Hello everyone, how are you doing today? It Tuesday, more favour coming our way. (Amen) . I am sharing with you the purposes of feeding green leaves to the rabbit and how I source my green leaves.
Another type of rabbit food apart from grower mesh(poultry feeds) (Green vegetables -sunflower plant)
It has been my practice so far to rear animals especially rabbit, broiler birds, and dog not just that alone I am a pure farmer who believe in himself and I am proud to be one. I rear 🐇🐇🐇🐇rabbit for many purposes.
a. For pet ( this as been my first aim since I was so small, when I was trying to earn one or two things from my dad who is also a pro in farming. My dad was a degree holder in animal production also PHD holder in thesame field. That was when I learnt and took interest in farming when I was 8years old. We were still living in a rented apartment then in ile ife, osun state. Nigeria. That was when I learnt that it is good to feed rabbit green leaves/ vegetables, centrocema, all kinds of leaves. But there are some green leaves that are very dangerous to rabbit health.
b. For laboratory tests : I was called upon one day to supply rabbit to a secondary school for laboratory experiments, since then it has been my culture to raise rabbit so much.
c. For consumption : haha, in this case I won't talk about it so much.
d. For Competition.
What do I learn?
So this afternoon, I went down the road not minding the road distance I Will cover I left my apartment (Ita Alamu, ilorin ,kwara state and took a car down to Take, along Princess Hotel and suite also in ilorin too. Close to 100km. There I went straight into the Bush as you can see in the picture, although it is along the road side but it very bushy. Ibwent there with my cutlass 8inches tall.
I began to fetch the leaves( Sun flower) I took my time in this particular type of leave because I have done rabbit experiments with it and the result was awesome, very great. What I did was that after I weaned two rabbits from the same parent I seperated them as usual, I gave one a female sunflower leaves and the other tridax weed for a couple of months the result showed that rabbit fed with sunfower leaves grow better than the rabbit fed with tridax weed although they both grow well but one was more grown,that is why i voted for sunflower leaves
The sunflowr leaves already cut and left for leaf ants or leave worm to have their way and come out for few minutes.
I learnt that when you want to feed your animals generally with leaves ( fresh veggetables) you have to cut and leave them on the ground for some minutes to allow it free from leaf worm. Here that's what I did.
This is the left over of the fresh sunflower leaves which I'm still coming for this week by His grace.
This was when I packed them all inside the harvesting bag and moving them inside the vehicle.
Almost done with the packing anc branding of the sunflower leaves.
Sunflower plant : How does it look like
The sunflower plant has an erect rough-hairy stem, reaching typical heights of 3 metres (9.8 ft) by physical examination. The tallest sunflower on record achieved 9.17 metres [30.1 ft] by research. Also Sunflower leaves are very broad as you can see in the pictures, coarsely toothed, rough and mostly alternate. What is often called the "flower" of the sunflower is actually a "flower head" Sunflower is very bitter in taste but very high in protein and minerals.
How do the rabbit react when fed with green leaves?
Rabbit do consume green leaves but it must be minimal amount so as not to get your rabbit grow up some related diseases like bloat, diarrhoea. This types of disease kill fast especially the bloat. I had a terrible experience last month where I lost close to 4 rabbits (wearner) due to too much consumption of green leaves.
This was when I got home from the place I went to fetch the sunflower leaves some kilometres away.
The harvesting bag I used for fetching the leaves before getting home.
New Zealand white , Mother Rabbit fed with sunflower leaves
Here is my picture proof......(You can examine them well , not fake pictures)
I am a farmer and I am very proud just like my great mentor @papa-pepper.
Photographer : @matthewthonyit and also @pejugold
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