keletkezes
Wise Old Thumper
Mine sometimes eat seedy grass, sometimes not. They like the oat-like stuff, when it's JUST right, and they really like that super-invasive garden ornamental grass that's quite tall and clumpy and had big long seedheads of small seeds in a cylinder shape (we found a couple of strands last week :S), they nommed the heads off that second only to eating the middle of it! But they really like dried heads...? Weird.It's interesting with grass. Tui is enthusiastic about all grass, but she and previous bunnies have always prefered the shorter, younger grass before it flowers. This I find is different to most forage and twigs, where buds and flowers are picked off first. Interesting observations
I recall my 1980s American book about Netherland Dwarfs said rabbits don't like sitting in long grass: it's often wet, hard to see over, etc. My wild observations over the past year has confirmed this: they avoid the meadow now the grass is about 3' high and stick to the undergrowth where the grass is shorter, even avoiding the mown paths beyond where they meet undergrowth. The babies are only seen on short verges and big mown areas, and a colleague at the Air Museum saw a teeny tiny just-out-of-burrow one the other day: the grass is well-kept there so no long stuff! Perfect
Of course, it could be that we just can't see the bunnies in the long grass :lol: But we're pretty sure they're not there, or not as there as they are in winter after it's been mown!
