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Post by Darryl on Sept 3, 2005 23:23:11 GMT -5
My last rabbit just died and I don't feel like raising any more of them, consequently I have some rabbit food left over in pellet form. I noticed that the pellets crushed fairly easy, so I crushed some of them and fed the powder to a few of my redworms. I sprinkled a small amount on the bulk food that I feed to my worms. The worms seemed to love the rabbit food and quickly consumed it. I looked at the ingredients for the pellets and couldn't really see anything that may be harmful to the worms. All as I know, is that the redworms seem to love it and I do not see any side-effects (yet). I have been giving them small amounts of the rabbit pellets for about a week now. Anyone else ever used rabbit food on their worms? The rabbit food has a fair amount of protein as well as minerals. Do you think this would make a good suppliment for redworms?
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Post by billyw on Sept 7, 2005 7:41:46 GMT -5
I have the kids' rabbits outside in cages over a worm bed. Where they are at, if it rains sideways, it will get their food wet and spoil it.
I've dumped this on top of the worms. They consume it, with no problems noted. It will heat though. This bin is so large, I don't worry about it. But it would be an issue in a smaller bin.
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Post by tt on Sept 7, 2005 9:00:28 GMT -5
Rabbit pellets are usually alfalfa based depending on what you buy but sometimes they are medicated but when i had rabbits i just soaked the pellets and top layered the feed in a corner so that the heating would not be a problem. I never had any problems with the meds in the feed with the worms. Deer pellets are another alfalfa based pellet that the worms like unmediated and much cheaper
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Post by Darryl on Sept 7, 2005 12:02:45 GMT -5
Thanks guys. Yes, the main bulk of the pellets are alfalfa. I only use a small amount of the rabbit food anyway, so I shouldn't have any problems. tt, thanks for informing me about the deer pellets as I didn't have a clue.
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Post by jwalker on Feb 11, 2006 8:55:34 GMT -5
there is no reason to crush the pellets, after being exposed to moisture they just fall apart
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Post by Jay Blair on Feb 12, 2006 2:11:08 GMT -5
As far as any medication in any feed , pre composition is the best approach to counter this. My assistant erred a couple years ago buying 500 pounds of chicken feed on non returnable closeout.
While saving me over $150 in feed costs the feed she purchased was medicated variety and contained antibiotics, dewormers and such.
I tried first just adding it to an established bin and saw a decrease of about 25% in my worm mass. I then worked some of the medicated mash as I would wine fixings by adding yeasts and air locking the medicated layer mash to work for a couple weeks. After the airlock working and open aging, the medicated mash was neutralized and made excellent fattening feed for my bins and the worm mass in the bins increased by 30 to 80 percent.
This is why I always suggest pre working /pre digestion of worm feeds.
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