Hay is the main course, and the hair solution
A lionhead's daily diet is the classic rabbit pattern with one breed-specific urgency behind it. Grass hay — timothy, meadow, or orchard — must be available at all hours and eaten in real volume, because this rabbit grooms a long mane around her head and a skirt of longer fur, and every grooming session sends loose hair down into a digestive tract that cannot bring it back up. Long hay fibre is what carries that hair through. A lionhead who fills up on pellets and treats instead is a lionhead whose gut has neither the fibre nor the motivation to keep moving.
Keep hay fresh and interesting: refill the rack morning and evening, offer it in more than one place, and consider stuffing a cardboard tube with hay so working for it competes with grooming time. During heavy moulting, hay intake matters even more, so those are the weeks to keep pellets firmly modest.
Greens and pellets, sized to a small rabbit
An adult lionhead is a small rabbit under all that fur, and her extras should be portioned for the rabbit, not the silhouette. A packed handful of leafy greens a day — romaine, spring greens, kale, dandelion leaves, coriander — covers the fresh side, with each new green introduced in a single leaf first and the litter tray checked the next day. Pellets stay at a small measured handful of a plain high-fibre pellet, never a muesli she can sort, and never free-poured into a bowl that stays down all day.
Treats shrink accordingly: a slice of apple without seeds, a single blueberry, or a small piece of carrot, a few times a week at most. Sugary extras blunt her appetite for hay, which for this breed is a grooming problem as much as a weight problem.
Water and the droppings that include hair
Fresh water, rinsed and refilled daily from a bottle or heavy bowl she cannot foul with loose fur, must never run out; a rabbit who drinks less eats less hay, and the whole fibre system slows. Check long fur around the bottle spout and bowl rim when you refill.
Her droppings will sometimes arrive strung together by hair like a tiny necklace, especially in moult. An occasional string alongside plentiful normal droppings just shows the system working; droppings that dwindle in size and number, a lionhead who stops eating, or a hunched, quiet rabbit needs a veterinarian the same day. Never wait out a rabbit who has stopped eating, whatever the breed.
Feeding and grooming as one routine
Because the mane causes the risk, feeding rounds double naturally as coat rounds: while the hay rack is refilled, run fingers gently through the mane for felted patches behind the ears, and brush out loose wool before she swallows it. Matted fur left against the skin pulls and sores, and wool tangled around the jaw can quietly interfere with eating.
Splitting those paired jobs is simple in KinsLe's Care Teams, where the hay refill, greens, and mane check sit on one daily list and each helper marks a job done with its time, so nothing about this small rabbit's fibre routine depends on guesswork.