How do you mix long-haired rabbit feed yourself? A step-by-step guide

   Prepared long-haired rabbit feed should be clean and have a moderate moisture content; this reduces the occurrence of rabbit diseases and improves the digestibility of feed by long-haired rabbits. Root and tuber feeds should be washed clean, drained of water, and cut into thick strips before feeding; green stalks, sweet potato and the like should be chopped into shorter pieces; green feeds with a high moisture content should be air-dried before feeding, and fed fresh only after they have lost some of their moisture.
    Long-haired rabbits dislike feed with a fishy smell and powdered feed. When preparing feed, you can add some sweetener to improve the feed's palatability. Farms and households with the means should process concentrate and grass meal into fully priced pelleted feed and feed it together with green, succulent feed; this meets the long-haired rabbit's nutritional needs and also reduces the burden of manually cutting grass. Small-scale raisers who cannot process pelleted feed must mix powdered feed with water until moist before feeding, so that the long-haired rabbit does not inhale the powder into its trachea and start coughing. The suitable moisture level is when the feed can be squeezed into a ball by hand, no water runs out between the fingers, and the feed crumbles apart when the fingers are opened and shaken. If fish meal needs to be added to the feed of young rabbits or lactating does, the amount must not exceed 3 percent, and it must be mixed evenly; pelleted feed processed this way will not have a fishy smell.
    To ensure the quality of forage and feed, follow the "ten do-not-feed" rules: first, do not feed green feed carrying dew or rainwater; second, do not feed feed carrying mud, sand or manure; do not feed moldy or spoiled feed; fourth, do not feed feed contaminated by pesticides or other poisons; fifth, do not feed frozen feed; sixth, do not feed sprouted potatoes or sweet potatoes with black spot disease; seventh, do not feed undercooked soybeans or black beans; eighth, do not feed toxic plants; ninth, do not feed large amounts of green feed such as milk vetch that easily causes diarrhea; tenth, do not feed large amounts of green feed with a high oxalic acid content, such as spinach.