Rabbit Feeding Rules
📝 Summary
The kit-to-juvenile stage needs extra care. Vaccinate at 30–45 days, feed weaned juveniles pellets four times daily in small amounts, limit greens for light kits, give breeding stock peanuts, and never use chicken or pig feed—only rabbit-specific pellets with alfalfa-based hay powder.
1 Rabbit Feeding Rules
1. At 30–45 days, inject 1 ml of rabbit hemorrhagic disease vaccine per kit. At this age feed milk once daily; a doe yields most at sunrise, less as the sun rises, so nurse before sunrise.
2. For freshly weaned juveniles, feed little and often—four pellet meals daily (6 am, 11 am, 4 pm, before sleep); never give the whole day’s amount at once.
3. Kits under 1 kg should not get greens, or only very little; and kits must not eat greens with the dam before weaning.
4. Nursing does and breeding bucks can get two raw peanuts daily—5 in the morning, 5 at night.
5. Feed sensibly; do not skip pellets for grass. Pellets are 35–50% hay powder, mainly alfalfa, then peanut vine, pods, sweet-potato vine, corn stalk. Wash peanut vine roots and soil to avoid diarrhea.
6. Feed pellets by day; before sleep give some night hay (dry wild grass).
7. If pellets run out, never use chicken feed—it causes diarrhea. Substitute sun-dried peanut vine or corn stalk. Some mix pig feed in, lowering fertility or causing constipation/diarrhea. Choose rabbit feed strictly.
A reminder: rabbits only suit rabbit-specific feed; other poultry feed does not, so take this to heart.
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