Were doing a project here in Haiti and we found a good source of rabbit manure but we want to see if we can stretch the manure a little:) If this works better to make the tea then I think we might finally have good fertilizer.Thanks, It will not have the same amounts of nutrients. I would try a local feed store and see if they know of a rabbit breeder close by, I do sell it in a flate rate box, it would be much cheaper if you can find it local.
The shavings, poop, and urine mix makes a great compost booster.
Allow it to seep in the warm sunshine for a week. Put the bag in a 5 gallon bucket and fill with water.
The compost was ready to be used after 3 months.
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That is the only concern I had about the urine perhaps being a bit strong??
Phosphorus in the soil encourages more and bigger blossoms helping with flowering and fruiting also great for root growth. Sometimes its up to personal preferences whether you want to burrow or sprinkle rabbit poop. Required fields are marked *. Were doing most of the others already, other than the worm beds. You are breaking down the rabbit poops nutrients into the water then using the water as liquid fertilizer. If you are a rabbit owner, the thought of using your bunnys poop as fertilizer will have crossed your mind.
Can I put bunny berries (just the berries) into soil that I am about to sprinkle with veg and flower seeds?
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Vegetable gardens, pastures, and flower gardens all will benefit from using rabbit manure.
Let me reinforce your article with my experience Ive just started terrace garden, bought seeds, potting soil, etc. Thanks, Anita. Keep adding a thin layer of your carbon material of choice to cover the surface of the bedding and loosen the bedding occasionally with a fork do not use a shovel(worms do not like being cut in half).The rabbits and worms will do the rest.
God Bless you All, Merry Christmas! Awesome post. Rabbit manure is one of the few fertilizers that will not burn your plants when added directly to the garden and can be safely used on food plants.
This is also a very organic way to add nutrients back to you soil.
Great forthe early growthof tomatoes, corn, and many other vegetables. Or should I try to only use the poop?
A healthy rabbit has a unique digestive system that the poop they produce is both dry and firm. The Benefits Of Raising Worms With Rabbits For Sustainability will be a good one! This year Ive paid attention to the planting times of all my veggies & fruits, and got everything planted on time.
Be careful not to over-fertilize as the high concentration of nitrogen may harm some crops.
Also, some links included on this blog may be affiliate links. thanks in advance im in britain incase this makes a difference to the composting as its normally cold over here!! If I do the bunny mulch again will this keep other animals away?
AWESOME!) It can be applied any time of the year and helps give your plants a boost during the growing season or as a storehouse of nutrients when applied in the late fall and winter.
But, when it comes to using rabbit manure in a garden I cant imagine being able to put it into any better words than you have in this post. Moldy poop is quite awful to look at and it may attract unwanted insects.
I was thrilled because Id heard how amazing rabbit poo was, but he decided to be a sweet, wonderful husband and shovel this (at least 1/2) on to my flowerbed before I got home.
Rabbit manure is an INCREDIBLE source of the nutrients your organic crop will need to shine. Making Methane- This is something I will be experimenting with this summer with a 55 and 30 gallon barrel the 30 gallon nesting inside the 55 gallon barrel with a slurry of rabbit manure, shavings and urine mix being anaerobic composted to make methane.
Thanks in advance!
(0: Thanks for quite an awesome writeup on rabbits farming. If you are a professional farmer or do farming to sell, this method may not be suitable for you.
Im wondering if this is really necessary and if so what the proportions should be.
Thank You for sharing it with all of us.
I only compost the rabbit manure/urine/shaving mix i get from my drop pans in the stack a hutch setup. This is the way i use it the most in my gardens, so the next time you find yourself knee deep in rabbit poop just add it to your garden!
Other factors such as humidity and sun exposure contribute to the composting time as well. I honestly cannot stand worms at all. (LogOut/
Since we are not too concerned about our pet rabbits poop containing harmful pathogens or worms, we are can their fresh poop as fertilizer.
Since Rabbit manure can be used straight on food plants, can you use it straight into a hydroponic fish pond?
Just started using bunny brew.
Last week my first bunny brew and WOW!
Indoor pet rabbit usually lives on a healthy diet and in a stress-free environment. var sc_invisible=1;
As shown in the image above, we usually handle our rabbit poop around the garden without using gloves.
Great info dude, i raise runnybabbits myself basically for bunny pellets { and to eat } to apply to my garden its great stuff it DOES make a noticeable diffrance! Rabbit manure is packed with nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and many minerals, lots of micro-nutrients, plus many other beneficial trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, boron, zinc, manganese, sulfur, copper, and cobalt just to name a few.
