The 4 bunnies of the Saile-Peterson warren & my Jonathan think that today's post should show everyone what the buns typical nightly dinner look like...
My daily routine for well over 12 years now has been to get up & immediately head into the kitchen to feed the swarm of starving long earred! They get a big breakfast of some kind of cereal (they are bonkers for Cheerios ) or raw oatmeal, abit of kale (their fav) abit of parsley (to keep the digestion strong), some swiss chard & lots of red or green lettuce...
For afternoon or early evening snacks they get a rotation of wheat crackers, carrot top, romaine lettuce, spinach, hard carrot sticks, hay blocks, in the summer a pile of thick bladed grass & every 3rd or 4th day a nice big pile of alfalfa...and always & most important is a constant & ready supply/variety of fresh hay.
The nights however provide the biggest meal and their favourite...around 10pm when the bunnies start finding you wherever you are in the house & start nudging your legs and feet, you know it's getting close to dinner time, ha ha...so whiles I do my nightly duties of cleaning bunny potties (which there are a few of!) and sweeping/vacuuming/cleaning the floors, refolding bunny chew blankets, repiling bunny toys, reconfiguring bunny boxes/forts...Jonathan is in the kitchen making their dinners...
...he starts them off with small bowls of unsweetened juice, usually orange or pineapple...than he proceeds to make four bunny dinners which look something like this...
...the nightly usual is a medley of: more Swiss chard (sometimes red but they prefer the normal green), carrots (which are always the last thing eaten), a medley of lettuces, spinach (if they haven't gotten it for a snack already), carrot top (usually the first thing eaten), dill, dandelion, sprigs of rosemary, more parsley, beans & peas, arugula, blueberries & raspberries (for the antioxidants), tomatoes, escarole, endive....there is sometimes a new addition if the stores are carrying kholrabi for example but typically every night this is what our bunnies eat...
...they also get more than half of it in organic...in our house the bunnies get priority over veg & we're at the grocery store pretty much every 2nd day!...but we think they deserve to eat like little kings & queens...
...so from the gourmet rabbit kitchen, we're wishing you all a good and warm day...
XO M, J & Jaks (whose always a tad teethy/nippy, ha ha), Jin (whose always nothing but extra sweet), Ella Luna (who currently has her abscess full of manueka honey and is in her sweater so she can't eat the honey & therefore abit miserable!) & Roo Roodofolus (whose giving his girlie Ella lots of kisses & snuggles to make her feel better)...
