How to Make Nutritional Rabbit Treats

A pet rabbit needs variety in it's diet, just like any other pet, but ready-made treats are expensive. Make your own nutritional rabbit treats at home following these steps.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Fresh fruits and vegetables
• Rolled oats
• Coffee grinder
• Rabbit pellets
• Blender
• Waxed paper
• Cookie cutter
• Aluminum foil
• Cookie sheet
• Oven

1. Use only fresh, whole vegetables, fruits and grains to make rabbit treats.

2. Stay away from fatty or sugary treats and processed cereals. Rabbits like them, but they aren't nutritious and may even harm your rabbit's health.

3. Give your rabbit a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits as treats. Take a cabbage leaf and place a handful of whole baby carrots, grapes, cherries and blueberries on it--your rabbit will hop up and down for this.

4. Bake some rabbit cookies by placing two small carrots and a banana in a blender. Process on "puree" until very smooth. Add a half-cup of rolled oats, ground fine in a coffee grinder and a half cup of whatever rabbit pellets you are feeding. Blend until smooth and roll out between two pieces of waxed paper, then cut into small cookies.

5. Cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and place the unbaked rabbit cookies on the sheet.

6. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and place the cookies in the oven. Turn oven off after 30 minutes and let the cookies remain in the oven until cool.

7. Add the cooled cookies to your pet rabbit's diet sparingly. Hold them up and teach them to do tricks to get the cookies.

Tips & Warnings

• Vary the cookie recipe by adding apples, pears and dried cranberries, also adding a little more oats to make the dough hold together.
• Don't overfeed your pet rabbit. Most of their diet should be fresh vegetables and a pellet ration, along with unlimited high-quality hay.

[bunnybeekeeper]

on 9/28/2009 Nice treats, wonderful for people with pets. I might use this recipe for my young babies who I'm weaning, especailly the ones that are haveing problems.