I know someone who swears by it. Once a month?
i bed them down on straw/shavings with newspaper underneath. It is best suited for indoor plants as burrowing provides extra hygiene and cleanliness. you can also mix in your usally composted materials grass clippings, leaves ,kitchen scraps.
Can I take this out of the hutch and use i fresh in my veggie beds? You can sift and screen the worms out to transfer them to new bins and beds, also grabbing the worm capsules(eggs) to transfer with the worms.
If you are growing crops like tomatoes, you may want to burrow the rabbit poop instead.
But is their poop is suitable to be used as fertilizers? I am an ardent fan.
Then put some burlap over the top of another empty bucket (making a strainer) and pour thru the cloth to strain out the solids. This is because a healthy and well-fed rabbit can poop up to 300 poop pallets every day! Amazingly informative article! Now if i could just figure out to have them do all the cleaning chores! thank you for the information I needed to get started.
Being new at this, I researched germination times and % for all the plants I started (mostly herbs, spices, but also spinach, lettuce cherry tomatoes, beans).
TwoBun is here because as rabbit owners, we find it heartbreaking that rabbits are always considered as food but not as pets. We only composted our rabbit poop once as we cant bear the smell and hygiene.
Posted on March 31, 2012, in Uncategorized and tagged bunny berries, bunny brew, composting, manure, manure tea, organic fertilizer, rabbit manure, redworms, vermicomposting, worms.
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You should compost it, the wood shavings and urine will heat up and the bunny
Will the extra 2-3 inches of rabbit poo be too much for them to come up through? Another good point about rabbit poop is that it comes in a pellet form.
Im hoping that you are still watching for comments/questions on here, I know this began at least 3 years ago.
How is this possible?
i have two pet rabits.
Other minerals such as zinc, manganese, and calcium can also be found in rabbit poop. Rabbit poops are very Rabbit poops are very good fertilizers.
Although pathogen and worms in rabbit poop are rare, they can occur when the rabbit is not kept in a clean environment or is being fed the wrong diet.
I do my best to simplify & explain the homestead lifestyle through my posts. Since we dont do much composting, we hope you can take our composting guide with a grain of salt. (My compost pile is less than a year old so I know this will help.) The pellet form is very easy to work with when compared to cow or chicken manure.
Like with every surgery, there is always the risk of something going wrong during the surgery.
If your rabbit is neutered or spayed, it also reduces the risk of them carrying disease.
Use the fertilizer well and generate much more leafy greens to feed your rabbit.
This year @ Kane Nursing Home we had garden carts and the one that we use rabbit poo on are wonderful. When I have a poop/urine/shiaving mix (This mix I get out of my stack a hutch).
thank you for the information i just started rearing rabbits i have found that so intresting. Thanks for reading my posts!
Rabbit poop wont contain seeds that may pose as an invasive species to your crop. I do have the other 1/2 of the truck load on my compost pile, which will be amazing & Im super excited about! I think it has been the best thing for my garden! Change).
Rabbit poop tells you a lot about their health.
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Or is it best to compost that first, you said that the urine heats up fast. Or do we need to separate it. We used an old rubbish bin for composting so the scale of it is considered small. I have heard some of my composting friends complaining that their compost pile will not heat up.
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Just add the bunny berries they contain lots of micronutrients and will draw in the worms to aerate and let the soil do its thing. More than just the awsome NPK values of rabbit manure it is loaded with a host of micro-nutrients as well as organic matter that improves soil structure, drainage, and moisture retention. I am more than pleased to have found you and am excited to hear all you have to put out there.!!! In addition, as were setting up raised beds on our new homestead, were putting a very heavy layer of rabbit droppings & wasted feed from under the cages as the middle layer of our new beds (bottom: split wood, attempting kind of a hugelkultur concept, middle: clean-out from under the rabbit cages, top: dirt/top soil/compost. To make the tea, put a heaping shovel full of rabbit manure in a burlap bag or porous cloth with the four corners tied together.
If you can get your hands on even a small bucket of this mix every now and then you and your compost pile will be in nitrogen heaven as far as composting rabbit manure goes rabbit manure is nitrogen on steroids it will get your pile hot and breaking down at accelerated rates .Those friends with the cold compost piles are usally here on cage cleaning day with buckets and shovels. However, this is untrue as rabbits can be potty trained just like any other pet.
Last Nov and April my buns did very well at the show in Newport but this year I had nothing. To start off add bedding material to the bed.
