100% Dried Sunflower Leaves & Stems

Digestion • Antioxidant • Enrichment

Small Bag – Approx. 3 Cups / Est. 75g
Bulk Bag – 1kg

A naturally chunky forage combining dried sunflower leaves and fibrous stems, giving animals a completely different texture to softer leafy botanicals.

Sunflower forage brings together broad leaves, crisp pieces and thicker stems that encourage animals to sniff, sort, pull and chew their way through the mix.

It works brilliantly scattered amongst hay, added to forage trays or mixed with softer leaves and grasses to create more texture and variety.

Simple, natural and particularly useful for animals that love something a little crunchier to investigate. 🌻🌿

🌿 GGT Categories

Primary

✔ Digestion

Secondary

✔ Antioxidant

Plus plenty of natural chewing and enrichment.

This is a rotational supplementary forage, rather than a replacement for feeding hay or a large part of the everyday diet.

🌻 Ingredients

100% Dried Sunflower Leaves & Stems

Nothing else added.

• No seeds

• No grains

• No fruit

• No added sugars

• No artificial colours

• No artificial flavours

• No fillers

🌿 Why Sunflower Leaves & Stems?

🌻 Leafy Fibre

The dried leaves provide natural plant fibre and another botanical texture to add alongside hay and grasses.

🌱 Chunky Stems

The stems create a firmer, crunchier texture that encourages chewing and gives animals something different to investigate.

🐾 Natural Enrichment

With different sizes, shapes and textures throughout the bag, sunflower forage encourages:

• Sniffing

• Searching

• Sorting

• Pulling

• Chewing

🌿 Forage Variety

Sunflower leaves and stems are particularly useful mixed with softer forage, helping create a more interesting feeding environment without artificial treats or decorations.

❤️ Benefits at a Glance

✔ 100% sunflower leaves & stems

✔ Naturally fibre-rich

✔ Chunky chewing texture

✔ Supports normal digestive function as part of a fibre-rich diet

✔ Encourages natural forage behaviour

✔ Adds variety to hay and botanical rotations

✔ No seeds or high-fat sunflower kernels

✔ No added sugar

✔ Great for forage trays and scatter feeding

🐾 Suitable For

🐰 Rabbits

🐹 Guinea Pigs

🐭 Chinchillas

🐹 Degus

🐹 Hamsters

🐭 Gerbils

🐀 Rats

🐁 Mice

Sunflower leaves and stems are sold as supplementary forage for rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and degus, while sunflower leaf is also used as forage enrichment for mice, gerbils and rats.

🥄 Species-Specific Feeding Guide

Offer as supplementary forage, not as a replacement for the normal species-appropriate staple diet.

• 🐰 Rabbits: Small handful 2–3× weekly

• 🐹 Guinea Pigs: 1–2 tsp or small handful, 2–3× weekly

• 🐭 Chinchillas: Small pinch 1–2× weekly

• 🐹 Degus: Small pinch 1–2× weekly

• 🐹 Hamsters: ½–1 tsp, 1–2× weekly

• 🐭 Gerbils: ½–1 tsp, 1–2× weekly

• 🐀 Rats: 1–2 tsp, 1–2× weekly

• 🐁 Mice: Small pinch 1–2× weekly

Scatter through hay or combine with other suitable leaves and grasses to encourage natural searching.

Introduce unfamiliar forage gradually.

Rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas and degus should continue to have their normal suitable feeding hay available.

🌻 Why Moderate Feeding?

Sunflower leaves are useful as supplementary fibre and enrichment, but they shouldn't make up a large proportion of the overall diet.

Research in rabbits found problems when dried sunflower leaves were used at a very high 40% of the total diet, so GGT recommends keeping sunflower forage as part of a varied botanical rotation rather than feeding it as a staple.

🌻 Perfect For

• Scatter feeding

• Forage trays

• Mixing through hay

• Adding chunky stems to softer forage

• Browse and botanical rotations

• Encouraging chewing

• Adding new textures to enrichment areas

🌿 Carefully Selected by GGT

This forage is carefully sourced for GGT rather than grown or dried here, allowing me to offer useful natural ingredients alongside the products I make myself.

I choose sourced products using the same principles as the rest of GGT:

✔ Species suitability
✔ Ingredient quality
✔ Natural forage value
✔ Sensible feeding
✔ A genuine reason for offering it

Carefully sourced. Personally selected for GGT.

📦 Pack Sizes

🌻 Small Bag

Approx. 3 Cups

Estimated weight: approx. 75g

Sunflower leaves and stems vary considerably in size and density, so this weight should be confirmed from the finished product before printing labels.

📦 Bulk Bag

1kg

Ideal for multi-pet households, rescues or customers who regularly use sunflower forage within their botanical rotations.

Natural colour, leaf size, stem thickness and fragmentation will vary between batches.

🌻 The Spirit of the Forage

Broad leaves.

Crunchy stems.

Lots to pull apart and investigate.

Sunflower Leaves & Stems gives animals another natural texture to explore without needing seeds, sugary treats or artificial extras.

🌿 Natural fibre

🌱 Chunky texture

🐾 Plenty to investigate

Carefully sourced. Personally selected for GGT.

Handmade at Heart, Rooted in Rescue.

📦 Storage

Store sealed in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and moisture.

Dried leaves and stems naturally break into smaller pieces during handling; these remain suitable for scattering through hay and forage trays.

Discard if the forage becomes damp, musty or mouldy.