Rabbit Manure - God's Gift to the Gardener

Animal	Tons Excreted /year/1000 lb live weight	% Nitrogen	% Phosphoric Acid	% Potash
Rabbit	4.2	2.4	1.4	0.6
Sheep & Goat	6.0	1.44	0.5	1.21
Swine	16.0	0.49	0.34	0.47
Chicken	4.5	1.0	0.8	0.39
Dairy Cow	12.0	0.57	0.23	0.62
Beef Steer	8.5	0.73	0.48	0.55
Horse	8.0	0.70	0.25	0.77

Caution: All barnyard manure should be properly com posted before using on gardens

Where Can I Buy Rabbit Manure A National List of Rabbit Farms that sell Rabbit Manure

PROJECT CHALLENGE Science - Gifted & Talented Children 3rd, 4th, 5th, Grades from 9 Elementary Schools in Anderson District Five Schools Page 1 of 4 , Page 2 of 4 , Page 3 of 4

This Project is growing its plants with Rabbit Manure from Blue Chip Farms,Inc.

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My experience as a rabbit grower: Our first rabbits were just back yard rabbits with a couple red worm bins under the cages. We had no plans to do anything with the rabbits or earth worms at that time. After about 4 months Arlene started cupping some of the earth worm for fish bait. She found 2 bait shops that agreed to buy some of her worm cups. We only had 24 rabbit hutches at that time. I started helping Arlene work her worm beds. As the bedding needed changing in one bed we would add the old bedding to a pile I had on the other side of the yard. We had sold one rabbit to a neighbor for meat but getting into the meat rabbit business was the last thing on our minds.

As the pile of rabbit manure and worm casings built up, a neighbor suggested we run an add in the paper to sell the manure at $2.00 for a 50# feed bag. It was spring and did we get surprised. We sold all the pile and almost all the manure under the rabbit hutches. We had to call a friend we knew and begged for his empty feed sacks. At the end of the day we had just under $500.00. And barley enough manure left to feed the worms.

In the coming months the rabbits took the front for priority. People started coming to our house to buy rabbit meat. The figures showed a lot more promise for rabbit meat than worm sales and profits. While this was happening the number of rabbits took a big jump. So did the manure. The next spring we started selling rabbit manure by the pick up truck load. Since we did not have a loader it was a u load thing, your back, your truck, and your tires. When you leave make sure you have all you want.

20 years later we are still selling the rabbit manure the same way for $18.00/pickup truck u-load. We have not purchased a loader because we have always needed a new rabbit barn more than the loader. The only difference we literally have tons and tons of it now. As the rabbit herd has grown to thousands of rabbits we have just added a few more users to our rabbit manure list every year. We actually have some of the first people to get a truck load coming back year after year. They tell some of the finest stories of how good their gardens grow. Most are only using the rabbit manure for fertilizer. A lot are growing 100% organic grown vegetables.

I am in the process of putting a roof over my outside manure bins now. This will keep it dry and much easier to load.