Many homesteaders and hobby farmers know that chocolate is harmful to many animals, rabbits inlcuded. We are here to affirm that chocolate is not healthy for your rabbit and is actually poisonous to rabbits. That is right, rabbits can not eat chocolate. Chocolate contains caffeine and theobromine, both of which are poisonous and life threatening …
Raising homestead or pet goats naturally results in many questions about how to best tend to your ruminant friends. Trust us, since we started raising goats on our hobby farm we ourselves have had hundreds of questions! Especially about the behavior of our goats around mint and if mint is a safe herb for goats …
Our homestead goats enjoy the various shrubs growing in their outdoor paddock with gusto, including the blueberries that fruit on a number of blueberry bushes in the summer. Can goats eat blueberries? Absolutely, blueberries are safe and nutritious fruits for goats. That’s right, your goat or herd of goats can benefit from the various minerals …
Finding healthy and natural treats for your rabbits is important, as many petstore options are loaded with unnecessary and even dangerous ingredients. On our hobby farm, we only offer our bunnies natural, rabbit-safe fruits as treats. That’s right, our rabbits eat oranges, apples and even blueberries! Yes, adult rabbits can have cantaloupe as this fruit …
Here at Hobby Farm Heaven we raise rabbits outside in sheltered hutches. However, we know many people who have house rabbits and they wonder about what kind of litter they can use for training a house rabbit to use a litter box. The most frequent question is, “Can Rabbits Use Cat Litter?” Our answer is …
