- Are Buttercups Safe For Rabbits
- Do Rabbits Eat Buttercups
- Will Rabbits Eat Buttercups
- Do Rabbits Eat Buttercups
- Do Wild Rabbits Eat Buttercups
Buttercups are a member of the Ranunculus family and are poisonous to rabbits, not severly but they could cause digestive upset and contact blistering to the lips/mouth. A few dried buttercups found naturally in hay won't cause issue but you really should not.
Buttercups are a member of the Ranunculus family and are poisonous to rabbits, not severly but they could cause digestive upset and contact blistering to the lips/mouth. A few dried buttercups found naturally in hay won't cause issue but you really should not allow bun to forage on them freely in the garden. About Plants Rabbits Can’t Eat. Rabbits have a fairly sensitive digestive system. They require a high fiber, low sugar, and low-fat diet. This is why most ‘people food’ is a no-no; rabbits can’t tolerate foods like bread, rice, chips, or chocolate for instance. Rabbits have tunnels all through this which they have made. It would be very difficult to remove or fence in, what are the chances they would attempt to eat the leaves or flowers – I assume they don’t taste nice. Just also found out that buttercups are toxic which not everyone might know.
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Although it is usually avoided by stock creeping buttercup is more palatable than the other buttercups and may be grazed. However, it can cause diarrhoea in sheep and cattle. Creeping buttercup is said to deplete the land of potassium and may have an allelopathic effect on neighbouring plants.
Creeping buttercup plants are attacked by a number of insects, fungi and grazing animals. Partridges, pheasants and wood pigeons eat the seeds. Chickens and geese readily eat the leaves. Creeping buttercup tolerates rabbit grazing but growth becomes more prostrate.
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They have some serious pollination issues, so growers gradually switched to the newer hybrids to get higher yields.
However, neither female plants nor hermaphrodite plants are self-fertile;
they require pollen transfer from a male or a different hermaphrodite clone
(or cultivar) of the same species, which is usually achieved by insect pollinators.
Cultivars:
* 'Capron royal', hermaphrodite
* 'Askungen' (Truedsson) hermaphrodite
* 'Marie Charlotte' (Hans) hermaphrodite
* 'Bauwens', female
* Fragaria moschata '(Capron)', female
* 'Profumata di Tortona', female
* 'Siegerland', female
* 'Cotta', male
They should be larger than an Alpine Strawberry, and more flavorful than a commercial store-bought strawberry. Sounds like something I need to try.
Plants known to be toxic or harmful to rabbits are discussed on this page.
Please note that this page is not exhaustive. It covers the most commonly encountered plants that are toxic or harmful to rabbits.
The idea that that rabbits won’t eat a plant that is bad for them simply doesn’t make sense. They learn eating habits in the wild from older warren members. In captivity they are offered a fairly limited variety of plants to eat and they will generally be cautious about trying new foods, but make no mistake, unless it tastes bad to them, if it’s green they are likely to eat it!
Happily some very toxic plants do taste awful, ragwort for example, though it loses some of its nasty taste when dried in hay. Unfortunately it loses none of its toxicity and so is much more dangerous if it has been included in hay, as it is more likely to be eaten.
It would be unusual for a rabbit to become obviously ill immediately after eating a toxic plant. Many have an effect that builds up in the organs over time. This is a huge problem because once symptoms do show, it’s too late to do anything about it. Zebra 110xiiii plus 203 dpi drivers for maccleverbucks.
House plants
All house plants should be considered toxic. There is such a huge variety it’s impossible to list them all. Few are safe, and it’s far better to consider them all dangerous and not to allow your rabbits to eat any of them. Keep house plants high up where your rabbits can’t reach them, and if possible, in rooms your rabbits don’t go into. If leaves are about to drop where your rabbits can get to them, snip them off and dispose of them.
In the garden
In the garden, the scope for toxic plants is fairly wide in our climate. Favourites such as anything growing from a bulb – snowdrops, hyacinths (including grape hyacinths), bluebells, crocuses, daffodils, tulips and any other bulb-grown plant should be kept out of areas where rabbits graze. Likewise buttercups, foxgloves, primrose, delphiniums/larkspur, columbine (aquilegia) hellebore, comfrey, poppy, periwinkle, monkshood, nightshade, ivy, privet, holly and yew are all reasonably common garden plants and all are toxic. If you have these growing, either remove them or else ensure your rabbits cannot get to them.
Do Wild Rabbits Eat Buttercups
Foraging
When out foraging, there are several plants you need to avoid. Foxgloves, poppy, ivy, buttercups, bluebells and nightshade have already been mentioned, and so has ragwort.
Ragwort is a biennial. This means it has a two year life cycle and its appearance is different in each year. In the first year it is low-growing in florets, with dull, mid-green, crinkly leaves. In the second year it grows taller and has florets of bright yellow daisy-like flowers. It’s equally poisonous in both forms and must be strictly avoided.
There are two types of nightshade, Woody Nightshade – more attractive, small purple flowers and bright red berries, and Deadly Nightshade, red flowers, orange berries. Both are toxic but the second more so.
Also toxic and not to be fed to rabbits are arum, bryony and hemlock. Unfortunately hemlock is easily confused with cow parsley, which rabbits enjoy very much. Look at the stems. Hemlock has purply/pinkish spots on the stems, shinier leaves than cow parsley and is a brighter green. If in doubt leave it. Hemlock causes a horrible death very quickly after being eaten.
Other plants to leave when foraging are Aconite, Celandine, Corncockle, Cowslip, Dock, Fool’s Parsley, Henbane, Hedge Garlic, Ivy, Spurge, Traveller’s Joy, Tree Lupin, Wild Garlic and Wood Sorrel.
Poisonous plants list
The following list shows plants that are known to be poisonous to rabbits.Aconite
Bryony / Bryony red berries / Bryony black or purple berries
Ragwort / Ragwort second year growth
Further reading
Our illustrated books Foraging for Rabbits and Gardening for Rabbits provide much more detail on this important subject.