Toxic Foods: What to avoid!
Rabbits have a sensitive digestive system that requires a high fibre, low sugar and low-fat diet. There are a number of human foods that you should avoid feeding your rabbit, including:
- Bread
- Rice
- Potatoes
- Biscuits
- Chocolate
- Lollies
- Chips
- Avocado.
There are also a number of plants that are poisonous to your rabbit. While many wild rabbits instinctively avoid these plants, in your backyard, confined to a small area, your pet rabbit may decide to have a try anyway. Below is a selective list of poisonous plants to avoid. More comprehensive lists can be found by searching the internet:
- All plants that grow from bulbs
- Apple (seeds)
- Apricot (all parts except fruit)
- Onion
- Tomato (leaves, vines) Tulip (bulb)
- Macadamia Nut
- Tomato Plant
- Rhubarb Leaves
- Wild Carrots
- Almond
- Arum lily (cuckoo point)
- Bindweed
- Bracken
- Convolvulus (bindweed)
- Deadly nightshade (belladonna)
- Delphinium (larkspur)
- Fools parsley
- Foxglove
- Most evergreens
- Poppies
- Potato tops
- Ragwort
- Rhubarb leaves
- Woody nightshade
- Wild Carrots
- Wild Cucumbers
- Wild Parsnip
- Wild peas
