Rabbit Diet
Baby KALE at 6 weeks old.
Rabbits are exclusively herbivores- That means raw plants only:
NO cookies, candy, soda or anything else they might want to eat.
Rabbits can not vomit & have delicate digestions.
Most people prefer to feed their rabbits only a prepared pelleted diet of concentrated nutrients.
Pellets are more convenient: however we prefer to feed
a homestead-based diet of local orchard grass hay, fresh grass, sprouts and fodder, our organic vegetables, whole grains, some fruit treats and plain alfalfa or grass pellets.
Google for a list of acceptable rabbit diet and rabbit safe plants.
Introduce new food items, a little at a time to make sure it is well tolerated.
NO cookies, candy, soda or anything else they might want to eat.
Rabbits can not vomit & have delicate digestions.
Most people prefer to feed their rabbits only a prepared pelleted diet of concentrated nutrients.
Pellets are more convenient: however we prefer to feed
a homestead-based diet of local orchard grass hay, fresh grass, sprouts and fodder, our organic vegetables, whole grains, some fruit treats and plain alfalfa or grass pellets.
Google for a list of acceptable rabbit diet and rabbit safe plants.
Introduce new food items, a little at a time to make sure it is well tolerated.
Rabbit manure in the Garden
Ash looks bigger in this picture
as he is closer to the camera!
Super fertilizer in convenient, ready to use, time release pellets. Bunny Berries feed and build soil while nourishing plants.
Everything your garden needs, except water!
Nitrogen 2.4, Phosphorus 1.4 & Potassium .60
as well as important trace minerals and beneficial micro-organisms to get your garden soil growing.
It is easy to train your rabbit to use a litter box to make harvesting this fantastic natural fertilizer even simpler.
Here at the garden; we don't have trays beneath their apartments in favor of fresh air circulation. We utilize recycled 5 gallon plant pots beneath the potty corner for bunnure collection.
Drainage holes in the bottoms allow the urine to drain out.
Seasonally (Fall/Winter) we load beneath the hanging cages with dried plant material (fallen leaves and dried grasses) which we compost in place- turning often.
Rabbit Manure Tea (Not for human consumption!)
Seep a cloth bag/pillowcase of manure in chlorine-free water for a few hours in the shade.
Add aeration if making a large batch overnight. (Aquarium pump and tubing works!)
Water the soil around your plants or put in a sprayer for an instant foliar feed.
Add more water and repeat until color is light and manure strength is diluted.
Dump the manure solids from the spent bunnure teabag and bury.
Everything your garden needs, except water!
Nitrogen 2.4, Phosphorus 1.4 & Potassium .60
as well as important trace minerals and beneficial micro-organisms to get your garden soil growing.
It is easy to train your rabbit to use a litter box to make harvesting this fantastic natural fertilizer even simpler.
Here at the garden; we don't have trays beneath their apartments in favor of fresh air circulation. We utilize recycled 5 gallon plant pots beneath the potty corner for bunnure collection.
Drainage holes in the bottoms allow the urine to drain out.
Seasonally (Fall/Winter) we load beneath the hanging cages with dried plant material (fallen leaves and dried grasses) which we compost in place- turning often.
Rabbit Manure Tea (Not for human consumption!)
Seep a cloth bag/pillowcase of manure in chlorine-free water for a few hours in the shade.
Add aeration if making a large batch overnight. (Aquarium pump and tubing works!)
Water the soil around your plants or put in a sprayer for an instant foliar feed.
Add more water and repeat until color is light and manure strength is diluted.
Dump the manure solids from the spent bunnure teabag and bury.
Vermiculture: Worms for the garden.
While rabbit manure is great to use as-is in the garden; keeping a worm box is a great way to utilize the copious amounts of manure and bump it up a notch by adding even more beneficial microbes for your garden soil. We use rice hulls or Autumn leaves as worm bedding, plus waste hay, shredded paper, mixed with used coffee grounds. The rabbit urine is diverted and used in a regular 'hot' compost bin as it is too strong for the worms to handle.
Keep fresh manure covered daily with the bedding keeps flies away.
We also have to keep the worm bins covered to keep out our worm-hungry free range laying hens; They DO get to occasionally feast on the worms, but not as much as they would like, otherwise they would eat them ALL!!
Keep fresh manure covered daily with the bedding keeps flies away.
We also have to keep the worm bins covered to keep out our worm-hungry free range laying hens; They DO get to occasionally feast on the worms, but not as much as they would like, otherwise they would eat them ALL!!
