How to Transform Your Backyard Rabbits into an Epic Manure Factory! 

I like your set up! Good job. We did kinda the same set up but two cages tall. We stapled corregated plastic to the boards under the cages instead of the black tarp like plastic. Ours pans are placed to the back of the cage instead of the front. I drilled small holes in my pans just like you show but after awhile I had to make bigger holes in the pans for the urine to drain as they kept clogging. Get a cheap narrow 8" rake to push or scrape the bunny berries that don't freely roll into the pans and a hand hoe to scrape the pans clean. They'll come in very handy. Thanks for your video 🐇

Look up how to make biochar. Basically its homemade charcoal loaded with nitrogen and microbes. Put bucket of homemade charcoal at the collection site of urine. It will suck up all the smell, and you have a sellable product...loaded biochar. I use homemade charcoal in my pig pens, chicken pens etc to keep smell down, then eventually dig out and put in garden. Great stuff, my tomatoes were almost 10 foot tall last year. Worms in garden are drawn to it eating the microbes housed in the porous biochar turning your garden soil into black gold. The real reason rabbit poop is valuable to gardeners anyway is worms love it right away because its a cold manure and will break it down to be more available to the plant. Biochar helps hold the worms there longer after the worm poop is all eaten because more microbes stay in porous biochar the worms are after. Plus biochar slow releases nitrogen back in soil plants are after. I promise you if you make loaded biochar you will sell it if you do it right and market it to the right people. Alot to look up and learn but worth it i think.

Barry and Janet again, Looking forward to seeing you all soon this spring ! Keep the vids coming my friend !

That was good watching. You could try chloroplast (plastic cardboard) it's cheap. It seems like a larger vessel for urine would be needed, perhaps with a spigot to fill up bottles. It was interesting seeing the young bunny droppings. Another option would be a worm bin underneath, but I really like just keeping the rabbit manure separate.

Wow... great manure collection system idea. Nice sharing... 👍👍👍

Barry and Janet here . Lose the black plastic and replace with metal coil that’s used for flashing in construction of residential homes. Put it shiny slick side up . Pee will run of it like a new Teflon skillet . You’ll Love It !!!

I had a friend who built a rabbit hutch for me that had several cages that had a poop collection system he used metal sheets for poop a pee and anything that got stuck or hung up he made a poop pusher to help clear the collection system. I put a super large flower p with hole in the bottom that allowed the urine to drain out. To keep the smell down I would sprinkle Peat moss over the poop in the flower pot I also grew lavender plants And when I would cut them Under the rabbit cages no the metal to keep the flys off. I washed the metal sheeting often also. I got a lot out of your video showing thing to think about while building you collection system. Please continue making your videos. I know I will be watching all your videos and putting a like on all of the. Plus I'm a subscriber too.

Thanks for documenting your process! It was really helpful to see.

Beautiful love to see ideas as I am looking at getting rabbits for mea and to help in the “soil amendments “ for the garden

Another option is to try the plastic shower wall instead of the plastic but you would need plywood to support it since it is not rigid. I think it sells for about $25 for a 4'x8' sheet at lowes/home depot/menards. I like the setup and I will be getting rabbits soon so I will incorporate this design into my hutch, thanks!

I like your idea . I was thinking a screen at steep angle to get all solids to drop in a collection bin and a tarp or other plastic draped under the screen with a hole in the low spot to put a bucket or bin to collect the urine. I plan to use fuel wood pellets( cheap compostable) to soak up urine to boost compost piles and fertilizer

How often do you have your rabbits leave the crates? Do they roam or exercise? Are they always in a crate? Learning how to have backyard rabbits here.

Try finding a red worm farmer to sell the manure to, with the urine being drained out it shouldn't be too acid for worms

Could you just make a removable screen separator under the cages or even under each cage out of hardware cloth & 2x2 or 1x2 to catch the poo & let the urine fall through to the bins? A lot easier & cleaner, just pull the screen trays & dump into whatever you put poo in.

I hope you are nice to your bunnie

I have a tin roof piece under each cage, into a gutter and just wash it down into a bucket with holes.3 rabbits up top, 3 on bottom. Cheap and easy. Can clean area in 10 mins

What was the original purpose of those bins and where did you find them? Thanks!

Where are the bins from?

The problem nowadays is shipping costs, it has really put a damper on online selling. Biden economy for ya.

You can remove the black polythene and put a plastic zink instead. It's more durable and Don't demand replacements

Does the poop not clog up the drainage holes?

Where did you get the totes

Great video. Did this cut the smell down or is there no difference?

Great system. I see that you have 2 "labels" for each cage. What info is registered?

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Oh yeah….. where do you get those bins for 2 bucks a piece at ? I’d be lovin me some at price !

Where did you get those plastic crates at?

You be selling them on eBay I would like to buy some of them

are the able to eat there poo pellet? Because they should be able to eat some back?

Those last clips look like a real crap shoot. lol. does this stink a bunch ?

They don't look like they are up under your cage far enough

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It would work better if you want up them under your cage