FEEDING RABBITS FROM THE GARDEN. What food we are growing to feed our rabbits without pellets
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Feed prices are on the rise, and we are making a plan to feed our rabbits for free by growing food for them. We have done the research, and we are showing you how you can grow food to feed your rabbits.
It is possible to feed your rabbits without using commercial pellets or making your own at home.
If you want more details on what you can grow to feed your rabbits, check out our blog post were I go in depth on the topic.
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Yes your gardens scraps are good food for your rabbits and chickens we live in a forest so we have a lot of leaves and pinecones that are also very good feed for rabbits 🌻💜🌻
We have never fed our rabbits pinecones, but we do feed them leaves, pine needles, and twigs. They love it!
Are there certain pinecones they can have?
I am a long way away from raising rabbits, but you know your stuff. Unlike some people just read a list of things. Thanks for sharing.
I have the tendency to research topics heavily. This was one I took a DEEP dive on. I ended up writing a book on the topic. 😂
Excellent video - thank you for sharing what you've learned.
I'm gardening, chickening, and rabbiting. More now than ever, I like knowing what is in my food.
The same applies to the birds and mammals under my care.
I found it interesting that you mentioned drying comfrey and borage for off-season feeding options. I have a garden patch of mineral mining plants for compost improvements ... Crazy how everything is tied together somewhere in nature's cycle.
It is wonderful! I love feeding our rabbits for free.
I also dry a lot of basil for them.. it dries so well, and they love it.
Wow, you have shared what seems like a LOT of research and knowledge!
I had so much fun researching this topic!
Thanks for the Great information! I also heard dirt patch heaven on TH-cam today say that you could totally supplement rabbits on sweet potato vines with no pellets at all.👍🏻.
Yes! Sweet potato greens are really good for them. We will have some of those to throw in there. The blog post on it has probably 100 different things you can feed them from the garden.
Awesome video!! Thanks so much for sharing what you have learned. It's hard to find straightforward information on rabbit diet. Looks like you have done just that and refined it.
Thank you! I have learned even more since this video. It's amazing what all rabbits can eat! I think I may need to write a second volume to my book Feeding Meat Rabbits for Free
@@LivingtheHightLife please do. I'm reading it right now and it's pretty great.
I just stumbled on this video & I am so thrilled. So I have subscribed & will be watching for any new videos you put out.
We just started raising rabbits & this is amazingly helpful.
I have already started seeds in the house for most of what you mentioned. And will add the 3 things I hadn't planned on growing anyway.
Bless you & thank you!
That's awesome! I'm so glad it helped you!
@@LivingtheHightLife thanks me too
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Thank you for this. It has been very informative I am all about feeding my animals as close to nature as I can on a budget or free.
That's awesome! I need to do an updated video this year. We have expanded our rabbit food sources so much.
Currently we have 9 rabbits, but all of our doe are about to kindle, so it is about to be a lot more. We are in NC and we do a lot of forage. We have them mainly in tractors but we also have birthing cages. Your videos were the ones that convinced me to do colony style. I'm currently building 2 colony shelters from reclaimed wood and pallets. I am subscribed will be watching more.
Oh that's awesome! Colony life is amazing. I am debating on building another colony. 😆
It just means more space for rabbits!
@@LivingtheHightLife might as well build another. If you build another, I will watch the videos so win win. My kids love the babies so they will enjoy the colony style.
That's great.
We live in the mountains of NC and just started raising rabbits.
I am encouraged by your comment & this video.
You are so brilliant and a sponge of information. Thanks so much for sharing with us !
Thank you!!! ❤️ I appreciate you watching
Great video. Lots of good information. Have you ever grown fodder for your animals. It's another good cheap feed source. I have done it for my chickens in winter. We used barley seed from handcock seed. You can grow a lot of food fast and cheap. There are a lot of videos on it.
I haven't yet, but I'm hoping to add it to our list this upcoming winter. I have researched it a lot, but haven't had the time to dive into it yet.
