Dried shop bought forage

[Cuthbert&Dillon]

Stupid question time, does shop bought forage class as part of their vegetable /fresh/ dried food diet please?
I have bought marigold flowers and dandelion leaves etc as a dried mixture and dried dandelion roots and am unsure if this classes as a treat or as it is dried part of their hay proportion of their diet please?

 

[Omi]

Don't know whether this is right or not, but I would consider dried forage as to be within the vegetable part of the diet. This will also vary depending on the time of year and also the ability of carers to access fresh food for their bunnies. My bunnies get only fresh food for this part of their diet. This will vary and in the winter this will be mostly vegetables and in the summer mostly forage.

I saw your photo on your other thread and thought how comfortable he looked sitting in his accommodation.

 

[Shimmer]

I would also consider forage - dry or fresh - to be 'vegetables'. It's not processed, other than drying, so is still essentially a recognisable plant item. It's the same as hay / grass, basically.

To me, 'treats' are commercially manufactured from various ingedients, and the end product doesn't resemble anything that a rabbit would eat in the wild.

 

[tulsi]

I believe that dried forage is higher in calcium than most veg. so I treat it rather like pellets.

Ooo read Shimmer's response. How brilliant. I can up their dried forage!

 

[joey&boo]

I view treats as things they get small quantities of. For me it would depend on the forage, dandelions & their roots I would feed at much smaller quantities, same with flowers....much more generous with tree leaves etc. Treats here are also nuggets, fibra first, tiny bits of not green veg or fruit

 

[Preitler]

Dried Forage, you mean just normal hay, stuff that grows on meadows?That's a staple food, next best to the fresh thing.

 

[Cuthbert&Dillon]

Dried Forage, you mean just normal hay, stuff that grows on meadows?That's a staple food, next best to the fresh thing.

No I mean the dried plant leaves, flowers, stalks in a bag from hayshed or similar. Usually to accompany hay.

 

[FireRose]

I don’t class it as a treat - so mine have two bowls between them every other day, it mostly gets scooped around the living room floor.

We generally do a mix, so it’s mostly plantain/dandelion leaves with a few fruit leaves mixed in, marigolds etc

Dandelion roots/burdock roots are treated as treats and they’ll fight over them so they’re generally supervised too.

Then they get some apple sticks thrown in for good measure which again get strewn across our living room floor lol.

 

[Cuthbert&Dillon]

I don’t class it as a treat - so mine have two bowls between them every other day, it mostly gets scooped around the living room floor.

We generally do a mix, so it’s mostly plantain/dandelion leaves with a few fruit leaves mixed in, marigolds etc

Dandelion roots/burdock roots are treated as treats and they’ll fight over them so they’re generally supervised too.

Then they get some apple sticks thrown in for good measure which again get strewn across our living room floor lol.

Thank you, that is really useful/