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Forum DIET & CARE Spooky won’t eat pellets anymore!

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    • alexa
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        I started feeding him small amouts of greens and still giving him pellets. But he has become uninterested in the pellets, he just digs in it. I did switch brands to the oxbow since you guys talked about it. But I don’t think he likes it and is being a little butthead about it, ha. What should I do? I don’t really want to go buy another bag of pellets since I just spend $11 on the good kind you guys talk about. But I will if I have to..

         

        I did try to wing him off of them until I ran out of the old kind. But he just ate around the new pellets and left them there.


      • Beka27
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          It takes about a month to get them onto a new type of pellet. You may need to buy some of the old and continue to transition him over slowly. What were the old pellets made out of and which Oxbow did you get?


        • alexa
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            This is what I bought when I got him–

            http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753488

            and this is what I bought the other week–

            http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3135803

            I wanted to try to get him on something healthier, and you guys seemed to talk Oxbow up a lot. I think I messed up with the transition though. I will probably just go back to the ones he likes.


          • Beka27
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              So he was on Nutriphase Alfalfa pellets and you switched him to Oxbow Bunny Bascis T (for Timothy) pellets?

              Some of the issue is probably that NOT ONLY did you switch brands, but you switched between two entirely different types of pellets… alfalfa to timothy.

              How old is he? If he is about 8 months or older, he needs to be on timothy pellets, so the old food will not work. Does Nutriphase make a timothy based pellet?


            • alexa
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                He is younger than 8 months.. so I will switch back to the other kind until he gets older. Does that sounds good?

                I feel bad that I screwed things up for him ! I didn’t know.


              • Bumblebunny
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                  I remember reading somewhere that when switching foods it is best to start by mixing a small amount of the new food in with the old and over a period of weeks change the proportion so at the end he gets only the new food. I did this with our rabbit over a year ago and remember at first he ate only the old pellets but over the 4-6 weeks he did adjust to the new Oxbow ones.


                • Beka27
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                    Keep offering some of the Oxbow with the old pellets, even just a teaspoon, so they aren’t entirely foreign when you do switch him over.


                  • jerseygirl
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                      Aw…you didn’t do bad by him! The alfalfa pelllets are sweeter, that’s why he probably turned his nose up. You could continue to give him a mix of the new and old. Eventually he might come around to eating the tim pellets and it’d make things easier for when you want to wean him completely of alfalfa.

                      Oxbow do an alfalfa pellet too called Bunny Basics 15/23 so you could try that instead. The nutriphase is not a bad feed, though oxbow has a bit higher fibre content. Depending on where you bought the food, they may even take the tim pellets back even opened. Worth ringing to ask.


                    • KatnipCrzy
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                        Mine bunnies did not like the transition to timothy pellets- as they prefer the “yummier” and more fattening alfalfa pellets.  It took some time of mixing to get them transitioned- but now the way they beg at pellet time you would never have guessed they once snubbed Oxbow T pellets.

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