How to Make Nutritional Rabbit Treats

How to Make Nutritional Rabbit Treats. A pet rabbit needs variety in it's diet, just like any other pet, but ready-made treats are expensive. Make your own nutritional rabbit treats at home following these steps.

Things Needed

• Fresh fruits and vegetables
• Rolled oats
• Coffee grinder
• Rabbit pellets
• Blender
• Waxed paper
• Cookie cutter
• Aluminum foil
• Cookie sheet
• Oven

Step 1

Use only fresh, whole vegetables, fruits and grains to make rabbit treats.

Step 2

Stay away from fatty or sugary treats and processed cereals. Rabbits like them, but they aren't nutritious and may even harm your rabbit's health.

Step 3

Give your rabbit a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits as treats. Take a cabbage leaf and place a handful of whole baby carrots, grapes, cherries and blueberries on it--your rabbit will hop up and down for this.

Step 4

Bake some rabbit cookies by placing two small carrots and a banana in a blender. Process on "puree" until very smooth. Add a half-cup of rolled oats, ground fine in a coffee grinder and a half cup of whatever rabbit pellets you are feeding. Blend until smooth and roll out between two pieces of waxed paper, then cut into small cookies.

Step 5

Cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and place the unbaked rabbit cookies on the sheet.

Step 6

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and place the cookies in the oven. Turn oven off after 30 minutes and let the cookies remain in the oven until cool.

Step 7

Add the cooled cookies to your pet rabbit's diet sparingly. Hold them up and teach them to do tricks to get the cookies.

Warnings

• Vary the cookie recipe by adding apples, pears and dried cranberries, also adding a little more oats to make the dough hold together.

Warnings

• Don't overfeed your pet rabbit. Most of their diet should be fresh vegetables and a pellet ration, along with unlimited high-quality hay.