Anyone have rabbits for meat and use the rabbit pellets for their garden.
I wouldn't mind hearing about the rabbits in general.
If its worth the hassle. or not.

Diesel.

"DogDiesel" wrote
Anyone have rabbits for meat and use the rabbit pellets for their garden.
I wouldn't mind hearing about the rabbits in general.
If its worth the hassle. or not.

No meat rabbits but do have a housebun and all her wet litter and droppings
go into the kitchen compost bin.

Pat wrote:
DogDiesel wrote:

Anyone have rabbits for meat and use the rabbit pellets for their garden.
I wouldn't mind hearing about the rabbits in general.
If its worth the hassle. or not.

No meat rabbits but do have a housebun and all her wet litter and droppings
go into the kitchen compost bin.

i've read that rabbit pellets make excellent
worm food. often building the worm compost
bin right under the rabbit hutches and thus
getting a quituple crop from one input (rabbit
meat, rabbit poo, worms, worm poo, and veggies).

i have no experience with raising rabbits
and the only indirect experience was that they
like to chew on electrical cords.


songbird

Rabbits are great for protein production. One buck and 2-3 does can produce
over 200 pounds of very low fat protein per year.

Rabbits are normally raised on hardware cloth floored cages that are set up
well off the ground. The urine and feces fall through onto the ground. The
manure is quite "hot" and will easily burn plants. It should be composted
before use.

New Zealand and California are two well thought of meat breeds. They have
fairly large litters and are generally good mothers. The young are usually
fryer size by 6-8 weeks and mom is ready to breed again. Young does are
ready to breed at about 3 months and produce a litter in 28 days, thus the
term, "breeding like rabbits".

Rabbits definitely have a place on the subsistence farm or just for a
variation of protein. I can butcher 3 rabbits in the time it takes me to
butcher 1 chicken.

Sorry, just gabby this morning,
Steve
"DogDiesel" wrote in message
...
Anyone have rabbits for meat and use the rabbit pellets for their garden.
I wouldn't mind hearing about the rabbits in general.
If its worth the hassle. or not.

Diesel.

In article ,
songbird wrote:

Pat wrote:
DogDiesel wrote:

Anyone have rabbits for meat and use the rabbit pellets for their garden.
I wouldn't mind hearing about the rabbits in general.
If its worth the hassle. or not.

No meat rabbits but do have a housebun and all her wet litter and droppings
go into the kitchen compost bin.

i've read that rabbit pellets make excellent
worm food. often building the worm compost
bin right under the rabbit hutches and thus
getting a quituple crop from one input (rabbit
meat, rabbit poo, worms, worm poo, and veggies).

i have no experience with raising rabbits
and the only indirect experience was that they
like to chew on electrical cords.

Doesn't sound like a good career move ;O)

Rabbit manure N-P-K: 2.4 - 1.4 - .60


songbird
--
- Billy
Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.

Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/

[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And it¹s not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. That¹s hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they don¹t get away with no taxation.
- Ralph Nader
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis

Billy wrote:
....
Rabbit manure N-P-K: 2.4 - 1.4 - .60

one thing mentioned which i have not
personally verified is that their poo is
alkaline instead of acidic (i don't think
many critters poo alkaline).


songbird

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:51:31 -0400, "Steve Peek"
wrote:

Rabbits are great for protein production. One buck and 2-3 does can produce
over 200 pounds of very low fat protein per year.

Rabbits are normally raised on hardware cloth floored cages that are set up
well off the ground. The urine and feces fall through onto the ground. The
manure is quite "hot" and will easily burn plants. It should be composted
before use.

We raised rabbits commercially for many years and that statement is
contrary to anything we ever read in related literature.
Rabbit manure is one of the few "cold" manures, does not have to be
composted first and can be applied directly to your garden.
We have a large garden and all our rabbit droppings were applied to
it, right from the barn. I wish we still had a regular supply.
The following is excerpted from a document entitled Raising Rabbits by
Washington State University:
quote
Rabbit manure is a valuable fertilizer sought
by many horticulturists. Generally speaking
it is not considered to be a “hot” manure
and may be used freely.
end quote

Ross.

Ross@home wrote in message
news
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:51:31 -0400, "Steve Peek"
wrote:

Rabbits are great for protein production. One buck and 2-3 does can
produce
over 200 pounds of very low fat protein per year.

Rabbits are normally raised on hardware cloth floored cages that are set
up
well off the ground. The urine and feces fall through onto the ground. The
manure is quite "hot" and will easily burn plants. It should be composted
before use.

We raised rabbits commercially for many years and that statement is
contrary to anything we ever read in related literature.
Rabbit manure is one of the few "cold" manures, does not have to be
composted first and can be applied directly to your garden.
We have a large garden and all our rabbit droppings were applied to
it, right from the barn. I wish we still had a regular supply.
The following is excerpted from a document entitled Raising Rabbits by
Washington State University:
quote
Rabbit manure is a valuable fertilizer sought
by many horticulturists. Generally speaking
it is not considered to be a "hot" manure
and may be used freely.
end quote

Ross.



I agree, you can put it on straight. Its a well known fact.

Diesel.

"DogDiesel" wrote in message
...

Ross@home wrote in message
news
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:51:31 -0400, "Steve Peek"
wrote:

Rabbits are great for protein production. One buck and 2-3 does can
produce
over 200 pounds of very low fat protein per year.

Rabbits are normally raised on hardware cloth floored cages that are set
up
well off the ground. The urine and feces fall through onto the ground.
The
manure is quite "hot" and will easily burn plants. It should be composted
before use.

We raised rabbits commercially for many years and that statement is
contrary to anything we ever read in related literature.
Rabbit manure is one of the few "cold" manures, does not have to be
composted first and can be applied directly to your garden.
We have a large garden and all our rabbit droppings were applied to
it, right from the barn. I wish we still had a regular supply.
The following is excerpted from a document entitled Raising Rabbits by
Washington State University:
quote
Rabbit manure is a valuable fertilizer sought
by many horticulturists. Generally speaking
it is not considered to be a "hot" manure
and may be used freely.
end quote

Ross.



I agree, you can put it on straight. Its a well known fact.

Diesel.


Now this is odd. The only time I ever used rabbit droppings straight from
the hutch was many years ago on tomatoes. The plants went yellow and died
within 2 weeks. I have no knowledge of these university studies, only
personal experience.
Steve

"Steve Peek" wrote
The only time I ever used rabbit droppings straight from the hutch was
many years ago on tomatoes. The plants went yellow and died within 2
weeks.

Likely from some disease or deficiency rather than rabbit droppings.

In article ,
"Pat" wrote:

"Steve Peek" wrote
The only time I ever used rabbit droppings straight from the hutch was
many years ago on tomatoes. The plants went yellow and died within 2
weeks.

Likely from some disease or deficiency rather than rabbit droppings.

Too much nitrogen.
--
- Billy
Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.

Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/

[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And it¹s not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. That¹s hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they don¹t get away with no taxation.
- Ralph Nader
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis

"Billy" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Pat" wrote:

"Steve Peek" wrote
The only time I ever used rabbit droppings straight from the hutch was
many years ago on tomatoes. The plants went yellow and died within 2
weeks.

Likely from some disease or deficiency rather than rabbit droppings.

Too much nitrogen.
--
- Billy

ergo the manure burned my plants!