You know my answer!!

Bun buns fed with mulberry! I was blessed to already have mulberry including a white, and tons of willow, plus cottonwood and other junk poplars before everyone started interviewing Nick on their shows. Through experimentation, I’ve also discovered #rabbit love of elm, maple and wild grapevine, three things I have in abundance. Since I’m established already, I can peek into the future with my existing trees and see clearly, the tree fodder movement is the ez button for people if they plant the trees and wait.

Pros:

I love that you get a meal sized carcass. Perfect if refrigeration is nonexistent or at a premium.

Their offal isn’t awful. That liver is plump and isn’t subjected to contaminated/odd feed.

Near zero feed bill if done with tree hay.

HOA Karens are loud, but Rabbits are silent.

Adults handle harsh winter like champs.

That poop!!!

Cons: have mild summers or keep your bucks inside or in a root cellar so they don’t shoot blanks.

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Rabbits here too! Still working on having good fodder for them. We have a ton of mulberry trees around so that’s our top thing. Also, followed

Followed back. I thought I had tapped follow on you before, but Snort and Damus aren’t always playing nice for me.

I’m serious about the elm. I don’t know if it’s as nutritious but I put examples of all the tree species out for my rabbits and they all went straight for the elm. This year, I’m trying black locust. I want to feed out a litter to butcher weight on nothing but elm and black locust. I think I can do it. Some people say locust is toxic to buns, but after I dug deeper I found out those people were force feeding locust with no other input. It’s a legume and rabbits can’t survive on pure legume.

I have a hard time getting past all the warnings we got when we first got rabbits. That they are so sensitive so I get nervous introducing new stuff. We do feed them comfrey and they love that