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i have a doe who has resently in the last day or so went off her pellet food, i did in the last week give her a new cage and switch foods any idea how i can get her back on feed?

2007-01-23 07:28:35 · 4 answers · asked by Olivia W 3 in Pets Other - Pets

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Don't feed her vegetables or fruit. They can give your rabbit diahrrea. A little timothy hay or a half slice of bread should help her start eating. At home we keep and grow an herb called comfry. A lot of the early settlers in the US used to grow it and it was used in teas and medicines. Sometimes we'll give the rabbits that won't eat hardly anything 1-2 leaves of comfry. I've also heard that dry brown oak leaves tend to work. Something about some kind of acid in the leaves helps them. Make sure the leaves are dried and brown and not green though.

In case you move your rabbit again or change her feed again, cut her feed back to a half of what she'll eat in a day for about 1-2 days or so before switching feed or moving her. Keeping a rabbit a little on the hungry side helps them go back onto feed better than if you have them on full feed when your rabbit experiences any changes. Many rabbit breeders will do this when they take their rabbits to a rabbit show that lasts for a couple days. We used to leave them on full feed at the rabbit shows then the rabbits would go off their feed when we got them home. Now we cut their feed in half at the shows and when we get them home they go back to eating just fine.

I've been raising rabbits for going on 25 years. The rabbit breeder who showed me some of those treatments had been raising rabbits since about the 1920's and was one of the most respected rabbit showman in the country. Over about 70 years, I'd guess you'd pick up a trick or two.

2007-01-24 04:25:25 · answer #1 · answered by devilishblueyes 7 · 0 0

She may just be stressing out a little. I would go ahead and give her some veggies, hay and some bread in milk just to make sure she is not eating due to stress or not eating cause there is another underlying problem. She shouldnt still be stressing if you moved her a week ago. Good luck

2007-01-23 15:45:27 · answer #2 · answered by nielsensamericanbulldogs 2 · 1 0

She will adjust over the next couple of days. Whenever you move your rabbits, it causes them to become disoriented. She will settle down. If she doesn't, a trip to the vet is neeeded.

2007-01-23 15:33:15 · answer #3 · answered by Starla_C 7 · 0 0

she will eat when she is hungery, just the new switch that has her not eating, just give her time

2007-01-23 15:37:38 · answer #4 · answered by whateverbabe 6 · 0 0

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