Great eating plus perfect fertilizer for the garden. Hopefully I have two does ready to kindle in the next week and will have some showable buns and some to eat.
I put peat in the trays of the cages and clean them about once a week into a wheelbarrow which I dump directly into my garden.
Plants use potassium as an enzyme to produce proteins and sugars.They also uses potassium to control water content.
Powered by. The poop/urine/shaving mix is the best compost activator i have seen.
Anyone who comes to the rabbitry and my homestead will see our many gardens. Rabbits are very good at producing an excellent source of manure. If you dry it in the sun and bury it under some soil you should be fine.
Fertilizing the soil of the plants is proven to be the best method.
LOVE your website !! Will it burn the plants? Im leaning towards raising meat rabbits instead of chickens. Then had the nerve to tell me he was hurt that I didnt do his-well he knows it all and that is nothing. your blog is very encouraging to me I helped my dad as a kid on the farm take care of meat rabbits, but you know how kids are short attention spans especially when it comes to work.
Which in turn helps with proper plant growth.
The N-P-K content of composted manure may vary.
It seemed right, but I went looking for encouragement and found your blog.
The short answer to your question is yes. It will take any were from a few months to a year depending on how often you turn it.
Im not too worried about the actual plants that I have planted, but more so the seeds that were planted at the correct dept & now have an extra 2-3 inches on top, lol. do you see a need fo more phosphorus or potassium in a veggie garden? I have seen rabbits over tilapia ponds and they would eat the Bunny Berries. I would rather have a spider or cockroach crawl over me! Nitrogen helps plants grow greener andstronger helping the plant reach its full potential.
Also wet furrows before planting, and fill holes with it before you plant trees or shrubs.
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Suspend the solids in the makeshift strainer above the bucket until it stops dripping.
By feeding a diet consisting mostly of hay, leafy green, and pallets, you can expect your bunny poop to be much cleaner and safer compared to other manure. Keep us posted on the methane production, that could be interesting!
Unlike manure from chicken, cow, or horserabbit manure does not smell bad.
I have read a few articles about this also, this is something on my to do list! Or I will actually have my husband deal with them!
berries will turn to black gold quick.
I was raised with my Dad using the rabbit poo on our gardens and the results are amazing. Sandy. It will increase poor soil by improving soil structure and also improving the life cycle of the beneficial microorganisms in the soil. Can I use this as compost?
Simply add to your compost bin or pile and add in equal amounts of dry straw or shaving to the manure (Unless like me you only compost the shaving/poop mix-the shaving have all ready been added plus the urine starts the heat up fast!) I have seen some hydroponic set-ups that use chicken coops over a fish pond. Thanks, Jeanne.
I wanted to grow rhubarb so started looking for rabbits!
A healthy rabbits diet consists mainly of dried hay, vegetable, and pallet. With the urine cause problems if we use the whole box contents for fertilizer?
With their hay racks above the litter boxes.
Hi, just saw this article and think it is great, we have 3 giant rabbits and they all produce mountains of pellets.
You can remove and harvest worms and replace bedding every 3 to 4 months, if the worms are doing their job. These dry and firm pallet poop carries little to no smell.
I wanted to know can the strew bedding be used to make the bunny Brew as it seems our rabbits dont go in one spot but like to spread it around, and this means it gets mixed up with the strew. Do you know if the rabbit tea has the same amount nutrients/nitrogen as the dry rabbit manure you put on the garden?
also they sometimes poop outside the litter tray so these poop (balls) i can just push right into the soil of my veggie patch have i got this right? I live in a sub division, how do I eliminate the order before the neighbors get mad at me? All Rights Reserved.
This is the easiest way to use your Super fertilizer! So Phresh Paper Pellet Small Animal Litter for the pellets with Carefresh Natural Pet Bedding on top for the main layer. After numerous trial and error and going through multiple different litter boxes, we have managed to find a setup that works best for us! this writing was so easy to understand and straight forward I am excited to start again thank you for your posting and time, Sheri.
This reading of nitrogen is the highest when compared to other livestock manure like cow manure (0.6% nitrogen), chicken manure (0.9% nitrogen), and horse manure (0.6% nitrogen).
For both meat and manure for my plants.
Or does it have to be turned and or covered and watered?
Plus, its not just rabbit berries. Now that you know how to make bunny brew, you can use it all the time to give your plants that extra boost!
Can you compost these or are there toom manny additives to worry about from the paper by-products: We use these two products from Petco:
Thank you, thank you This is the most clear and complete article about rabbit manure that I have ever read!
