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In article NnPOb.100209$na.53251@attbi_s04, Pam - gardengal
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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.)



Are you sure it was toxic shock and not asphyxiation?

Anyway, cartoon characters (even famous ones) have been known to be wrong
before.