and Manna is pellets? My buck looks so serious when he eats, like he's thinking about doing his taxes. Funny.
Exhausting, ideas?
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Buknee
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Calf Manna or Annimax is a supplement. It is good for milk production.
Hi i just saw your post and read that your using large water bottles and feeder. We have some 20 rabbits and need to upgrade our water bottles to larger ones and our feeders to larger feeders too. But all we find online and in stores are small size so just wondering if you could share what your using. Thanks
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These are the water bottles I use. I still put a second one in if I have a large litter. Not an amazon promoter, but it is where I can find them. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050ICKN2?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1Hi i just saw your post and read that your using large water bottles and feeder. We have some 20 rabbits and need to upgrade our water bottles to larger ones and our feeders to larger feeders too. But all we find online and in stores are small size so just wondering if you could share what your using. Thanks
Our feed store will order in larger J feeders. This is the type I use, but I like lids on them to keep rodents out.
https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Feeder-...rds=large+j+feeder&qid=1682044377&sr=8-1&th=1
Thank you I will take a look at these. I appreciate it.
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We found wagerers on Amazon that have a bowl as the base but use a bottle. They come with 17 oz bottles which isn't enough, but 33oz smart water bottles fit. In some ways they're a pain to clean, but the rabbits drink more from them than regular bottles and they don't spill like bowls do.
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My rabbits would chew these to bits in a short time. Given long enough, they can get through even the best plastic (ABS, a thermoplastic polymer), but mine go through polypropylene pretty quickly. Not every rabbit is incorrigible, and once in a while I get one that leaves its bowls alone, but a lot of mine chew everything (even when they're got nice, hand-selected, bark-covered sticks!).
The best solution I've found so far is to use the big 32oz bottles and hang a metal cup underneath.
I did this originally to catch the water that drips when a rabbit is a sloppy drinker, to keep so much water from pooling on the floor under the cage (it gets nasty in the summer when I have to walk through mud, it breeds flies, etc.). But I've noticed, like you, that some rabbits much prefer drinking the water from the cup. The drawback of course is that it gets dirty and has to be cleaned pretty frequently - babies like to sit in it even when it's got water in it (?), and somehow the adults manage to drop pellets and poop in it - but since it just hangs on the side of the cage, that's easy to do.
