposite side in the other corner. She also has a saltwheel and waterbottle on the side of the cage. As far as hay is concerned, they make a tray/bin that you can clip on the side, but our rabbit eats it right from the floor. I just put a pile in to the side or in a corner. The cute thing about rabbits is that they organize their houses the way that they like things to be arranged. For instance, I can put my rabbit's food dish on the side and she'll nudge it to the middle.
You should use Timothy hay instead of Alfalfa. It's digests better. My bunny likes her food okay. I have to buy the kind that has little treats in it to get her to eventually eat the pellets or else she wouldn't want to eat just plain food. Rabbits have a natural sweet tooth, so you can give yours a yogurt treat once in a while, esp. as a treat if you're training yours. We make sure to give our bunny plenty of fresh veggies everyday. Her favorites are carrots, parsley, cilantro, greens (mustard/collard/turnip), lettuce, strawberry tops, OceanSpray Craisins, dried out bread & bananas - just to name a few.
If you want to, you can look at my 360º and send me a mail and I can give you a longer list of approved rabbit foods. We know quite a bit about rabbits if you need more help.
Good Luck!

Answer 5

get a hay troft, they hang on the egde of the cage so the rabbit can get hay when he wants. make sure your cage is big enough to hold all that and still have room for the rabbit...remember the cage should be big enough to put 4 rabbits laying down in it...do not put the litter around the food, animals dont like to poop where they eat.

Answer 6

I hope you have an idoor rabbit. The timohty hay is best in the litter box because that way it will start to train to use that spot for poo. It's like reading the paper on the toilet. Rabbits don't need a salt wheel in fact it might do more harm than good. For lots of articles about rabbits go to http://www.rabbit.org

Answer 7

Grass is good for him! in one corner put his bedding and hay and scatter the litter in the other half.. like half and half.. Your rabbit will enjoy eating grass since it is good for him. Supplement his diet with it. Dandelion leaves are good too.. you should perhaps buy a book or two on rabbits eh?

Answer 8

usually you put the hay in a hay wheel or in its eating plate bedding i never use my rabbit hates it and the cage should have a tray in the bottom thats the litter so when it pees it goes straight to the tray buy him carrots apples my rabbit loves that becareful with lettuce though it can kill some rabbits

Answer 9

Rabbits survive under horrible conditions, so you probably have nothing to worry about. But remember, rabbits are an important species for the food chain. Without rabbits, wolfs and coyotes would have to eat fast food which is a lot harder to catch.

Answer 10

If you're worried about his appetite get cabbage and carrots! They go nuts =) The bedding should go in first, all over the ground about 2 inches high. His "bathroom" should be in a corner of the cage so he get's used to it. If he goes anywhere else in the cage move it with something to his "bathroom" corner.