Safe foods and unsafe foods for rabbits

Hello, I have came across this list and thought it would help a lot of forum members including myself so I thought I would post it I hope it is allowed

Safe Food for Rabbits
N.B. This list is to help discern safe foods for rabbits. It is not a guide to the nutitional value of these foods.

Safe foods:
• Agrimony
• Alfalfa
• Apple
• Avens
• Balm
• Banana
• Barley
• Basil
• Beetroot
• Blackberry
• Borage
• Broccoli
• Buckwheat
• Burnet
• Camomile
• Caraway
• Carrot
• Celery
• Celeriac
• Chervil
• Chicory
• Chickweed
• Chinese leaf
• Cleavers
• Clover, WHITE
• Coltsfoot
• Comfrey WILTED SLIGHTLY
• Coriander
• Corn marigold
• Corn spurrey
• Cow parsnip
• Crosswort
• Cucumber
• Dandelion
• Dead-Nettles
• Dill
• Dock BEFORE FLOWERING
• Endive
• Fat hen
• Fennel
• Goosefoot
• Goosegrass
• Goutweed BEFORE FLOWERING
• Ground elder BEFORE FLOWERING
• Hawkbit
• Hawkweed
• Heather
• Hedge parsley
• Horseradish
• Jerusalem artichoke
• Knapweed
• Knotgrass
• Kohlrabi
• Lavender
• Lovage
• Mallow
• Marjoram
• Mayweed
• Maywort
• Meadowsweet
• Melon
• Milk thistle
• Mugwort
• Nipplewort
• Oats
• Orache
• Oxeye daisy
• Parsley
• Parsnip
• Peas
• Pear
• Peppermint
• Pigweed
• Plantain
• Pumpkin
• Radish GREENS
• Raspberry
• Sage
• Savory
• Sanfoin
• Shepherd's purse
• Silverweed
• Sow thistle
• Soya
• Strawberry
• Swiss Chard
• Tare
• Tomatoes
• Trefoil
• Vetch
• Vine leaves
• Watercress
• Watermelon
• Wheat
• Yarrow

Safe in moderation:
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Corn
• Groundsel
• Kale
• Lettuce
• Molasses
• Mustard greens
• Spinach
• Tallow
• Turnip

NOT SAFE:
• Arum
• Bigwort
• Bindweed
• Bluebell
• Bryony
• Buttercup
• Celandine
• Clover RED
• Colchicum
• Corncockle
• Cowslip
• Cuckoo pint
• Dog's Mercury
• Elder after flowering
• Euphorbia
• Evergreens
• Fool's parsley
• Foxglove
• Ground ivy
• Hemlock
• Henbane
• Kingcup
• Meadow Saffron
• Milkweed
• Nightshade
• Ragwort
• Scarlet Pimpernel
• Spurge
• Toadflax
• Tomato LEAVES
• Traveller's joy
• Beans
• Peach leaves
• Plum leaves
• Potato SPROUTS
• Rhubarb
• Wood sorrel

Safe tree and shrub leaves:
Should always be fresh young leaves:
• Acacia
• Apple
• Beech
• Birch
• Blackberry
• Cherry
• Hazel
• Horse Chestnut
• Lime
• Mountain Ash
• Mulberry
• Pear
• Poplar (not black)
• Raspberry
• Strawberry

Safe twigs:
• Apple
• Birch
• Blackberry
• Fir
• Hazel
• Hawthorn
• Maple
• Pear
• Raspberry
• Spruce
• Willow

Unsafe twigs:
• Acacia
• Apricot
• Azalea
• Beech
• Box
• Cherry
• Clematis
• Elder
• Holly
• Ivy
• Laburnum
• Mistletoe
• Nux vomica
• Oak
• Oleander
• Peach
• Periwinkle
• Plum
• Privet
• Rhododendron
• Rosewood
• Snowberry
• Spindleberry
• Thorn apple
• Waxplant
• Wisteria
• Yew
• All evergreens not mentioned in safe twig list

