Fur to thick?

[Mary Ann's Rabbitry]

go to a teaspoon

Never go to a teaspoon. You will have poop everywhere. No more than a quarter of a teaspoon. which is 1/4 of a teaspoon. I have done more than this. And what happens this is to much of soft poops. I cut it back down and it is good. THE pregnants ones can have a little more. But all rabbits are differnent i find a quarter of a tsp.. is good for everyone.
you can find it at walmart, any grocery store.which is cheaper than health food stores. Bulk bin

 

[Secuono]

I have a buck who's been molting for two months, other does took about a month+ as well. Feet, bum, tail and chin/dewlap seem to be were the molted fur sticks around the longest.

You can see two toned fur on the hips, side, knees and feet. You can see tuffs of molting fur on the hips and feet. I'm sticking with a slow molt.

Have you tried giving her oil once a week in hopes the oil will get to the skin and help loosen the hairs as well as keep up the brushing?

 

[ZRabbits]

go to a teaspoon

Never go to a teaspoon. You will have poop everywhere. No more than a quarter of a teaspoon. which is 1/4 of a teaspoon. I have done more than this. And what happens this is to much of soft poops. I cut it back down and it is good. THE pregnants ones can have a little more. But all rabbits are differnent i find a quarter of a tsp.. is good for everyone.
you can find it at walmart, any grocery store.which is cheaper than health food stores. Bulk bin

Thanks for the warning. I haven't even got up to a quarter teaspoon with my Tribe. I take things real slow when it comes to something new with my Tribe. Just a sprinkle, and No soft poops here so far.

Karen

 

[skysthelimit]

I have a buck who's been molting for two months, other does took about a month+ as well. Feet, bum, tail and chin/dewlap seem to be were the molted fur sticks around the longest.

You can see two toned fur on the hips, side, knees and feet. You can see tuffs of molting fur on the hips and feet. I'm sticking with a slow molt.

Have you tried giving her oil once a week in hopes the oil will get to the skin and help loosen the hairs as well as keep up the brushing?

Yeah, the Rex chin buck I am culling tomorrow has been molting since August. The fur is awful, I can't even keep the pelt.

 

[DumansArk]

I think he needs a little trimming and the picture with the mouse scared me. Are they friends?

Those are some lovely rats! It is getting more and more common to see pet "fancy" rats introduced with cats, dogs, rabbits and parrots and some can coexist as companions, which it looks like they get along here.

 

[Robochelle]

there is really no reason to trim a rabbit unless it's an angora in the heat.

I have French and satin angora, and I suggest you stop using scissors and take out the furminator! ( find an old dull one so that it doesn't cut, just pulls)

Trimming the fur with scissors, I found that it got really thick: Just like you described, I could part the hair to the skin-- it wasn't a mat (yet). Over time, as these cut hairs were naturally moulting, they tangled up worse than the rest of their fur. The cut fur always formed into a new mat, but if I picked the fur apart, or regularly brushed with an old dull furminator, the thickness is tolerable and there's far less mats.