Healthy DIGESTIVE Buffet for rabbits and rodents
Make every meal a pleasure!
The Healthy Digestive Buffet for rabbits and rodents brings together hay, plants, leaves, flowers and pellets selected to provide fibre, a variety of ingredients and different aromas and textures as part of complementary feeding.
A suitable diet plays a fundamental role in the digestive well-being of rabbits and other small herbivores. For this reason, high-quality hay should always play a central role in their diet, and any dietary changes should be introduced gradually.
In addition, Healthy Digestive turns feeding time into an enrichment activity, encouraging natural behaviours such as searching for food, sniffing, selecting and exploring.
The importance of fibre in the diet
Rabbits need a fibre-rich diet to maintain the normal functioning of their digestive system.
For this reason, high-quality hay should be available at all times and form the basis of their diet, always accompanied by clean, fresh water.
In addition, it is important to avoid sudden dietary changes. Whenever you introduce a new food, do so gradually to allow the digestive system to adapt.
The Healthy Digestive Buffet for rabbits and rodents brings together a variety of complementary foods that can be gradually introduced into a balanced diet adapted to each species.
What does the Healthy Digestive Buffet for rabbits and rodents contain?
Fescue hay with Chamomile
Fescue is a fibre-rich grass whose structure encourages prolonged chewing. For this reason, it can form part of the daily diet of rabbits and other small herbivores.
Chamomile, meanwhile, adds a distinctive floral aroma that introduces a different sensory experience to the hay.
In this way, fibre, aroma and texture are combined in a single food.
COAD Digestive
COAD Digestive is a blend of hay, plants and leaves selected to add plant variety to complementary feeding.
Its combination of different ingredients introduces new aromas, flavours and textures and can also be used in food-searching activities.
Orange, mint, red clover and echinacea leaves
Each one provides different aromas, shapes and textures, helping to enrich complementary feeding and offer greater plant variety.
The leaves can be offered on their own, mixed with hay or hidden in different areas of their environment to encourage food-searching behaviour.
Discover our LEAVIX Range, with different leaves and blends selected for rabbits and small rodents.
Sainfoin
Sainfoin is a traditional forage legume that provides a different texture and aroma from grass hays. It can be offered daily in small amounts as a complementary food and mixed with their usual hay, as it contains carbohydrates that help promote the release of gas and flatulence, contributing to the prevention of possible intestinal slowdowns.
Lemon Verbena
Lemon verbena is an aromatic plant especially recognisable for its intense citrus scent. Including it adds a new aroma and flavour experience to complementary feeding. In addition, it can be mixed with hay or used as part of a foraging activity.
Parsley and Calendula Pellets
Healthy Digestive is completed with parsley pellets and calendula pellets, made using a steam pelletisation process.
Their small size makes them suitable for use as a complementary food, offered individually or hidden among hay and inside enrichment toys.
Flower Mix
The buffet contains a blend of lavender, orange blossom, hibiscus, blue mallow, rose and calendula. The flowers provide different colours, aromas and textures. In addition, they help create sensory variety in the diet and can be used to prepare small foraging activities. You can mix them with hay, scatter them around different areas of their environment or combine them with other plants and leaves.
A hay-based diet
Although Healthy Digestive brings together different plants, leaves, flowers and pellets, it is important to remember that these products are complementary.
High-quality hay should always be available at all times.
In addition, proper hydration is also part of a suitable diet. Therefore, the animal should always have access to clean, fresh water.
Finally, the appropriate amounts and foods may vary according to the species, age, size and individual condition of the animal.
A buffet for discovering new aromas and textures
The Healthy Digestive Buffet for rabbits and rodents allows a wide variety of plant-based ingredients to be introduced in a single selection.
Fescue hay, aromatic plants, leaves, flowers and pellets offer different shapes, aromas and textures.
In this way, feeding time can also become an exploration activity.
«Because good nutrition can also mean searching, discovering, tasting and enjoying.«
How to offer the Healthy Digestive Buffet?
The contents of the buffet should be used as a complement to a balanced diet adapted to each species.
You can spread the different ingredients over several days and combine them with their usual hay.
Whenever you introduce a new food, do so gradually and in small amounts.
In addition, monitor the animal’s appetite, droppings and usual behaviour to make sure the new ingredients are well tolerated.
Remember: it is also food enrichment
The Healthy Digestive Buffet for rabbits and rodents does not have to be served simply in a bowl.
You can use its different components to encourage natural behaviours. For example:
- hide plants and leaves among the hay;
- scatter some flowers around different areas of their environment;
- prepare a foraging tray;
- place some pellets inside toys or dispensers;
- combine different leaves and plants to create new experiences of smell and texture.
In this way, as well as adding variety to the diet, we encourage exploration and food-searching behaviour.
When should you consult a veterinarian?
Gastrointestinal problems in rabbits can progress quickly and should not be managed solely by changing the diet. Loss of appetite, reduced or absent droppings, abdominal distension, pain or lethargy may be associated with gastrointestinal problems that require veterinary assessment.
If you notice loss of appetite, a significant reduction in droppings, no droppings, a swollen abdomen, pain, lethargy or any significant behaviour change, consult a veterinarian specialised in exotic animals as soon as possible.
IMPORTANT
Healthy Digestive is a complementary feed.
It does not prevent, diagnose or treat gastrointestinal diseases and does not replace a complete and balanced diet, high-quality hay available at all times, or the care of a veterinarian specialised in exotic animals.
For animals with digestive disorders, special needs or those undergoing treatment, please consult your VETERINARIAN SPECIALISED IN EXOTIC ANIMALS beforehand.
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