
Herb or fruit |
Part to feed |
What it does |
Dill |
leaves |
Helps in fighting diarrhea and other digestive problems. Good for nursing mom bunnies who don't have a good milk supply |
Clover |
leaves and flowers |
Bunnies like it and is a sedative |
Dandelion |
leaves and roots |
tonic and blood purifying, good for treating wool block. |
Parsley |
leaves, seeds, and roots |
enriches the blood, good for treating urinary problems and feeding the seeds may help with colds and runny nose |
Mint |
dried leaves |
good for treating loose stool and mastitis, also decreases milk flow so is useful for moms at weaning time |
Nasturtium |
flowers |
good tonic and blood cleaner |
Comfrey |
roots and leaves |
good for stressed, weak, or sick bunnies |
Chamomile |
flowers |
good blood cleanser, pain and stress reducer, also can be made into a tea to cleanse weepy eye |
Borage |
leaves |
increases the milk flow of nursing moms, mildly laxative |
Rosemary |
leaves |
helps get rid of flease and mites - bunnies might not like the strong taste but the flease and mites don't either |
Garlic |
root - the garlic part |
highly antiseptic only it is difficult to get bunnies to eat it |
Blackberry |
leaves and fruit |
extremely tonic and blood cooling, good for pregnant does and helpful on hot summer days (only be careful if feeding fruit to light colored show bunnies because it can be messy) |
Raspberry |
fruit |
improves condition in does during pregnancy, cure for digestive ailments including diarrhea |
Papaya |
dried fruit or can feed 1 papaya tablet daily (available in health stores)- rabbits love them |
contains enzymes which break down wool block. |
Oats |
oats |
good for baby's first food and makes strong teeth nails and wool |