Can rabbit feces be used as fertilizer? (Can rabbit feces be used directly as fertilizer?)

Spring is here, and it's time to fertilize the flowers. Fertilizer is essential for growing flowers. Fertilizer can help plants grow better and faster.

During the flowering period, if there are sufficient nutrients in the soil, the plants can bloom more flowers. Whether you grow flowers indoors or outdoors, fertilizer is essential. For the use of fertilizer, I personally recommend using organic fertilizer.

Some of my friends are serious flower lovers. They have dozens of pots of flowers of all sizes at home, and they spend a lot of money on buying fertilizers every year.

In order to save this money, some netizens actually raised a rabbit at home. The purpose of raising a rabbit is to use the rabbit's feces for fertilizer.

Rabbit feces are natural organic fertilizers. After drying, they can be sprinkled on the soil of flowers to provide nutrients for flowers. Below we will discuss the issues related to using rabbit feces as flower fertilizer.

Advantages of Rabbit Manure

Manure is a traditional fertilizer with many benefits, mainly rich in nutrients and long-lasting fertility effects. It is suitable for use as basal fertilizer for crops and can have a long-term impact on crop growth and improve soil nutrients.

For example, cow dung has a relatively low nutrient content, decomposes slowly, and has poor air permeability, so it is not used very often.

Sheep manure has a fine texture and contains a lot of elements. It is a warm fertilizer and is very suitable for use on sandy and clay soils.

Chicken manure is rich in nitrogen, but it cannot be used directly. It also contains a lot of insect eggs and heavy metals. Rabbit manure is relatively less used, but it can also be used as fertilizer.

Rabbit manure needs to be decomposed before use

However, rabbit feces cannot be used directly as fertilizer, because there may be some pathogens and insect eggs in rabbit feces. If they are not fully decomposed, they will spread among the root systems of crops, affecting the development of the root system and causing crop yield reduction.

In addition, rabbit feces need to be dried before use. Fresh feces have too high nitrogen content. If you directly sprinkle fresh feces on the flower soil, it is easy to burn the roots of the plants. The feces can be used as fertilizer after being placed in the sun for a few days.

How to compost rabbit manure

It is relatively simple to make manure mature. You can put the raw materials into a large container, add water to fully immerse it, and then cover it with a lid. After waiting for a while, it will be fully mature. Generally, it takes 1-2 months in summer and a little longer in winter.

The color of the fermented fertilizer usually changes and darkens. Some fertilizers become black, and some become brown. Some people think that the fermented fertilizer is mature only if it does not smell. This is wrong. The mature fertilizer will always have a bad smell. Therefore, it is more practical to define it by the fermentation time.