Everybody thinks I have a green thumb, but its just the rabbit poop!
I water my indoor plants lightly once a week.
If your rabbit is producing wet or watery poop, it may be having intestinal problems!
Is that going to cause problems with my newly planted garden?
Considering how a rabbits diet is so clean it is a no-brainer that their manure will be packed filled with nutrients! I will be posting the information on making and using this unit soon!
Remove the bag and suspend it above the bucket until it stops dripping.
This is helpful.i will rear some rabbits in the near future. (A friend of his raises rabbits & told him it was excellent for gardens AND he got it for free! I was astonished to see my plants germinating in half the time they were supposed to!
Using rabbit poop as fertilizer is very good and is considered as premium fertilizer when compared to other manure fertilizers. One of the reasons for my gardening project was to provide lettuce, for my pet bunny. In fact, a friend gave me a scare about burning my plants, so I was researching to set her straight . Last year something was eating my bean plants whole.
Then, my husband comes home with a truck bed full of rabbit poo for my garden. Being cold manure, rabbit poop can be applied directly to your crops without the need for composting or aging. Experience will tell how often to use and how much. With your rabbit producing many poop pallets a day, your supply of fertilizer never runs out!
When you harvest the compost with worms in it. I am not a doctor, nor should anything on this website (www.Proverbs31Homestead.com) be considered medical advice.
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But that one time did give us a good batch of tomatoes! Ill be watching for more guidance.
A very common misunderstanding is that rabbits are not intelligent creatures thus, cant be potty trained.
Sometimes the mix is quite wet with all the urine trapped in the the tray but I still throw it all on.
This is because rabbit poop has up to four times more nutrients when compared to cow or horse manure. I do compost this mix, it heats up!
(LogOut/ After I put down used rabbit litter (my rabbits use hay and woodstove pellets as litter) as mulch, nothing bugged the plants anymore, but I thought maybe it was a coincidence.
Scott.
Just added about 40 lbs of rabbit manure to my garden it stinks very badly. var sc_project=5178165; Worms do not like salt and rabbit urine contains salt so you must remember to remove wet urine spots regularly adding them to the compost or directly to the garden. PS Mr. Know it All there are not harmful Nitrates in this-and you better stop eating other grown food!!!!
I would turn it, it will break down so much faster and then be great for your plants.
Moreover, the leftovers from the unbroken down poop can be still be used as fertilizer or composting. The thought always pops up as we are cleaning the litter box. You wouldnt want the pesticide mist to touch your rabbit poop fertilizer! There are times when you wouldnt want to sprinkle your rabbits poop all over your garden. It is not harmful but very beneficial-thank you for supporting it.
85 Comments. Growing worms- I am not going to go into this in to much detail in this post as i am writing up a post on benefits of raising worms and rabbits together for sustainability.
I have had stacked rabbit hutches with pans. Some of the many nutrients inside a rabbit poop include nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Everybody out thier, listen and learn from this man he knows what hes talking about!!
N P K VALUES Rabbit= N-2.4 P- 1.4 K- .60, Chicken=N- 1.1 P-.80 K- .50, Sheep=N- .70 P- .30 K-.60, Horse=N- .70 P-.30 K- .60, Steer=N- .70 P-.30 K-.40, Dairy Cow=N- .25 P-.15 K-.25 As you can see by the nutrient values of farm manures and how they measure up and rabbit manure really shines!
Subscribe to our blog and get the updates as they are posted. Thanks for any reply now. Im setting up seven 412 ft beds about two foot deep (using logs, double stacked from, cottonwoods & alders Ive taken down), well see how it goes. do i just empty the litter tray into my regular compost bin?
Plants need nitrogen to produce alush green growth. Im guessing poo, urine, oats, hay. I have never used any added trace elements to my gardens I do add lime when my soil needs it.
Bedding could be any combination of carbon material-shredded paper,decomposing leaves, hay, straw, peat moss, ect. Grab a handful from under the hutch and use it as is, or work it into the topsoil.
I have saved this page in my favourites. I have just the one pet rabbit, he only fills one litter box(cat sized) a week.
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You can speed up the process by putting manure directly into the bucket with the water and let it sit for 3 days, stirring daily.
The shavings, poop, and urine mix makes a great compost booster.
Allow it to seep in the warm sunshine for a week. Put the bag in a 5 gallon bucket and fill with water.
The compost was ready to be used after 3 months.
Join The Rabbit Revolution! Its a never-ending cycle!
That is the only concern I had about the urine perhaps being a bit strong??
