There are lots safe and beneficial vegetables and herbs that rabbits can eat – along with some that should be avoided at all costs!
The Rabbit Welfare Association & Fund recommends the following vegetables and herbs for your nibbling nose-twitchers:
- Basil, Broccoli, Beetroot greens
- Cabbage (dark green varieties), carrot tops and roots as a treat, cauliflower (including the leaves), celeriac, celery, coriander, curly kale, courgette (including flowers/excluding leaves)
- Dill
- Fennel
- Jerusalem artichoke
- Kale
- Mint, marrow
- Parsley, pepper, pumpkin
- Radish greens and roots, rocket
- Salad leaves, sprouts (but if you get them a sprout tree be careful of how much of the stalk they eat as it’s very tough), squash (any type – including cucumber)
- Thyme
- Watercress