Weird Fact of the Day: Bunny Bums
Jan. 14th, 2008 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiRabbits have very odd digestive systems - you can see something about it here if you're curious: http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/poop.html . At a high level, they poop out these things called cecotropes which they then eat for their nutritional qualities. Its a totally normal process and usually people don't see the cecotropes unless something is up with their diet.
I've been buying pellets in bulk for them from a local place and the quality and cost has been excellent ($0.34 a pound) but they've recently changed their supplier. It took me a week or so to figure out why, but I'm sure this new food is to blame for the cecotropes I've been seeing in their cage! The last two days I've only fed them timothy and I haven't seen any cecotropes, so its totally a case of the food switch. I'm picking some new food up after work so that my buns can get themselves back to normal (mostly because I don't want them to have the lost nutrition, and secondly because I don't want to freak out our poor petsitter Devina this coming weekend.
I've been buying pellets in bulk for them from a local place and the quality and cost has been excellent ($0.34 a pound) but they've recently changed their supplier. It took me a week or so to figure out why, but I'm sure this new food is to blame for the cecotropes I've been seeing in their cage! The last two days I've only fed them timothy and I haven't seen any cecotropes, so its totally a case of the food switch. I'm picking some new food up after work so that my buns can get themselves back to normal (mostly because I don't want them to have the lost nutrition, and secondly because I don't want to freak out our poor petsitter Devina this coming weekend.
