Wahoo! Success!

[faiththequeen]

Ever since I got my herd buck, Peyton, this last winter, I have not been able to get him to drink from a water bottle. He came from a breeder that just does crocks, along with the doe I got. She switched over easily. He REFUSED. I tried everything. Peanut butter, jelly, I even blended up some good greens in my Nutri-Bullet and slathered them on the valve. Nothing. :?

Yesterday, I decided to try one more time. I put my husband's homemade strawberry jam on the valve and he LOVED it!! Wahoo! He's drank half the bottle as of tonight I just took out his water crock, so we'll see where the water level is in the morning, but I think we've finally done it! Hooray! All that water changing was getting on my nerves. LOL!

 

[Beach Bunny]

And strawberries for the win!! Makes me want to try this jam for myself hmmmm.

 

[Bad Habit]

That's really smart... I've never thought of putting something on the bottle to make them want to lick it, lol! Congrats on the success and thanks for the tip!

 

[Miss M]

Cool! Strawberry jam... who knew? :lol:

 

[Marinea]

Awesome tip! And congrats on the switch

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Lol!

When I made my valved buckets for the growout pens to replace the gravity fed crocks, I used strawberry jam, too. My poor buns had to make do with organic store-bought stuff, though. :roll:

I'm glad he finally figured it out!

 

[AmysMacdog]

I'm gonna remember that one, I've never thought to put anything on the valve either. Thats a great idea. I always kept a bowl and a bottle in the cage until I was sure they were using it well.

 

[MamaDani]

What a great idea! One of our rabbits refuses to use the valve water bottles. I'm going to try this tomorrow.