Apple twigs

dutchbunny · Sep 19, 2012

So my neighbours got an apple tree overhanging into their garden. Now I got apple sticks through here for my buns the other day and they loved it! So am keen to get some more for them but can it just be any apple tree? Don't want to get this wrong.

This is the tree

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Fluffers · Sep 19, 2012

Yup :thumb: Any kind of apple tree is fine but please make sure it hasn't been sprayed and avoid any diseased branches. Looks very nommy :thumb:

Lucky buns!

dutchbunny · Sep 19, 2012

Fluffers said:
Yup :thumb: Any kind of apple tree is fine but please make sure it hasn't been sprayed and avoid any diseased branches. Looks very nommy :thumb: Lucky buns!

Thank you! They have been loving them and now associate my voice with food! hahahaha

FluffyBun · Sep 19, 2012

Apple branches and leaves are my buns' favourite wood to eat. They love rose too, and hawthorn and willow but apple seems to be the one they go mad for.

Anyone know about wild (crab) apples? There are loads in the hedgerows round here, and so far I have stuck with my cultivated apple trees' branches, but what about wild apples? I know some of those small Chinese ornamental apples have poisonous fruit, but what about native wild ones?

cpayne · Sep 19, 2012

FluffyBun said:
Apple branches and leaves are my buns' favourite wood to eat. They love rose too, and hawthorn and willow but apple seems to be the one they go mad for.

Anyone know about wild (crab) apples? There are loads in the hedgerows round here, and so far I have stuck with my cultivated apple trees' branches, but what about wild apples? I know some of those small Chinese ornamental apples have poisonous fruit, but what about native wild ones?

Doughnut has rose leaves and rose petals, would she like the branches then? Do you cut the thorns off and are they good for her? She loves apple branches as well.

FluffyBun · Sep 19, 2012

cpayne said:
Doughnut has rose leaves and rose petals, would she like the branches then? Do you cut the thorns off and are they good for her? She loves apple branches as well.

I do cut the thorns off, but would be interested to know if everyone does, as presumably in the wild, they'd eat things like hawthorn, roses and brambles complete with thorns? So I have often wondered about this, too..?

susie bun · Sep 19, 2012

Spenser has had leaves and a few twigs from a local source, but he seems to prefer the Leicestershire variety we buy from Fluffers.

freddie&daphne · Sep 19, 2012

We are very lucky that my husbands nan has an apple orchard which she doesn't bother with so we can have unlimited branches and leaves. My two go mad for them and can strip a massive branch of its leaves and bark overnight.

Fluffers · Sep 19, 2012

susie bun said:
Spenser has had leaves and a few twigs from a local source, but he seems to prefer the Leicestershire variety we buy from Fluffers.

:thumb: He clearly has exceptionally good taste

:lol:

katie88 · Sep 19, 2012

FluffyBun said:
I do cut the thorns off, but would be interested to know if everyone does, as presumably in the wild, they'd eat things like hawthorn, roses and
brambles complete with thorns? So I have often wondered about this, too..?

I think this depends on the bun. My marbles will wolf it down thorns an' all but misfit won't touch it unless I dethorn it first. She puts her nose near it then backs away. Give it a go and see.

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