Morning Glory vines are abundant weeds in my garden. The sheep will eat the leaves, but I haven't offered the leaves to my bunnies. Today, I was holding a few leaves in my hand and one of the bunnies pulled them out of my hand and gobbled them up. Can morning glory leaves be safely fed to bunnies and if yes, how much is okay per day. I usually just feed them timothy hay and ti leaves and an occasional treat of a triangular leaf vine that all the animals seem to love, including the sheep and the geese.
Can my bunnies eat this?
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I think "Morning Glory" refers to a lot of different plants, many are ok to feed, at least in moderation no problem and they are quite liked, but a few spieces may have higher levels of alkaloids.
I feed Convolvulus arvensis and Calystegia sepium in the mix with a lot of other forage, if you want to know if yours is safe try to find out which species it is.
That the other animals can stomach it is a good sign, rabbits can deal with quite a lot of what botany throws at them, I still would only feed it as a minor part in a diverse diet.
I feed Convolvulus arvensis and Calystegia sepium in the mix with a lot of other forage, if you want to know if yours is safe try to find out which species it is.
That the other animals can stomach it is a good sign, rabbits can deal with quite a lot of what botany throws at them, I still would only feed it as a minor part in a diverse diet.
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Here's a fun fact: the seeds of many varieties of morning glory plants contain a psychoactive substance similar to LSD-25! This is not a consideration for rabbits eating leaves or flowers from this plant. Also, the leaves and stalks (on choy) are frequently consumed in various Chinese regional and Southeast Asian cuisines. I love to stir-fry them, myself.
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Our rabbit (at left!) frequently eats cardboard. He chews on very hard packaging cardboard, and we think sallows it. Will this hurt him? I sometimes think he does this to sharpen his teeth, like he might do on wood, but he amazingly leaves all our wooden furniture and such alone.
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If he eats more than a few small pieces, take the cardboard away from him. It can cause problems. Cardboard does nothing for teeth.
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18 Plants Poisonous To Rabbits And 9 Garden Greens Safe For Your Bun To Munch | Home & Roost says poisonous to buns
Those lists are meant well, but pretty useless. A call to caution for beginners, but reading too much without reflecting about it can make one paranoid. Just random stuff off the internet without much knowledge.
Appleseeds? You would have to stuff several pounds of that seeds into a rabbit at in one go to get some toxic effect (after the rabbit exploded), those glycosides are commonplace in many plants and can be tolerated well in small amounts.
Ivy? Sure, lots of different spieces and some might be a problem, but all my ivy got eridicated by my rabbits nibble by nibble, they know what they can stomach - they do eat slightly toxic stuff for medical reasons when they are used to chose from a veariety of plants, like when they can roam the garden and pick. Most plants with some medical properties have some kind of toxins, but either not in worrying levels or they simply don't eat it. It's the way plants defend themself, and rabbits as apex predators in that regard have evolved to deal with a lot.
Morning Glory is an umbrella term, and bindweed alone has, what, 650 spieces? The species around here are all good and well liked rabbit food.
Buttercup family, huge too, and mostly harmless when some gets mixed in their food. Especially in hay since this toxin detoriats when dried.
Lilies are fine, most types I would say. Cally Lilies are not lilies at all, Lily Of The Valley niether, and Peace Lilies are something completly different too, just because some toxic plants are inadequatly named doesn't make lilies toxic - mine have a hard time outgrowing being eaten every spring.
In this list are some really toxic stuff, mostly decorative plants, mingled with harmless things. Apart from Hemlock (quite rare) and Yew I would just be careful about every decorative plant a rabbit gets access to and read up if it is toxic.
This all sure is locally different, but for rabbits not used to foraging the biggest danger are decorative plants in the house, without practice they can enjoy that fresh green too much easily.
Appleseeds? You would have to stuff several pounds of that seeds into a rabbit at in one go to get some toxic effect (after the rabbit exploded), those glycosides are commonplace in many plants and can be tolerated well in small amounts.
Ivy? Sure, lots of different spieces and some might be a problem, but all my ivy got eridicated by my rabbits nibble by nibble, they know what they can stomach - they do eat slightly toxic stuff for medical reasons when they are used to chose from a veariety of plants, like when they can roam the garden and pick. Most plants with some medical properties have some kind of toxins, but either not in worrying levels or they simply don't eat it. It's the way plants defend themself, and rabbits as apex predators in that regard have evolved to deal with a lot.
Morning Glory is an umbrella term, and bindweed alone has, what, 650 spieces? The species around here are all good and well liked rabbit food.
Buttercup family, huge too, and mostly harmless when some gets mixed in their food. Especially in hay since this toxin detoriats when dried.
Lilies are fine, most types I would say. Cally Lilies are not lilies at all, Lily Of The Valley niether, and Peace Lilies are something completly different too, just because some toxic plants are inadequatly named doesn't make lilies toxic - mine have a hard time outgrowing being eaten every spring.
In this list are some really toxic stuff, mostly decorative plants, mingled with harmless things. Apart from Hemlock (quite rare) and Yew I would just be careful about every decorative plant a rabbit gets access to and read up if it is toxic.
This all sure is locally different, but for rabbits not used to foraging the biggest danger are decorative plants in the house, without practice they can enjoy that fresh green too much easily.
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