Grooming and food.

Can anyone tell me a good brush too use on rabbits, my girls are maulting really bad.

Also good nugget food they are on wagg pellets at the moment, want them too be on a decnt but fairly priced food.

Thank you in advance

Michelle

If you can get them, Allen & Page Pellets, I get them for my buns and they love them

Sience Selective Adult rabbit food or Burgess Adult rabbit food are very good and quite popular and we use a small slicker brush ( not the ball pin ones) for the buns when they are moulting.

Something like this a soft pin slicker brush http://www.petsathome.com/shop/soft-pin-slicker-brush-by-options-15828

Burgess Adult http://www.petsathome.com/shop/burgess-excel-tasty-nuggets-adult-rabbit-food-2kg-4kg-and-10kg-15703?freeText=burgess+adult&msg=MSG_SEARCH_ONE_MATCHING_PRODUCT

Sience Selective http://www.supremepetfoods.com/product/science-selective-rabbit/

Check the internet for rabbit food as you can get it cheaper on some pet websites

Thank you Found them on ebay, really cheap £20 for 20kg . Is this a good quality food?

Michelle

Ive looked at excel and science selective, seem rather exspensive!!! Are they a really good quality food thou?

That brush looks good gonna see if i can get one tomorrow, they only have a comb and its not very good.

xLilyRosex wrote:Ive looked at excel and science selective, seem rather exspensive!!! Are they a really good quality food thou?

That brush looks good gonna see if i can get one tomorrow, they only have a comb and its not very good.

Well we use both and we do boarding and most of the people that board with us are on Excel or SS. They are expensive but sometimes they are on offer and that's when we buy a few bags.

okies yeah i see excel is on offer in p@h.

With dogs their are foods that are better for them ingredients wise i wernt sure if this was the same with rabbits!!

Bear in mind that you only have to feed a eggcup full of nuggets per rabbit. I end up feeding my pair about 30g per day. The rest should just be hay.

i feed mine a mixture os ss excel and the buns wont eat anything else

cheryl'n'bruce'flo wrote:Bear in mind that you only have to feed a eggcup full of nuggets per rabbit. I end up feeding my pair about 30g per day. The rest should just be hay.

This ^^^

Even with twelve buns, we don't spend an awful lot on pellets because we don't feed masses of them. We probably spend more on 'posh' hays and dried herby-type things to be honest...

Sparky wrote:
Even with twelve buns, we don't spend an awful lot on pellets because we don't feed masses of them. We probably spend more on 'posh' hays and dried herby-type things to be honest...

Deeva says can she come for lunch one day please....

Allan & Paige is what I feed to my rabbits and it is a very good quality food, don't let the amazing price make you think otherwise. It has an excellent fibre content.

The two downside's to it are that some older rabbits seem to loose a bit of condition when it is fed over the harsh winter months. To remedy that I use the Allan & Page Breeder Grower pellets from October to March as they have a higher protein content, and are only marginally more expensive. I use the A&P Natural pellets for the rest of the year. The other is it has a relatively short shelf-life so you may end up throwing some away if you only have a couple of bunnies. Despite that it will still likely be a cheaper option!

Also worth mentioning many independent pet shops will order it in for you and then, because you don't need to pay delivery, it costs closer to £11 a 20kg sack.

FudgesMummy wrote:

Sparky wrote:
Even with twelve buns, we don't spend an awful lot on pellets because we don't feed masses of them. We probably spend more on 'posh' hays and dried herby-type things to be honest...

Deeva says can she come for lunch one day please....

As soon as you decide she is old enough not to be shocked or influenced by norty bunnies

Sooz wrote:Allan & Paige is what I feed to my rabbits and it is a very good quality food, don't let the amazing price make you think otherwise. It has an excellent fibre content.

The two downside's to it are that some older rabbits seem to loose a bit of condition when it is fed over the harsh winter months. To remedy that I use the Allan & Page Breeder Grower pellets from October to March as they have a higher protein content, and are only marginally more expensive. I use the A&P Natural pellets for the rest of the year. The other is it has a relatively short shelf-life so you may end up throwing some away if you only have a couple of bunnies. Despite that it will still likely be a cheaper option!

Also worth mentioning many independent pet shops will order it in for you and then, because you don't need to pay delivery, it costs closer to £11 a 20kg sack.

Humum really wanted to get us onto A&P as she had heard such good things about it. We just weren't keen. For the first time ever there would be breakfast pellets left in the bowl at teatime, although everybunny had picked out every single Burgess pellet from the bowl. She was also not convinced that we were maintaining weight on it (and most of us are young). It does have an excellent reputation and I think we could get it for around £9 a sack...

We're currently on a 50 / 50 mix of Burgess Excel and Science Selective.

I pay £11 for mine from a local Pet Food Store and she also orders megazorb in for me too

I dont drive so wouldnt be able too do that unless maybe they would deliver for fee.
Will have too phone the oet shop and see if they can get it in. thanks guys.

Do you all use megazorb i used it for a while when i first got lily and rose then went back too wood shavings.

Whats best shavings or megazorb?

We use Excel pellets - all three of my buns love them.

They only get about an eggcup full too, the rest is hay, grass and some veg x

We have most of our buns on unlimited hay and greens now but think we are going back to pellets and hay

I just use hay and newspaper in the litter trays. For my pigs I use megazorb in the winter. I always avoid shavings as there have been issues around them causing respiratory problems.

We use pelleted wood cat litter for our buns, as we have to get it in for the cats anyway.

Shavings are not recommended for rabbits.

Im a massive megazorb fan. Mine have megazorb in their trays with hay on the top.

I wouldnt use wood shavings for buns.