Fertilizer?

[BrunosMama]

So as you can imagine, having 10 bunnies has us practically drowning in poops. So we have been poking around the internet to see if it makes good fertilizer for gardens/veggies. So far what we have read says yes! But I wanted to ask the BB experts We’re thinking of bagging it up in small amounts and selling it for a couple bucks. I’ve also read you can make “garden tea” with it.

Its time for these little bugger’s to earn their keep! Lol

[Deleted User]

Brilliant idea BM!!! Seriously, if I had that much bunny poop, I wouldn’t hesitate to chuck it over my garden. And if you can make a few bucks – BONUS!

[LBJ10]

Bunny poop is generally considered safe for composting and using said compost on your garden. Most herbivore manure is fine. What to be wary of is carnivore poop like dog and cat.

[Tana]

Oh I share my bunny manure with neighbors and friends and it’s a hot commodity! It’s the BEST stuff.
I use the compressed newspaper cat litter which is compostable too and toss it all in my compost bins and it makes fabulous hot compost.

You should see if there’s a gardening co-op or community garden, maybe even a food bank where you can sell / give it away.

Because it is a cold compost it won’t burn plants and you can put it right up against plant stems. It’s like a slow-release fertilizer. “Bunny brew” is definitely a great tea. I don’t separate out the poo from the litter cuz it’s too much hassle for me but if it’s easy for you to separate and you’ve got that much I bet you could sell it at a local nursery.

[BrunosMama]

We use wood pellets in their litter boxes. They break down into saw dust. I wonder if that would be OK to keep in with the poops.

Tana, also, do you end up with hay mixed in the with the poops? That should break down well too, right?

I don’t know much about composting.

[Bam]

I use wood pellets and put the used litter in the warm compost (the kind that has a lid on and where compost-worms (small earth-warms) can survive winter). But a lot of it I just put in my veggie patches as it is. Come spring I turn the earth and it all sort of becomes earth. I have heavy earth with lots of clay. I think it could help keep sandy earth moist too.

Bunny manure can be used directly, it doesn’t have to mature or burn like cow dung or horse- and chicken-manure.

It’s a lovely idea to sell it. The sawdust is drenched in bunny urine and urine is what has the most nitrogen, so that’s actually the best fertilizer.

[Roberta]

I joined a couple of Facebook garden groups that are local and now bunny waste gets picked up and taken away every week.

[Deleted User]

I use Henry’s poop and pee for DOUBLE security!

LOL! When I first got Henry and was bunny dumb, I lined his rectangle cat litter tray with newspaper topped with my shredded ‘mail’ thinking once it’s thrown out and if anyone wanted to raid my bin to steal info and commit fraud, good luck getting through the poop and pee, ha ha ha!

[Bam]

That is very clever, AH! =)

First when I had Bam, he absolutely refused to pee on anything that wasn’t textile, so I tore up old bedsheets and lined his litterboxes with the pieces, on top of shredded newspaper. I had to do laundry twice a week to keep him with clean pieces of fabric. Then after a year or so, he suddenly started to toss the fabric out of his litterbox. Kind of a relief, I could go back to doing laundry just once a week.

[Deleted User]

I had to have a chuckle at myself bam when I read your post – I know it’s annoying having to wash, but it’s the same dilemma as buying disposable nappies as to using cloth nappies for babies. I still think using and washing cloth nappies are cheaper, and I consider myself lucky that Henry is happy to use shredded paper and free newspaper and I don’t have to buy and throw out litter.
I really hate buying stuff and throwing it out, ha ha ha ha…….

PS – Don’t anyone get me wrong…. I wouldn’t give up my toilet paper and am happy to PAY for it! LOL!

[BrunosMama]

Oh OK, so their urine is safe for plants also? I know cat urine is awful but that bunny pee is different chemically (no ammonia?) Thanks guys!

[MoxieMeadows]

Their poop is great for gardens! Before Moxie was on meds we used her droppings. (Now that she’s off we could probably use her poop again.)

My mother actually has a large worm bin with many worms (She bought 3,000 but they breed quick so who knows how many we have now lol?). I’ve given my mother some of Moxie’s droppings for the worms to eat and make their own “castings” which are also extremely good for gardens (and expensive!).

I think (but am not sure) that rabbit manure is one of the few poops you can put directly onto your plants, and not have it sit and decompose first.

But yeah, especially if I had 10 bunnies I’d be selling their manure!

[Cottontail]

We used to toss Pete’s poops out into my parents back yard in the same spot… after a short while it started sprouting what appeared alfalfa! lol Whether that’s what it was or not, the wild birds and bunnies seemed to like it.

I think I may have to see about using our little poop-machines to help tend our bunny-veggie-gardens once we get them set back up after we move.

[Bam]

BM. the urine is absolutely safe for plants. There will be ammonia, but not a lot of it. I use all the soaked sawdust + poop in my allotment garden, but I have to use chicken manure as well, bunny manure isn’t very powerful. It does make lovely compost though, in the warm compost.

If bunny pee were harmful to plants my part of Sweden would be a waste-land. We have lots and lots of wild bunnies.

Andi, I recycle the litter as fertilizer/soil improvement I , so I don’t see it as a waste. You could try feeding your mulberry tree some of Henry’s poop! Although it doesn’t really seem to need any fertilizing from how you’ve described it =)

I’m very fond of my compost worms! 

[LBJ10]

Manure is considered a “green” and sawdust is considered a “brown” when doing a compost pile. You’re supposed to balance greens and browns, so I imagine it’s okay to throw them both together in your flower beds or garden if you want.

[Little Lion Head]

I’m so glad I came across this one! We are planting a garden this summer. We use Wood Stove Pellets for litter too. So we could just use the whole litter box worth? Wood Stove Pellets, pee, poop, and left over hay?

[LBJ10]

LLH, I would think so.

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