There's still quite a bit here to be had, but you have to look a bit harder. Things like Cow Parsley look very weak plants also. I'm making use of leaves mostly as an everday feed now as they are plentiful and still mostly on the trees, but gradually falling. I've got Apple, Ash and Alder in the garden.
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There's still quite a bit here to be had, but you have to look a bit harder. Things like Cow Parsley look very weak plants also. I'm making use of leaves mostly as an everday feed now as they are plentiful and still mostly on the trees, but gradually falling. I've got Apple, Ash and Alder in the garden.
MightyMax
Banned
Thank you Omi
However, I am still confused :?
I looked at this page to get an idea of what Rowan looks like:
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/vi...nd-wildlife/british-trees/native-trees/rowan/
and if you look at the 'leaflet' picture, it's just like Ash?
In photos I've seen, the leaves grow opposite one another in both trees... Hmmm
You're not confusing leaf with leaflet are you? As far as I can see the leaflets in both Rowan and Ash are opposite, but the leaves (i.e. the structure holding the leaflets) apparently are different, one being opposite and one being alternate.
keletkezes
Wise Old Thumper
Anyone tried drying chickweed? There's a TON of the most awesome-looking chickweed by the canal and I'm hoping to snaffle the lot* before the frost gets it, but there's no way the buns should be eating their own body size in chickweed (whatever the OH might think :lol
, so I'm wondering how well it dries?
* Obviously not all of it in the area, just the really awesome bits along the path!
, so I'm wondering how well it dries?* Obviously not all of it in the area, just the really awesome bits along the path!
mikek
Warren Veteran
cba to read all the thread (sorry) but would just like to say how much my bunnies have always liked tree leaves. Especially apple, pear etc but i've got a shrub that has VERY unappetising looking leaves & they munch those too. They are outside on the lawn all day which lots of nice stuff to choose but even so I would say they eat at least 10 leaves each per day. Could easily be double that. I think it must be good for roughage/digestion.
- just saying, as if i ever had a situation where they were not able to access leaves i would gather some for them.
It's nice leaves they like, wet or dry, just as long as they're fresh.
also, when a branch of the apple tree fell down, they stripped (& ate) pretty much all the bark off it. Strange, cos they have never nibbled the trunk that i have noticed.
- just saying, as if i ever had a situation where they were not able to access leaves i would gather some for them.
It's nice leaves they like, wet or dry, just as long as they're fresh.
also, when a branch of the apple tree fell down, they stripped (& ate) pretty much all the bark off it. Strange, cos they have never nibbled the trunk that i have noticed.
MightyMax
Banned
Anyone tried drying chickweed? There's a TON of the most awesome-looking chickweed by the canal and I'm hoping to snaffle the lot* before the frost gets it, but there's no way the buns should be eating their own body size in chickweed (whatever the OH might think :lol
* Obviously not all of it in the area, just the really awesome bits along the path!
Yes I do :wave:
Bit lacy, but then so is cow parsley when dried.
I got *loads* today. The buns can't eat it all this week :lol:
My rabbits and I are all very much big fans of tree leaves. I also think they must be good for digestion. I would say atm I am feeding roughly an equal quantity of tree leaves to forage. They also enyoy stripping the bark from branches, especially when the branch is freshly fallen.
Does OGAFAL or anybun else know what this might be?
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Where was it growing? Is it bush-like or tree-like? The leaves look like a black or red currant to me.
joey&boo
Wise Old Thumper
Fabulous, thanks so much. I was hoping it was blackcurrant. It had tiny black berries (much smaller than my garden blackcurrant) & outside the leaves did smell a little blackcurranty.
Its very tall & spindly, grows against the wall by a beckside path. You reckon on that basis its safe to feed?
It sounds to me that it's safe to feed as blackcurrant. What I would do is to firmly crush one of the leaves and smell it (if that's not what you did) and also I personally would taste one of the berries (spitting it out afterwards). I can't think of anything else it could be, especially as there are also berries.
keletkezes
Wise Old Thumper
Might be a flowering blackcurrant: looks just like mine, which also has small black berries (currants) and they're relatively partial to it
MightyMax
Banned
The weather has turned really mild here, and cow parsley is sprouting like nobody's business :lol:
Dead nettle as well - a good haul for me yesterday.
I still don't know the difference between ash and rowan, and I even asked someone far more expert than me, in a rural area with examples, and it was still difficult to be sure. So long as I am not poisoning them with the leaves that look like ash or rowan (ie there's no poisonous variety that mimics it?) then all is well
Dead nettle as well - a good haul for me yesterday.
I still don't know the difference between ash and rowan, and I even asked someone far more expert than me, in a rural area with examples, and it was still difficult to be sure. So long as I am not poisoning them with the leaves that look like ash or rowan (ie there's no poisonous variety that mimics it?) then all is well
joey&boo
Wise Old Thumper
The weather has turned really mild here, and cow parsley is sprouting like nobody's business :lol:
Dead nettle as well - a good haul for me yesterday.
I still don't know the difference between ash and rowan, and I even asked someone far more expert than me, in a rural area with examples, and it was still difficult to be sure. So long as I am not poisoning them with the leaves that look like ash or rowan (ie there's no poisonous variety that mimics it?) then all is well
Ash & Rowan leaves (& trees) are really different to look at - which sounds stupid as Rowan is Mountain Ash I think. Neither has had leaves up here for well over a month. Rowan has very distinctive orange berries that turn red (they are still hanging on to branches for dear life) .
loobers25
Warren Veteran
Oh my, it does look a bit Dennyish doesn't it. Same facial expression
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