Science Fair Project

[James Brown]

Hi, I was was wondering if you guys can help me find out the smartest breed out of these rabbits  :

• English Lop
• Holland Lop
• Satin
• American Chinchilla

If you guys would like to know what my science project is here is what it is…. 

I am going to make a hand made maze to put these rabbits through to see what breed of rabbits will get thought the maze in the shortest time. To find out the smartest breed. 

If you guys would like updates on my findings then just ask have in tell tomorrow morning to get get this down please help fast. 

Thank You So Very Much!  

[Sarita]

And how exactly will you go about this and make this determination?

[LBJ10]

Are you “borrowing” rabbits from friends for this experiment? I hope you’re not going out an buying each of these just to have them run through a maze.

As far as intelligence goes, I don’t think you would be able to make a real scientific determination with one individual from each breed. Each rabbit is an individual and individuals within a breed are going to vary a lot. So you would need a much larger sample size to do such an experiment.

Is this for school? Could you maybe use mice or gerbils instead and then they could become classroom pets afterward?

[James Brown]

Yes it a school project and no this are rabbits I have right now…… 

[Sarita]

Yeah, you wouldn’t be able to make a determination from just one rabbit of each breed.

Maybe you could do composting using your rabbit’s fecal pellets…

[LBJ10]

Oh Sarita has a great idea! That would be a very interesting project. =)

 Besides, I don’t think rabbits are good maze candidates anyway. If you put one of mine in something like that, they would probably just try to find a way to break out. LOL 

[Boing]

I like the compost idea too! 1 participant per breed is too small a sample size. You could get some seeds, and plant 10 with droppings and dirt, and 10 with just dirt. Take notes on watering, etc., and then determine which ones germinated best. If you chose herbs, you could then feed them back to the rabbits.

[James Brown]

That I a very goo idea guys thanks

[Beka27]

My rabbit would just lay down in the maze… Or chew on the walls… And she’s REALLY smart. 😉

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

I love the composting idea
I think the issue realistically with the maze (besides being too small scale to draw conclusions) is that you’d have to make it quite high to eliminate your subjects hopping the walls! I guess that’s why they put rats and guinea pigs in mazes, rabbits can hope the walls-so it would have to be large and high

Rabbit poop is one of the only fertilizers that doesn’t have to be composted to use, and it has the best N-P-K ratio, so building on that you could easily pot a few plants and use different fertilizers, demonstrating that

Good luck!

[James Brown]

I think I just might do that….
Thank You Guys!!!

[James Brown]

I a doing it, I am working on it right now.  Thank you guys so much I will keep you up date along the way. 

I can tell you my hypotheses right now:

 I think the smaller the rabbit the more nutrient in the feces to help the plant grow faster (Because I will weigh it, so smaller means more nutrient, I think) then the larger rabbit that has larger feces then smaller rabbit.

Please tell me if it makes scene or not and give me you hypotheses. 

And again thank you all for helping me find a science fair project. 

[James Brown]

And what is a good name for this project

[Beka27]

Rather than doing that can you do rabbit poop vs. a commercial fertilizer (Miracle Gro or whatever) vs. no additives? I don’t know that you’re going to get different enough results with different size rabbit poop.

[Sarita]

I agree with Beka – that was more along the lines of what I was thinking. Look up organic gardening and see what exactly they say about rabbit poop vs. commercial fertilizer.

[Zombie-Sue]

I agree, it would be easier to keep track of one plant with rabbit poop vs miracle gro than it would be to try to keep the rabbit poo separated

[LBJ10]

Depending on your sample size, you could do that. If it were me, then I would include more than one plant in each category. You will need a control (no poop, no fertilizer, nothing) group, a rabbit poop group, and a commercial fertilizer group. You should have maybe 4-5 plants in each group. So if you wanted to do small rabbit vs large rabbit, then you could have those be two separate groups replacing the rabbit poop group. Like the others said, I’m not sure if you will find significant results with that. You could certainly do that though. There is nothing wrong with having 2 hypotheses.

H1 : Plants grown with small rabbit poop will grow more than plants grown with large rabbit poop.
H2 : Plants grown with rabbit poop (small or large) will grow more than plants grown with commercial fertilizer.

I’m just wording those simply, but that is essentially what you would be testing. The word “more” would imply that there is a significant difference.

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