This year has been HELL on my Thrianta's coat

[Jack]

Lucky for me, after the Fair show, the next one will be after freeze up (for all you southerners - and that'd be about 99% of the board)
that's when water turns solid and REMAINS that way until spring (break up)

But are there any tips for getting my red angoras back into coat condition other than wait for them to shed (which most seemed to forget to do this year)

 

[ladysown]

have no clue beyond giving a diet change. that does it for many rabbits.

 

[PulpFaction]

I'm trying bread, since they're also off feed a bit and out of flesh and could use the extra fat. If their weight is good, wheat germ oil is supposed to do the same thing.

Honestly, putting them in the fair will probably be about the best thing you can do for them since the stressors will force the coat change a little more. Other added hot foods and oils that have been suggested are adding BOSS, or even a smidge of corn, oats, etc. I already feed BOSS and oats, though, so we're trying the wheat route. (Hate corn.)

 

[Jack]

Lindsay feeds her polish bread as a treat, I hot feed the ones with kits and jr's and 2~weeks before shows I've started all of them on oats/BOSS/calf mana mix<br /><br />__________ Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:19 am __________<br /><br />now they look like they have mange, well two do, poor scrawny thing, the fur is flying, like cottonwood fluff, maybe the rest will molt out too, just not the ones at the fair hopefully

 

[SatinsRule]

Go to the Wonder Bread thrift store and get some of the all-natural whole-grain bread and try it if you're that convinced to give them bread. It's a way to do it on the cheap(er).

Also, in the winter, fill the water crocks half full, and add hot tap water twice a day when feeding. They will appreciate the relief they'll get from it.