Feeding Principles for Rex Rabbits
📝 Summary
Rex rabbits are herbivores fed mainly on greens and roughage with limited concentrates (greens 60–70%, roughage+concentrates 30–40%). Vary the diet, keep feed and water fresh, change feed gradually, prefer palatable pellets, and feed on a fixed schedule to aid digestion.
1 Rex Rabbit Feeding Principles
1. Greens and roughage first, concentrates second. Rex rabbits are herbivores; concentrate amount depends on growth, mating, pregnancy, lactation—raise it for fast-growing kits, breeding bucks, nursing does, and cut it in peak greens season. Aim greens 60–70%, roughage+concentrates 30–40%.
2. Vary the diet. Fast growth, high litter rate, and fast metabolism need ample nutrition; one feed cannot satisfy it. Variety raises economic return.
3. Keep feed and water fresh, clean, and safe—no contaminated, expired, or moldy feed, no dirty water.
4. Change feed gradually. New owners and rural keepers feed whatever they have, which is unscientific; a rabbit’s gut needs time to adapt, and sudden change causes poor appetite and gut trouble.
5. Make feed palatable. Rabbits dislike powder; pellets are ideal. If feeding powder, dampen with warm water into a ball to avoid refusal and inhaled powder causing respiratory disease.
6. Fix feeding times and counts to build routine elimination, ease gut load, form reflexes, boost digestion, and raise feed use.
A reminder: good feeding matters greatly to health—feed sensibly.
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