Quick Q regarding rabbits

when u live in the city, it's not necessary to grow rabbit food. Dumpster dive behind markets, and u will have more food than u can ever use

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Edgar S.
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Ignoramus18897 wrote in news:buhcvs$3pm$ snipped-for-privacy@pita.alt.net:

I have it on the authority of several well known cartoon characters, that goats can survive on tin-cans.

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Salty Thumb

Or sheep, if he'd like a nicely even lawn.

Bob

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Bob G

You would be wrong. Goats need quality feed like a hand full of Goat Oats daily in addition to the forage. They do eat everything, but that can kill them. I had one eat a plastic bread sack that blew into our yard. She went down and died of toxic shock the next day. (I did not see her eat it, but in the autopsy we found it.)

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Richard Johnson

"Richard Johnson" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

Are you sure it was toxic shock and not asphyxiation?

Anyway, cartoon characters (even famous ones) have been known to be wrong before.

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Salty Thumb

Actually, that legend is based on the fact that goats used to love to eat the paper labels off junked tin cans because the paste tasted so good.

I don't think modern labels and glue have the same attraction...

FW

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Frank White

"Survive" or thrive? *People* can survive on significantly inadequate diets, 'though not grass clippings. There are plenty of references and books on 'raising rabbits for fun and profit'. If "wasting time" on lawn chores is a concern, you should be aware that rabbits take a fair amount of labor to feed, house, and nurture.

Sad.

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Frogleg

I have a tenant who keeps rabbits on my farm. He feeds them almost all the weeds he can find. They seem to prefer the broadleafed weeds over the grasses.

As far as the "mandatory lawn trimming" is concerned, my lawn (~1 acre) gets mowed 3-4 times a year whether it needs it or not. I would not be able to feed many rabbits that way. By the time it gets mowed, the grass is too long to leave on, so it goes onto the compost pile. That compost gets returned to the lawn, since it is full of grass seeds.

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Dwight Sipler

Where do you live that requires you to mow your lawn, but they let you own rabbits? Sounds like a contradiction to me.

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A man

Good hint!

I had in mind that he eat the good parts of the veggies himself, and feed the scraps to the rabbits...and the weeds (after identifying them, i.e. dandelions and mustard) and the snails.

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BrownThumb

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D Kat

I know two things about rabbits.

  1. Heat will kill a rabbit
  2. Food that we think is just fine for rabbits will kill a rabbit

Searching for links that give you the information you need is very easy and safer than asking a group of gardeners that may or may not have what you need to know and may actually out of ignorance tell you something that is dangerous for your rabbit.

try this link for example..

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if I sound .... high on my horse... don't mean to. I just lost my bunny when I was a child because I did not know how to care for it and for a child feeling responsible for the death of a beloved pet was a bit hard.

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D Kat

I have kept rabbits in the past they need a varried diet grass clippings ar poor in nutriants and will not provide needed minerals and vitamins rabits need to have an asorrted diet usually the more colors of vegies the more vitamins orange is usually vitamin a , No light green or vegies containing too much water like Iceburg lettuce are good for rabbits they can give them the runs which will kill them. Dark greens are ok like spinach or red lettus rabbits can suffer from scurvy so thay need vitamin c they can benefit from a mineral block If your question is can they survive yeah for a while but not in good health and not very happily and would have shorter life span. That's why they crave to get into all our gardens adn eat up the world in them as my garden has suffered more than once.

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Michelle

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:21:58 GMT, "D Kat" wrote: I think your advice is good and very well placed I also lost a beloved pet due to child hood ignorance I never made that mistake again ever since I was six when I lost my Bunnie that was acctually her name ; I made sure from than on I read all kinds of books before getting a new pet My mom says I refused to get a kitten to replace my bunny untill I made her read me somthing like five books She had to read them because a six year old can only read so much. he he any way great advice Michelle

"Love is the water in the garden of life",

Some people ask where this quote came from , I wrote it in an essay for school along time ago the only time I ever won any contest

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Michelle

Rabbits, no. Guinea-pigs, yes.

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Offbreed

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D Kat

I'm not six any more I'm twenty six I was refering to the distant bearly rememberable past and I havent' kept rabbits for five years :-) and now I have a six year old of my own

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Michelle

Why do you think that it is sad? These chickens are supposed to do well in freezing cold weather. Think about it, each has a good down/feather jacket on her.

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Ignoramus1390

I knew that!!! I was just seeing you as a six year old and finding it ... well nice... Both of my sons had those kind of moments. They are well past that age yet I can still see them as the babies they were and I still am surprised by the wisdom some children show (whether it be in the present or as they were). DKat

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D Kat

Rabbits should not be fed a diet mainly of green matter, young rabbits will scour (get diarrhea) and die. Older rabbits can learn to tolerate more green feed in their diets, but they will still need other forms of food, pellets or dry hay for roughage and bulking materials to prevent the older rabbit from going the same way of the younger ones.

Were you planning on using the rabbits in place of mowing, or you were planning on mowing and then giving the rabbits the trimmings? You are aware that green grass piled up very deep rapidly heats up and if it's deep enough it will burn. Dad and I decided to unload the trailer that had lawn trimmings in it, after we ate dinner one day, and when we went out, smoke was starting to rise from the trailer, and the tines of the pitch fork were getting hot enough to burn my leg while I was unloading it, and when we got to it, the center of the load was a mass of black charcoaled grass. After that, I understood why haystacks would suddenly catch fire, it was baled too green, stacked too soon.

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a few chickens can't heat up a chicken coup much in winter but a dozen can! Of course the size of the pen can be reduced, and insulated well and then 3 could heat it fairly well I suppose. Infrared heat lamp works if it gets too cold.

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Janice

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