Symptoms of salt deficiency in rabbits
Salt deficiency in rabbits The most obvious manifestation is that he likes licking people or licking cages. Although the owner usually feeds or pets the rabbit, it will also lick the owner’s hand, but if it suddenly licks the cage frequently, grabs the owner’s hand or other exposed parts of the body and starts licking, and the rabbit has a pica In the case of addiction, the high probability is that there is a lack of salt in the body.
What should I do if my rabbit is short of salt?
If the rabbit licks people and is accompanied by symptoms such as lethargy, loss of appetite, lethargy, etc., the owner can feed the rabbit some rabbit food with high salt content Or add a little salt to its drinking water to relieve the symptoms of salt deficiency in the rabbit. Note: Do not directly feed edible salt to rabbits to avoid rabbit food poisoning!
And in daily life, the owner can also properly feed some carrots, cabbage, cabbage, sweet potatoes and other foods that rabbits can eat, because these foods can provide rabbits with the required salt to a certain extent. To prevent the rabbit from not ingesting enough salt for a long time, the resistance will decline, or even threatening its life.
In addition to the lack of salt, the rabbit may lick people because it likes the owner and wants to be in touch with the owner, so it can’t help licking the owner’s fingers; or the usual owner They will take food to feed, so in their opinion, as long as they please their owners, they will have something to eat, so they will lick our fingers when we touch them, of course, the rabbit may be hungry and want to find something Just eat.
