Is Bunny getting enough variaty?

[RosyRabbits]

We feed our rabbit Bunny vegetables everyday along with giving her an unlimited amount timothy hay and orchard grass and limited rabbit pellets.

Here's all the greens and fruits we've given her. I'm still worried if she's getting enough variety.

Vegetables:
Curly Parsley
Regular Parsley
Cilantro
Dill
Watercress
Mint
Celery
Carrot (Limited to once a week and we cut pieces off the carrot to give to her)
Carrot Greens
Mustard Greens
Basil
Arugula
Romaine Lettuce
Green Leaf Lettuce
Boston Lettuce
Radicchio
Bok Choy
Ecarole
Endive
Sweet Pea Pods
Asparagus

Fruits:
Apples
Pears
Blueberries
Raspberries
Blackberries
Plum
Peach
Banana

We give her three vegetables everyday to eat. We try to add new vegetables to her list but she can be picky and refuse to eat certain things, sometimes she just won't like how we served it and we have to keep experimenting to find what she likes. Can anyone give me some tips to convince her to eat new foods?

 

[saidinjester]

She's getting plenty. Variety isn't something necessary. My bun gets a fraction of those things and he's happy and healthy. All a rabbit really needs is hay, water and pellets. Anything else is just icing on the cake.

 

[LakeCondo]

Greens are somewhere between vital & just icing. But 3 daily is plenty & if you find 6-8 in total that they'll eat, you're doing well. Just rotate among those. The one thing I personally would not feed an adult [not pregnant or nursing] rabbit is carrot greens. They have 10x as much calcium as the next highest veggie has. And make sure celery is cut into pieces so they don't eat any long strings.

 

[RosyRabbits]

saidinjester: Yeah but she enjoys her greens and I like picking new things out for her to try.

LakeCondo: Yeah that's what I try to do is rotate what she's given everyday when I feed her. She doesn't get carrot greens often and she only gets a small amount of carrot a week. I'm very careful with that, I know too much calcium can cause serious problems. I cut both celery and carrots into little sticks for her to eat so no problem there ^_^

 

[missyscove]

I'm glad that you're enjoying enriching your rabbit with a wide variety of foods but I agree with the other posters, she is definitely getting enough variety to meet any nutritional needs.

 

[RosyRabbits]

Thanks missyscove, and I get a lot of fun out of having Bunny try new foods. She seems to love green leafy stuff as opposed to gourd veggies like pumpkin. And as I mentioned she can get real picky about how its served.

I once had to go about preparing asparagus three different ways before she would eat it. I tried slicing it up into sticks, giving her the asparagus whole without cutting it and finally just slicing it in half which was what she preferred. So when she turns her nose up at something I have to play around with how I serve it to her before finding out if its something she really just doesn't like.