how about cutting the raisins into little peices? that way he can give her a small bit of what she likes everytime she comes a running but it wont affect her health, ive found my two love basil, parsley but arent very keen on corriander. i think its just trial and error

I feed parsley in the same amnts that I feed romaine lettuce- it’s one of my buns favorite so I usually buy at least 2 big bunches of it and they get a good handfull of it each morning along with romaine, green or red leaf lettuce, cilantro, and something else random…

I also give Edson a handful most days and no problems.

Shadow is a big parsley fan…for a 4 pound bun, he eats a lot of greens, but as long as there is no sign of poopy butt, it is fine for him. The only down side of giving so much parsley or other greens is it can put them off eating enough hay. We have hay issues and I have to go through all kinds of gyrations to get him to eat enough hay.

Mim & Pip seem to like about four sprigs of Italian large leaf parsley per day. But I trade off green treats to include romaine lettuce, kale (once a week) and dandelion greens during season. They’ll eat red leaf lettuce once in awhile also and carrot tops (sometimes with carrot still attached) are a fave. But so far, Fiver doesn’t seem to share the enthusiasm for the parsley or carrots and it’s probably just as well.

I just watch for the poopy butt, and reduce the offending vegetable accordingly.

Five raisins IS a lot of sugar. I found Mimzy would get loose stool from that many. Now his fave treat is dried blueberries, but those are making him fat. >.<
So we switch off with dried strawberry for Pip (only treat she can eat without leaving cecals everywhere) or the occasional Craisin and we also try to limit the amount of carrots, but those didn’t cause anywhere near as much trouble as the fruit.

Isn’t it odd, we’re told to get five servings of fruit OR vegetables per day for healthy eating, but good grief! if we served our bunnies that much they’d turn into little furry basketballs! 0_o

Healthy treats that you can give in bigger amounts, would be herbs. You can feed one tiny leaf of oregano, just as you would a raisin and feed five to six or even more (I give a whole sprig of herbs at a time so that’s a fine amount)

I know that raisins and grapes and chocolate are all very poisonous to dogs – are raisins okay to give to bunnies?

Agonyaw- Raisins are like manna from heaven to bunnies. Coco goes nuts for the golden raisins.

Coco eats a big old handful of parsley a day – right now she has a mix of red leaf lettuce, mint, italian flat leaf parsley, baby bok choy , and a few snow peas.

I get most of my stuff at the middle eastern market – or Indian markets that are around the neighborhood I live in -Each piece costs between .99 and 1.29 – so I chop it up and make her a three day salad.

Not a hit= dill, basil, carrot tops. And she doesn’t love the snow peas. She will occasionally eat a little cilantro or a sprig of rosemary. I ‘ve also tried the thai and greek basil I have growing in my garden to not impressive reviews.

It is a constant test with us. She will love something for a few days and then turn her nose up at it. Amazing for a rabbit that never saw a green for the years she was caged by her previous owner!

So by your response I’m assuming they are not poisonous to bunnies as they are to dogs? 

Because even as few as 5 to 7 grapes/raisins can kill a dog. 

Raisins are fine for bunnies as are grapes.

For dogs the no-no list used to be just chocolate and black licorice-> Now add raisins, grapes (liver failure), tomatoes especially the foliage and cooked onions

Oh, and chocolate isn’t good for buns – not for the same reason exactly but any really high sugar intake can distrupt or even mutate the bacteria in their system that is necessary for their digestion.

But to put your mind at ease TB, before I knew better, I would feed Maryann anywhere from 6-10 raisins a day for the first 4 years of her life. When I learned better, I cut that back to 2-4 depending upon what I am trying to accomplish with her. I know even that amount is too high but she has shown no ill effects from it from the last 6 years.

I am still slowly reducing it though as just because she hasn’t shown any issues yet, doesn’t mean they won’t happen.

if the worst thing that happens to Tucker is that he get 5 or 6 raisins a day (while not ideal!) i think he will be okay. your Mike sounds like my Mike. he is a the treat-giver-outer. the buns run to him b/c he has the treats, and he likes feeling loved by them. i have adjusted by not giving any treats at all. i have asked many times for him to cut back, but they each get 2 or 3 raisins a day as well as 2 papaya tablets. i just recently realized that he is also giving treats at 5 am when he wakes up for work. they are quite spoiled. their diet, aside from that is superb, they eat tons of veggies and hay, and the poop is always good.

I agree with Beka I don’t think that’s too much! Depending on their diet and size and poops, it sounds fine.

I have to admit, I give about 5-6 treats per day, craisins/papaya tablets…they just love them so much and they are such good hay eaters…*For shame Lesley for shame!!* LOL