The reasons why rabbits don’t eat are:
1. There is no appetite during seasonal changes, or because they eat a single food for a long time lead to loss of appetite.
Response: Try to enrich the rabbit food as much as possible, and feed the rabbit food with some complementary food, such as dried fruits and vegetables, and provide it with an appropriate amount of alfalfa, dandelion and other pastures every week to change its taste. Note: Although rabbits like to eat, they will get tired of eating the same food all the time, so they are picky eaters and don’t eat.
2. The rabbit does not adapt to the sudden change of food.
Corresponding measures: Changing food for pets should follow a step-by-step process, and pet rabbits are no exception. If the food change is too sudden, it may cause the rabbit to not adapt and not eat, or even have a stress response. The pet owner can replace about 1/5 of the rabbit food every time when changing the food for the rabbit, which means that it will take about a week for the new food to completely replace the old food.
3. Rabbits have poor appetite and no appetite during estrus
Response: During this period, pet owners Be careful not to deliberately tease or frighten the rabbit. You can give it some toys to distract it and consume some of its physical strength. Feed it with light and palatable rabbit food, avoid feeding indigestible food, and prepare enough food for the rabbit every day. Water, and change it in time to ensure cleanliness, so that the rabbit has water to drink at all times.
4. Rabbits with food and gas
Coping measures: Rabbits with gas and flatulence have no appetite and cannot eat anything. At the same time, the amount of defecation of the rabbit will also decrease, and the number of defecations will also decrease, until the dry and hard stools slowly appear, and they know to stop defecation. And in this case, the rabbit’s mental state will be very poor, and even feel uncomfortable and keep curling up.
In view of the situation of the rabbit’s accumulation of food and flatulence, the owner needs to feed it with lactase in the early stage of its symptoms to help it massage its stomach to relieve the symptoms. If the rabbit has a bloated stomach, the owner can give it an appropriate amount of anti-bloating tablets on this basis. If it still does not improve, it is necessary to take the sick rabbit to a doctor in time.
5. Female rabbits can also cause loss of appetite when pregnant or pregnant
Coping measures : Usually, when the female rabbit has abnormal behaviors such as biting grass and pulling hair, it is very likely that she is pregnant or falsely pregnant. At this time, the pet owner needs to give the female rabbit more care. Even if the rabbit has no appetite, it needs to be attracted to eat. It supplements some nutrients, and because rabbits will keep pulling their own hair during this period, it is necessary to feed the rabbits an appropriate amount of hair cream to prevent the rabbits from getting hairballs
and affect their gastrointestinal health.
The above are the reasons why rabbits do not eat and the corresponding countermeasures that we have summarized. We hope to bring help to all friends!