Phosphorus in the soil encourages more and bigger blossoms helping with flowering and fruiting also great for root growth. Sometimes its up to personal preferences whether you want to burrow or sprinkle rabbit poop. Required fields are marked *. Were doing most of the others already, other than the worm beds. You are breaking down the rabbit poops nutrients into the water then using the water as liquid fertilizer. If you are a rabbit owner, the thought of using your bunnys poop as fertilizer will have crossed your mind.
Can I put bunny berries (just the berries) into soil that I am about to sprinkle with veg and flower seeds?
Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. This was one of the thing we wanted to do on our farm this year. You answered my questions. Thats the secret!
For female animals,, Continue Reading Benefits Of Neutering A RabbitContinue, How to care for your rabbit after neutering Caring for your rabbit after neutering (also known as post-operative care) is simple but also very important. Add it, turn it, and it will heat up! Composting time may vary depending on the size of your pile/bin.
Vegetable gardens, pastures, and flower gardens all will benefit from using rabbit manure.
Let me reinforce your article with my experience Ive just started terrace garden, bought seeds, potting soil, etc. Thanks, Anita. Keep adding a thin layer of your carbon material of choice to cover the surface of the bedding and loosen the bedding occasionally with a fork do not use a shovel(worms do not like being cut in half).The rabbits and worms will do the rest.
God Bless you All, Merry Christmas! Awesome post. Rabbit manure is one of the few fertilizers that will not burn your plants when added directly to the garden and can be safely used on food plants.
This is also a very organic way to add nutrients back to you soil.
Great forthe early growthof tomatoes, corn, and many other vegetables. Or should I try to only use the poop?
A healthy rabbit has a unique digestive system that the poop they produce is both dry and firm. The Benefits Of Raising Worms With Rabbits For Sustainability will be a good one! This year Ive paid attention to the planting times of all my veggies & fruits, and got everything planted on time.
Be careful not to over-fertilize as the high concentration of nitrogen may harm some crops.
Also, some links included on this blog may be affiliate links. thanks in advance im in britain incase this makes a difference to the composting as its normally cold over here!! If I do the bunny mulch again will this keep other animals away?
AWESOME!) It can be applied any time of the year and helps give your plants a boost during the growing season or as a storehouse of nutrients when applied in the late fall and winter.
But, when it comes to using rabbit manure in a garden I cant imagine being able to put it into any better words than you have in this post. Moldy poop is quite awful to look at and it may attract unwanted insects.
I was thrilled because Id heard how amazing rabbit poo was, but he decided to be a sweet, wonderful husband and shovel this (at least 1/2) on to my flowerbed before I got home.
Rabbit manure is an INCREDIBLE source of the nutrients your organic crop will need to shine. Making Methane- This is something I will be experimenting with this summer with a 55 and 30 gallon barrel the 30 gallon nesting inside the 55 gallon barrel with a slurry of rabbit manure, shavings and urine mix being anaerobic composted to make methane.
Thanks in advance!
(0: Thanks for quite an awesome writeup on rabbits farming. If you are a professional farmer or do farming to sell, this method may not be suitable for you.
Im wondering if this is really necessary and if so what the proportions should be.
Thank You for sharing it with all of us.
I only compost the rabbit manure/urine/shaving mix i get from my drop pans in the stack a hutch setup. This is the way i use it the most in my gardens, so the next time you find yourself knee deep in rabbit poop just add it to your garden!
Other factors such as humidity and sun exposure contribute to the composting time as well. I honestly cannot stand worms at all. (LogOut/
Since we are not too concerned about our pet rabbits poop containing harmful pathogens or worms, we are can their fresh poop as fertilizer.
Since Rabbit manure can be used straight on food plants, can you use it straight into a hydroponic fish pond?
Just started using bunny brew.
Last week my first bunny brew and WOW!
Indoor pet rabbit usually lives on a healthy diet and in a stress-free environment. var sc_invisible=1;
As shown in the image above, we usually handle our rabbit poop around the garden without using gloves.
Great info dude, i raise runnybabbits myself basically for bunny pellets { and to eat } to apply to my garden its great stuff it DOES make a noticeable diffrance! Rabbit manure is packed with nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and many minerals, lots of micro-nutrients, plus many other beneficial trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, boron, zinc, manganese, sulfur, copper, and cobalt just to name a few.
I know someone who swears by it. Once a month?
i bed them down on straw/shavings with newspaper underneath. It is best suited for indoor plants as burrowing provides extra hygiene and cleanliness. you can also mix in your usally composted materials grass clippings, leaves ,kitchen scraps.