Safe flowers:
• Aster
• Carnation
• Daisy
• Geranium
• Geum
• Helenium
• Hollyhock
• Honesty
• Marguerite
• Marigold
• Michaelmas daisy
• Nasturtium
• Rose
• Stock
• Sunflower
• Wallflower

Unsafe flowers:
• Acacia
• Aconite
• Antirrhinum
• Anemone
• Brugmansia
• Columbine
• Crocus
• Daffodil
• Dahlia
• Delphinium
• Feverfew
• Gypsophila
• Hellebore
• Hyacinth
• Iris
• Larkspur
• Lily of the Valley
• Lobelia
• Love-in-a-mist
• Lupin
• Narcissus
• Poppy
• Primrose
• Snowdrop
• Tulip
• Any bulbs

you could add more if they aren't on here and hopefully this may become a sticky

There is a sticky about edible foods in http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?t=46015 you may want to copy and paste the information you have put on this thread into that one.

Scooch goes crazy for apple :lol:

I haven't even heard of a lot of those!!!

Rabbits Are Not Aloud Lettice????? its not safe!?

AshLovesRabbits123 said:

Rabbits Are Not Aloud Lettice????? its not safe!?

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Rabbits should not be given lettuce - (Romaine can be in small amounts - although I choose not to) but certainly never, ever give iceberg.

So can they eat lettuce? x

AshLovesRabbits123 said:

So can they eat lettuce? x

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I have just answered your question above Ashleigh. NO with the exception of Romaine in small quantities.

sorry
i just carnt seem to consentrate, to tired and sick x again..im sorry & i dont realy understand somtimes.

ive given honey lettuce and she was fine ?:? ive been told u can give them it but its not nutritional

Bell peppers - red, green, yellow are also safe for rabbits and esp for guniea-pigs as its high in Vit.C

Asparagus
Artichoke
Swede
Rocket
Zucchini (courgette)
Kiwi fruit
Mango
Cherries
Apricot
Papaya are also safe for rabbits

Hope this helps a bit!

natruly there not aloud it:?

Lessie said:

Bell peppers - red, green, yellow are also safe for rabbits and esp for guniea-pigs as its high in Vit.C

Asparagus
Artichoke
Swede
Rocket
Zucchini (courgette)
Kiwi fruit
Mango
Cherries
Apricot
Papaya are also safe for rabbits

Hope this helps a bit!

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Cor, someone's bunnies have expensive tastes

Handy list! :thumb:

As the only real fruit & veg eater in my house, I am delighted that I can start introducing and sharing more of my fruit & veg with my bunnies Kiwi fruit, yum yum yum!

I’m just a stickler for only feeding them organic or homegrown produce – happy to eat anything washed in chlorine and squirted with pesticides myself :mrgreen: but when it comes to the bunnies it has to be handwashed and no pesticides used! :no:

...Which inevitably means more £££ at the tills...

Michelleox said:

Cor, someone's bunnies have expensive tastes

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:lol::lol: Well actually I haven't tried out Mango, Papaya cherries and apricot yet.

I am trying to or starting to grow my own vegetable patch just for my bunny and guniea-pigs!! Hopefully it will work.....!!!!:lol:

Can peppers and turnip be given everyday? Like a small cube of each per day (once the bunnies are used to it of course) Just trying to find food my bunnies like and can have some of everyday

I've tried mine on Mango. I cheated and got the little snack packet from tescos! I have read somewhere that Mango is really good for bunnies' tract

Bit concerned that Bindweed is in the unsafe list, as we have some growing in the garden next to the bunnie's enclosure (it comes through from next door who don't do much in the way of gardenning).

I checked, and a couple of places including here say it's ok? (There are also other contradictions, such as Tomato leaves...)

It's pretty much impossible to get rid of, so I'm not sure what to do!

FudgeMallow said:

Can peppers and turnip be given everyday? Like a small cube of each per day (once the bunnies are used to it of course) Just trying to find food my bunnies like and can have some of everyday

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Peppers are allowed everyday but Turnip should be given occasionally for some reason....!