📅 Friday, 13 March 2026 · No. 2

What My Bunnies Ate Today: Hay + Greens Log

🥬 Feeding Notes · ✎ 5 min · by Azmi in Meknes

What My Bunnies Ate Today Log — same angle, same light my log photo

Azmi's note My personal log from Meknes, not vet advice. Just what I did and saw tonight.

Hi, I’m Azmi! Every evening I write down what my rabbit ate that day. Not portions advice, just my plate photos and what disappeared first. Here is how I log hay and greens in Meknes. I am not a vet and this is not feeding advice. Every rabbit is different. For diet questions I ask a vet. This page only shows my logging method, my photos, and what patterns I saw.

How I log: two photos + one line

I always keep hay available in two spots. For greens, I offer what we have at home: usually parsley, lettuce, or dandelion leaves from the yard after washing. I take a before photo and an after photo two hours later. Then I note leftovers. Some days the parsley is gone in minutes, other days the lettuce stays. I do not push new foods, I just note preferences. The method never changes: same plate, same table spot near the window, same phone distance. Before photo at 18:00, after photo at 20:00. Between the two I do nothing except normal evening tidy. That two-hour window is my standard, so days stay comparable.

My one line has four parts: hay emptier side, greens offered, eaten first, water note. Example: Left / parsley / stems first / water half. I write it in a small notebook kept next to the hay box. On Sundays I copy to my phone. I keep the notebook tiny on purpose, if logging takes more than two minutes, I will quit. Two photos plus four words is sustainable. That is why I have three weeks unbroken now.

My daily plate setup

The plate is a flat ceramic saucer I wash daily with water only. Hay lives separately in two spots all day: wall rack and floor pile near the hide. The evening plate is only for greens observation, not the whole diet. I place three to four washed leaves on the saucer, no chopping show, no mixing. I wash all greens under running water, shake dry in a small strainer, and serve at room temperature, never straight from the fridge. Cold leaves sit untouched in my log, so I learned to wait 20 minutes after washing in winter. I keep water fresh alongside and I note the bowl line in the same line, because thirsty evenings look different in the after photo.

Dandelion leaves come from our yard patch where no sprays are used. I pick only outer leaves, leave the center to regrow, wash twice because of dust, and check for tiny insects under daylight. Parsley and lettuce come from the house kitchen supply. I offer only what the family already bought for cooking, I never buy a special bundle for the log. That keeps the log honest about a normal Meknes home, not a test kitchen.

evening greens plate before photo — Today’s plate, before photo from my log. Same saucer, same window light.

My log table, two weeks typed from paper

Here is my sheet typed as-is. Rack means wall rack hay, floor means hide pile hay.

Day	Hay emptier	Greens offered	Eaten first
Mon	Left rack	Parsley	Parsley stems
Tue	Floor pile	Lettuce	Half left
Wed	Left rack	Dandelion	All gone
Thu	Both even	Parsley	Leaves first
Fri	Left rack	Lettuce + parsley	Parsley first
Sat	Floor pile	Dandelion	Half, finished by 21:00
Sun	Left rack	Parsley	Stems, slow start
Mon2	Both even	Lettuce	Nibbled edge only
Tue2	Left rack	Dandelion	All gone in 40 min
Wed2	Left rack	Parsley	Leaves, stems left

What I noticed after three weeks

After three weeks, my sheet shows my rabbit prefers hand-offered parsley over bowl lettuce. Hay from the rack empties faster than the floor pile, so I refill the rack first. Hand-offered means I hold one sprig near the hide entrance for 10 seconds, if taken, I note hand, if ignored, I lay it on the saucer and note saucer. Hand parsley wins 8 out of 10 times in my notes, while saucer lettuce is often half left. Dandelion is the outlier: when offered, it usually disappears fully, but I only offer it twice a week because my yard patch is small and I let it regrow. I do not conclude dandelion is better, I only note it is eaten faster on my log days.

Temperature notes matter. On cool evenings 18 to 20 degrees, the after photo shows steady nibbling across two hours. On warm evenings above 27 degrees, greens wilt fast and my rabbit eats early then flops, wilted leftovers look uneaten but were actually skipped after wilting. I started misting nothing and instead I move the saucer 30 cm into shade. That one move cut wilt waste in half in week three. I note shade with S in the sheet.

Washing, storage and waste in my kitchen

I wash all greens, shake dry, and serve at room temperature. Storage is simple: parsley in a glass with water in the fridge door, lettuce wrapped in a dry cloth in a box, dandelion used the same day. I throw wilted leftovers to the compost, rinse the saucer, and wipe the table. I weigh nothing, this is a photo log, not a nutrition table. My friends ask what is best to feed, and I tell them I only share my log, every rabbit is different. If you want to start, take the same two photos daily and write one line. Over time you will see your own pattern.

Two mistakes I fixed: first, I changed plates daily, photos incomparable. Now one saucer only. Second, I offered new greens two days in a row and could not tell which was preferred. Now one type per evening, mixed only on Fridays for a comparison photo. That Friday mix photo is my favorite, parsley side versus lettuce side, same light, clear winner in one frame.

How this pairs with my other logs

I keep my notes simple so I actually continue. This log lives next to my weight tracker, and together they help me see normal days versus unusual days without guessing. Example: week two Wednesday dandelion all-gone day matches a high-hay-rack-empty day and an active zoomies evening in my movement diary. Lettuce half-left days match quiet flop evenings. I do not claim food causes play, I only see they appear together in my notebook. That pairing is why I keep all three logs with the same date format. If appetite drops for more than a day or droppings change, I stop logging food comparisons and contact a vet, the log pauses, health comes first.

Plate photos are my own evening shots, same saucer and window light. No portion advice, no supplements, no diet plans here. For anything beyond my home observation, I ask a professional.