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Precautions for Feeding Rabbits: What Can and Cannot Be Fed

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1. The following grasses and wild vegetables must never be fed to rabbits at any time: potato vines, tomato vines, larch, globeflower, castor bean, ragwort, monkshood, wild grape vines, langdu chenopodium (Stellera chamaejasme), etc. 2. Some grasses and wild vegetables cannot be fed to rabbits during certain stages of growth and development, otherwise they can easily cause poisoning in domestic rabbits: yellow and white sweet clover are toxic and cannot be fed to rabbits when in bud and bloom; buckwheat and wild rape cannot be fed to rabbits when flowering; flax cannot be fed to rabbits when the seeds and crown stems are mature; potatoes cannot be fed to rabbits when they have sprouted.

1. The following grasses and wild vegetables must never be fed to rabbits at any time: potato vines, tomato vines, larch, globeflower, castor bean, ragwort, monkshood, wild grape vines, langdu chenopodium (Stellera chamaejasme), etc.

2. Some grasses and wild vegetables cannot be fed to rabbits during certain stages of growth and development, otherwise they can easily cause poisoning in domestic rabbits: yellow and white sweet clover are toxic and cannot be fed to rabbits when in bud and bloom; buckwheat and wild rape cannot be fed to rabbits when flowering; flax cannot be fed to rabbits when the seeds and crown stems are mature; potatoes cannot be fed to rabbits when they have sprouted.

3. Nursing mother rabbits must not eat the following grasses and wild vegetables: autumn crocus, wet-forest anemone, medicinal borage, wood sorrel, wild onion, stinkweed, arcuate wintercress, reed, tansy, etc. After a mother rabbit eats the above foods, her milk will carry an unpleasant odor, and the young rabbits will suffer poisoning and death after nursing.

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