Sagebrush":3jflt49a said:
Makes me wonder if you have corn in the pellets. Corn is mainly starch and would appear to make more fat on the rabbits.
My pellets have corn. I felt it was safer to give them a feed with corn already in it, than have poor
quality control allow a bunch of corn in a feed that didn't have it and shock my weanlings systems at 5 weeks old. :evil:
Did I mention that I hate loosing kits? Well, my feed stores carry manna pro, purina, and generic brand that has animal fat.
That's it, so I have to decide between those three if I want pellets in their diet.
My local TSC has an employee who raises E-lops and French Lops. She's had all sorts of trouble with the feed from there too. She had trouble with most of the types of manna pro. She was recently saying that the 18% manna pro feed was working for her, but....it was the first one I had trouble with. I think the mill our manna pro comes from is just...inconsistent. The feed store is even worse, putting returned bags back out on the shelves for unsuspecting customers to buy.
On the upside, getting them onto a non GMO diet will be easier with grain than trying to source organic or non GMO pellets.
I asked about your grain feed because I'm trying to see what is working out well for others while I slowly convert my rabbits to a more hay and grain based diet.