Can rabbits eat green beans?

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Can rabbits eat green beans?

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answered Oct 23, 2022 by Salmorejo (40,200 points)
Rabbits can eat green beans but only in moderation.

Green beans are healthy for your rabbit along with other green vegetables.

Bunnies or rabbits can eat turnip greens as well as carrots, carrot tops, parsley, broccoli, collard greens, mustard greens, dandelion greens, endive, romaine lettuce, kale, and spinach.

When feeding rabbits greens you should feed your rabbit 1 cup of leafy greens per 2 lbs of the rabbits body weight per day.

Rabbits can eat too many greens which can lead to the development of calcium based bladder stones when fed in excess because the greens are high in calcium.

Rabbits can eat greens leaves or green leafy vegetables.

Good foods for rabbits are spring greens, parsley, and Broccoli as well as lettuce and celery.

Rabbits can eat sweet potatoes as sweet potatoes are healthy for rabbits although don't feed your rabbits too many sweet potatoes or they could get diarrhea.

In small amounts those sweet potatoes are safe and healthy for your rabbits.

Carrots can give rabbits diarrhea when they eat too many carrots.

Any vegetables or fruit in excess can cause diarrhea in rabbits but carrots in small amounts and other vegetables in small amounts are safe for your rabbit.

Rabbits can eat radishes and most other vegetables including carrots, lettuce etc.

Rabbits can eat radishes as rabbits eat radishes in the wild.

Radishes are healthy for rabbits to eat and you can cut the radish up or give the rabbit a whole radish for them to eat as well.

Radishes are a healthy food for rabbits to eat and rabbits enjoy eating radishes and other vegetables.

Wild rabbits typically do play dead and get in the trance position when they cannot avoid predators.

The Trance position for the rabbit makes it appear they are dead and then the predators are no longer interested in the rabbit.

Trancing is a self-defense mechanism for rabbits when being attacked or threatened by a predator.

Some predators won't kill prey that appears dead.

In this position, the rabbits play dead and their heart rate lowers.

Trancing is not a pleasant position for the rabbit and shouldn't be a way of holding the bunny.

Rabbits avoid predators by running from the predators as well as freezing in place.

Rabbits will protect themselves from predators by freezing in place which helps the rabbits camouflage themselves from the predators.

Rabbits have keen senses of smell, sight and hearing, which help them defend themselves from danger.

When the rabbit senses a nearby predator, they innately freeze in place to camouflage with the landscape.

A rabbit's main defense is their ability to run away and hide as quickly as possible.

However, cornered rabbits are also able to use their claws, teeth, and strong hind legs to attempt to fight off predators and defend themselves.

Animals that prey on rabbits include foxes, Dingoes, Wolves, Wolverines, Coyotes, Raccoons, Bears and Birds Of Prey.

Even some dogs will prey on and kill rabbits.

Owls will prey on and eat rabbits as well.

Owls will eat rabbits.

Most owls will eat smaller rabbits and baby rabbits while larger owls will even eat larger adult rabbits.

Some species of owl are large enough to take down an adult rabbit and carry it away, and almost all are capable of killing a kitten rabbit.

Some types of owls such as the Eagle Owl will eat small foxes.

Owls are Birds of Prey, which means that they must kill other animals to survive.

The larger Owls such as the Eagle Owl will prey upon hares, young foxes and birds up to the size of ducks and gamebirds.

Foxes will sometimes fight cats but most adult cats are large enough to fight off and defend themselves against the fox.

Most times a fox will leave a large adult cat alone and seek other prey.

A fox will sometimes eat a small cat or kitten but foxes don't eat larger cats or adult cats.

Foxes don't eat adult cats but will eat small or cats or kittens.

Most adult cats are the same size as a fox and can defend themselves.

Smaller cats (less than five pounds) and kittens could be prey for a fox.

Foxes are not legally classified as vermin.

However foxes can be seen as vermin.

The term "vermin" is used to refer to a wide scope of organisms, including rodents, cockroaches, termites, bed bugs, mosquitoes, ferrets, stoats, sables, rats, and occasionally foxes.

Pigeons, which have been widely introduced in urban environments, are also sometimes considered vermin.

Foxes can get through and squeeze through holes no less than 4 inches by 4 inches.

If the hole is smaller than 4 inches by 4 inches then the fox cannot get through unless they make the hole bigger.

Foxes can climb fences.

Well most fences foxes can climb.

if you want to keep a fox from climbing a fence you should run an electric fence wire around the fence to keep the fox out.

Foxes are able to jump up to 3 feet, and their claws enable them to climb even beyond 6 feet.

Sometimes they will even climb neighboring objects like trees in order to get over a fence.

When a Fox needs to the Fox will move there dens.

Foxes also keep multiple dens available to move between when needed.

Both the male and female foxes care for the young, guard the den, and bring food.

Most adult foxes will have multiple dens and if disturbed, will move (with their young) to another.

A fox will sometimes eat a dead fox and some foxes have killed other foxes to eat but usually this happens in harsh conditions.

In most cases a fox will leave a dead fox to decompose or for another animal to eat.

Foxes scream at night to attract a mate since most foxes are active mostly at night this is when you'll usually hear the foxes scream.

Foxes scream and bark to communicate with each other.

This becomes more common during mating season, which is at its peak in January.

The most common reason that foxes scream is to attract a mate and during the mating process.

Foxes are nocturnal, so this is when they are most active.

Foxes are actually active all year round but foxes are most active around the months of May through July and are mostly active during dawn and dusk.

Although foxes can come out at anytime of the day.

For much of the year, foxes are difficult to see in the wild.

But when the foxes cubs are born between May and July, they are vocal and more active during the day, hunting, playing or just relaxing in the sun.

A Fox lives between 3 to 4 years in the wild and when in Captivity the Fox can live up to 14 years.

Foxes live a shorter lifespan in the wild than they do in Captivity.

Either the Fox starves or they get injured and die or they get killed by other animals in the wild making the Foxes lifespan shorter.

Areas that have more predators or less foraging foods can dramatically shorten a fox's life span.

Many foxes die of starvation and an average fox typically only makes 1 – 2 kills a week.

In his 2005 compendium, Longevity of Mammals in Captivity, Richard Weigl lists the oldest Red fox on record as being a mountain subspecies (Vulpes vulpes macroura) caught, in Utah, that arrived at Zoo Boise in Idaho during August 1985 at an estimated age of two years and four months; she was still alive in July 2004.

The red fox is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.

It is listed as least concern by the IUCN

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