Hi
Pandora is having some issues at the moment and may be having a serious problem with her kidneys. In order to test this, and to lessen the strain on them, the vets have advised a low calcium diet for the next week before we test her blood again.
I've been researching low calcium options for her and I have many long lists of "human food" type things, such as fruit and veg, but there are a few wild sources that I don't know about.
The sad thing is that I have been happily going for walks around the woodland and picking bags of wild plants for the rabbits, such as grass, plantain (now a no-no), dandelions (also a no-no...), clover (yet another no-no)... so most of what I was getting her has a lot of calcium in it!
I cannot, however, find any information about hawthorn (although I asked today at work and someone who works with rabbits said probably no good), willow and mallow. If I can still collect some things from the wild it would be nice to do so. It's nearby, it's fresh and it's free!
Anyone know anything about those three? Or any other low calcium wild plants/trees? Unfortunately I'm fairly unimaginative when it comes to picking wild stuff because I don't want to risk mis-identifying anything...
Bindi
~Edit- looks like mallow is also on the big no-no list. Definitely interested to know about willow though.
Pandora is having some issues at the moment and may be having a serious problem with her kidneys. In order to test this, and to lessen the strain on them, the vets have advised a low calcium diet for the next week before we test her blood again.
I've been researching low calcium options for her and I have many long lists of "human food" type things, such as fruit and veg, but there are a few wild sources that I don't know about.
The sad thing is that I have been happily going for walks around the woodland and picking bags of wild plants for the rabbits, such as grass, plantain (now a no-no), dandelions (also a no-no...), clover (yet another no-no)... so most of what I was getting her has a lot of calcium in it!
I cannot, however, find any information about hawthorn (although I asked today at work and someone who works with rabbits said probably no good), willow and mallow. If I can still collect some things from the wild it would be nice to do so. It's nearby, it's fresh and it's free!
Anyone know anything about those three? Or any other low calcium wild plants/trees? Unfortunately I'm fairly unimaginative when it comes to picking wild stuff because I don't want to risk mis-identifying anything...
Bindi
~Edit- looks like mallow is also on the big no-no list. Definitely interested to know about willow though.
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