Why is my bunny getting so skinny?

Question

I have been feeding it all the things you need to feed it. timothy hay and assorted greens. HELP!! We just recently moved her to a bigger cage. Is it normal for them to drop so much weight from exercise?

Answer 1

1. Make sure it's food that is actually healthy for the animal. Sounds stupid, but some greens could be bad for your lil bunny.

2. If they run around alot in the cage, could be the food-exercise balance.

3.Take it to the vet, make sure it is OK, inform the vet you moved it to a new cage, and it had a weight loss. Could have worms or something, so the cage could be no problem at all, but your bunny caught something.

Answer 2

The first question is do you feed them actual bunny food from the store? I have two bunnies and they are the fatest things, I get high protein diet food from the feed mill in town. Maybe try a new food. I'm not sure if bunnies can get worms or any thing like that but I'm not a vet.

Answer 3

Well, firstly bunnies need lots of peellets also, if you don't feed a ration with some pellets your bun is bound to becokme ill. =(

You can mix in Veggies too, but don't feed too much lettuce, and no Iceberg lettuce.

You should go out, and purchase a 25-50 pound bag a rabbit food, available at feed stores, and in smaller sizes.

She may just be dropping weight, because, now that she's exercising, she hasn't found the right balance. She'll get better, as soon as you start to give her some pellets.

Keep an eye on her for the next couple of weeks or so, and make sure she gains some weight, if she still doesn't, look into getting her dewormed, she may have worms, or soem other parasite causing her to drop weight.

You could contact a breeder, and see what they would do for this instance, and if their advice doesn't work, call a vet, they'll probably ask you to bring her in, which can be pricey, so decide what you want to do, you could continue to weight, but increase her ammount of ration. Or bring her to the vet, and pay they overpriced cost.

Good luck with whatever you do, your bunny should put on soem weight, once you give her the pellets though! =)

Answer 4

No, he may be sick. I'd take him to a vet for a check up http://www.rabbit.org/vets/index.html