Soooo we all know rabbit droppings are good fertilizer. I was thinking about putting it in the yard and save on the 10-10-10 fertilizer bag, although that does have lime in it so maybe I'll just go to the store and get a bag of lime to supplement. Anyway, if any of you have ever used rabbit droppings as fertilizer for your yard.....how did you spread it? I don't much fancy reaching my hand in a box full of poo and throwing it over the yard. It may not stink and may break up nicely but its the concept of it. However, that being said, I will do this if there isn't really any easier or better way. Thank you for reading and have a great day.
Rabbit droppings
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ZRabbits
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Understand what you mean by "the concept of it". I have gotten over the "yucky" feeling of rabbit poop. Doesn't bother me at all any more. I usually just toss it and allow it to break up on it's own in the garden. Also do use it for the potted plants in the grow room. Have to say, best fertilizer I've ever used.
Hopefully someone else can give you a easier and better way to spread the rabbit fertilizer.
Karen
Hopefully someone else can give you a easier and better way to spread the rabbit fertilizer.
Karen
skysthelimit
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I don't do much spreading, because there is only once place in the yard for the droppings to go. I am wondering, if you let the droppings get dry whether they would go in a seed spreader, like the one you push? Maybe you can get one and make the hole bigger.
hoodat
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I get my best results by digging a shallow trench, 6 inches or so deep and pouring a couple of inches of rabbit manure into it out of a bucket, then backfilling. Plant your veggies over the backfilled trench. You can usually bring them right to harvest without any further fertilizing.
We spread it before we mow out lawn. We get a trailer on our forewheeler (since we have a huge lawn but for a small one a cart or something would work) and shovel it out in small piles. We mow over our overgrown lawn and and it spreads the maure around the lawn making it grow more.
What a great idea, bunie! The mower would also chop it some to further it breaking down.
So far, we haven't put it anywhere except on "grow space"...and we just use a wheelbarrow and shovel. If necessary we then use a rake to spread it about some.
So far, we haven't put it anywhere except on "grow space"...and we just use a wheelbarrow and shovel. If necessary we then use a rake to spread it about some.
bitterroot
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Wish I had room for rabbit poo on our lawn. The darn deer have beat them to it. :angry: I swear, can't take a step without stepping in a big pile.
For now, I'm hauling dirty bedding and poop out to the compost pile with my little garden wagon. I'm turning things in, and hoping for some good stuff for the garden beds and new trees next spring.
Speaking of, anyone try it with new trees? I'm thinking dig the hole, toss in some bunny berries, plant tree. Good? Bad?
For now, I'm hauling dirty bedding and poop out to the compost pile with my little garden wagon. I'm turning things in, and hoping for some good stuff for the garden beds and new trees next spring.
Speaking of, anyone try it with new trees? I'm thinking dig the hole, toss in some bunny berries, plant tree. Good? Bad?
3mina
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Absolutely can't hurt since its a cool fertilizer
Diamond
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I spread it everywhere, but have a fairly large orchard and hobby farm. With the fruit trees I just pile the manure in a ring around the base of the trees and let Nature finish the job. Sometimes I mulch with straw on top to help keep the grass down.
When I clean the rabbit barn everything gets dumped into the wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow can be dumped slowly while backing up, and then a rake or apple picker (fork used for cleaning horse stalls) can spread the pile around. I like the idea of using a lawnmower as spreading tool!
Right now I have several cages hanging in our large greenhouse. The manure will be tilled directly into the soil in there in a month or two. Doesn't take long to compost once the sun comes out and heats up the greenhouse. Should have some record-breaking crops this spring!
When I clean the rabbit barn everything gets dumped into the wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow can be dumped slowly while backing up, and then a rake or apple picker (fork used for cleaning horse stalls) can spread the pile around. I like the idea of using a lawnmower as spreading tool!
Right now I have several cages hanging in our large greenhouse. The manure will be tilled directly into the soil in there in a month or two. Doesn't take long to compost once the sun comes out and heats up the greenhouse. Should have some record-breaking crops this spring!
I planted 2 peach trees last year and tossed in the bunny poo at the bottom of the hole, then went out about 2' from the trunk and dug an 8" hole about every 18" inches that I filled with bunny poo too ... this helps the tree roots to expand into the soil that was not dug out for planting. They did very well during the horrid heat of the summer here in NW Oklahoma 
As for spreading, I just fling it with a shovel ... hand trowel for smaller areas.
For the garden, I just put it all on the garden bed in the fall ... poo and hay and it will all compost down in place over the winter ... and I am all about EASY :cheesysmile:
As for spreading, I just fling it with a shovel ... hand trowel for smaller areas.
For the garden, I just put it all on the garden bed in the fall ... poo and hay and it will all compost down in place over the winter ... and I am all about EASY :cheesysmile:
Thanks everyone for all the ideas. I think that using a hand trowel and tossing it out into the yard that way probably would work best for our little yard. I thought about a seeder but I would have to see how dry it was before hand. Either way, lots of good ideas here.
Another composter here. Come spring, all of our garden beds get chicken/rabbit compost tilled in.
Mystang, do you have potted plants? If you do, you can add some rabbit pellets to the bottom of a new pot to help new plants.
And as far as having a small yard...you give me a plot of sunny yard 8 feet long and 4 feet wide, and I can grow you more veggies than you can imagine! Raised beds are the friend of those with small yards.
Mystang, do you have potted plants? If you do, you can add some rabbit pellets to the bottom of a new pot to help new plants.
And as far as having a small yard...you give me a plot of sunny yard 8 feet long and 4 feet wide, and I can grow you more veggies than you can imagine! Raised beds are the friend of those with small yards.
I don't have any potted plants but I do have a little garden that I put all my chicken and compost including rabbit droppings in. I seem to have enough droppings left over that I can take care of the yard as well thanks to those poop machines in the cages though lol.
