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Post by wildhorseluvr on Mar 28, 2022 3:47:21 GMT
farmrbrown, I don’t really understand this either. Like you, I’ve been told my entire life that chicken manure is hot and must be composted before use or it will burn the plants. Rabbit manure has even higher levels of nitrogen, yet is considered “cold” and can be used immediately. 🤷🏻♀️ So why exactly is chicken manure hot? It’s confusing. At any rate, it seems that rabbits win over chickens unless you consider egg production. However if a person were to buy only Easter bunnies, I’m sure they’d also provide plenty of eggs…
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Post by farmrbrown on Mar 28, 2022 4:09:30 GMT
farmrbrown , I don’t really understand this either. Like you, I’ve been told my entire life that chicken manure is hot and must be composted before use or it will burn the plants. Rabbit manure has even higher levels of nitrogen, yet is considered “cold” and can be used immediately. 🤷🏻♀️ So why exactly is chicken manure hot? It’s confusing. At any rate, it seems that rabbits win over chickens unless you consider egg production. However if a person were to buy only Easter bunnies, I’m sure they’d also provide plenty of eggs… It's because of the chemistry - inorganic vs. organic ammonia - where the nitrogen comes from. That's why people grow legumes after rotating a corn crop. IOW it isn't only the amount of nitrogen, but what form it's in. If there's too much in ammonium form (like chicken poop) it goes straight to the plant too quickly instead of gradual absorption.
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Post by Billy G on Mar 28, 2022 6:58:34 GMT
Since the kids are in bed does everyone know that rabbits eat some of their own poop in a process known as coprophagy? Seems their guts can't process all the nutrients the first time around. Some animals chew their cuds to do the same thing and then there's the rabbit. Thanks@wildhorseluvr for starting another informative thread!
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Mar 28, 2022 12:54:28 GMT
Since the kids are in bed does everyone know that rabbits eat some of their own poop in a process known as coprophagy? Seems their guts can't process all the nutrients the first time around. Some animals chew their cuds to do the same thing and then there's the rabbit. Thanks@wildhorseluvr for starting another informative thread! I suspect the answer to your question is yes, everyone here probably does know that. One of the not so cute things about bunnies that normal people never realize…along with the fact that bunnies can bite the cr@p out of you, and kick like a kangaroo. (Notice I don’t think anyone here fits in the normal category.) And you’re welcome. 🤣 I’m an info junkie…every thought that wanders through my mind has to have answers! 😁 Just not sure why my mind seems to wander through piles of rabbit poop…
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Post by sawmilljim on Mar 28, 2022 15:33:10 GMT
Being in the chicken capital of two states, we have tons of poop mixed with rice hulls. On spreading days it can get really smelly. They call it chicken litter but on spreading days we call it by a different name.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Mar 28, 2022 18:50:34 GMT
sawmilljim, chicken poop is the worst of all, especially if spread out on fields. Hog is probably the runner up. Rabbits and goats are probably the least offensive, unless they’ve been allowed to soak up a lot of urine. But the dry pellets are fairly odorless.
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Post by paisley2 on Mar 28, 2022 21:00:22 GMT
Yea, we had an egg farm 8miles up the road. The school bus driver wad great ful he did not have to stop and open the doors for any kids....he would shout window up a mile before it and shout ok it's safe once we were far enough. It was bad certain times of the years its long gone and is now an apple pear tree farm and the great pumpkin patch.now
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Post by blackfeather on Mar 31, 2022 17:55:50 GMT
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Post by farmrbrown on Mar 31, 2022 23:35:37 GMT
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Post by joebill on Apr 21, 2022 1:38:14 GMT
It is so very dry out here that when our back yard was a rabbit warren there was never any build-up nor smell. It just laid out there, dried up and turned into powder, became part of the dirt and grew GREAT weeds during the rainy season.
I betcha the folks who bought that place came to wonder where that yearly jungle came from!.....Joe
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