Rabbit Litter in Garden

[kmurphy]

Hey Guys! 

I thought this was normal but my roommate freaked out when I told her…. So I wanted to get your opinion. We have a really weedy and wooded area of our yard next to our garage in an area where no one walks or really goes because there is think brush there. I have been dumping the bunnies litter boxes there because we use wood stove pellets which degrade into sawdust and then just hay. I thought this was not a big deal at all but my roommate disagreed so I thought I should ask. Is there anything wrong with doing this? I could get a compost bin as I know bunny litter boxes can be composed, but I didn’t think there would be an issue of just spreading it there for a while. I guess I have horses and it’s super normal to have a manure pile and after about a year its pretty well degraded. 

What do you guys do with your litter? Is it wrong for me to do this with the litter? 

[Bam]

Rabbit poop and pee is ok for gardens. I pour out a good deal of used wood stove pellet litter in my garden and it becomes soil in a year or so (this must depend on ambient temp and moisture of course). I compost some of it in closed bins with mowed grass and leaves and bio char.

Since rabbits are vegan their poop is not nasty like dog or cat poop. It’s a mild fertilizer and doesn’t need to “burn” before use.

What exactly is your friend freaking out about? If she thinks it’s unbelievably gross, you should probably get a closed compost bin (needs lots of watering).

[beebun]

We had a mango tree that never fruits: 3 months of studious scatterings later- BEST DAY EVER. we had almost 20 beautiful mangoes.

I also noticed that weeds tend to grow a lot in the area where we scatter the poop. The nutrition will get absorbed by anything!

A better thing to do, I read somewhere, is to bury the poops

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