Rabbits are charming pets who need care of the owner. In the summer when rabbits are let out in specially built open-air cages and bear them greens from the wood and a kitchen garden, it is important to look more carefully behind the pet's diet.
Food of rabbits
In the nature the wild rabbit feels that it is necessary for him and that will do harm. In house conditions the rabbit is informed on needs of the organism too, but can get bored, can be starving (you missed feeding, and in a cage the harmful grass lies) – and its instincts, though are strong, but after many generations of ancestors in bondage, nevertheless can bring.
Domestic rabbits are sensitive to leaving and care, and their food – a key to health and cheerfulness. The full, healthy rabbit is sociable and tender, remembers those who feed him, and even has own flavoring preferences. Hunger is harmful to them, and food poisonings – are deadly for this reason it is worth putting in a cage only those plants of which you are sure and also the products which are not touched by a mold clean, without dyes and chemical additives.
How not to poison a rabbit
If your rabbit absolutely small, limit any greens in volumes. The same red clover loved by rabbits can cause indigestion in young growth: these animals really eat a clover with pleasure and do not limit for themselves its quantity whereas digestive system of young people krolchat is still incapable to cope with the large volume of fresh green food. Big delusion is also the abundance of dandelions in a diet of a rabbit. Dandelions are useful, and small animals eat them willingly, but it is better to make such plants addition to a lunch, but not a main course. Also it is necessary to arrive with a yarrow and a winter cress. Kozloborodnik, the geranium and an euphorbia cannot be given to young growth at all, and adult rabbits should limit the use. In small amounts, all these herbs given in the form of mix with other plants and types of forages are useful to adult a rabbit and will help to diversify his diet. From the seasonal dacha the rabbit can bring a beet tops of vegetable, but it can cause disorder of digestion at unbalanced food. Therefore together with it it is worth putting thin fresh branches of an alder or an oak in a cage: the knitting substances "will neutralize" greens. Dog parsley, a nightshade, a buttercup – are poisonous in a fresh and sun-burned look. However if you find them among hay – it is not necessary to worry, the dried-up, these plants are harmless to a rabbit. The quantity of deadly herbs for a rabbit is high. Among them: the lily of the valley, a celandine, a St. John's wort, mustard which can grow on your kitchen garden or meet in the field. Milestones poisonous, the hemlock, a henbane black, a dope – are poisonous. You do not feed rabbits with such herbs as a delphinium, a horsetail marsh, a kaluzhnitsa marsh, chistyak, the fighter, a foxglove, chistets, a cheremitsa. "An unfamiliar mushroom – do not take the golden rule of the mushroom picker" works and here: postpone an unfamiliar plant from the general heap, do not risk health of the pets. Besides, it is worth remembering that the wet and juicy grass in principle is harmful to rabbits: before putting it in a cage, it is worth drying and slightly drying greens.