The Rabbit Diet :)

Rabbit Diet

The diet of a bunny is a crucial factor for your bunny, sudden changes or types of food could 

decline your bunny's health and some things may be fatal. 

The most important thing a bunny needs in their diet is fiber, Bunnies can get lots 

of good fiber from dried grass and even more from yellow dried ones. The main things bunnies 

eat are any greens, they need both lots of fiber grass and its good to give them rabbit pellets 

(they love weeds! So save them for your bunnies next time you weed your garden, or just let 

them do the work) but you can occasionally give them carrots and very rarely fruit (sugar is 

not advised to give your bunny, so limit carrots and I wouldn't give them much fruit if at all if I

 were you, but you can occasionally give some for training). Oats are a good thing to mix into 

your bunnies diet to fatten him or her up especially if he or she has been having weight loss, 

or you can just use it as a yummy treat.

If fiber is not in enough supply the bunny will possibly get diarrhea which is a very detrimental 

or fatal predicament to a bunny's health and will also kill a rabbit's young (if recently or soon to 

give birth if not cured or prevented. 

Also don't mix up bunnies soft poo with diarrhea; bunnies poo soft pellets are good and are 

supposed to get eaten a second time by the bunny to help digestion, so don't worry if your 

bunny is eating his or her poo and also don't take it away because all bun-buns need it. After 

the soft pellets are digested a second time they will come out as firm pellets. 

And to wrap things up whenever you need to change 

the food source or parts of their diet you have to gradually change it (combine it with their 

usual food diet) in their diet.

 

WARNING (poisonous plants): There are poisonous plants for bunnies some of these 

include (bold are plants I find somewhat common); Acacia twigs and flowers, Anemone, 

Antirrhinum, Apricot twigs and seed kernels, Arum, Avocado, Azalea - twigs and all parts,  

Beans - any type, Beech twigs, Big wort, Bindweed, Bluebell, Box Elder, Brugmansia 

(Angel Trumpet), Bryony, Bulb plants - best to avoid them all, Buttercup, Celandine, 

Cherry twigs, stems and seeds (fruit flesh is safe), Christmas Rose, Clematis twigs,  

Columbine, Convolvulus (aka Morning Glory), Corn cockle, Crocus, Daffodil, Dahlia, 

Delphinium (Larkspur), Dogs Mercury, Elder twigs, Evergreens, Feverfew, Flowering 

Elder,  Fool’s Parsley, Foxglove, Gypsophilia (aka Baby’s Breath), Hemlock, Henbane 

(Stinking Nightshade), Holly twigs, Hyacinth, Iris, Ivy-any part, Kingcup, Laburnum 

twigs, Lilly of the Valley, Lobelia, Love-in-a-mist, Lupine, Meadow Saffron, Milkweed, 

 Mistle Toe, Monkshood flowers, Narcissus, Nightshade, Nux Vomica, Oak twigs, 

 Oleander-all parts, Peach seed kernels and twigs, Periwinkle, Plum twigs, seeds, 

and leaves (fruit flesh is fine), Poppy, Primrose, Ragwort, Rhododendron, 

 Rhubarb, Roseweed, Scarlet Pimpernel, Snowberry, Snowdrop, Spindleberry, Sprouts-

potato, Spurge, Thorn, Apple, Toadflax, Tomato-leaves, Traveler’s oy, Tulip, Wax 

plant,  Wisteria, Wood Sorrel, and Yew.

 

I used mutiple sources (including my knowledge for this list (not the article) so is not 

scientifically my findings.