Rabbit care and Information Sheet created by Sinclair Rabbitry
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How To Handle a Pet Rabbit
Neutering or Spaying your rabbit
How to Trim Rabbit Nails
Dealing with aggressive rabbits-techniques to learn
Homemade bunny treats!
http://allaboutbunnies.homestead.com/homemade-treats.html
Playtime with your Pet-Keeping your bunny from being bored
- box to hop upon for pets, treats or for a nap;
- A cardboard tunnel (the 6' kind for concrete columns) to run through;
- A small tree stump or knobby branch for chewing, digging and tossing around;
- Small willow wreaths and baskets for tossing and chewing;
- Tough canvas gardening gloves for tossing around;
- Natural grass squares for digging and chewing.
Foods Not to Feed
Because Rabbits are herbivores they can eat a wide variety of vegetables and fruit, as well as a balanced diet consisting daily of quality hay, a small handful once or twice a day of quality commercial dry mix, vegetables and/or fruit and fresh water. Gnawing blocks and gnawing toys will keep the teeth in shape.
However, some things should be avoided and others only given as treats, as they can become harmful if fed in large quantities:
Green beans
Potatoes
Beets
Cabbage
Sweet potato
Onion
Cereals
Avacado pear - toxic
Anything grown from a bulb - toxic
Evergreens - toxic
Dock leaves - toxic
Moss - toxic
Buttercups - toxic though alright in dried in hay
Rhubarb - toxic
Beetroot leaves - toxic. Beetroot can be given but not the leaves
Tomatoes - can cause digestive problems
Corn on the cob - can cause digestive problems
Spinach - causes bladder stones
Other plants from your garden you should avoid feeding your rabbit are:
Anemones, Arrow Grass, Bluebells, Broken Fern, Burdock, Buttercups, Clover ,Daffodils, Dahlia, Deadly Nightshade, Delphiniums, Fireweed, Foxglove, Hemlock, Horehound, Honeysuckle, Iris, Ivy, Jimson Weed, Lilies, Laurel, Lupine, Milkweed, Poison Hemlock, Poppies, Primrose, Snowdrops, Sweet Clover, Tarweed, Tulips, Water Hemlock.
Anything you pick from your garden and cannot identify is not worth the risk - when in doubt, leave it out.
However, some things should be avoided and others only given as treats, as they can become harmful if fed in large quantities:
Green beans
Potatoes
Beets
Cabbage
Sweet potato
Onion
Cereals
Avacado pear - toxic
Anything grown from a bulb - toxic
Evergreens - toxic
Dock leaves - toxic
Moss - toxic
Buttercups - toxic though alright in dried in hay
Rhubarb - toxic
Beetroot leaves - toxic. Beetroot can be given but not the leaves
Tomatoes - can cause digestive problems
Corn on the cob - can cause digestive problems
Spinach - causes bladder stones
Other plants from your garden you should avoid feeding your rabbit are:
Anemones, Arrow Grass, Bluebells, Broken Fern, Burdock, Buttercups, Clover ,Daffodils, Dahlia, Deadly Nightshade, Delphiniums, Fireweed, Foxglove, Hemlock, Horehound, Honeysuckle, Iris, Ivy, Jimson Weed, Lilies, Laurel, Lupine, Milkweed, Poison Hemlock, Poppies, Primrose, Snowdrops, Sweet Clover, Tarweed, Tulips, Water Hemlock.
Anything you pick from your garden and cannot identify is not worth the risk - when in doubt, leave it out.