You are absolutely fabulous. What stores do you do your grocery shopping at? Do you stock up on anything like soda or water? Can you possibly do some in store videos? It would be awesome if you could show how you do your full shopping trip
We don't drink much soda, but I stock up on tea and coffee! For water, we have rainwater catchment and water filters meant for hiking.
I will start thinking about adding some shopping videos! Thanks for the feedback.
I enjoyed the video y'all are getting very close to 1000 subs woohoo!
Thank you! I'm super excited to hit 1k. It's been a goal to do it before my 1 year mark of putting out my first video. It's getting close!
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HEY PRECIOUS BABY 😂❤🎉
Oh he was so little in this video! 🥰 it's amazing to see how much he's grown.
Great video. Hopefully we will able to build rabbit hutches so we can start raising then
I hope so! They are a great animal to have.
Right now we have 3 breeder bucks and 7 breeder Does. I wish we had enough land to grow their food, and one day we will. But we'll be doing what we can with what we have right now.
-Sugar Daddy Homestead
That's all you can do. Even supplementing it with fresh foods will help on the feed bill
This is awesome.....I've been researching a lot about the right foods.
I'm specifically growing carrot tops to give my rabbits....but I just found out today that at the base of my carrot tops, they are full of aphids.....arghhhhh.
I am really looking into the companion plants as I am not going to be able to afford to by natural sprays etc......sheesh it's an effort!
Never thought of drying comfrey.....I've planted in my container pots about 4 comfrey plants...I thing I am going to give that a go.
The one thing I am battling at the moment is pests......it brings tears to my eyes....but I am determind.
Oh no! Aphids are such a pain. Do you have a spray bottle you can put water in? If you spray them it will wash them off your plants. It's time consuming but it is an option
@@LivingtheHightLife Oh i did more than wash them off....I blasted them with a natural pest killer.... Neem oil, Clove oil, Eucalyptus oil, organic dishwashing liquid and garlic juice....half are already dead....will do it again in a few days.
@@karrenbrazel8844 🤣 that sounds like something I would do. Use everything you have available at once.
@@LivingtheHightLife annihilate them I say😜
@@karrenbrazel8844 do it! I can't stand them
We don't particularly care about so-called "unhealthy" foods for The Growouts. They're only around 12-16 weeks and won't suffer life-long issues due to nutritional deficiences, and GI tract issues are waaaaay overstated in this community. Most won't suffer any issues at all. We freely feed roots that folks say are "bad". Sweet Potato, Sunchoke, and Mangel Beet make up about 1/2 of our last cycle of the year's daily food. They're all coming out of the Garden in Oct Harvest here and the last Growouts are weaned and grown Oct, Nov, Dec.
Root Crops make fine Freezer Meat.
I somewhat disagree with that, but I'm glad your method has worked for you.
The root of the root crop is what's bad for rabbits. I go into details on other videos and in my books on the subject, but it all has to do with their digestive system and how it functions.
Sweet potato greens and sun choke greens are wonderful for rabbits. Beet greens are also great for them in a varied diet so that they don't don't develop oxalic toxicity.
Yes, when I was on Facebook, I saw a comment where a guy did an experiment and his rabbits grew out on just sweet potato vines.
I'd think the meat produced probably wasn't as nutrient dense as a varied diet but it's good to know in a survival situation that can be done.
Look at what crap humans eat and survive with. Growouts are literally meant for the table, not to live.
About those tomatoes - They say you cannot companion plant onions, garlic, amd chives with tomatoes. It turns out that the reason is that the tomato may and can pick up an onion (garlic) flavor not that they inhibit each other's growth. Just like companion planting chives with roses, you can companion plant chives with tomatoes. The feeder roots of a chive in an established chive patch can go 6"-12" which is shorter than most of the rest of the onion family and are less likely to "flavor" your tomatoes. If left to flower, chives can bring in additional pollinators while acting a bit like a green mulch.
Thanks for sharing! Companion planting is so interesting to me.
I have both garlic and onions in my container tomatoes. I don't know who " they" are, but my experience has been very different.
@@almostoily7541 i have often put onions, green onions, chives, and radishes in and about tomatoes ... I dont think the tomatoes picked up any flavors but then again I often have some form of onion with my tomatoes.
