Sabine wrote:
I just checked the library on safe foods. I could find fruit, veg and herbs but nothing on wild flowers. I planted a border with wild flowers in the garden and I am wondering which I can feed to the buns.
Yhey include among others:
White Campion
Corn Chamomile
Corncockle
Cornflower
Corn Marygold
Field poppy
Mayweed
Where could I find a list on their value as a food source and of course their possible toxidity?
First off, try to get the scientific names of those plants. You'll need them to look them up, since plants can have different common names in different countries (I have no idea what half of those are myself), and more importantly, different plants can have the same common names, which can be very confusing.
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/GI_diseases/Food/Toxic_plants_en.pdf has a list of toxic plants, with pictures.
http://www.calpoison.org/hcp/KNOW YOUR PLANTS-plant list for CPCS 09B.pdf has a list of safe and poisonous plants, but not geared to rabbits, just general.
Try also wikipedia, they often have good plant descriptions, and a list of poisonous plants. If you have a "native plant society" locally, or even gardeners society, they may be able to help, too. Same with local universities.
Finding food values of most ornamental plants is nearly impossible. If they aren't used for food, either for humans, or as animal feed, noone is going to bother to list their food values.