Start off with just a tiny bit -- a few mouthfuls -- and increase it slowly. Watch for discomfort and/or a gurgling tummy. (Or little gassy butt lifts).
I balance mine with how much other stuff they're getting from the same family -- if I've got a lot of kale, cabbage, cauliflower or Brussels sprouts, I won't give too much broccoli, but it it's mostlylettuce, parsley, chard, carrotsandcarrot tops,I'll give them more.
If I have a big single 'stick' of broccoli with multiple florets,Pipp gets a four to six inch upper single stalk with the tip cut off.Dill and Sherry geta couple of single crowns/florets each. (One actually loves broccoli, the other cauliflower, but I never remember which is which).
The foster bunnies get the main lower stalks cut up in buttons, and the backroom coupleget the upper stalks cut up in buttons. (Sort of the pecking order around here). They'll also splitthe leftover crowns.
I don't think I'dcut up more than two big stalks between the eight bunnies.
But I'm also giving mine a HUGE variety -- at least five types of veggies per meal.
Ialways try and give my guys a variety -- one or two fromthe cabbage/broccoli family, some leafy greens like chard,lettuce or beet greens, some leafy stemmy things (the favs) like parsley, dill or carrot tops, and a non-green -- which is tough, it usually ends up being red cabbage,carrots or cauliflower. Only the foster bunnies will eat oddball stuff like yellow peppers, radishes and tomatoes.
I try and regulatepotential Vitamin A (beet greens, carrot tops) or oxalatesOD items like kale (which they LOVE) and spinach (which nobody likes much, anyway).
I shy totally away fromcollards or mustard greens, which are very high incalcium oxalates and aren't that popular, anyway.
sas :bunnydance:
edited for ATROCIOUS spelling!
