Dark celery greens are very healthy for rabbits and can be included in the daily "salad" rotation. The rest of the celery plant should be avoided because it has little nutritional value, and too much can lead to illness.
If your rabbit loves celery and you'd like to give some as an occasional treat, cut it up into pieces because the strings/spines have been known to wrap around rabbits' teeth, leading to serious problems. The House Rabbit Society recommends no more than 2 tablespoons of treat food per day for a normal, healthy 6 pound rabbit.
See the related question below for details and links about a healthy rabbit diet.
No, it's not necessary to cut up vegetables before giving them to your rabbit, but it should be washed, and rotten bits and white/light-coloured parts (like spines) should be removed. There are some exceptions. Celery, for instance, should be cut up because rabbits sometimes have trouble with the strings that run through the celery; however, celery is a treat, if your rabbit likes it -- it should not be a staple food in your rabbit's diet. Celery greens (dark ones, not light ones) are much better than the celery itself. Rabbits are used to finding their food in its natural form. The rabbit might not even take the food if it's cut up!
The word "entire" means including all parts, or complete.
There are rabbits everywhere in Australia, including near Mackay. In some parts of Australia, they are in plague proportions, whilst in other areas there have been more successful campains to eradicate this pest.
Yes a celery stalk is absorbent becase of the Vessel tissue, Xylem, and the Phloem which are the parts of the stem of the celery stalk where the tubes that carry the water and minirals.
The red dye in the water travels up the stem of the celery through a process called capillary action. This process occurs due to the tiny tubes in the celery called xylem, which help transport water and nutrients throughout the plant. As the dyed water travels up the xylem, it colors the parts of the celery red.
Celery, Apium graveolens, is a dicot. It is in the parsley family (Apiaceae or Umbeliferae), along with other notable dicots like the carrot. It has several characteristic features of a dicot, including vascular bundles in a ring around the center of the stem, or pith, flower parts in 5's, a prominent taproot, and leaves with a branching network of veins. Celery is commonly mislabeled as a monocot, though the reason for the misunderstanding is unclear.
Rabbits are native to various parts of the world, primarily originating from Europe and North America. They inhabit a range of environments, including grasslands, forests, and deserts. Over time, they have been introduced to other regions, including Australia and New Zealand, where they adapted to new habitats.
The dye typically stains the xylem tissue of the celery, which is responsible for transporting water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves. As the dye moves through the plant's vascular system, it is primarily absorbed by the stem and may also reach the leaves, depending on how long the celery is left in the dye. The outer parts of the celery, such as the cortex and epidermis, usually remain unstained.
Animal glue is made from the collagen from various animal parts, including skin, bones, tendons, and other tissues. Horse parts are typically used, but rabbits and fish are sometimes used as well.
Many parts of the potato are poisonous to hares and rabbits (including snowshoe hares), including the eyes on the potato, and any green parts (stems, leaves, shoots etc.) of the potato plant. The white parts of the potato are not poisonous, but they're not healthy (too high in starches) and they're not part of the rabbit's natural diet. You should not give potato to any rabbit or hare. Wild rabbits and hares will not eat your potatoes unless they're starving.
When a celery stalk sits in a vial of red water, the red coloration primarily affects the xylem tissue, which is responsible for transporting water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves. The vascular bundles, including the xylem, absorb the colored water, leading to the red staining in those areas. The outer parts of the stalk, such as the cortex and epidermis, typically do not show significant coloration.
The xylem tubes, tubes that suck up water and minerals in a plant, in the celery plant suck up the food coloring which to the tubes, is water. The tubes then just spread the water/food coloring to other parts of the celery.