Rabbit feed waste???

[Quintus]

Greetings all,

First time posting- I've just recently come across this site. I have chickens and rabbits. My question is this- my rabbits are tossing some of their feed out of the feeders and it is falling through the cage and thus becoming waste. I want to know if I increase the height of the hanging feeders- will that help cut this down or eliminate the waste? I will include pics here for everyone:

 

[nzpouter]

we use to have rabbits... what they scatter on the ground, the chickens will finish..

 

[Quintus]

They're not quite in the chicken yard yet... still building that part (I've finished the coop- I'll add pics of that soon- complete with brooder cage inside). Currently, I'm giving them half of our 24x32 garden for their yard (the chickens I mean) until I get theirs done.

 

[Rafter 7 Paint Horses]

Raising the feeder never worked for me.

I raise rabbits and they all will drop some feed, but if you have one that rakes every pellet out onto the ground, the only thing I have found to stop this is to use a crock (bowl) made for feeding rabbits.
After I do this, they don't waste any more feed.
It is just more time consuming to feed, having to open every cage and feed.

I think some just don't like the feeders.
I have one cage that whatever rabbit I put in that cage, it rakes the feed out, but won;t do it in another cage. Almost all my feeders are exactly the same, who knows what goes on in those little bunny brains.

Jean

 

[txchickie]

Is there any way you can make the feeder not so slanted down? My bun has the same feeder, but the part with the feed is level to her floor--almost slanted back.

Any way you could change the angle?

 

[RabbitMage]

Raising it may help if they're digging out their feed, as some do. Also, those feeders and meant to hang through a hole in the wire, which will fix the angle, like so: http://www.bassequipment.com/files/images/content/EZ-feeder.jpg