It's a grass afterall. We got some from a man in Missouri who manages many kinds of bamboo on a fairly small property and the key word is 'manage'. He mows or brush-hogs lanes between the cultivars and it keeps them contained.
This is true. There is a novelty plant sold in Asian stores called "Lucky Bamboo" that is not a bamboo at all, but in the lily family. It is strictly ornamental and toxic to humans and animals.
The leaves - not the raw shoots - of bamboo cultivars such as Phyllostachys Bissitii can be fed to rabbits and they like them. We have that one and it is a running bamboo, the kind you have to mow and manage. Lots of other uses for it as well.
here's a site for identification:
https://bambubatu.com/bamboo-species-identification-a-gallery-of-grasses/
This site says that bamboo contains up to 22% protein as a forage:
https://lewisbamboo.com/pages/interesting-facts-about-bamboo
Mostly when looking up edibility of bamboo you get info about the shoots, which is not what you'd be feeding the rabbits.
https://lewisbamboo.com/pages/edible-bamboo-species?srsltid=AfmBOopI3bEfg4B9TnGLRptSbgYWSvbxYSNZ2lPRgh6frYC3Kc6J3FqN
there's a thread on RT about this very topic:
https://rabbittalk.com/threads/bamboo-safe-for-rabbits-to-eat.7390/
I love RT. I've been browsing around the RT archives and there's this about formulating your own feed:
https://rabbittalk.com/threads/free-online-rabbit-feed-formulation-software.10325/
