Rabbit manure is an excellent soil conditioner, as it's a source of organic matter, which when dug into the soil improves poor soil structure, drainage and moisture retention. Since it contains nutrients, it also beneficial to soil microorganisms, and earthworms also love rabbit manure.
Because it's considered a “cold” manure, you don't have to let rabbit poop age or compost before you use it. Other manures that come from chickens, sheep, horse, cows, and pigs or “hot” manures, need to be composted for months before you can safely use them or you'll burn your little plant darlings to death.
Use it fresh, straight from under the hutch. It does not burn plants. Use the pellets to topdress your lawn, mulch roses, vegetables, flower beds and ornamental plantings, or supercharge your compost pile and create an earthworm heaven.
Stir the manure every two weeks and water it to keep it moist. Whenever you have more food scraps or rabbit poop, add it to the pile, stir and water it, then cover it with the tarp. It will take anything from a few months to a year for the manure to compost and become ready for the garden.
Cow, horse, and chicken manures are considered “hot” manures. That is, they can burn plants' roots if don't compost them first. Rabbit manure is considered a “cold” manure. So you can spread it directly on top of your garden.
Rabbit droppings can be safely mulched directly into your soil at time of planting or spread overtop your garden soil. You can also make a rabbit poop tea, which will provide immediate nutrition to your soil. Your plants will eat it up!
Note that rabbit manure contains more nitrogen than many other types of animal manure. Although this nitrogen is released slowly, it's highly recommended that you don't overdo it. Too much nitrogen in the soil can lead to excess foliage at the expense of fruits and flowers.
Rabbit manure is packed with more nutrients than most of the commonly available manure sources. As you can see in the figure above, it has more than double the amount of nitrogen as chicken manure and has nearly 10 times the phosphorous as cow manure.
Rabbits and guinea pigs
You should put rabbit and guinea pig droppings directly in the ground. You can add them to your compost heap along with any hay, straw or sawdust that has been used for bedding. You can dispose of the waste in a tightly sealed bag and place it in your grey bin.
Apart from being used as a biopesticide, rabbit urine is also an excellent organic fertilizer. For instance, rabbit urine has been used as a biofertilizer to improve the viability of seeds of crops such as cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmannii L.) [22] and the growth and yield of pagoda (Brassica narinosa L.)
Firstly, rabbit manure can be an excellent food source (and bedding material) for worms with the proper precautions and strategies. Compared to many of the other manures, rabbit manure tends to be quite high in nitrogen.
Ideally, the best manure for gardens is probably chicken, since it has a very high content of nitrogen, a need all plants have, but it must be composted well and aged to prevent burning plants. Chicken manure is a rich source of nutrients and is best applied in fall or spring after it has had a chance to compost.
It is a good idea to check your rabbit's litter box each morning when you are feeding your bun and refilling its water bottle. A lot of rabbit owners use the 'nose rule'. If it smells bad, it is time to clean the litter box!
Rabbit poop will decompose quickly – usually within a few months. However, if you want to use rabbit manure as fertilizer, it is best to either compost it or make rabbit poo tea (more on that later). This will help break down the nutrients so they are more easily absorbed by plants.
Straight from the rabbit
Rabbit urine & urine-soaked litter needs to be composted, but the dry fecal pellets can be used right away. Pop a few in the hole when transplanting plants into the garden, side-dress currently growing plants, or work them into the top few inches of an empty bed before or after planting season.
Rabbit poop does not kill grass; instead is a pretty good fertilizer whether used raw or as compost. Most healthy adult rabbits produce around 14 pounds of fertilizable poop per month. This poop is rich in all three essential plant nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
Yes! Yes, you can compost rabbit droppings & their bedding (assuming their bedding is something like paper, straw or woodshavings). As vegetarian animals, rabbit poop from healthy rabbits does not pose a significant health risk (unlike meat-eating animals like cats and dogs) so it can be added to the compost heap.
Sheep manure may just be the best poo in the world. It is a great soil improver and conditioner and contains lots of potassium that will strengthen the cell walls of your plants. Other cold manures include llama, alpaca, and goat, which are also low in nutrients but perfect for building up and improving your soil.
Cow, horse, chicken/poultry, sheep, goat, and llama manure are acceptable types of manure appropriate for use in vegetable gardens.
Manures from the livestock industry are ideal. Animal waste contains 75 to 90 per cent of the nutrients from the plants eaten. Everyone has their theories, but based on what I've read, poultry manure (chicken in particular) has the highest N-P-K content, followed by hog, steer, sheep, dairy cow and horse manure.
Yes. Rabbits typically produce between 200 and 300 pellets per day. It's a sign that their digestive system is working well. However, if your rabbit suddenly starts pooping more than usual, or if their poops change in size, shape, or consistency, a trip to the vet may be in order.
Composted rabbit manure is considered suitable for use as solid growing media because of its low moisture (means low costs on collection and transport), low heavy metal (means high plant safety), high lignocellulose (means good porosity), and high nutrition (means good fertilizer effect) (Pereira et al., 2020; ...
A farmer can creatively place iron sheets below the rabbits' hutches with gutters leading to buckets to easily collect the urine for sale. This also helps in keeping the hutches clean, dry and free from wetness and moisture which can act as breeding places for disease-causing pathogens and pests.