The simple answer is yes, broccoli is a great little treat for your rabbit and helps provide a healthy variety of vegetable to their diet.
Broccoli isn’t a substitute for your rabbits normal intake of leafy greens and should only be given sparingly as it is extremely high in starch.
Due to the high starch intake, most suggest avoiding giving your bun broccoli. Which is good advice and in such cases would place broccoli as a treat only food.
It’s weird to think that broccoli is actually part of the cabbage family, but this doesn’t mean that you can feed it as often as you can with cabbage.
If you are going to give your rabbit any part of a broccoli, you should give them smaller thinner parts of the stalk or the leaves.
Broccoli leaves are known to not only give less gas but also provide fantastic nutritional value.
Typically, you would only give your rabbit one tablespoon of broccoli per two pounds of their weight.
Rabbits need a balanced diet, so broccoli would need to be a small percentage in their diet of fresh vegetables and fruit.
Broccoli can make your rabbit gassy, it’s highly suggested to give small amounts as little as often.If possible, mix your broccoli with other vegetables.
Broccoli is an extremely nutritional vegetable and definitely up there as one of the healthiest around. It’s extremely low in calories, it’s nutrient density is incredibly high!
We recommend keeping away from broccoli stalk and bushy top as it can cause gas in your rabbit which in turn can cause GI Stasis!
Baby rabbits, also known as kits have different dietary needs than adult rabbits.You should NOT give your rabbit any vegetables including broccoli up until the age of 6 months.
To sum it up, rabbits can eat broccoli which provides a lot of vitamins and health benefits but it should be given in extremely small quantities and only if your rabbit doesn’t suffer from regular gas issues.