Litter Advise

[Slush]

Hello all,

Now as much as I love my adorable slush and i am so lucky and happy that he is I am guessing the healthiest I can get, he poops and pee’s alot. I buy wood pellets 7 litres. i buy two bags at a time.. its the biggest litter bag i can get hold of. i go through both bags in one week… it seems excessive, am i going through too much litter? is there an easier or cheaper method?
he doesnt just go in one corner he uses his whole box. i try to filter and change it every other day but in all honesty some days he needs it doing twice a day.

google isnt much help and i did find an old ppst but it didnt seem to have answers on :/

the store i do get the pellets from have cat litter in wood pellets that would be better value but i am concerned of harm to my bunny or if the smell is different he won’t use it. any advise appreciated.

thank you in advance, lou and slush

[Azerane]

Hi there

I also use wood pellet litter, I buy 15kg bags of a horse stall bedding brand which from memory are roughly 23 litres. Each bag lasts me about 6 weeks for a single litter tray for 2 rabbits and the bit I use for my parrot’s cage. So going by that I use about 4 litres per week which is certainly far less than you use.

You can certainly use the cat litter branded bags if they are cheaper. Here they market wood pellets for wood stoves, horse stall bedding and cat litter. What you use simply depends on what’s cheapest and as long as there are no additives it will all be fine. If you are concerned about the different smell (different brands sometimes use different wood types) you can mix the two types over the course of a week.

I suspect you may either be using too much litter in the tray, or could do with using a tray that has a sieve tray. I use a litter tray with a sieve tray. Basically there’s a normal solid tray underneath which I scatter a small amount of the wood pellets in, then another tray sits inside of top of that and it has small holes in it for the pee to fall through. In the top sieve tray I only put a single layer of pellets, so cover the tray one pellet deep. It really doesn’t need more than that. I clean the tray once a day which include removes all wet litter which has turned to dust and scooping poops. All the pellets from the bottom tray get dumped, and usually in the top tray at least half the pellets remain so then I just top those up. Here’s a step-by-step of my daily litter tray cleaning on the first page of this thread here: https://binkybunny.com/FORUM/tabid/54/aft/152834/Default.aspx 

[Slush]

thanks for that, ive seen the sieve ones would that require retraining or do they just smell the pellets and go? i do try just cleaning the soiled litters but theres so much of it its just better to throw the lot away. another thing with the sieves is that he would still soil just as much.. is the idea that you can put less in?

you have given me a few different options to try i will buy a sieve onr and put less in and see how he gets on with it

[Azerane]

I never had to retrain, if it’s the same litter they shouldn’t have issues changing boxes. You can always keep a few poops and small scoop of soiled litter and put it in the new box to help.

Yes the litter on top still get wet, but most of the urine drains through to the bottom, which means that less litter is wasted on top, also yes, less litter is needed. I personally love it, but everybody has different preferences for litter boxes. If you can afford to get a new tray and give it a go I think it’s worth trying to save yourself all those dollars every week on the extra litter.

[Slush]

I have bought the sieve tray and the cat litter as well as a bag of his normal litter. it is cage cleaning day last week this upset him so its not the bwat day for new, i am going to filter his old tray and leave it handy and put fresh litter in his new tray and put that in his cage and see what happens.
i will mix cat litter and the rabbit litter so he can still smell the other.. he has seen and sniffed the new tray so it wont be completely new to him, thank you for your tips

[Azerane]

No problem, let us know how it goes

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