Yummies for Bunnies

Have your friends ever complained that all they get to eat on the latest diet is "rabbit food"? At Rabbit Diet Information, you'll find a rabbit's nutritional needs are closer to yours than you might think.

Much like humans, rabbits get their energy from carbohydrates; sources include grains, pellets and fruit. Growing bunnies and mothers need more carbohydrates, but spaying and neutering will lower energy needs.

Watch out for the fat, too, because a rabbit needs only about 1.5 percent of its total caloric intake from the fats group, which includes grains, nuts and oils. Protein is also important because it is made up of amino acids.

Grass and alfalfa hay and pellets and grains are great sources of proteins for rabbits. Cecal pellets are especially good because the cecal bacteria can make some of the essential amino acids rabbits need.