Feeding three rabbits including a Giant Chinchilla

Three rabbits including a Giant Chinchilla — that's a household with some real size variation to manage, and feeding stations are one of the trickier parts to get right. Rabbits are genuinely complex animals: hay needs to make up around 80% of their diet, they need space, social interaction, and enrichment, and when you have multiple bunnies of different sizes, competition at the feeding point can cause stress and uneven intake. Are all three living together in the same enclosure, and is the Giant Chinchilla the largest by a significant margin? That'll shape what kind of setup will actually work.

That's a classic size-dominance feeding issue and it's really worth solving — the lionheads backing off means they're likely eating less hay than they should, which adds up over time. What you need is a feeder that either has multiple access points at the same level, or ideally a multi-station hay rack that spreads the eating positions so the Giant Chinchilla physically can't cover them all at once. Have you tried anything already, or are you starting from scratch with the feeding setup?

Good — freestanding gives you flexibility, and that's the right call here. The product I'd point you to is the Rosewood Naturals Boredom Breaker Hay Bar. It's a freestanding wooden hay rack with multiple feeding slots around the sides, so two or three rabbits can access it simultaneously from different positions without any one animal being able to block them all. It's sturdy enough that a Giant Chinchilla won't knock it over, and the slatted design means hay doesn't pack down and block access the way enclosed racks can. The scale is generous enough that it won't look ridiculous next to a large rabbit. One thing worth doing: position it slightly away from any wall or corner of the pen so there's no 'back' position a dominant rabbit can use to guard it. That alone often solves the issue.

The main thing beyond the hay station is making sure your pellet portions are given in separate bowls placed at distance from each other — pellets are finite, so that's where guarding really escalates. With hay it's easier because the supply is continuous. You might also keep an eye on whether the lionheads are eating their caecotropes normally; stress from feeding competition can disrupt that, and it's easy to miss. But honestly, fixing the hay access point first usually settles a lot of the tension. The Rosewood Hay Bar is widely available on Amazon UK and reasonably priced for what it is.