Excessive cecotropes?.?

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- 04/23/2017 at 7:34 PM
  WRXFamily
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  So my 11 week old Flemish female is making what may be a concerning amount of cecotropes? I’m under the impression that they eat them most of the time so you don’t even see them but these have all been just droppings on her floor. It has been about 4 large cecotropes today. She is in the middle of having her food changed. But i have been slowly weaning her for the past week. Is this reason for concern? Or am I just reading to many articles about bun tummy problems??
- 04/23/2017 at 7:43 PM
  BanditCamp
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  Cecotropes are formed when a rabbit needs to pass mineral rich food again through the digestive system if your bunnies producing too much your probably giving them a lot of sugary things like treats or excessive pellets.
  
  Try reducing his pellet intake a little bit and reduce your treats and focus more hay. Also watch if your bunnies actually eating or attempting to, you will notice that they will groom their buisness area and then come up and start chewing something gummy and wet (GROSS )
- 04/23/2017 at 7:51 PM
  WRXFamily
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  Okay, it must be her pellets because she hasn’t gotten any treats at all since she’s so young and in such a diet change I didn’t want to overload her poor tummy. I was was told to give her unlimited pellets until she was 7 months old, do you think this may cause any malnutrition or potential lack of weight gain if I cut her pellets back?? She is a little piggy, she loooves her pellets. oh! I have seen her do that! Ah, gross indeed. Lol
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