- Rabbits are foraging herbivores, meaning they eat grass and plants. However, fibres aren’t easy to digest, and so the intestines cannot extract all the nutrients from the grass during the first go. That’s why rabbits have developed a process called coprophagy, which literally means eating faeces.
- The rabbits don’t have a lot of grass to eat so they have been giving our plants a very hard time. This year we have seen them eating some plants that they have never eaten before. So I’ve decided to compile a list of the plants that we have in the garden that the rabbits will and won’t eat.
- Instead of giving your rabbit sugary fruits and vegetables as treats, you can choose to give them some leafy greens as treats instead. This is a healthier way to give your rabbit some yummy food for good behavior, and rabbits really love to eat their greens! In fact, rabbits should be given a good amount of fresh leafy greens on a daily basis.
- Rabbits will not even dig up carrots, though they will eat them if another creature has already uprooted them. Tips for Combatting Rabbits Rabbit damage can obviously be reduced by using plants known to repel rabbits and avoiding those known to be particularly tasty to them, but this can limit you rather severely when it comes to making plant.
Plant, eating toxic food or garbage, improper medication. What to Do: Ingested poisons: 1. Check for breathing and pulse. Check the color of your rabbit's gums. Certain poisons can. Cause specific changes in color. Push lightly on the rabbit's gums and see how fast they turn. From pink to white and then pink again.
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Are buttercups an indicator species? If so for what? What are the uses? I have several acres with which to work. Thanks!
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Location: Lower Mainland British Columbia Canada Zone 8a/ Manchester Jamaica
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Water logged acidity and low organic matter. There bad browse for mamals as it causes blisters, my rabbits of had some dried the ducks can eat it but only when starved of greens. They won't get it under control by any mean's, what you have is an opportunity for bee's right now between the early nectar sources and the late onces comes buttercup by the yellow droves to carry the bee's through a wet late spring when everything else that flower's is gone in a week. You can't mulch with buttercups unless you have a total soil barrier or have dried them severely, there a wonderful fire barrier but i've had plenty continue growing when thrown in a bucket that collected rainwater. They really can take inundation and drought really well. You might as well put bee's over it and get a honey yield cuzz bee's or no bees it's going to seed and grow insanely from the rhizomes. The only way i've found to to suppress it and their seeds is to solarize the ground for a summer then pull off to trigger germination then solarize it again all winter, but that's no broad scale solution. They can be anywhere between 6 inches to 2 feet tall depending on how happy they are, the only thing i've noticed seems to hold them back is potato's but you have to block their spring head start.
Location: Nova Scotia
Do Rabbits Eat Buttercups
posted 8 years agoAre Buttercups Safe For Rabbits
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How do buttercups affect pigs?
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Location: North Central Michigan
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buttercups are poison, but some animals will eat them to regulate health situations.our dog used to eat them .
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Location: Lower Mainland British Columbia Canada Zone 8a/ Manchester Jamaica
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I'm gunna try the rabbit's on it probably dried at first in volume then try it fresh and check for diarrhea, Creeping Buttercup is the least poisonous of the buttercups and would make a great forage and last into the winter.
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicweeds/weed_information/weed.php?id=3
Although it is usually avoided by stock creeping buttercup is more palatable than the other buttercups and may be grazed. However, it can cause diarrhoea in sheep and cattle. Creeping buttercup is said to deplete the land of potassium and may have an allelopathic effect on neighbouring plants.
Creeping buttercup plants are attacked by a number of insects, fungi and grazing animals. Partridges, pheasants and wood pigeons eat the seeds. Chickens and geese readily eat the leaves. Creeping buttercup tolerates rabbit grazing but growth becomes more prostrate.
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicweeds/weed_information/weed.php?id=3
Although it is usually avoided by stock creeping buttercup is more palatable than the other buttercups and may be grazed. However, it can cause diarrhoea in sheep and cattle. Creeping buttercup is said to deplete the land of potassium and may have an allelopathic effect on neighbouring plants.
Creeping buttercup plants are attacked by a number of insects, fungi and grazing animals. Partridges, pheasants and wood pigeons eat the seeds. Chickens and geese readily eat the leaves. Creeping buttercup tolerates rabbit grazing but growth becomes more prostrate.
Location: Western WA,usda zone 6/7,80inches of rain,250feet elevation
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Ive had luck out competing them with many plants.Fragaria mochata(musk strawberry)is probably the most productive competition.More invasive plants like perennial chervil or cow parsnip will do it to.
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Location: Germany, hardiness zone 7a
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This is pretty much unrelated, but I wanted to say how much I love the fact that 'permaculture people' seem to be aware of so many hardly known plants! I had never heard of musk strawberries before, and as a huge strawberry lover I now know that I just need to get me some. So, thank you! =D
steward
Location: Currently in Lake Stevens, WA. Home in Spokane
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They have some serious pollination issues, so growers gradually switched to the newer hybrids to get higher yields. However, neither female plants nor hermaphrodite plants are self-fertile;
they require pollen transfer from a male or a different hermaphrodite clone
(or cultivar) of the same species, which is usually achieved by insect pollinators.
Cultivars:
* 'Capron royal', hermaphrodite
* 'Askungen' (Truedsson) hermaphrodite
* 'Marie Charlotte' (Hans) hermaphrodite
* 'Bauwens', female
* Fragaria moschata '(Capron)', female
* 'Profumata di Tortona', female
* 'Siegerland', female
* 'Cotta', male
They should be larger than an Alpine Strawberry, and more flavorful than a commercial store-bought strawberry.
Sounds like something I need to try.