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
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Use only fresh, whole vegetables, fruits and grains to make rabbit treats.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and place the unbaked rabbit cookies on the sheet.
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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.
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Add the cooled cookies to your pet rabbit's diet sparingly. Hold them up and teach them to do tricks to get the cookies.
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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.
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Comments
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great stuff. the rabbit loves them.
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Please remove the part about cabbage leaves - anything from the cabbage family can be fatal to rabbits as they are unable to fart, and anything from the cabbage family gives them wind resulting in a stomach ache and at worst, death. Also, bunnies should not have fruit very often - only in small amounts and as an occasional treat - as the sugar content is high and too much will give them a tummy ache. Excellent article otherwise! :)
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bunnybeekeeper
Sep 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.