@@LivingtheHightLife if you are interested in companion planting and a whole host of other things more "nztursl" for znd about the garden see if you can dig up,some James Baker info. Use "Gandma Putt" in your search engine.
Breeder Buck.... That's my nickname 🤪
Great video. Thank you.
Thank you for watching!
Hope it's not a silly question, but when you say dry xyz for the winter, such as lettuces, do you mean dehydrate? If not can you explain. Love your videos. This was a great one.
Thanks for watching! Yes, dehydrating would be a good way to dry them, but we can't run a dehydrator with our solar system. I usually put the item in my oven with the oven light on and run a fan pointed at it. The light and fan combine to act as a dehydrator. You could also have it up if you have a low humidity area with air movement.
Can I ask what forage you are feeding your rabbits in this video? I am also in SC on the GA border and really hoping to utilize what we have on our property. I have a copy of your book coming soon, will all of the local forage be in the book as well? Thank you so much for your videos!! :)
To be honest, without going back and watching the whole video I'm not sure what i was feeding it that day. I should have written it out in the description. 🤦♀️ sorry about that! Some my favorites too feed are plantain, sweet gum, dandelion cat sear, fresh grasses, etc. You will have a ton of things around you. The book should definitely include local items!
We have of lots of volunteer fennel and Swiss chard. Are there any negatives to feeding these? As far as borage goes, our rabbits don't like to eat it fresh because of the prickles--same with zucchini leaves. Am I correct in assuming the prickles aren't a problem when those leaves are dried? Is it a problem to feed leaves that have powdery mildew on them?
Thanks for your video--it is extremely helpful as we move away from pelleted feed for our Californian meat rabbits. We're in Ventura CA.
Fennel and Swiss Chard are safe.
The prickles are rabbit safe. Ours even eat prickly BlackBerry bushes without issues.
But if you feed them young the prickles are much less stiff.
Powdery mildew is not an issue when feeding the plants
Of course an amazing video friend. Our rabbits are always "starving" I'm like yall are not hungry lol its like chickens.
They are so silly. Even if you walk near the pen, they are at the side begging for food. 😆
@@LivingtheHightLife pigs.are worse lol
@@DreamweaversHomestead 😆 oh I can't wait to have them in the future
Are the mints bad for pregnant rabbits and nursing rabbits?
Mint will dry up a rabbit's milk supply. It will in all mammals, including humans.
It's great if you're weaning a litter of rabbits or if you have lost a litter and need to dry up the doe.
But if you want her to continue lactating, don't feed it in the week of pregnancy or while nursing.
How do you measure out a cup, pellets is easy to measure, but if your are feeding leaves and herbs etc. How do you determine what's a cup? Thanks, a lot of great info.
I don't really. They get way more I'm sure. I do 1 large handful for 1 cup. I'm not chopping it up to measure it out for them
Is there a limit on how much herbs you can feed the rabbits?
No.. as long as you are also meeting their protein and fiber needs, they can have as much as they will eat.
What about winter squash and beets?
Winter squash vines, leaves, and seeds are good. The flesh has too much sugar in it. Beet greens are okay occasionally, but not daily. Maybe once a week.
are Areca tree leaves everyday with hay and pellets OK???
I'm not familiar with an Areca tree. Do you know another name for it?
@@LivingtheHightLife The Areca palm (Dypsis lutescens) it's also known as the butterfly palm, golden cane palm, bamboo palm, and yellow palm. Tia
I think pellets is cheaper in the long run
I'm curious why you think that 🤔 the majority of our rabbits feed during the growing season is provided directly from our homestead. It's free. Hay comes from a local farm in round bales. We are already getting it for our goats, rabbits don't eat that much more. The only things we really purchase are black oil sunflower seeds (because I can't grow enough for year round use), rolled oats, and Alfalfa (but alfalfa is only during the winter.) I go through the sunflower seeds and oats about every 3 months.
So, unless you are raising cartoon rabbits, don’t feed them carrots
to slow
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Renee please post your videos. I’d love to see how it’s done properly