prettylupin
Wise Old Thumper
Hi Stufi :wave:
Okay, from Green foods for rabbits and cavies this is the following:
Hawk bit and hawk weed are an order of wild plants containing a great many different varieties. It is little use describing each variety as to the casual observer (us! :roll::lol they differ very little. This family of plants can be used alongside other greens as safe food for rabbits. There is more bumph about how they appear to look - flowers and leaves etc. but I think you have already identified it haven't you?
Something the author says at the begining of the book I have always found very poignant and this is that provided great variety of wild plants are given and not one fed solely in abundance - then the risks of nasty effects are lessened. What he says is that even if something not bunny safe is fed by mistake as long as it is watered down so to speak alongside other green forages at the same time, the nasty effects are thus diluted.
When Nino tucked into cuckoo pint once at my dad's house - I remembered these words of wisdom and immediately washed off some parsley and coriander and made him eat a huge pile of it to dilute any nasty effects. To be honest the cuckoo pint tasted SO awful he was retching and making the most awful faces - he had barely taken a nibble - it must have tasted awful poor silly bun! :roll: My dad got in trouble for not removing that one from his lawn... but it was our mistake for not checking closely enough - I saw Nino go for it but just didn't get there in time to stop him! :roll: I'm very careful these days.
Okay, from Green foods for rabbits and cavies this is the following:
Hawk bit and hawk weed are an order of wild plants containing a great many different varieties. It is little use describing each variety as to the casual observer (us! :roll::lol they differ very little. This family of plants can be used alongside other greens as safe food for rabbits. There is more bumph about how they appear to look - flowers and leaves etc. but I think you have already identified it haven't you?
Something the author says at the begining of the book I have always found very poignant and this is that provided great variety of wild plants are given and not one fed solely in abundance - then the risks of nasty effects are lessened. What he says is that even if something not bunny safe is fed by mistake as long as it is watered down so to speak alongside other green forages at the same time, the nasty effects are thus diluted.
When Nino tucked into cuckoo pint once at my dad's house - I remembered these words of wisdom and immediately washed off some parsley and coriander and made him eat a huge pile of it to dilute any nasty effects. To be honest the cuckoo pint tasted SO awful he was retching and making the most awful faces - he had barely taken a nibble - it must have tasted awful poor silly bun! :roll: My dad got in trouble for not removing that one from his lawn... but it was our mistake for not checking closely enough - I saw Nino go for it but just didn't get there in time to stop him! :roll: I'm very careful these days.