Can rabbits eat sunflower seeds?

[kuntrygirl]

I was out late last night in my feed storage building filling up buckets to take to the feeders for all of my animals and I had prepared a bucket of rabbit pellets for my rabbits. Well, I set a scoop of BOSS (sunflower seeds for my chickens) in the bucket with the rabbits to get it out of the way. When I went to pick up the scoop of sunflower seeds, it fell out of my hand into the bucket of rabbit pellets. I was so mad.

So, my question is....... can rabbits eat sunflower seeds (hull and seed) or do I have to pick out every single sunflower seed out of the bucket of rabbit pellets because they can't eat sunflower seeds?

 

[zazouse]

It won't hurt them, i have tame rabbits running loose around my place and they eat them as well as other scratch i give as treats my flocks.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Your rabbits are beautiful! Beautiful pic!!! Your rabbits run loose? Please tell me more. How does that work? Just last night one of my relatives was telling me that I should let my rabbits run lose around he yard. I was like, "yea, oooooooook". What kind of area are they in? Do you lock them up at night?

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Some people feed BOSS to almost everything - horses, cows, goats, rabbits and on.

I think a little for your Buns would be great for them.

My horses will even eat it - shell and all - I tell them they are crazy!

 

[BeccaB00]

Yes sunflower seeds are fine, but they're very fattening

Your rabbits will like them, just don't make it a daily part

of their food. If you look at some of the Lower-quality rabbit

food diets at the petstore, you'll notice some of them have

bits of seeds and sunflower seeds in them.

-Becca

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

When I had rabbits I would let them out in the yard all day or in the garden. Then I'd put them back in their hutch at night.