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Anywhere with list and pictures of toxic plants?

DemiS

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I'm really struggling to find a decent list with pictures of non-rabbit-safe plants. They've eaten a few buttercups and a fair bit of ivy which I've now realised they aren't supposed to have, and there's something which looks like ragwort in the garden but luckily they haven't touched that :oops: There's a few other bushes in our garden and I've no idea what they are, is there a good list anywhere with pictures?
 
https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/gallery/Rabbit food/plants-to-avoid

Though ivy is generally regarded as toxic, Frances HB at her lectures told us that her rabbits used to eat ivy to the extent that she protected the ivy from the rabbits, not the other way round. Though it isn't something you would deliberately feed it's probably not as dangerous as some accounts may make you believe:

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/media/plants/rabbit-with-snowdrops/view

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/articles/free-food-for-rabbits/lant-toxicity-the-problem-with-lists
 
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Thanks! There's some I don't recognise so I'll take pictures later and post. According to one study ragwort is was lethal to horses and cattle even in small amounts, but rabbits/goats/rabbits/other small furries are a lot more resistant (http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.4141/cjas84-224#.WS61IWgrLD5)

I've just been and pulled up everything that I think is ragwort and none of it looks nibbled, managed to get a ton of buttercup bulbs out too!
 
I'm really struggling to find a decent list with pictures of non-rabbit-safe plants. They've eaten a few buttercups and a fair bit of ivy which I've now realised they aren't supposed to have, and there's something which looks like ragwort in the garden but luckily they haven't touched that :oops: There's a few other bushes in our garden and I've no idea what they are, is there a good list anywhere with pictures?



I find this site very useful, alongside double checking with google images :)

http://www.kanin.org/?q=node/193
 
I'm really struggling to find a decent list with pictures of non-rabbit-safe plants. They've eaten a few buttercups and a fair bit of ivy which I've now realised they aren't supposed to have, and there's something which looks like ragwort in the garden but luckily they haven't touched that :oops: There's a few other bushes in our garden and I've no idea what they are, is there a good list anywhere with pictures?





http://www.actionforrabbits.co.uk/Plants toxic to rabbits.pdf

http://www.actionforrabbits.co.uk/Toxic & Safe Plants v2.pdf
 
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Agree on the ragwort front: when we went on the forage day it was very much in the 'unknown if actually toxic, best to be safe than sorry' camp!
 
Thanks everyone!

Agree on the ragwort front: when we went on the forage day it was very much in the 'unknown if actually toxic, best to be safe than sorry' camp!

I did end up pulling it all up, and when looking at pictures I do think it was ragwort so I'll be keeping a close eye on what grows from now on :) I don't have a trowel and apparently ragwort is irritating to the skin so I went out dressed head to toe in black with black hairdressing gloves and a huge knife to dig out these plants, the neighbours must of been wondering what an earth I was doing :lol:
 
https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/gallery/Rabbit food/plants-to-avoid

Though ivy is generally regarded as toxic, Frances HB at her lectures told us that her rabbits used to eat ivy to the extent that she protected the ivy from the rabbits, not the other way round. Though it isn't something you would deliberately feed it's probably not as dangerous as some accounts may make you believe:

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/media/plants/rabbit-with-snowdrops/view

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/articles/free-food-for-rabbits/lant-toxicity-the-problem-with-lists
You quoted my favourite website last :love:

Bit late to this party, but my girls have access to many poisionous plants in the garden. The regularly eat Ivy, as did many of my other rabbits who free ranged and never had issues.

I'd never pick the suspected plants and feed to them, but when in the garden with lots of different plants and grass to chose from I don't restrict their choices. I trust them not to be complete idiots [emoji38]

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