Can I take this out of the hutch and use i fresh in my veggie beds? You can sift and screen the worms out to transfer them to new bins and beds, also grabbing the worm capsules(eggs) to transfer with the worms.
If you are growing crops like tomatoes, you may want to burrow the rabbit poop instead.
But is their poop is suitable to be used as fertilizers? I am an ardent fan.
Then put some burlap over the top of another empty bucket (making a strainer) and pour thru the cloth to strain out the solids. This is because a healthy and well-fed rabbit can poop up to 300 poop pallets every day! Amazingly informative article! Now if i could just figure out to have them do all the cleaning chores! thank you for the information I needed to get started.
Being new at this, I researched germination times and % for all the plants I started (mostly herbs, spices, but also spinach, lettuce cherry tomatoes, beans).
TwoBun is here because as rabbit owners, we find it heartbreaking that rabbits are always considered as food but not as pets. We only composted our rabbit poop once as we cant bear the smell and hygiene.
Posted on March 31, 2012, in Uncategorized and tagged bunny berries, bunny brew, composting, manure, manure tea, organic fertilizer, rabbit manure, redworms, vermicomposting, worms.
This setupis so, Continue Reading Simple And Effective Rabbit Litter Box SetupContinue, Preparing your rabbit for neutering If you didnt already know, rabbit neutering is the process of removing the rabbits reproductive organ via surgery.
You should compost it, the wood shavings and urine will heat up and the bunny
Will the extra 2-3 inches of rabbit poo be too much for them to come up through? Another good point about rabbit poop is that it comes in a pellet form.
Im hoping that you are still watching for comments/questions on here, I know this began at least 3 years ago.
How is this possible?
i have two pet rabits.
Other minerals such as zinc, manganese, and calcium can also be found in rabbit poop. Rabbit poops are very Rabbit poops are very good fertilizers.
Although pathogen and worms in rabbit poop are rare, they can occur when the rabbit is not kept in a clean environment or is being fed the wrong diet.
I do my best to simplify & explain the homestead lifestyle through my posts. Since we dont do much composting, we hope you can take our composting guide with a grain of salt. (My compost pile is less than a year old so I know this will help.) The pellet form is very easy to work with when compared to cow or chicken manure.
Like with every surgery, there is always the risk of something going wrong during the surgery.
If your rabbit is neutered or spayed, it also reduces the risk of them carrying disease.
Use the fertilizer well and generate much more leafy greens to feed your rabbit.
This year @ Kane Nursing Home we had garden carts and the one that we use rabbit poo on are wonderful. When I have a poop/urine/shiaving mix (This mix I get out of my stack a hutch).
thank you for the information i just started rearing rabbits i have found that so intresting. Thanks for reading my posts!
Rabbit poop wont contain seeds that may pose as an invasive species to your crop. I do have the other 1/2 of the truck load on my compost pile, which will be amazing & Im super excited about! I think it has been the best thing for my garden! Change).
Rabbit poop tells you a lot about their health.
Thanks again for sharing! - Page 2, Pingback: What We Did This Week To Prep | TraceMyPreps, Pingback: Rabbit Compost for Worm Castings, Pingback: Composty Tumbling Goodness. Use it to dip every new plant before you transplant them. I planted some seeds for transplants and started some rabbit manure tea today.
Or is it best to compost that first, you said that the urine heats up fast. Or do we need to separate it. We used an old rubbish bin for composting so the scale of it is considered small. I have heard some of my composting friends complaining that their compost pile will not heat up.
Thanks, Pingback: Differences in Manures? I have a few stack a hutch cages with trays under each cage.
Just add the bunny berries they contain lots of micronutrients and will draw in the worms to aerate and let the soil do its thing. More than just the awsome NPK values of rabbit manure it is loaded with a host of micro-nutrients as well as organic matter that improves soil structure, drainage, and moisture retention. I am more than pleased to have found you and am excited to hear all you have to put out there.!!! In addition, as were setting up raised beds on our new homestead, were putting a very heavy layer of rabbit droppings & wasted feed from under the cages as the middle layer of our new beds (bottom: split wood, attempting kind of a hugelkultur concept, middle: clean-out from under the rabbit cages, top: dirt/top soil/compost. To make the tea, put a heaping shovel full of rabbit manure in a burlap bag or porous cloth with the four corners tied together.
