How To Make The Best Compost With Meat Rabbit Manure!
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2022
- Its no secret that meat rabbit produce a lot of "bunny berries"! But many people don't know that rabbit manure is arguably worth more than their meat. Due to meat rabbit's unique digestive system, their manure is more sanitary and nutrient rich than almost all other livestock. It can be applied directly to gardens or made into a fantastic compost.
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Thank you! I've been wanting to compost but it's so confusing to me. I just watched someone else do a lazy compost pile like this and wanted to try it, after seeing your video I think I will give it a go!
Great video as always
Great info
Great video thanks for sharing 👍
Great video 👍
Just now getting back to watching your newer videos. Quality content. Keep up the great job!
I compost my rabbit manure with dry, shredded leaves. I leave it under the cages all year until I fill my bin.
Great video. Just what I needed to watch. We use pine shavings for both rabbits and our four hens. I want to build two compost bins which will be about 40 ft from our house. So, I have two questions: how do you keep flies down? And, how do you control smell? It looks as if your 8:32 piles are not too close to the house. Regardless, I’m hoping you can advise me on my two questions. Thanks again for your video.
Carbon is the answer to both your questions! If your litter is pine shavings your piles should already pretty well balanced. Compost can be simple or complicated, but generally nitrogen rich waste will smell more, and attract flies. Carbon rich waste breaks down slowly but doesn't smell or attract flies. A good balance is key.
Do you also use fresh pellets in your planting holes?
Only when I want to give the plants a major boost! But it is totally safe to do so.
Hey Sam....any recommendations on how to get the rabbit urine smell controlled? We have 12 rabbits and love them and the poo, however, the urine smell is starting to get to be too much. I won't even mention the flies, OH MY!!! We have an outside rabbitry. I use Eco Flake savings and still have a major smell.
Smell from rabbit waste comes from an imbalance between carbon and nitrogen in the manure piles, or to much moisture (or both). Rabbit urine is very high in nitrogen. If your rabbitry is outside surprised this is an issue, with good ventilation you shouldn't have to much moisture or smell. That being said, there is no need to spend money on special products as their are two easy solutions.
1. Clean out the piles more frequently and remove sources of moisture. Ensure plenty of ventilation and exposure to sunlight if possible.
2. Add carbon to piles every couple of days.
Good sources of carbon are wood chips, pine shavings, and other dry fibrous materials with low amounts of nitrogen.
@@westmeadowrabbits whats your thoughts on the RHDV2 thats going around teh united states? would you still let rabbits run around on the ground?
@@MrThatguy333 It hasn't made it's way to my area yet but it is a serious concern. If you live in an infected area with lots of wild rabbits it's something to keep an eye on.
Where do you buy worms?
you have been doing this composting at your home for 15 years? My jaw about dropped as I guessed your age at about 25.
Close guess for my age! I have been raising my own animals and gardening since the third grade!
@@westmeadowrabbits oh, that explains it. I was thinking I may need glasses. Thanks for the videos - I learn a lot from watching.
If I feed Timothy hay can I add rabbit pellets right into soil. Or will the hay grow “things” I don’t want growing. I do container gardening. Getting beds ready now.
Just got my 1st 2 breeding rabbits
You shouldn't have anything sprouting. But in the off chance that you do, feed it to the rabbits!
@@westmeadowrabbits thanks for the reply. I didn’t want to add to my raised container beds till someone answered me.
can you bag the finished compost to store (like up to a year?) or will it lose the nutrients
It should be fine, but you will lose some of the bioactive components (microbes, fungi, etc.).
Does it lose effectiveness being exposed to the elements ?
No the piles are deceivingly large. Even in the middle of the summer, it retains plenty of moisture inside. Sunlight only effects the surface so not an issue.
How much does rabbit manure go for?
Whatever your local market is willing to pay! Sorry for the vague answer, but it really depends on your area. I don't sell mine because I use it all for my own gardens.
You fertilize in the fall not the spring.
I fertilize year round!
@@westmeadowrabbits No need. You spend way too much effort. You fertilize and mulch in the fall and leave it alone. The forest only fertilizes itself with leaves in the fall.
Every time it rains gravity puts nutrients in the soil for you. Keep the leaves mulch 5 inches thick. Done water either. Nature does it for you.
Make your life easy
@@svelanikolova5776 That may work in natural systems and low maintenance gardens, but in market gardens like mine compost must must be added after every harvest to maintain yields.
@@westmeadowrabbits go to Washington and talk to Paul Gauchi the BTE guy
Rabbits are for pets not meat you barbarians
Kill the wabbit!
do pet rabbits not produce material for the compost? this is what the video was about.
Rabbits were originally domesticated as a source of meat. In fact the only reason you are able to have pet rabbits is through the efforts of selective breeding through the centuries to produce a domesticated meat animal.
Keeping a farm animal as a pet is something that would only be considered "normal" in a highly developed and rich country. Its a privilege to have so much food in your country that you can have a meat producing animal as a pet. You should be grateful that you enjoy such privilege, especially considering that their are millions of people who don't have access to quality food in the world today.
@@dennism5565 I have a friend who keeps 2 rabbits mostly for the manure for her gardens.
We eat rabbit as we eat beef in France, Italy, spain etc... Rabbits are no exception. The Anglo world is full of strange people living in the teletubies world