"Salty Thumb" wrote in message
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Ignoramus18897 wrote in
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In article NnPOb.100209$na.53251@attbi_s04, Pam - gardengal wrote:

"Ignoramus3274" wrote in message
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I asked this question in misc.rural already, but want to run it by a
few more people. Can meat/fur rabbits survive if they are being fed
a diet that is mostly lawn clippings? I am upset that I waste so
much time and lawn grass due to all this mandatory lawn trimming,
and am thinking about having rabbits between months of May/October,
or some such, and feed them lawn trimmings. will it work?

I already own two chickens and they are doing great, even in -5F
weather, in an unheated shed.

Rabbits can't live on grass clippings alone and should not be fed any
that have been chemically treated with pesticides or fertilizers. Get
a mulching lawn mower - you have to mow the lawn anyway and at least
with a mulching mower you are returnig the clippings back to the lawn
where they act as a natural fertilizer. Less waste, better for your
lawn and no nutritionaly deprived bunnies to worry about.

Or you could get a goat.

pam - gardengal



Will a goat survive on lawn clippings?



I have it on the authority of several well known cartoon characters, that
goats can survive on tin-cans.
You would be wrong. Goats need quality feed like a hand full of Goat Oats
daily in addition to the forage. They do eat everything, but that can kill
them. I had one eat a plastic bread sack that blew into our yard. She went
down and died of toxic shock the next day. (I did not see her eat it, but
in the autopsy we found it.)