Silver Ridge Rabbitry

I have started raising meat rabbits for my consumption in March and I have kits within a few weeks of processing. I always give a small handful of freshly cut greens in the AM. They are literally jumping up and down when they see me coming with greens. The major green I provide is trefoil (a plant that my father helped develop at the University of Vermont many years ago). The bunnies seem to love this legume. My question is how much of this can I feed to the older kits. I would love to give them greater quantities after they are weaned and before processing. I am monitoring gastrointestinal output and see no issues so far. I realize that I will loose some meat production by changing the balance of pellets vs trefoil but if it makes the bunnies happy and healthy I am very willing to give up a few ounces of weight at slaughter. Do you have any recommendations?

When I mentioned trefoil, my father absolutely lit up, and said, can we get some seed! He thinks the nutritional properties of trefoil are excellent.

Our farm in Addison produced the first registered Trefoil seed in the world in the 1950's.  It was a plant that my father and others at UVM and Cornell developed from a Scandinavian flowering plant.  I can remember handling thousands of pounds of this seed as a kid. I have seen it growing in Tuscany and can now be found all over the world.  The yellow flower you see along roadsides is almost always trefoil. If you buy seeds, be sure to buy the innoculum that  that goes with it. Because it is a legume the bacteria in the innoculum converts Gaseous Nitrogen to Nitrogen that the plant uses for growth.  Trefoil is a legume that does NOT cause bloat in sheep so I hope it is gentle in the digestive system of rabbits.  It would be great if it could become the hay of choice for rabbits.