I don’t think it would hurt at all – now the question is, will he even eat it….how is he doing on his pellet and hay only diet?

my rabbits passed up the chamomile even though it was in big pieces and grown in my mother’s garden. My rabbits love bay leaves which is not a tea but I keep it in the same cabinet. They also took sage and a flower blossom tea mix that I did not like at all. Incidentally, the flower tea mix looked and smelled exactly like the hay topper bouquet you can buy for bunnies. I have considered making a hay topper tea for myself but I am just kidding.

How about just buying fresh mint at your local grocery shop as a little treat? But other than that, I see no harm in a bit of herbal tea.

I give mine diluted apple juice because I need them to drink some stinky herbal remedies, but perhaps herbal tea is better!

Are you giving him some kind of prebiotic along with the antibiotics?

Oh, how about dried herbs perhaps instead of fresh greens? These days I am collecting tons of herbs and plants for winter time. I got rose hips shells, willow leaves, nettles, blackberry leaves et.c. Some of them you can just let dry out on their own, while the rose hips for instance needs to go in the oven at a very low temperature for a couple of hours. That way they keep all the vitamins and beneficial properties.

With store bought herbal tea I’d be worried about what else is in it, they are always adding things. So it’s best to double check.
I bought chamomile organic tea to use as a face/eye whipe for my degu as recommended from my Vet, never though of bunnies actually drinking it. I actually wonder how many would?

Karla, do your rabbits like to eat rosehips? My rabbits will not touch them in any form.

Not even if you dry them and remove the seeds? Mine love them dried and seedless. I was adviced to give it to Freddie due to his struggle with E.Cuniculi, so at first I bought it online, but then I realised I can just go out and pick them myself. It is actually great fun. I fed one partly dried to Molly today, and she loved it, but I have heart others saying that their bunnies don’t like them fresh.

I am becoming such a botanist Apart from the fact that I also brought home hemlock…thinking it was Sweet Cicely.

Yes, it’s fun to pick them but mine will not even try them, even dried and seeds removed. My dog eats them right from the bushes so I imagine it is a matter of predilection.

Ungrateful bastards

Mine hate rosehips but some LOVE rose peddles.
I actually like fresh rosehips lol, i used to eat them when i was a kid.

I accidentally left my mug of peppermint tea out and I caught Arduina sticking her head in the mug slopping up the tea! It was very cute. Luckily the only ingredient was peppermint, so yeah make sure there is not green/black tea leaves mixed in. It should be fine if they have a little. Also make sure to take the tea bag out and that its not too hot ;-).

I’ve offered cold brewed fruity teas and had them just look at it suspciously. I also tried the tiniest amount of marigold (calendula) tea in their water and the same thing happened.

I have fed wet echinacea tea and they’ve eaten that. I just dip it in water once. They’ve had it dry but seems to like it better wet. This had lemon in it too so I was surprised. Jersey pulled the wet bag out of my cup once.

Mint, blackberry leaves or tea & even rose petals/leaves/stems are good for tums I think.

Posted By Amy&Hugo on 10/14/2010 01:02 PM
I wish I knew more about what type of herbs were good for different things. Especially for Hugo with all the problems he’s had with his tummy and these abscesses. I’m a very natural a fresh person since we can’t have wheat, barely, rye or oats in our house and my girls seem to react to most dyes and fragrances.

Blackberry leaves are actually good for tummy problems. And if you can get a hold of dried echinecea, I’d suggest you do that too – it is a strong immune booster that has an effect on bacterias and parasites. ,

My rabbits love mint. They really gobble up the herbs – I usually buy basil, mint and dill and they love all of those (for the most part, dill is not everybuns favorites but the majority like it).

Absolutely all of that is okay. Let us know what he thinks of it.

I know in relation to cats that it can give them diarrehea, but I don’t know about rabbits. Honestly, I stick to the: would rabbits in the wild eat this? And hibiscus is not something I expect the European wild rabbit to eat Not meaning that it is bad for rabbits then, but it is just my general guideline.

Don’t you have a shop near you that sells herbal remedies and stuff like that?

I’ve had those dry flower blends for rabbits with hibiscus in them for my rabbits and I’ve never had a problem with it for my rabbits. And I’m pretty sure they put some hibiscus in the botanical hay from oxbow.

Cool. As I said, I have no idea about it Do you know if it has any beneficial properties?

Rabbits are just a bunch a herbal-vores! LOL

YEs hibiscus   mine liked chammomile   mint and love basil

*smacks Petzy*