As I've said before, I'm happy to collect and dry some more to help out, but it makes me sad that anyone should think we're coercing Thumps into doing this - I'd never put extra work onto someone else intentionally, I just wanted to help out with what had already been started
Blackberry& Co I'm incredibly grateful to you, & all that others have & have offered to do to help.
No one whomsoever is co ercing me to do anything. I
chose to open a thread to look at the possible demand for the leaves in
tiny quantities. (Thumper needs massive quantities because of his rare illness & I've got Him plenty over the last 6 weeks, thanks to help from others.)
I've had a very nasty shock & know I'm not well but we only have about 2 weeks left to get leaves which will be effective until next Sept.
I've found a herbalist vet who uses them for buns so they are bunny safe, but even the herbalists don't know about the timing of gathering. So the leaves sold commercially may not be gathered at the right time.
I have given the leaves to 4 owners of buns who have been in stasis & not eating for 5+ days. All 4 buns started eating when offered the sloe leaves.
J-J's Little Billy did not respond as well as the others, but we later found that he had issues which were undiagnosed at the time.
There has been a brilliant success with Alvin, & others just using brambles & then maintaining them with commoner hawthorn.
I simply feel that I can contribute more to the bunnies this way, than any other. It's less tiring for me than trying to thrash out a health issue over the net.
I only see it as an emergency stop gap for this year, until owners can get into a position where they can get their own supply. One way to do this is to plant their own bush. I am
not going out specially. I still go out daily for a store of plantain & brambles for Thumps.
My wonderful vet gave me a HUGE supply of Sloe leaves on Fri.
I now have a small surplus.
There is no forcing whatsoever, & lots of offers of help from several people. Please let no one get upset. We're just trying to help bunnies here.