In the past few weeks more than half of my rabbits have been digging pellets out of their bowls and some turning the bowl over. Used to be just one of two that does it. I'm wondering if it's their natural reaction to heat by trying to dig down to something cooler. When I let them run around in the yard they like to dig in the shade a nice indent in the soil and lie on the cool soil.
Would the heat cause behavior?
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Are any of them pregnant? That is the only time mine do that, and it is only a couple of does at that.
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Hmm... well, I wouldn't think the heat would cause it, but it can be learned from other rabbits.
Maybe it started with some sort of deficiency, causing the rabbits to search for something? I don't know. :shrug:
You can install a wire or spring across the mouth of a J-feeder to stop the scrabbling. There are other things you can do in bowls, like large rocks or pieces of cage wire laid on top of the food.
Maybe it started with some sort of deficiency, causing the rabbits to search for something? I don't know. :shrug:
You can install a wire or spring across the mouth of a J-feeder to stop the scrabbling. There are other things you can do in bowls, like large rocks or pieces of cage wire laid on top of the food.
I think it's not the pellets but just their nature to dig. This morning I took a male who's been scattering his pellets and placed him in an ex-pen. He dug the grass right away. Maybe he wasn't getting enough exercise. Guess the recommended feed saver will keep pellets in the feeder since I can't give them all, the exercise time they would like.
