What Succulent Feeds Are Good for Rabbits?
📝 Summary
Succulent feeds boost milk in lactating does. Good ones: beet (~1000 g, wash and chop, avoid old nitrate-forming batches), carrot (~500 g, rich in carotene), sow thistle/lettuce (750–1000 g, vitamin-rich, must be fresh and dry), and pumpkin (300–400 g steamed, ripe red). Cut amounts if mixing several to avoid diarrhea.
1 Succulent Feeds Good for Rabbits
Succulent feeds for rabbits
1. Beet: protein 1–2%, crude fiber 1.7%, NFE 9%. Wash, chop, feed about 1000 g per doe daily. Do not feed beet left too long, or nitrates form and poison the rabbit.
2. Carrot: dry matter is soluble sugar; protein 1.1%, fat 0.3%, fiber 1.2%, NFE 8.4%—a quality succulent feed. Wash and finely cut; about 500 g daily.
3. Sow thistle (lettuce): protein 2.6%, fiber 10%, NFE 40%, dried crude protein 26%, vitamin-rich. Loved at all ages, but must be fresh and clean—no dew or undried washed leaves. About 750–1000 g daily.
4. Pumpkin: protein 1%, fat 0.3%, fiber 1.2%, NFE 6.8%, plus soluble sugar, starch, carotene. Use ripe red pumpkins, steamed and mixed with other feed; about 300–400 g per doe daily.
A reminder: amounts above are for feeding one succulent alone; if mixing several, cut each to avoid excess and diarrhea.
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