What vegetables are safe to feed baby bunnies?

Question

I heard that I should avoid celery and lettuce due to the high water content that can harm their kidney's. They love fresh cut green grass and hay, but Can anyone tell me what the best vegetables are for bunnies to snack on?

Answer 1

Please check this site. They have a printer friendly bunny vegetable list to take with you to the store. They also have feeding guidelines to what to feed at what age.
http://www.rabbit.org/faq/sections/diet.html#babies

You can start feeding vegetables to a baby at 12 weeks of age. You must only feed one new type of vegetable at a time. In quantities less then 1/2 ounce. Then you wait 24-48 hours to see if it upsets the bunnies digestive system. If it doesn't , try another type of vegetable from the list and again wait to see what happens.

I suggest you start with parsley. Do not feed more then the 1/2 ounce no matter how much bunny begs, how quickly bunny devourers it or how fun it is to watch bunny eat.

Watch the bunnies poo to see if they stay the same. You do not want to see loose, runny or mushy poo. If you do... discontinue the vegetables and wait a couple of weeks to try again.

And yes, avoid celery. Celery is too stringy and hard for bunny to digest. Iceberg lettuce is empty and not worth feeding to bunny. But you can feed other types of leaf lettuce. Refer to the vegetable printout above.

Bunnies get a lot of water from their vegetables. This is a good thing. You do not have to worry about a bunny getting too much water from vegetables. You may however, notice a decrease in the amount of water they drink from their bowl or bottle. This is normal.

Answer 2

Safe Vegetables For Rabbits

Answer 3

I was told that it was specifically iceberg lettuce that was bad for my guinea pigs, but they were fine eating celery, so maybe its different for rabbits. I'm pretty sure that carrots and radish are fine though, but I would recommend asking a vet before you try anything, and try the vegetables one kind at a time, so that if your rabbit has a bad reaction to any of them, you'll know which one not to give again :) Good luck!

Answer 4

They both are Just the thing for your health. If you eat both, you're better off. But yea, I've choose fruits because they taste better.

Answer 5

It is determined by the fruit or veg involved with a comparison. If perhaps you compare a farrenheit to a carrot, the carrot is the better of the two nutritional. But once you compare an avocado to the carrot, then your avocado is better. The two the apple and avocado, are fruits.

Answer 6

if it's a baby, under four or five months, I recomend just sticking with what they're used to, such as grass, hay, pellets and rolled oats. but when they're older apple slices, broccoli and little bits of bananas. something babies can have is blackberry leaves, it's VERY good for babies and adults alike. it's vitamine enriched and helps to keep them cool. make sure whatever you feed them is NOT sprayed with any type of feritilizers or pesticide.

I've heard broccoli is good for them, but I might be wrong, so just leave it alone I guess. good luck! and don't feed LOTS of carrots, only a LITTLE bit, they get VERY fat off of them.

Answer 7

anything except celery and iceberg lettuce. they love carrots, cabbage, tomato, apple, pear, anything raw. ours doesn't like zucchini, but yours might. I also give ours pumpkin once a week to help get rid of hairballs. I buy it in a can in the baking aisle with the other pie filling. just get the kind that doesn't have anything added.

Answer 8

I have read that you shouldn't give them veggies until they are about 3-4 months but have found it hard to give them to their moms and not let them eat it. They have had no trouble with carrots, grass, apples, or bananas.

Answer 9

IM AN EXOTICS VET TECH.
The best thing to feed your rabbit is leafy greens. stay away from pellets....they were made back in the day as feed for rabbits who were raised to their fur and meat. rabbits who are young, who eat pellets, get too much of a high calorie diet, and their lower jaw muscles grow too fast, than the rabbit itself is, this will cause lots of tension in the lower jaw, and will make the rabbit have malocclusions (sort of like an overbite). this will cause, in time, points to grow on their back molars (top and bottom), cos the teeth arent lined up, and when they eat, they cannot grind their teeth like theyre meant to (cos their teeth continuously grow).
so the best thing to feed your rabbit is leafy greens from you grocery store.
some greens that are good are: kale, chickory, parsley, escarole, arugula, dandilion greens, rommaine, collards ....anything u can find in the produce section of the food market, in that area where all the weird looking heads of greens are. stay away from bagged salads, like spring mixes...fresh heads of leafy greens have better nutrients, rabbits need. (they can have as much of greens as they want daily...they can never have too much) **also give lots of timoty hay daily too**
for snacks...give fruits.....like, apples, mango, pineapple, berries(strawberries, blueberries, etc), and carrots also fall under this category.
dont give too many fruits, cos this will make your bunny fat in time (too much sugar). give 1heaping tablespoons daily for every 2 pounds your rabbit is (example, a 4 pound rabbit, can have 2 tablespoons of treat foods a day)
stay away from "yogurt drops" that petsmart (or any pet store) sells (or any sugary type treat they sell)...rabbits have good and bad bacteria in the G.I tract....if they eat these, these starchy sugars will feed the bad bacteria, and they will overpopulate the good bacteria, then causing diarrhea, which in rabbits, can lead to death (if they go into GI stasis).
speaking of starchy foods....do not feed corn, oats, cereals, crackers, bread, etc...this too will feed that bad bacteria.
be sure to spay or neuter your bunny, this will prolong its life (rabbits who are not spayed, have a higher chance of certain cancers in their reproductive tracts).
i hope this all helps you....good luck, and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me. ([e-mail])
good luck and enjoy your new bunny.
PS to the person who said greens at a young age make them throw up....um, rabbits are incapable of throwing up...they cant do it, its not physically possible.
Also to ppl who say dont feed young bunnies greens, its bad....um....ok....then what do they eat after theyre done nursing from their mom...theres no pellet bushes out in the wild. they eat grass and leafs from plants and trees. sheesh people.

Answer 10

Lettuce is ok in small amounts, no celery though, the strings bind them up inside. Carrots and apples are my rabbits faves.