Question re: beets, turnips and parsnips

[Mom of Joy and Love]

Are beets, turnips and parsnips safe for bunnies?
If they are should they be limited?
Trying to find vegetables of colors other than green to feed our bunnies.

 

[Maureen Las]

Beet tops can be fed but are high in oxalates
parsnips are OK
turnips (occasionally)
http://www.houserabbit.co.uk/resources/content/info-sheets/safefoods.htm

I never fed any of these myself; don't know what a parsnip looks like and think that turnips may be gassy
hope others respond to this...

 

[degrassi]

angieluv wrote:

Beet tops can be fed but are high in oxalates
parsnips are OK
turnips (occasionally)
http://www.houserabbit.co.uk/resources/content/info-sheets/safefoods.htm

I never fed any of these myself; don't know what a parsnip looks like and think that turnips may be gassy
hope others respond to this...

Excellent, I never thought to feed parsnips. We have a couple boxes full in the garage as we grew them in the garden this year. Now I have a way to help use them all up

Parsnips look like a white carrot. They aren't as sweet as a carrot and need to be cooked for people to eat them.

 

[kherrmann3]

I believe parsnip is toxic...

http://www.adoptarabbit.com/articles/toxic.html

It's on the bad list :?

 

[degrassi]

Thankfully I haven't given parsnips to my bunny yet :shock:

Thanks for the heads up

 

[Maureen Las]

http://www.houserabbit.co.uk/resources/content/info-sheets/safefoods.htm
Depends on the list.....



your list is off of medi-rabbit and I would give it more weight than the list I found yesterday.

I don't know if it's safe or not
but
if there is a discrepancy i wouldn't feed it...

 

[kherrmann3]

I've heard of people feeding parsnips to their bunners with no disastrous result. I wonder if they were just lucky?

 

[Maureen Las]

Its toxic here too

I hope no one read this and fed it
http://www.3bunnies.org/poisonous_plants.htm

 

[Maureen Las]

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze27h5b/id24.html

This one says its's OK but it may be what is called WILD parsnip that is toxic ..not sure yet but don't feed any.

 

[kherrmann3]

These parsnips sound like the "good twin/bad twin" thing. They may look the same, but one is evil...

I am going to sleep now. My thoughts are getting weird lol (Gotta love ADHD)

 

[Maureen Las]

http://mn.companionrabbit.org/care/toxic.html
this one is a "NO"

I'm going to pm the orignal poster

 

[kherrmann3]

I PMed them already. I PMed everyone from the thread when I got the site link.

Well, I PMed the two that mentioned feeding them to their bunners. Degrassi lucked out (their parsnip stock was spoiled). Thank you, divine intervention!

 

[tonyshuman]

I had never heard before that parsnips are not ok. I've given parsnips and turnips, and my guys (except the new one) all love parsnips. Turnips not so much... they do like turnip and beet greens though. I don't know what to believe as for whether or not parsnips are toxic to all bunnies, but I know they're not toxic to my guys.

 

[tonyshuman]

just saw latest posts: not sure what to believe, though...

 

[Maureen Las]

I pmd the original poster not to feed it

Ifound it here saying in moderation because of high sugar but I found another one that said it was toxic???
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/GI_diseases/Food/feeding_en.pdf

 

[Maureen Las]

http://www.anpc.ab.ca/wiki/index.php/Pastinica_sativa
http://dnr.wi.gov/invasives/fact/parsnip.htm

This is wild parsnip ( I think this is toxic)

 

[kherrmann3]

Ugh. I wonder why there is so much confusion/conflicting lists? I had read through the list I provided awhile ago and remembered parsnip. I saw this and didn't want anybun to get sick Talk about guilt...

Are there varieties of parsnip (other than wild or not)? Maybe that would explain the conflicting info.

 

[Maureen Las]

this is what people eat and probably some feed their rabbits

http://www.communitygarden.org.au/ideas/roots/parsnip.html

but since the scientific /botanical name has the same name as the toxic plant I would not feed it although I guess some people do.

 

[Mom of Joy and Love]

Surprised to see parsnips as poisonous for bunnies on so many websites.

Why I started to feed it to my bunnies is because on http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/GI_diseases/Food/feeding_en.pdf page 6 it is listed as safe vegetable to feed bunnies. Must be limited due to sugar content. This site was updated this year. The author is a biologist and plus from 2003 to now latest rabbit veterinary medicine knowledge, preparation of slide presentations for veterinary professionals, with collaboration for the translation of the content in various countries.

The picture of the parsnips is like those we found at the market. Our bunnies loved them but don't want to risk hurting them. They last had them over a week ago and showed no problems.

So what do we do?

 

[Luv-bunniz]

I fed parsnip to rabbits for about 7 yrs :?