can i use the hay, wood savings and shredded paper from the rabbit hutch in my garden?
can i mix the waste products from the rabbit hutch in my garden, we use hay/straw, wood shavings and a little bit of shredded paper and of course the rabbit provides the poo.
i dont have a composter so can i dig it and mix it directly into heavy clay soil?
Of couse, get as much humus as you can into heavy clay soil
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Not really an answer but I heard sheredded paper is bad in rabbit hutches – can't remember why though.
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Of couse, get as much humus as you can into heavy clay soil
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i wouldn't use shredded paper because of ink that has been used to print on it+ it takes ages to dc.
everything else should make some lovely compost.
Tip: you can use some big bags wgich breath (kind of those which they use to transport post in) for your composting – it does keep the moisture and lets the air circulate a bit – perfect condition for waste products to turn into compost. If you start doing it now – by next spring you will be able to fertilise your garden.
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Absolutely. Any organic material that you add to clay soils improve them, and rabbit manure is one of the best to use.
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The trouble with hay/straw/wood shavings and shredded paper is the are all high fibre material. You could dig it in direct, but firstly it will take ages to break down in heavy clay soil which has little oxygen and therefore little bacteria. Secondly you can't dig it in all year round or nothing would have a chance to grow in your garden.
You need to compost it first, but that doesn't mean you need to buy a composter. 4 bricks and a sheet of thick plastic will get you started. Make a heap of your assorted rabbit waste, cover it with the plastic and weight it down with the bricks.
Phase two: A bucket at the back door for kitchen waste, (greens, tea bags egg shells), not cooked food that attracts rats. When the bucket is full or you are going that way, chuck it under your plastic sheet. Mixing your compost material produces more bacteria and faster compost.
On calm days turn the heap with a fork or spade. During warm weather it will be usable every three months or so, in the winter it slows right down.
Regular use and you will soon break your heavy clay soil down into workable material, (once the worms can easily move about the whole thing gets much faster and you will be able to dig it in direct in the winter months).
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You can use it directly as is or compost it, depending on what you have time for. If you don't mind the look of the bedding in your garden, then dig it in. The worms will break it down. I get big bags of mixed bunny poo and bedding from the National House Rabbit Society, and it is one of the most balanced and non-burning manures there is. The bedding you describe is the same as what I find in the bags, minus the paper…just wood shaving pellets, sawdusty-looking stuff, straw/hay, and poo. The bedding is urine soaked which is nitrogen, which will make the bedding, which is carbon, break down rapidly. You can't go wrong either way.
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sure you can, something is better than nothing! but you'd loose most of the goodness digging it straight in. Make a compost heep with 3 parts "dry matter" to one part green (grass clippings and weeds) That way you'll get a better return for your effort
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For a couple of quid, you can buy a compost bag from your garden centre. It does the same as a composter would. You could also ask your local council if they have free composters, as mine was free. I wouldn't recommend adding the stuff straight to your garden, it needs to be composted first.
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I do and after 6 months i use it as a mulch, in a 24 ft X 24 ft garden i have three compost bins, so that i can use one every 4 months.
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ex-head gardener who keeps rabbits for the purpose of turning garden weeds to manuer
Yes. The organic material will lighten and enrich the soil.
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