If you can get your hands on even a small bucket of this mix every now and then you and your compost pile will be in nitrogen heaven as far as composting rabbit manure goes rabbit manure is nitrogen on steroids it will get your pile hot and breaking down at accelerated rates .Those friends with the cold compost piles are usally here on cage cleaning day with buckets and shovels. However, this is untrue as rabbits can be potty trained just like any other pet.
Last Nov and April my buns did very well at the show in Newport but this year I had nothing. To start off add bedding material to the bed.
Great eating plus perfect fertilizer for the garden. Hopefully I have two does ready to kindle in the next week and will have some showable buns and some to eat.
I put peat in the trays of the cages and clean them about once a week into a wheelbarrow which I dump directly into my garden.
Plants use potassium as an enzyme to produce proteins and sugars.They also uses potassium to control water content.
Powered by. The poop/urine/shaving mix is the best compost activator i have seen.
Anyone who comes to the rabbitry and my homestead will see our many gardens. Rabbits are very good at producing an excellent source of manure. If you dry it in the sun and bury it under some soil you should be fine.
Fertilizing the soil of the plants is proven to be the best method.
LOVE your website !! Will it burn the plants? Im leaning towards raising meat rabbits instead of chickens. Then had the nerve to tell me he was hurt that I didnt do his-well he knows it all and that is nothing. your blog is very encouraging to me I helped my dad as a kid on the farm take care of meat rabbits, but you know how kids are short attention spans especially when it comes to work.
Which in turn helps with proper plant growth.
The N-P-K content of composted manure may vary.
It seemed right, but I went looking for encouragement and found your blog.
The short answer to your question is yes. It will take any were from a few months to a year depending on how often you turn it.
Im not too worried about the actual plants that I have planted, but more so the seeds that were planted at the correct dept & now have an extra 2-3 inches on top, lol. do you see a need fo more phosphorus or potassium in a veggie garden? I have seen rabbits over tilapia ponds and they would eat the Bunny Berries. I would rather have a spider or cockroach crawl over me! Nitrogen helps plants grow greener andstronger helping the plant reach its full potential.
Also wet furrows before planting, and fill holes with it before you plant trees or shrubs.
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Suspend the solids in the makeshift strainer above the bucket until it stops dripping.
By feeding a diet consisting mostly of hay, leafy green, and pallets, you can expect your bunny poop to be much cleaner and safer compared to other manure. Keep us posted on the methane production, that could be interesting!
Unlike manure from chicken, cow, or horserabbit manure does not smell bad.
I have read a few articles about this also, this is something on my to do list! Or I will actually have my husband deal with them!
berries will turn to black gold quick.
I was raised with my Dad using the rabbit poo on our gardens and the results are amazing. Sandy. It will increase poor soil by improving soil structure and also improving the life cycle of the beneficial microorganisms in the soil. Can I use this as compost?
Simply add to your compost bin or pile and add in equal amounts of dry straw or shaving to the manure (Unless like me you only compost the shaving/poop mix-the shaving have all ready been added plus the urine starts the heat up fast!) I have seen some hydroponic set-ups that use chicken coops over a fish pond. Thanks, Jeanne.
I wanted to grow rhubarb so started looking for rabbits!
A healthy rabbits diet consists mainly of dried hay, vegetable, and pallet. With the urine cause problems if we use the whole box contents for fertilizer?
With their hay racks above the litter boxes.
Hi, just saw this article and think it is great, we have 3 giant rabbits and they all produce mountains of pellets.
You can remove and harvest worms and replace bedding every 3 to 4 months, if the worms are doing their job. These dry and firm pallet poop carries little to no smell.
I wanted to know can the strew bedding be used to make the bunny Brew as it seems our rabbits dont go in one spot but like to spread it around, and this means it gets mixed up with the strew. Do you know if the rabbit tea has the same amount nutrients/nitrogen as the dry rabbit manure you put on the garden?
also they sometimes poop outside the litter tray so these poop (balls) i can just push right into the soil of my veggie patch have i got this right? I live in a sub division, how do I eliminate the order before the neighbors get mad at me? All Rights Reserved.
This is the easiest way to use your Super fertilizer! So Phresh Paper Pellet Small Animal Litter for the pellets with Carefresh Natural Pet Bedding on top for the main layer. After numerous trial and error and going through multiple different litter boxes, we have managed to find a setup that works best for us! this writing was so easy to understand and straight forward I am excited to start again thank you for your posting and time, Sheri.
This reading of nitrogen is the highest when compared to other livestock manure like cow manure (0.6% nitrogen), chicken manure (0.9% nitrogen), and horse manure (0.6% nitrogen).
For both meat and manure for my plants.
