According to the PDSA , guinea pig food should never consist of onions, garlic, mushrooms, iceberg lettuce, avocados, nuts, potatoes, seeds, rhubarb, cabbage or tomato leaves .

Excel Feeding Hay & Grass: High-quality, dust-extracted hay for rabbits or fresh grass should make up 85-90% of your rabbits’ diet. You should make sure that it is freely available and replaced with fresh hay every day. Excel Tasty Nuggets: Should be fed as a supplement to rabbit feeding hay or grass to ensure that your rabbits get all the vitamins and minerals that they need. As part of a healthy rabbit diet, RAWF – the Rabbit Welfare Association & Fund – recommends around 1 egg-cup full of rabbit nuggets, fed twice a day, per rabbit. Although pellets only make up 5% of your rabbits’ diet, they can play a vital role in making sure your bunnies get all the vitamins and minerals they need. In general, high-quality rabbit pellets:

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Beneficial Fibre (40%) • Crude Protein (14%) • Crude Fat (4%) • Crude Fibre (20%) • Crude Ash (6%). Your buns will also enjoy chomping on nuggets with tasty natural flavours such as mint, oregano and cranberry, along with hedgerow ingredients such as dandelion, nettle and lemon balm. Excel Burgess Nuggets With Mint Adult Rabbit Food is a grass pellet-based food that is fortified with vitamins and minerals and with added mint for extra appeal. There may be lots of reasons to change the food your rabbits are eating. Here at Burgess Excel, we strongly encourage all owners to move away from muesli-style rabbit mixes.

This combination provides a high-fibre diet that rabbits require. By ensuring you feed good green vegetables and a good-quality pellet, you can also meet all nutritional requirements while providing a variety of food that won’t become boring. It will also ensure that your little one grinds its teeth down to a manageable and healthy level. Image Credit: jatocreate, Pixabay Nutritional Requirements

Apart from feeding hay, what else do rabbits need in their diet?

To help ensure that your rabbit has the healthiest diet possible, we have put together a guide on rabbit requirements and choosing the best food to meet them. Rabbit Diet There are all sorts of temptingly tasty feeding hay and dried grass for rabbits to eat and enjoy and individual bunnies will no doubt have their favourites. High quality feeding hay or fresh grass should make up 85-90% of your rabbits’ diet. Supplement this with a small portion of rabbit nuggets and add the occasional healthy treat. Rabbit nuggets are only part of the story. The best way to ensure your rabbits get all the nutrition and fibre they need is by following the five-step Excel Feeding Plan, developed in conjunction with one of the world’s leading small-animal vets. Got a question about what kind of rabbit treats are suitable for your buns? We’ve put together some really useful answers from our nutrition team at Burgess, the pet care experts. Why choose Burgess Excel rabbit treats?