Out Of Feed

Have you ever run out of food for your rabbits/chickens?  Every wondered what they could eat until you're able to buy some more feed for them?

Well, with chickens it's extremely easy.  They'll eat any scrapes you have.  So as an example, I gave them some old home-made bread.

 

The chickens love anything you give them.  Seriously, they will eat everything!

Then for the bunnies, it's not as easy, but still not too hard to find something to give them.   An example is saltines and carrots.  Now, you MUST remember that bunnies under 6 months should NOT eat vegetables.  It will give them dysentery and from there they can easily die. 

 

This plate of carrots is for my older bunnies, and then the saltines are for both the young ones and the old ones. 

 

But it's fairly common knowledge that all bunnies LOVE carrots! :) I haven't met a carrot hating rabbit yet.

 

After I distributed the carrots, I then began giving them the saltines.

Soon, all the saltines and carrots had been distributed to some very happy bunnies!

 

A few of the rabbits were unsure about the saltines, but once they tasted them they liked them.  Rabbits really like salt :)

 

And while doing all that, I stuck Benjamin and Bruce out into the runs to get some fresh greens!

Other things you can give your rabbits are leaves (dead or alive), dandelions, plantain, pretzels, 100% rolled oats, bird seed, vegetables of all kinds, hay, strawberries, apples, etc.  So don't worry if you run out for a day or two, because there are lots of things laying around the house that your rabbit would be happy to have!