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Quick Q regarding rabbits
Rabbits should not be fed a diet mainly of green matter, young rabbits
will scour (get diarrhea) and die. Older rabbits can learn to tolerate more green feed in their diets, but they will still need other forms of food, pellets or dry hay for roughage and bulking materials to prevent the older rabbit from going the same way of the younger ones. Were you planning on using the rabbits in place of mowing, or you were planning on mowing and then giving the rabbits the trimmings? You are aware that green grass piled up very deep rapidly heats up and if it's deep enough it will burn. Dad and I decided to unload the trailer that had lawn trimmings in it, after we ate dinner one day, and when we went out, smoke was starting to rise from the trailer, and the tines of the pitch fork were getting hot enough to burn my leg while I was unloading it, and when we got to it, the center of the load was a mass of black charcoaled grass. After that, I understood why haystacks would suddenly catch fire, it was baled too green, stacked too soon. If you want something to mow the grass and do so quickly, make a chicken tractor, a long bottomless pen to drag along let the chickens eat the grass, pull it down further, and let them eat the grass... repeat. half dozen to a dozen would do a good job. Probably illegal, but get hens only and share some eggs if someone spots them. Yolks will be DEEP orange with all the greens! Chickens will eat that greenery though, they're just piranha with feathers!! ;-) I miss my chickens On 21 Jan 2004 04:23:43 GMT, Ignoramus1390 wrote: In article , Frogleg wrote: On 19 Jan 2004 00:14:10 GMT, Ignoramus3274 wrote: 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? "Survive" or thrive? *People* can survive on significantly inadequate diets, 'though not grass clippings. There are plenty of references and books on 'raising rabbits for fun and profit'. If "wasting time" on lawn chores is a concern, you should be aware that rabbits take a fair amount of labor to feed, house, and nurture. I already own two chickens and they are doing great, even in -5F weather, in an unheated shed. Sad. Why do you think that it is sad? These chickens are supposed to do well in freezing cold weather. Think about it, each has a good down/feather jacket on her. a few chickens can't heat up a chicken coup much in winter but a dozen can! Of course the size of the pen can be reduced, and insulated well and then 3 could heat it fairly well I suppose. Infrared heat lamp works if it gets too cold. |
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Quick Q regarding rabbits
I forgot one thing.. rabbits can't sweat, so they overheat quickly in
the summer, and being in something like the chicken tractor kind of idea, they'd overheat if exposed to the sun beating down on them even with a roof over the thing, it wouldn't get a lot of air circulation, and the humidity on a lawn is usually high. You'd soon have dead rabbits. Particularly if you were raising angora rabbits.! They need air conditioned housing in summer or they die. The only things they can do is hope you have them in the shade, and in a dry hot climate you could hang wet burlap bags over the overhang of the roof and the evaporation helps, but you have to be there to keep them wet..or you'll have dead rabbits to bury when you get home as they can only pant so much heat away! On 21 Jan 2004 04:23:43 GMT, Ignoramus1390 wrote: In article , Frogleg wrote: On 19 Jan 2004 00:14:10 GMT, Ignoramus3274 wrote: 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? "Survive" or thrive? *People* can survive on significantly inadequate diets, 'though not grass clippings. There are plenty of references and books on 'raising rabbits for fun and profit'. If "wasting time" on lawn chores is a concern, you should be aware that rabbits take a fair amount of labor to feed, house, and nurture. I already own two chickens and they are doing great, even in -5F weather, in an unheated shed. Sad. Why do you think that it is sad? These chickens are supposed to do well in freezing cold weather. Think about it, each has a good down/feather jacket on her. i |
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Quick Q regarding rabbits
I forgot one thing.. rabbits can't sweat, so they overheat quickly in
the summer, and being in something like the chicken tractor kind of idea, they'd overheat if exposed to the sun beating down on them even with a roof over the thing, it wouldn't get a lot of air circulation, and the humidity on a lawn is usually high. You'd soon have dead rabbits. Particularly if you were raising angora rabbits.! They need air conditioned housing in summer or they die. The only things they can do is hope you have them in the shade, and in a dry hot climate you could hang wet burlap bags over the overhang of the roof and the evaporation helps, but you have to be there to keep them wet..or you'll have dead rabbits to bury when you get home as they can only pant so much heat away! On 21 Jan 2004 04:23:43 GMT, Ignoramus1390 wrote: In article , Frogleg wrote: On 19 Jan 2004 00:14:10 GMT, Ignoramus3274 wrote: 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? "Survive" or thrive? *People* can survive on significantly inadequate diets, 'though not grass clippings. There are plenty of references and books on 'raising rabbits for fun and profit'. If "wasting time" on lawn chores is a concern, you should be aware that rabbits take a fair amount of labor to feed, house, and nurture. I already own two chickens and they are doing great, even in -5F weather, in an unheated shed. Sad. Why do you think that it is sad? These chickens are supposed to do well in freezing cold weather. Think about it, each has a good down/feather jacket on her. i |
