I have a small run off my rabbit barn for my rabbits to eat grass and play in the sun a bit. I know rasemary can be good for them and maybe a form of dewormer, possibly mint and a few others. I was wondering if either of these were toxic in large doses and if I planted some in there run area if they would know when to stop eating before they over-dosed? (if it is in fact possible)

I'm told excessive mint can dry up milk. I never had problems with milk production while feeding mint (had problems at other times but that was tracked to other reasons) but I was feeding clippings not letting them graze. Mint is best planted in a bucket or buried boards around it if you don't want it to take over. You will not be able to hand weed it back fast enough. From experience even with mowing short regularly it can claim acres in a couple years.

Do you know of any plants that grow fast (other than mint) that rabbits like? I would like to plant some grazing plants for them, but i'm not much of a gardener and I wouldn't know which ones were fast growing. And do you think there is in fact a plant that can grow fast enough to keep up with ten+ rabbits nibbling at it all the time?

Dandelion, plantain (broadleaf and narrowleaf), baby maple tree seedlings, oats and other grains you can sprout, kudzu. I don't think there are many that could keep up with 10 rabbits all the time. You'd have to allow time to let the plants recover. I had a litter escape at about weaning age for a couple of hours and they ate everything green down to within an inch of its life in most of my yard which has loads of edibles like mint, lemon balm, grasses, rosemary bushes, clover and apple trees.

Yet another use for kudzu

Yeah, just make sure if you plant kudzu, that you plant it in a way that it cannot ever, ever escape. Keep a close eye on it. Or else everyone around you is going to hate you.

I have considered it, but I can't think of a way to absolutely contain it. I wouldn't even trust it in a bucket off of the ground. You'd have to make sure you always got all of the seed pods, too.

It is completely edible if enough people harvested it where it's a problem and used it as animal food. Unlike those stupid bindweed vines here which are toxic and take 5 years to kill because the taproot is too deep to dig and you have to kill all greens for 5 years before the taproot starts to die.

OHHHHHHHH! I did a bit of looking around and found out exactly what you guys were talking about when you say "kudzu". Well before I moved to the midwest I used to live in FLorida and lower Alabama and this stuff is everywhere. I mean like stand still for too long and you risk haveing this stuff growing up your legs kinda everywhere. Yeah I understand why everyone seems nervouse to plant this stuff. But alas I don't recall seeing any of it here in Missouri. Maybe I can get a family member from back home to mail me some clippings.

There maybe a legal reason that it is not in your state check ag laws before you get it. I personally hate the stuff. It has devastated Georgia,Alabama, and parts of SC.

True, I should check. And yes I hate the stuff growing wild. Though I do see the attractivness for rabbit owners because it does grow so fast. If precautions are taken to not let it spread.

Kudzu is illegal to plant in most states where it will grow because it is so invasive. Never having lived where it has taken over I can't speak from personal experience but it puzzles me that it is considered such a problem. It was originally brought in as animal fodder so why not turn animals into it? A herd of goats shold keep it mowed down. They'll even climb the trees to get to it. If nothing else it seems there is an industry waiting to happen making compost with it.

A herd of goats can't climb trees, houses, power poles/lines, slow moving people (as mentioned already). Kudzu is evil. Plain and simple. Those of you who don't have it, thank your luck stars. A person couldn't grow enough rabbits to contain a kudzu plant. Kinda of like the multiflora rose, jumping carp, snakehead's, etc. When you introduce a non-native species with no natural predators, you're doing nothing but asking for trouble.

At first I was kinda okay with the idea of growing it... But then I started remembering what it looked like back home. It is a major problem, not just a small one. I will not bring it here to Missouri for the States sake for my own personal use. The man who first brought it to the states way back whenever had a good idea, it just got out of control. Kinda like the swine problem (not as big I don't suppose but a problem nonetheless). If I lived where it was already a problem I would have no issue with making use of it. But as far as I know its not a problem here in Missouri, so I'll just let it stay that way.

I had learned that it was brought over for erosion control. Either way, it has swallowed the deep south! It smothers forests, killing native plants.

Here in North Georgia, we have a kudzu festival every year! Why we want to celebrate the wretched stuff, I'll never know. Just a good excuse to have a festival, I guess!