“How do bunnies stay healthy?”/“Eggercise.”

An Easter bunny riddle is:
 
Q: How do bunnies stay healthy?
A: Eggercise.
 
The “eggercise” (eggs + exercise) joke has been cited in print since at least 2000.
 
“How do bunnies stay in shape?”/“Hareobics” is a related riddle, and they’re often combined. “Q: How does the Easter Bunny stay healthy? A: Eggsercise, particularly hareobics!” was posted on the newsgroup alt.support.depression.manic on December 9, 2002.
 
 
16 April 2000, Seattle (WA) Times, “Internet stops Web sites are brimming with Easter goodies” by Jeff Houck, pg. C2:
How do bunnies stay healthy? Eggercize
   
Google Groups: alt.support.depression.manic
Bunny Jokes
11D Meow!
12/9/02
Q: How does the Easter Bunny stay healthy?
A: Eggsercise, particularly hareobics!
 
Google Groups: alt.smouldering.dog.zone
The Easter Punny was here
Liz
4/20/03
And left this in my basket:
 
> Bunny Jokes
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> Q: How do bunnies stay healthy?
> A: Eggercise
 
Southern Maryland Online
101 Easter jokes
jazz lady
04-08-2004, 01:40 PM #1
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Q. How do bunnies stay healthy?
A. Eggercise
 
Twitter
Dorothy Neddermeyer‏
@DorothyNed
RT @wbaustin: Q. How do bunnies stay healthy?
A. Eggercise   Ahhhhhh!!!!
12:15 PM - 29 Mar 2009
 
Twitter
Gena Livings‏
@GenaLivings
EASTER BUNNY FITNESS JOKE:  How do bunnies stay healthy?  They Eggercise!  :  O
6:49 PM - 11 Apr 2009
   
Google Books
Horrid Henry’s Hilariously Horrid Joke Book
By Francesca Simon
London, UK: Orion CHildren’s Books
2010
Pg. ?:
How do rabbits stay fit?
EGGxercise and HARErobics!
 
Twitter
Blog Fred‏
@blogfred
How does the Easter Bunny stay healthy? Eggsercise, particularly hareobics!
2:00 AM - 2 Jul 2010
 
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of Really Silly Jokes
Edited by Geoff Tibballs
London: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2011
Pg. 336:
How does the Easter Bunny stay healthy?
He gets lots of eggsercise, particularly hareobics
   
5 April 2012, The Land (North Richmond, New South Wales), pg. 46:
Q: How does the Easter bunny stay healthy?
A: Eggzerise.
 
Google Books
Katie Woo’s Hilarious Holiday Jokes
By Fran Manushkin
North Mankato, MN: Picture Window Books
2017
Pg. 10:
How does the Easter bunny stay healthy and strong?
By EGGS-ercising.