Judy I have an interesting observation for you about brambles :wave:
Each bun was given one small fresh, deprickled leaf around lunch time. By dinner time Sebastian was tummy pressing :shock: so got a dose of Metacam and Metaclop. He's now pain free BUT there are malformed ceaco's on the floor :? Instead of a bunch of grapes, there are single grapes scattered around. Mae loved the leaf but Sebastian was reluctant to start with. He hasnt touched his willow either for pain killing :wave:
Weird :?
Thank you so much for posting your experience.
I'm sorry Sebastian has been poorly.
I noticed similar things with my bun which threw me at 1st. He'll suddenly eat lots of tree leaves in the evening & the next morning he'll have runny caecs, BUT all is back to normal by mid day although he carries on eating leaves. If I remove his leaves the runny caecs go on & on.
It LOOKS as though the leaves are responsible, but what is actually happening is that he feels unwell
before there are any signs, takes the right action & only has a minor episode.
He's got superb instincts for what is good for him - way beyond my capabilities of understanding - I now know more about what his tummy is like by what he's eating.:shock:
Before I started advising bramble leaves I'd used them for my bun for over 4 years without probs.
I started to offer them to my bun because I'd seen wildies eat them, & knew they were the traditional
remedy for scours (runny caecs/dysbiosis) particularly in Spring.
I also checked with a specialist bunny vet that they couldn't make a bunny worse however rare the diagnosis.
Only THEN did I suggest them for others.
I would say that many bunnies seem to instinctively know what they need to keep well, & if a bunny doesn't go crackers for a wild plant don't push it - it's not right for them. In fact most tummy bunnies prefer hawthorn leaves once they're mature, (My bun seems to need the big guns now)
In Sebastian's case I'd
suspect that he was brewing up for a problem anyway - but I'm keeping an open mind on it.
I love this video of wildie babies eating old bramble leaves, & have seen them do so myself. It's so noticable that there's plenty of fresh leaf & grass around. I'd guess that they're so desparate for brambles cos they've got runny poops from the new grass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6zRr_EpyNE
Thanks again for posting please let me know how things go with Sebastian.