Rabbits love variety and adding vegetables and fruit into their diet helps to add delicious enrichment to their day. Vegetables should make up no more than 10% and fruits no more than 5% of a rabbits diet.
Vegetables
- Cos, romaine, oak or butterhead lettuce varieties (Iceberg lettuce is not rabbit safe)
- Fennel
- Endive
- Coriander, dill, lemon balm, rosemary, oregano
- Watercress
- Cucumber
- Zucchini
Sometimes Green Vegetables
These vegetables contain higher levels of calcium, oxalates etc and should be fed sparingly as a treat with their regular salad options
- Carrot tops
- Rocket
- Pak choy, bok choy
- Kale
- Spinach
- Chiccory
- Swiss chard
- Cauliflower leaves
- Celery leaves
- Mustard, beet or turnip greens
- Kohlrabi (leaves and stems removed due to high oxalates)
- Dandelion leaves (ensure correct variety and unsprayed)
- Thistles (ensure not spiny and unsprayed)
- Parsley, basil, mint, sage, thyme, lavender, marigold, roses (ensure homegrown & unsprayed)
- Apple tree leaves (ensure unsprayed)
- Mulberry tree leaves (ensure unsprayed)
Fruits and Vegetables in very small amounts:
These vegetables contain higher levels sugar and should be fed sparingly as a treat with their regular salad options
- Bell Pepper
- Carrot
- Apple
- Pear
- Kiwi
- Banana
- Raspberries
- Strawberries
- Blueberries
- Papaya
- Cherries (remove stone. avoid leaves and stems)
- Apricot, peach, plum, nectarine (remove stone)
- Mango (without skin)
- Pineapple (without skin)
- Watermelon, rock melon (canteloupe)