12 DISEASES OF RABBITS 



its diet, that nursing does require more liberal 

 ration and that rabbits require one third more 

 food in winter than in summer. 



Suitable Rations 



For adult rabbits of medium size give : Hay 

 three ounces, roots eight ounces, and one to two 

 ounces (dry) of a mixture composed of equal 

 parts of bran, soy bean meal, or decorticated 

 cotton seed meal, or bean meal or pea meal, or 

 linseed meal or maize gluten, mixed together 

 with sufficient water to form a crumbly mash. 

 The quality of the hay must be taken into con- 

 sideration; clover and alfalfa hay contain a 

 greater proportion of digestible albuminoids 

 than ordinary meadow hay. 



Green Food 



In summer an adult rabbit of medium size 

 will consume from two pounds to four pounds 

 of fresh cut meadow grass a day and during 

 the mid-summer months will require little else, 

 but after August the grass should be supple- 

 mented until the full ration is reached in Octo- 

 ber. A mixture of any of the common garden 

 vegetables may be given with advantage but 

 potato halums (tops) and the halums (vines) 

 of runner beanis must be avoided. Rabbits 

 should be fed twice daily and the food should 

 be varied, that is the meal should not consist 

 of, say, cabbage leaves only, but of mixed vege- 

 table leaves, etc. 



