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[chelsea]

A work colleague has kindly given me a bag of s"Ooops, word censored!"s for Percy the rabbit, it includes butter nut squash bits, carrot peelings and cabbage leaf. Percy loves curly kale, parsley, spinach etc but I haven't tried him on squash or cabbage leaf - can I feed him this?

 

Any other ideas for food is great please . I have took Claret's advice from a past thread and he is on a diet of 25% dried, 25% greens & 50% fresh hay and he seems to be flourishing seeing he was near death when we rescued him.

[franklyrabbit]

Well done you for rescuing Percy! Great name by the way.

 

I'm not sure about butternut squash but mine eat cabbage. Their favourite is curly kale (like Percy) and I give then carrots, green beens (not the long runner beans but the thin 5" type), sometimes a pear or an apple cut in half, parsley (they nibble at most of the herbs in the garden) and spinach leaves. I wish mine ate more of a variety and I know that some rabbits do but I guess like us they have preferences. Also, like you, mine were rescue rabbits and I think it is hard to introduce new food to them as they do seem set in their ways. When mine arrived, they were on dried food, hay, pointed cabbage, apple and white bread!

 

You could try broccoli, lettuce but not iceberg, rocket

[chelsea]

Thanks for that.

 

Think I will chuck the squash offcuts and just give him the cabbage bits. Never thought of green beans that's another item to add to Percy's long shopping list.

[victoriabunny]

Cabbage is far and away my buns' favourite. They love all kinds of herbs too - especially coriander, parsley and thyme. They also like broccoli (they prefer the heads to the stalks, whereas guinea pigs seem to be the other way round!), carrots (but these are like sweets for buns so I only give them once or twice a week - very sugary and fattening), spinach, kale, swede, turnip and beetroot. For a special treat they love a bit of banana or a strawberry! Very occasionally I give them a millet spray (the kind for budgies) - they adore these, but again they're fattening so it's only a special treat.

[chelsea]

Thanks for that VB, he certainly loves his parsley and I had not thought of other herbs so will try.

[bigmommasally]

Hi Chelsea

 

You may find this list helpful. Mine buns particularly love baby sweetcorn, carrot tops and coriander

 

http://www.rabbitwelfare.co.uk/resources/content/info-sheets/safefoods.htm

[txswanie]

My bunny Monty loves coriander (cilantro) the occasional strawberry, romaine lettuce, parsley, a little cucumber, green pepper, apple, basil, mange tout, bok choy and kale. I think they all have their own tastes, he hates brussel sprouts and spinich but the Guinea pig loves them.

Colette

[Scotty]

Why not Iceberg??? I've been feeding the new babies and they seem to love this.

[victoriabunny]

Lettuce isn't good for buns as it has a diuretic in it. It can also make them prone to diarrhoea. How old are your babies? If they are less than 12-14 weeks I wouldn't be giving them any veg yet - their digestive systems are too immature. Stick to dry food and hay at first and then very gradually introduce tiny bits of veg, starting with grass. An outbreak of diarrhoea at that age could kill them.

[Scotty]

OMG - Thanks for that. I'll remove straight away

 

Thank you!

 

v

[FruitandNutCake]

If you grow your own veg, then thinned out vegetable seedlings like pak choi, kohl rabi, couliflower, cabbage and swede go down well. Mine also have their favourite fruits such as grapes, strawberries, blueberries and apple.

They also love corn on the cob - even if it has been on the bbq and is slightly roasted!!

[Scotty]

Is there anything I definitely shouldn't be giving the bunnies? My old dad keeps telling me to give them cooked potatoe peelings....