Anyone feed blackberry leaves?

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I have just been out walking with the dog and picked some blackberry leaves, are they ok to give? There isnt any prickles or thorns on them and they are very green.

I know on the pampered piggys website they say you can and i have bought the dried blackberry leaves off the site and the boys absolutely loved them.

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If they can eat the dried version then they can eat the green ones. Mine eat vine leaves, passion fruit leaves and cherry tree leaves without problems. I just don't have blackberries nearby!
 
Sarah from Chucklebunnies said:
If they can eat the dried version then they can eat the green ones. Mine eat vine leaves, passion fruit leaves and cherry tree leaves without problems. I just don't have blackberries nearby!
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I did think that but it didnt state on the website what time of year to pick them. I assumed that because its winter there may not be any goodness in them compared to when they are ripe and in season to pick.:)
 
I asked the vet about feeding them leaves because my piggies will happily chomp the crackly brown ones after they've fallen from the tree and dried. I must admit I never feed them leaves that have started to rot away. The vet wasn't surprised at all and said that it provides roughage.

So leaves that are old and no longer totally green are fine. It won't give them lots of nutrients but it will help their digestion with roughage and make a variation in their diet for interest.
 
Any of the berry bush leaves are fine - whether fresh, brown or dried.

When let lose in the garden, my Minx loved eating dry leaves!
 
Blackberries are from those ever invasive brambles and I thought they were supposed to be fine although can't remember where I read that. I have one very persistent bramble in a corner of my garden but the piggys don't get near it as it keeps disguising itself amongst a solanum (an ornamental potato vine) which is posionous so have to keep them away.

I have a grape vine growing against a wall in my garden and in the summer I trim bits of it for them which they seem to really like.
 
ooh well my lot wont eat blackberry leaves have tried just the little tips, will try giving them grape leaves! if they will eat them.... rolleyes
 
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