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rabbit manure; how good is it
"Gordon Couger" wrote in message
news:3e744d56$1_1@newsfeed... "Archimedes Plutonium" wrote in message ... Richard McDermott wrote: I met a man from New Jersey whose hobby was growing giant Halloween pumpkins, he said he grew the state's biggest one year. He said he would only use rabbit manure for fertility. I would like to know how much nitrogen rabbit manure contains. I suspect it is the best nitrogen source for grasslands other than that of buffalo manure. I suspect that every ecosystem becomes inhabitated by a sustaining commensalism between plants that give food to animals and those animals vice versa give fertilizer to those plants. The food pyramid of an ecological environment is one in which there is a mathematical relationship of the spreading of plant nutrients and what types of animals and the number of those animals for that environment. I suspect that a long time ago-- hundreds of millions of years ago, the grasslands arose and called for some smallish type animal that feeds on grasses and multiplies very rapidly and constantly eats and prunes the grasses and small trees and must scatter that nitrogen nutrient. Answer: rabbits. Can someone tell me if rabbit remains of feces and urine is any higher in nitrogen than is insect feces and body decay. The nutriant content of manure depeds most ly on how they are handled between the time the depart the animal and are taken up by the crop. Every day it lays in the open nitrogen is lost. The smell of manure is largly ammonia, If it gets wet and stands water bactera make methaned out of it. If it gets rained on and water doesn't stand on it the nirtogen compoundes are desloved and leacehed into the ground. If you are on sandy soil the nitrogen is quickly past the root zone if you are in clay the bacterai my turn it to methane. Even from the start most manures are hinger in phospahtes than than the crop neds when you supply all the crops nitroge needs with manure or composte. Composting looses nrogen to the air as well. At best you have a good source of unbalaced fertilzer at worst you have a poor source of very unbalece fetelizer. While manures add desirable elemtents to the soil that minearl fertilezers don't you will spend a very great deal of time tending rabbint and handeling rabbitt manure to furnish fertizar for 10 acres of crops. Unless you are growing, coco, murajana or opium popies you won't make a living. -- Gordon Gordon Couger Stillwater, OK www.couger.com/gcouger The majority of the fauna in any terrestrial ecosystem consists of invertebrates. In any established ecosystem, where no food is being exported, the nitrogen input must equal the nitrogen output unless the system is changing.. The balance is affected by nitrifying and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (principally nitrosomonas, nitrobacter and azotobacter types) which fix atmospheric N and thus increase the available nitrogen, and denitrifying bacteria which release gaseous N from compounds of nitrogen. The presence or absence of lagomorphs will have at most trivial effects on these processes (unless they graze leguminous plants preferentially, when they will tend to depress the amount of available nitrogen compounds in the soil.) -- May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) |
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