Otto will absolutely eat the leafy parts of lettuce and leave the stems unless he’s especially hungry. Though Hannah inhales everything relating to parsley – no problems there.

Oreo will inhale anything green I’ve tried with her (Except collards). She might leave the stems sometimes, but I almost think it’s because they’re harder for her to see? (A lot of times I’ll put her salad down, and she’s so excited she doesn’t even see where it is and will run in circles before realizing it’s already there…) If I hand feed it to her, she’ll eat it…after the fact. But I think the leafy part is preferred.

My biggest problem is finding good greens. I have a hard time finding the quality I want, but maybe I’m being too picky?? Do you have this problem at the store? maybe it’s my produce dept. I have a hard time finding fresh veggies sometimes for me too.

Mine used to be picky but no longer. Now they eat the entire plants. I don’t know why they changed. I wonder if it has to do with food competition between them.

or maybe they have me fooled. Maybe one eats the others’ left-over stems… I have to look into this.

You could dry left-over parsley stems and offer them as ‘hay’

Hatter absolutely scarfs down his cilantro and parsley. He also eats the whole part of his Romaine lettuce. 

Sarita, they can’t be pickier than Otto-the-lettuce-eater.

I honestly don’t have much of an issue picking out greens for the buns at the grocery store. Quality-wise everything is pretty good. My biggest problem is that there will only be tiny romaine heads left or something. They’re sold by unit, not by weight, so I want the biggest head of lettuce for my money. Otherwise the quality is pretty good. I have a harder time with veggies for me – often the asparagus, broccoli, and peppers (the “people” veggies in our house) are much poorer quality than the lettuces and greens.

Sarita, I suspect Lint to be eating everything. About drying the stems, you can jut put them on a grid and let them turn dry in the sun. It does not take long. If it is a dry and sunny place there will be no mold.

Pretty much as soon as parsley hits the floor, it vanishes… stems and all…

Sigh. Sarita, it’s not just yours. Herself only likes the dark green, leafy parts. She will leave even the lighter colored Romaine in her dish for hours, often until dinner time, before she eats it at all. And while I think she is a midnight snacker since it is finally all gone by morning, she makes it very clear that she just doesn’t care for those nasty stems and stalks and whiter bits and leaves that curl to the left and are upside down in the bowl etc. etc. etc….

Petzy – two of your buns eat greens. One eats all the stems. Lint and the other one send out for Chinese take out. Lint eats the cardboard boxes afterward.

Posted By RabbitPam on 04/16/2010 06:13 AM

Petzy – two of your buns eat greens. One eats all the stems. Lint and the other one send out for Chinese take out. Lint eats the cardboard boxes afterward.

L.M.A.O.  

Pam, Otto is also a midnight snacker. He will only eat the dark green parts during the day and leaves a lot of leftovers (which he’ll sometimes eat if he gets desperate). But I think I could put a whole head of lettuce in there overnight and it would be gone.

And ROFL at Petzy’s bunnies ordering take out.