Apple + Banana Treats
1 apple, steamed until soft
1 banana, broken into pieces
1 tbsp honey
1/3 cup rabbet pellets, ground finely
1/3 cup old fashion oats, ground finely
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Using a masher, mash together apples and bananas with honey until smooth.
grind pellets and oats using a coffee grinder (use a grinder only used to make rabbit treats). And mix in with apples/bananas mixture until well blended together. Allow dough to cool in fridge.
Roll out dough on plasic wrap (It makes for easier cleaner up until it's about 1/4' thick. Use a mini cookie cutter or shot glass( no bigger than 1') and place on a cookie sheet covered in parchment paper ( it prevents sticking and doesn't add any grease0.
Cook for 30 minutes or until brown on the bottom. Let cool ( for a crunchier treat, turn off oven and leave in until stove cools ).
Once cooled, place in sealed container or bag. Can be left out a week or to prevent spoiling, refrigerate of freeze treats.
* And always remember that treats are to be used sparingly.
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.
How to Make Nutritional Rabbit Treats
Difficulty: Moderately Easy Instructions
Things You'll Need:
Fresh fruits and vegetables
Rolled oats
Coffee grinder
Rabbit pellets
Blender
Waxed paper
Cookie cutter
Aluminum foil
Cookie sheet
Oven
1
Use only fresh, whole vegetables, fruits and grains to make rabbit treats.
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.
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.
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.
5
Cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and place the unbaked rabbit cookies on the sheet.
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.
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.
Guinea Pig/Rabbit Treats
Store-bought treats are expensive and don't always contain the best ingredients for your pet. Make your own and adjust the ingredients to your pets' taste.
1 cup oat flour
1 cup cavy or rabbit pellets
2/3 cup vegetable broth or water
6 tablespoons olive or other vegetable oil
2 tablespoons honey
options to add: grated carrot or other veggies, sunflower seeds, parsley
Mix all ingedients until moist. Roll out and cut into shapes. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes, until firm. Turn off oven and let treats cool slowly in the oven. Can be frozen.
Brenda's Homemade Bunny Biscuits
Kirsten Macintyre
This recipe came to us from our friends "North of the Border". Brenda Plaxton, the kitchen whiz who invented it, lives on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. Brenda originally created these treats for her own buns, Finnegan, Fiona, and Satchmo (her border collie, Brodie, rather likes the biscuits, too!). Brenda shared her own recipe with another Salt Spring Island rabbit lover, Libby Hughes-Klokeid, who then sent it to us.
Remember, these are treats, so give them sparingly.
1 small carrot, pureed
1/2 banana, mashed until really creamy
1 tbsp honey
1/4 cup rabbit pellets, ground finely in a coffee grinder
1/4 cup ground oats, ground finely in a coffee grinder
Mix pureed carrot, banana and honey in a medium bowl. Add pellet powder and ground oats. Mix until blended. Knead in your hands for 1-2 minutes. Roll out the "dough" in 1/8- to 1/4-inch thick layers between sheets of plastic wrap. Cut into small cookies (about 3/4 inch across). Place cut shapes onto a parchment paper covered cookie sheet. Bake at 325 degrees for about 30 minutes (check to make sure they are not browning too much). Turn off the heat and let the cookies sit in the warm oven for an hour or so.
Brenda adds: Next time, I am going to try finely ground rolled oats in place of the flour. I am sure that lots of other changes could be made, and these would still work. For example you could replace the carrot with apple or pear.
Carrot Cookies
Carrot, carrot, carrot. They're everywhere! Okay, fine, let's just move onto the recipe. You can freeze. Freeze! Freeze.
1/2 cup dry oatmeal
1/2 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup carrot, grind finely
1/4 cup water
Put oatmeal, wheat flour, carrot, then water in the bowl. Mix until smooth and somewhat creamy. On a cookie sheet, get a spoon and scoop the mixture and create make individual little balls until there are no more in the bowl. Bake 350º for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Give around 1 or 2 treats to your rabbit and refrigerate the rest for later uses.
Posted by AC at 6:08 PM
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Anonymous said...
Just wanted to drop you a thanks! :D My wild rabbit Squirrel is very picky and never seems to like the artificial-type treats...these were simple to make and just what she likes! :]
