We fed through the summer on grass and legume hay we cut ourselves and forage gathered daily--no pellets (after the initial slow weaning of the adults purchased off the diet they were used to) and no alfalfa. We have given a small feeding of oats to the does and kits each evening. We dried brambles, willow, comfrey, field peas, oats (whole plant) nettle and some other stuff for winter. We're thinking of adding another grain and perhaps BOSS (we meant to grow sunflowers for seeds but the chipmunks which are way too numerous this summer wiped out the 50 or so plants along the garden edge when they were still small seedlings) Also plan to grow "grass" from oat or rye or ? seed for winter feeding. (we have a small greenhouse where we grow chard, kale, lettuce and tatsoi for our own use--rabbits will get trimmings) and we'll have carrots and beets in the root cellar which we'll share with rabbits. We have plenty of hay--best hay we've made when the weather was right when the clover and grasses were prime. Really appreciate all the advice from this site--especially Maggie's plant list. We had plenty of plantain, dock, prickly lettuce, chicory, clovers, dandelions, purslane etc growing all around the edges (and in our gardens) from April to now. This will be our first winter with rabbits--we plant to only overwinter a buck and 3 does--last kindling for this year occurred today and then it's just growing out those and previous kits and then hunkering down until spring. Oh, and we have easy access to willow, apple etc for winter chewing. Just a bit nervous about the transition from the green time into cold season.
