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Healthy rabbits don't have wet feces. If your rabbit's feces is wet, that's called diarrhea or mushy stool, and it means your bunny is sick. Bring your bunny to the vet as soon as possible for an exam.
Diarrhea in baby rabbits is a life-threatening emergency!Don't waste another second: get to to the vet's immediately.
In adult rabbits, the situation isn't as dire but it is serious. Maybe your rabbit simply isn't getting enough fiber in her diet, or maybe she has an illness. Either way, if you don't treat it soon, your rabbit will get worse and eventually become deathly ill.
The first thing to do is look at your bunny's diet. An adult rabbit needs a diet very high in fiber, very low in fat, and not too high in protein.
The best way to get lots of fiber is for your rabbit to eat lots and lots of grass hay: at least his own body size daily. If your rabbit doesn't have hay, go out and buy some right now. If your bunny has hay, but isn't eating much, try to figure out why. Is the hay yellow and dusty? Do you change it every day (whether or not he eats it)? Hay should be fresh (greenish, although some varieties are more yellow than others, but it should smell sweet, not too dusty, and there should be no rot or insects). Change it every day, to keep your rabbit interested. Put some in his litter box, and stuff some in toys. Pick up a strand and gently wave it in front of his face, like as a game, and he'll snatch it away from you and eat it. Once he's eating one strand, he might just keep eating, so put a pile in front of him.
Also look at the pellets your bunny eats, because a low-quality kind can give your rabbit wet feces. Plenty of pellets on the market are way too high in protein; some are also too high in fat, and too low in fiber. See the related question below for more details about pellets.
Too many treats, especially unhealthy treats, can make your rabbit have wet feces, too. Avoid all foods made for humans: they're just too high in carbohydrates (sugar, starch), and sometimes other dangerous ingredients. No bread, cereal, oatmeal, cookies, crackers, etc. Most pet-store treats for rabbits are bad, too. For treats, stick to fresh fruits and vegetables: it's less expensive than store-bought treats, just as yummy for the rabbit, and healthier. Limit treats to a bite or two per day. Find out which fruits and vegetables are safe, first, because some are not.
See the related questions below for more help.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoThere are actually two types of rabbit "poo". The First kind is actual "poo". Proper rabbit poo should be hard when it exits the rabbit's bottom. It has been dried from the inside-out, and it actually is harmless. It has no smell, whatsoever, and it contains no harmful bacteria or other organisms. It can be used safely as an organic fertilizer for most of your plants. The other kind of "poo" is not poo, at all! They are actually called cecotroepes, because they are produced in the cecum of the rabbit's digestive tract. These cecotroepes are smaller and softer than the actual poo, and they will smoosh easily into fibrous, somewhat dusty, smaller particles. The cecotroepes contain lots of undigested fiber and good bacteria which has exited the rabbit's digestive tract. Cecotroepes are essential to a healthy rabbit's system, and they, and they alone, should be redigested, or eaten, by the rabbit in order to maintain a healthy body. Maintaining a healthy digestive system is Crucial to any rabbit's long-term health. And some rabbits who are sick can be fed a healthy rabbit's cecotroepes in order to get healthy, again.
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∙ 11y agoIf your rabbit has blood in its feces, that means he or she is very sick and needs help as soon as possible from a vet who has experience and knowledge in treating rabbits. There is no normal reason for a rabbit to bleed from the genitals or anus. See the related questions below for more help.
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∙ 6y agoYes. Its stomach makes it easyier to dygest the food so it liquids into diaria
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∙ 12y agowhy do rabbits poo a lot
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∙ 12y agoBecause they eat.
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Do baby rabbits eat their feces?
No rabbits eat their feces, although all rabbits eat cecotropes. Rabbits have two kinds of droppings: feces, and cecotropes. Baby rabbits that aren't weaned yet eat their mother's cecotropes; once they're weaned, they eat their own cecotropes.
Do you need to let your rabbits eat their own feces?
Yes, you must let your rabbits eat their own feces because it's an important part of their digestive system. Rabbits need to eat their feces in order to get all the nutrients they need out of their food. If a rabbit is prevented from eating it's feces, it will become ill. (Actually, to be technical, rabbits don't eat their feces at all: they eat their cecotropes, although it looks like they're eating their feces.) See the related questions below for more details.
What is it called when rabbits eat their feces?
Cecotropy is the process by which rabbits will reingest part of their feces by eating them directly from the rectum. Rabbits only ingest the soft "night" feces or cecotrophs. Hence the word Cecotropy.
Can rabbits get wet?
If you mean (are Rabbits aloud to get wet) then the answer is yes. They can get wet if they are really dirty and you need to give them a bath or shower. But over all they're not too keen on going in water. So only get them wet if necessary.
Do rabbit eat feces?
Yes, rabbits do indeed eat their own feces. Rabbits are vegans, and like most vegan animals, their digestive tract is not long enough to fully extract the nutrients from what they eat. So they will eat it again. Deer tend to like to eat rabbit feces too, so if you find a pile of rabbit feces, there may be deer nearby.
Why cant you get your rabbits head wet?
you can, if you put water on it
Are rabbits allowed to eat wet grass?
yes
What animals are wet?
domestic cats bitrds flying bugs rabbits tics
Are there vitamins in rabbit feces?
There are no vitamins or nutrients in rabbit feces, but there are many nutrients in their cecotropes, and when rabbits eat their cecotropes, it does look like they're eating their feces. See the related question below for more details.
Do rabbits die not passing feces?
In a way, they can. When they don't poop for 24 hours they...it's fatal.
Are there any animals that have green feces?
Babies often have green poo or yellow poo as it passes through the system so quicklyMoreMany herbivores with inefficient digestion also have green feces. Goose droppings in my office park are almost indistinguishable from wet grass clippings. Almost.Cows - use to shovel the stuff at the dairy farmLagomorphs, a family of mammals including rabbits and pikas, leave green droppings after they eat fresh vegetation. They then re-eat the feces and re-digest them. After the second digestion, the feces will be brown as more nutriment is extracted.Any animal can have green feces if it has an upset stomach or diarrhea.
Which rabbits eat their soft forces?
Are you meaning soft feces??? Every rabbit has a soft night time feces. Most eat it before you ever see it. It aides in their digestion of foods.