Or does it have to be turned and or covered and watered?
Plus, its not just rabbit berries. Now that you know how to make bunny brew, you can use it all the time to give your plants that extra boost!
Can you compost these or are there toom manny additives to worry about from the paper by-products: We use these two products from Petco:
Thank you, thank you This is the most clear and complete article about rabbit manure that I have ever read!
Everybody thinks I have a green thumb, but its just the rabbit poop!
I water my indoor plants lightly once a week.
If your rabbit is producing wet or watery poop, it may be having intestinal problems!
Is that going to cause problems with my newly planted garden?
Considering how a rabbits diet is so clean it is a no-brainer that their manure will be packed filled with nutrients! I will be posting the information on making and using this unit soon!
Remove the bag and suspend it above the bucket until it stops dripping.
This is helpful.i will rear some rabbits in the near future. (A friend of his raises rabbits & told him it was excellent for gardens AND he got it for free! I was astonished to see my plants germinating in half the time they were supposed to!
Using rabbit poop as fertilizer is very good and is considered as premium fertilizer when compared to other manure fertilizers. One of the reasons for my gardening project was to provide lettuce, for my pet bunny. In fact, a friend gave me a scare about burning my plants, so I was researching to set her straight . Last year something was eating my bean plants whole.
Then, my husband comes home with a truck bed full of rabbit poo for my garden. Being cold manure, rabbit poop can be applied directly to your crops without the need for composting or aging. Experience will tell how often to use and how much. With your rabbit producing many poop pallets a day, your supply of fertilizer never runs out!
When you harvest the compost with worms in it. I am not a doctor, nor should anything on this website (www.Proverbs31Homestead.com) be considered medical advice.
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But that one time did give us a good batch of tomatoes! Ill be watching for more guidance.
A very common misunderstanding is that rabbits are not intelligent creatures thus, cant be potty trained.
Sometimes the mix is quite wet with all the urine trapped in the the tray but I still throw it all on.
This is because rabbit poop has up to four times more nutrients when compared to cow or horse manure. I do compost this mix, it heats up!
(LogOut/ After I put down used rabbit litter (my rabbits use hay and woodstove pellets as litter) as mulch, nothing bugged the plants anymore, but I thought maybe it was a coincidence.
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Just added about 40 lbs of rabbit manure to my garden it stinks very badly. var sc_project=5178165; Worms do not like salt and rabbit urine contains salt so you must remember to remove wet urine spots regularly adding them to the compost or directly to the garden. PS Mr. Know it All there are not harmful Nitrates in this-and you better stop eating other grown food!!!!
I would turn it, it will break down so much faster and then be great for your plants.
Moreover, the leftovers from the unbroken down poop can be still be used as fertilizer or composting. The thought always pops up as we are cleaning the litter box. You wouldnt want the pesticide mist to touch your rabbit poop fertilizer! There are times when you wouldnt want to sprinkle your rabbits poop all over your garden. It is not harmful but very beneficial-thank you for supporting it.
85 Comments. Growing worms- I am not going to go into this in to much detail in this post as i am writing up a post on benefits of raising worms and rabbits together for sustainability.
I have had stacked rabbit hutches with pans. Some of the many nutrients inside a rabbit poop include nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Everybody out thier, listen and learn from this man he knows what hes talking about!!
N P K VALUES Rabbit= N-2.4 P- 1.4 K- .60, Chicken=N- 1.1 P-.80 K- .50, Sheep=N- .70 P- .30 K-.60, Horse=N- .70 P-.30 K- .60, Steer=N- .70 P-.30 K-.40, Dairy Cow=N- .25 P-.15 K-.25 As you can see by the nutrient values of farm manures and how they measure up and rabbit manure really shines!
Subscribe to our blog and get the updates as they are posted. Thanks for any reply now. Im setting up seven 412 ft beds about two foot deep (using logs, double stacked from, cottonwoods & alders Ive taken down), well see how it goes. do i just empty the litter tray into my regular compost bin?
Plants need nitrogen to produce alush green growth. Im guessing poo, urine, oats, hay. I have never used any added trace elements to my gardens I do add lime when my soil needs it.
Bedding could be any combination of carbon material-shredded paper,decomposing leaves, hay, straw, peat moss, ect. Grab a handful from under the hutch and use it as is, or work it into the topsoil.
I have saved this page in my favourites. I have just the one pet rabbit, he only fills one litter box(cat sized) a week.
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You can speed up the process by putting manure directly into the bucket with the water and let it sit for 3 days, stirring daily.