Opaque/milky pee?

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- 06/17/2018 at 9:30 PM
  Toby Da Bunny
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  Hi all, so Ollie’s pee has been opaque and kind of milky (not transparent) and baby yellow. Is this normal?
  
  He’s eating only pellets and hay right now because the vet says not to feed veggies until 3 months of age :/ Please let me know what you think, I’m pretty worried and the vet isn’t open today to call and ask
- 06/18/2018 at 3:17 PM
  Bam
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  The milkiness is calcium. Rabbits get rid of calcium their body doesn’t need by peeing it out. It’s normal but should not happen each and every day, because then it means he’s eating more calcium than he needs.
  
  Young growing buns do need quite a lot of calcium though, because calcium is the major component of skeletal bone and at his age, he’s growing very fast.
  
  If the pee is just milky and dried to a white powder I’d not worry too much. But if his pee dries to sth looking almost like white chalky paint and it goes on for more than a few days in a row, I’d look over his diet.
  Here’s good info about rabbit pee: http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Uro_gen_diseases/generalities/Sludge.htm
- 06/18/2018 at 3:51 PM
  Rain
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  Rain had this issue too when she was a baby. I worried that it was bladder sludge for a while, but it was actually because of her pellets. Because young buns eat alfalfa based pellets, which have a lot of calcium, it does give them that type of pee from time to time. How often does it happen? If too often, and as Bam said above about it looking like chalky paint, you might need to either start decreasing the amount of pellets, or transitioning to adult pellets, which I did around 4 months of age. How old is he right now? How much pellets and hay does he get? If he gets alfalfa based pellets and alfalfa hay, that could be causing it, since that is a lot of calcium.
- 06/18/2018 at 6:41 PM
  Toby Da Bunny
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  Hi! Ollie is 6.5 weeks old now, the breeder gave me pellets that she was feeding him (not sure what kind) so I am mixing Oxbow young rabbit food pellets with the breeder’s pellets (she gave me a bag of them) to wean him off the breeder pellets. Soon enough he’ll be eating the Oxbow pellets only. Those pellets and Timothy hay are all he eats right now. I’m going to introduce veggies to his diet at 3 months of age
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