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Quick Q regarding rabbits
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:34:59 -0700, Janice
wrote: Rabbits should not be fed a diet mainly of green matter, young rabbits will scour (get diarrhea) and die. Older rabbits can learn to tolerate more green feed in their diets, but they will still need other forms of food, pellets or dry hay for roughage and bulking materials to prevent the older rabbit from going the same way of the younger ones. Were you planning on using the rabbits in place of mowing, or you were planning on mowing and then giving the rabbits the trimmings? You are aware that green grass piled up very deep rapidly heats up and if it's deep enough it will burn. Dad and I decided to unload the trailer that had lawn trimmings in it, after we ate dinner one day, and when we went out, smoke was starting to rise from the trailer, and the tines of the pitch fork were getting hot enough to burn my leg while I was unloading it, and when we got to it, the center of the load was a mass of black charcoaled grass. After that, I understood why haystacks would suddenly catch fire, it was baled too green, stacked too soon. If you want something to mow the grass and do so quickly, make a chicken tractor, a long bottomless pen to drag along let the chickens eat the grass, pull it down further, and let them eat the grass... repeat. half dozen to a dozen would do a good job. Probably illegal, but get hens only and share some eggs if someone spots them. Yolks will be DEEP orange with all the greens! Chickens will eat that greenery though, they're just piranha with feathers!! ;-) I miss my chickens He HE true about the chickens but being irish as I am I think sheep would really cure the grass mowing one or two would cure the problem of grass altogether HE HE :- ) Smile Michelle "Love is the water in the garden of life" On 21 Jan 2004 04:23:43 GMT, Ignoramus1390 wrote: In article , Frogleg wrote: On 19 Jan 2004 00:14:10 GMT, Ignoramus3274 wrote: 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? "Survive" or thrive? *People* can survive on significantly inadequate diets, 'though not grass clippings. There are plenty of references and books on 'raising rabbits for fun and profit'. If "wasting time" on lawn chores is a concern, you should be aware that rabbits take a fair amount of labor to feed, house, and nurture. I already own two chickens and they are doing great, even in -5F weather, in an unheated shed. Sad. Why do you think that it is sad? These chickens are supposed to do well in freezing cold weather. Think about it, each has a good down/feather jacket on her. a few chickens can't heat up a chicken coup much in winter but a dozen can! Of course the size of the pen can be reduced, and insulated well and then 3 could heat it fairly well I suppose. Infrared heat lamp works if it gets too cold. |
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Quick Q regarding rabbits
we got rabbits ... well my DH does. two sets. the school set (girls) and then the
set he started with Bella and Luna and the girls were sooooo cute he couldnt leave them at school. velvety black dwarf bunnies Bella got buff markings under the chin, Luna has white. they are fed: rabbit pellets, yogurt pellets, alfalfa and have a mineral block. The DONT get carrots, lettuce, etc for the reasons you outlined. Ingrid Michelle wrote: I have kept rabbits in the past they need a varried diet grass clippings ar poor in nutriants and will not provide needed minerals and vitamins rabits need to have an asorrted diet usually the more colors of vegies the more vitamins orange is usually vitamin a , No light green or vegies containing too much water like Iceburg lettuce are good for rabbits they can give them the runs which will kill them. Dark greens are ok like spinach or red lettus rabbits can suffer from scurvy so thay need vitamin c they can benefit from a mineral block If your question is can they survive yeah for a while but not in good health and not very happily and would have shorter life span. That's why they crave to get into all our gardens adn eat up the world in them as my garden has suffered more than once. People can survive on bread and water for the most part :- ) my self prefur abit more selection my self On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:19:29 GMT, Frogleg wrote: On 19 Jan 2004 00:14:10 GMT, Ignoramus3274 wrote: 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? "Survive" or thrive? *People* can survive on significantly inadequate diets, 'though not grass clippings. There are plenty of references and books on 'raising rabbits for fun and profit'. If "wasting time" on lawn chores is a concern, you should be aware that rabbits take a fair amount of labor to feed, house, and nurture. I already own two chickens and they are doing great, even in -5F weather, in an unheated shed. Sad. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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