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Rabbit Quiz :joy:
pet life 11/30/20
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So I'm seeing a few issues with this quiz and wanted to point them out to give you some help in of rabbit care and perhaps making it a bit easier to comprehend
. Rabbits don't eat alfalfa at any point, it's too high in calcium. It It's more like a treat for them so it becomes much harder for owners to switch them over to Timothy. Timothy should be fed to them their entire lives, the rumor of alfalfa being fed to them comes from breeders not feeding baby bunnies high enough in nutrients so they made up for it with alfalfa
. The bowl question doesn't make sense. The options bowl or bowl unlimited water are the exact same, rabbit should always have unlimited water so for bowl unlimited water to be wrong is quite confusing and borderline concerning if a rabbit doesn't have unlimited water
. putting hay numbers 10, 20, 80 really doesn't make sense. Rabbits get unlimited hay or about as much as their body weight × volume
. It's really hard to understand the cage measurements since their written out so unusually. Maybe using 5 ft × 5 ft instead would help
Reply to: pet life
Clarifying that it's percentages rather than just random numbers would definitely help since it's a timed question.
The bowl or unlimited questions still didn't make sense since unlimited water bowl was wrong v.s bowl, If at any point a rabbit does not have unlimited access to water there should be concern.
but no, alfalfa is not for rabbits under one It can often lead to diarrhea, bladder stones, and excess calcium in the body. There is no need for alfalfa hay in any rabbit's diet a majority of the time. As I said before, this was a piece of false information to make up for the fact that rabbit kits were not being given proper nutrition via pellets
Reply to: a.v.i.
Do you have any sources claiming alfalfa is dangerous for rabbits? Many reliable sources always state alfalfa hay is good for growing rabbits under 6 months.
Reply to: Ollie .semi hiatus.
Alfalfa in and of itself is not dangerous but if a kit is already being fed a nutrient dense pellet which should be packed with vitamins and the protein they need to grow it's almost always made with an alfalfa base.
As we know alfalfa has a 1.2 calcium content while Timothy only has 0.4. This can lead to a buildup of bladder sludge and urine crystals, for any kits that may have unknown bladder/kidney disorders(which make up 32.5 percent of rabbit related illnesses in which they are euthanized/die) this can be much more concerning.
Alfalfa can be healthy for kits who may not be catching up in of weight or nursing does but even then should be used with caution.
Due to the high content of protein and calories it is more likely to lead to obesity if the kit is already fed correctly, alfalfa hay it should not make up the 80% necessary for a rabbit's diet due to these reasons as it could be considered over doing it, to say it should be the main hay for kits without at least being mixed in with grass hays to at least thin it out can definitely be dangerous.