Episode-2797- Using Small Livestock to Build Fertility
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Small livestock are great to have around. They are the best way to produce protein and fat we have. They do this with meat and eggs along with dairy in the case of things like goats. We have talked a lot about this in the past and we will do so again in the future but today I want to start zeroing in on fertility.
I am going to tell you about one of our biggest problems leading off today and yet one almost no one even bothers to consider, look at or try to solve. That problem is we are literally creating radioactive soils in the way we farm today and we are also creating a ton of far more radioactive waste.
The solution to this problem as is often the case is not easy but in the words of Bill Mollison it is embarrassingly simple and it starts with harnessing waste streams.
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- Quote of the Day – “A resource left unused is the definition of pollution” ~ Bill Mollison
- Yep fertilizer (phosphates) are radioactive and there is a lot to unpack here
- What we have learned from Geoff Lawton about toxins and the composting process
- Some Waste to Fertility Systems Based on Small Livestock
- My new project – duck waste water, to water plants, to irrigation
- The basic and most simple way to compost food waste plus poultry bedding
- From bunnies to, worms, to compost
- From bunnies, to chickens, to compost
- Growing fertility, feed birds, repeat
- Quail, to wood chips, to worms, to compost
- The real key here is
- Control where waste falls
- Making moving it or placing it easy
- Get the animals to do the work though their innate behaiours
- Tie systems and function stacking together
- It isn’t really hard but there are some ways that are far better than others to do this
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I found a great way to build biomass when I was raising rabbits.
I had a couple larger breeds of rabbit and had them in pens on the ground that had roughly 8’x8′ or grassy area. I trained them to use one corner for their waste which I would put straw in. I would have to scoop out the waste roughly once or twice a week, but it never took long and I had an over abundance of ready to use biomass.
It was a lot easier this way than in cages because of how rabbit urine is. Their urine is extremely smelly.
Overall it makes the best garden compost I have ever used. I had way more compost than I could use on a garden for a family of four.
How does one litter train a rabbit???
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My rabbits tend to go in one corner you can put a pan or straw and the will associate the pan/straw with a potty spot and then you can move the pan. We have only been able to do it with a 3 of our 9 rabbits the other six don’t care. I also wanted to comment about the Phosphate hills in Florida I live in a big phosphate mining area and we call them Florida mountains, there is one about 40 mins from me that is just so huge it looks like a long straight mountain.
I have always had great success with moving their litter to one corner if they didn’t do it already. After a short while they associate that corner with the scent of their waste and tend to mostly go there. They would also learn from the other rabbits which corner to do their business. I am not sure if it helps that I have always had pens and cages that touch the ground, but that could be helping too. I have had over 20 rabbits at a time and so far it’s worked with all of them.
For the most part rabbits are fairly smart and trainable.