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mommaval
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Comments (22)I know it is hard to believe,ken1, but it is true,do a search. Rabbit manure is one of the best at nitrogen of 2.4, phosphate of 1.4, potash at 0.6. Hen at 1.1, 0.8, 0.5. They are the best/ highest manure. Peanut shell 3.6, .70..45, coffee waste 2.0,0, 2.0. Tobacco stems 2.5, 1.0, 4.5-7.0 . Cottonseed meal 7.0, 3.0, 1.5, This data came from the some book. When you are searching, check on COMFREY, it is said to be even higher then clove,alfalfa, cow peas. Note: these facts came from organic gardening magazine & http://kitchengardeners.org ....See MoreRabbit droppings for fertilizer?
Comments (15)So, a step back to the Farmers Alminac... blah, blah, blah. (I HAVE to wipe that OUT of my volcabulary, it is becoming an 'annoying' thing I say...) I'm not going to dig the book out and copy from it, but 'Urea' in any form is higher in concentrates and minerals than most anything else. Also stench. Having hauled things from home, bunny, horse, chicken, sheep, horse, fowl, ect. Bunny is one of those things you can regard as to 'coming out of a bag from the store'. It will be the 'softest and least "hot" ' fertilizer you will EVER use. I spent a summer cleaning up underneath the hutches and hauling it to the 'perinial bed' and tilling it straight in. I would have No Worries with adding straight 'bunny pellets' to each and every pot of hoyas I grow. Sounds good, too bad I'm very allergic! I've got chickens but I'd rather have buns stacked up left and right if they didn't send me sneezing for HOURS! I also would start a chart, and make SURE I knew just when the last time I fed, pelleted, boosted and ect! was. I grow mostly cactus & succulents. They don't WANT ferts, but minerals and bad treatment... What works for you is good. If you feed a plant to lush, great, good health, and it is fatter and not challenged like it would be in it's natural environment it will suffer from excess growth, insect attack, and foliar distortions. All a sign of Too Much Good Stuff. Find what works for your climate and situation. TAKE NOTES. Stick with it. Never change more than two things at a time. (For what seems like ForEver once again. Plants grow at Plant Rates, not at Human Expectation Rates. Give a plant time to adapt to your 'plan' for them, and make sure you give them a chance to participate!) Be patient on a Plant Growth Timeline. (What seems like 'forfreakinever' for you really is eons/decades/centuries in a plants life cycle.) Ask A LOT of questions. (Write down the answers that you get!!!)...See MoreEver heard the 'Rabbit Fertilizer Excuse'?
Comments (23)If you give the bunnies plenty of hay, they will cozy in and sleep a large part of the day, but they won't truely hibernate. Years ago, my sister got a couple of rabbits, and within a year or two, she had over 50! That is plenty of fertilizer for anyone. I guess you could just sprinkle the manure fresh on the garden, but personally, I would compost it along with veggie clippings and overgrown vegetables to make really nice compost. I never thought of getting rabbits for garden helpers, but I do have a beautiful little chicken coop that needs filling again. My husband even built a little chicken sized porch on it, and the chickens would perch on their little porch rail. There was always one more chicken than there was room on the railing. One would fall off the end, run around to the other end, jump up and knock another one off. We spent more time out there watching their antics. And, they love extra tomatoes, squash, corn cobs etc. We learned not to feed them too many pumpkins though. Talk about a LOT of orange chicken poop! The funniest thing was they LOVED spaghetti noodles. They liked that even better than real worms. After a rough day, my husband would cook up a pot of spaghetti and go out and start a chicken riot. I really need to get chickens again!...See MoreCages for a community rabbits, compost vs rabbit poop
Comments (7)I raise rabbits in 2x6 ft rabbit hutches. They are made with 2x4s and hardware cloth. They have plywood roofs covered with roll roofing. Make sure to cover your wood frame on the inside with hardware cloth because they can chew through the wood. I also leave hardware cloth on the bottom for the poop to fall through. It keeps the cages cleaner and wood bottoms will just rot here in FL. The bunnies develop callused feet and I haven't seen any injury from the hardware cloth on their feet. Some people just hang cages but I need something really sturdy here due to raccoons, possum, neighbor dogs, fox, etc. Plus the hutches are about a half acre back from the house. The hutches are underneath a carport overhang and a huge oak provides further shade over the carport area. There are vermicompost bins underneath the hutches. The bins are made from treated wood but you could use redwood instead. The shade is really important for rabbits because they can really overheat here in FL during the summer. They love cold weather. I provide them with 2 liter bottles filled with frozen water in the summers for them to lie next to in order to cool off when the temps get really hot (upper 90's F). I don't raise mine for meat so I have cute semi dwarf rabbits that are part lionhead and/or pure lionhead. Dwarfs seem to make just as much manure as the big ones lol. My plants really love the manure. You can put straight rabbit manure on the plants or wait and vermicompost. I do both. It won't burn your plants at all. I really get good blooming on my plants here. Here is a link to vermicomposting under rabbit hutches. http://riseandshinerabbitry.com/2013/11/17/rabbits-and-redworms-sustainability-above-and-below/...See Moremommaval
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