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How do rabbits get nutrients?

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Most rabbits dig for food, but others sometimes get given it. They either eat fruit and vegetables from someone's garden, find their food on the ground (fruit dropping from trees), eat grass, or find fields which are growing (corn, wheat, etc.).

Normally they eat grass, but mostly vegetation.

Wild rabbits will eat any type of edible plants, and will also eat twigs and bark.

Wild rabbits get their food by foraging and grazing. Wild European Rabbits eat mostly grasses and leaves. Other species have slightly different diets, but all rabbits are herbivores and eat plants only.

Pet rabbits are given their food. They eat mostly hay, with some pellets and leafy green vegetables.

Fruit is not a big part of any rabbit's diet. Too much fruit can quickly make a rabbit very sick (even deathly ill: GI stasis).

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They are grazers, meaning they just eat as they go, like a cow does. They just eat grass or whatever they find, as they hop around. They love it if they can find a vegetable garden with no dogs around.

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They get it from the food they eat, such as carrots, lettuce, hay, and clover. Now rabbits do have a challenge. They are vegans and have short, narrow intestines. So that means they have to eat their food twice to get all the nutrients they need.

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Rabbits get their energy from food and sleep.

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they eat plants; therefore they go up to one and eat it from where they stand

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rabbits can not die if people feed them in the winter and they are pet's the will eat pellets

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They get it from the food they eats so you must know what kind of food to give them.

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Rabbits graze, which means they walk around nibbling grass and other short plants.

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