Red wigglers love rabbit manure

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

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[@texdog2772]

I don't have rabbit poop , but I was out walking and came across some deer poop that reminded me of rabbit so I gathered some and gave it to my African Night crawlers they loved it. An hour after i gave it to them they were swarming it. So i grabbed a bread bag and gathered a pound of deer poop while looking for antler sheds, I fed all my worm bins and the Red wigglers loved the new food also.

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

Wow!!! 🤩 gold right there You forget with you all the animals we have here I have never found deer poop yet I see them all the time

[@michaelmorris5525]

Great experiment. The rabbit poop is natural, this will be interesting. Worms look great. Thanks for sharing!

[@creative227]

I sprinkle a little compost over the worm chow or pulverized vegetable scraps and the lightly spray it with water. I don’t use anything but finished compost (I make my own so i know there are no chemicals in it) for bedding which I find so much better than adding news paper. Also, I use a two gallon pump sprayer. So much easier. You worms look healthy and happy!😊

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

I would love to do that also but I would have to wait to raise my worms in the garage or an outdoor shed. The compost at least the way I make it in the yard here has too many insects at least too many to bring inside my house. You have a great method. I have a 4 gallon sprayer that’s battery operated but I am need to charge it😄 that is one of the best investments I’ve had. The machine is a beast🤣

[@brookeonyx6271]

I love my 2 gallon pump sprayer! I have 2, one for worm/compost tea and one for weed spray. I recently brought the tea one inside to use, a spray bottle was just killing my hands! My spray bottle now holds molasses water to spray on the chow. Got that idea from the channel with the kids you talked about a while back. The chow is always gone in a day now, not a speck to be seen. Guess they like the molasses!

[@Beartriple7]

@@brookeonyx6271 what was the name of that channel with the kids, I forgot to look it up when it was mentioned in previous video, thanks

[@brookeonyx6271]

@@Beartriple7 Will and Alyssa. They are too cute!

[@GardeningwithBarchuckin]

Good to see you trying the rabbit manure and doing a little experiment. It looked pretty even to me too. They were going after both areas. LED like on the racks maybe a cheaper lighting option too.

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

Oh yes I think it’s gonna save on electric

[@Vermicompost]

I always see so many breeding pairs in your videos!! You always have such awesome close ups!! Well that was interesting they liked both the rabbit manure and the worm chow just as much!! It will be fun to see the long term results!!! Excellent video!!🪱🪱🪱

[@TigerLilyGzzTLRoars]

Thank you for sharing. Gonna go straight out and harvest rabbit poop and feed to my red wigglers !!

[@brookeonyx6271]

My worms LOVE rabbit pellets! I get them from a lady who raises rabbits for show. Sad to say they all got a respiratory virus and she had to give them medication that will hurt the worms. Now I’m using Guinea Pig droppings. They like them a lot but not like the rabbit droppings. I usually just mix it in the bedding when I get a bin ready to go. They seem to adjust faster with it vs without it. I love that there is no smell and it doesn’t get hot. Just my 2 scents… 😂 I’ve been using under cabinet strip lights on my shelves. They work well, don’t use much electricity and also cost less to run than other lights. Generally those only stay on for a few days after I’ve set up a bin or have mixed up the bedding (1x a week), otherwise they stay off at night with no escapes…knock on 🪵!

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

🤣 i’m glad you gave me your opinion on the lights. That’s really going to help me. I used to never leave the light on either when I just had a few towers and they were my pets but this is different. I can’t risk a mass exit🤣

[@brookeonyx6271]

@@TheGardenAndWormLady I totally get that it’s different when your running a large business. So glad my information could help out. I got my lights at Wallymart for $3/10 feet and they work really well, no issues this far. They used to be used in the kitchen until my DH put some real lights in. I think they are about $5 now. You can buy connection pieces to create 90* corners and such. I think they are called strip lights. Best of luck! Electric costs are nuts now days! Ours went up by 23% on Monday…time to hang dry all the clothes again to offset the increase! I don’t mind hanging them though, forces me to slow down for a few mins 😉

[@stormydavis2621]

I think the light idea is genius!

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

🤞🏾 Hopefully it’ll work

[@Willi3_Mach]

Great video rabbit poo is gold! You mentioned checking PH with a meter. Can you link the one you use? Have you done a video on it? Feel free to point me to it if you have already done either. Thanks!

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

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[@johnthomas5806]

I too feed rabbit manure to my red wrigglers, but I take the time to grind mine down to a rough powder as I believe that it now works as a form of grit and feed at the same time...just a thought...

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

I buy the rabbit manure dry on eBay. Even though we live in the country I don’t know anyone that has a rabbit believe it or not😂

[@bdmenne]

I like to add pulverized eggshells and pool filter sand occasionally for grit needs. Eggshells get them excited for reproducing, too!

[@kayleighdrouin6378]

Im gonna be trying this once my worms start breeding more prolifically. I just started them with 500

[@ericcarve4476]

My worms love rabbit manure too, thinking about raising a few just for the poo!

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

I thought the same thing but I don’t have the time. I buy my rabbit manure on eBay it comes dry😅

[@ericcarve4476]

@@TheGardenAndWormLady you prefer it dry? I kept mine a little damp, partly dried. I sifted it and use the fine sift rabbit poop as part of my bedding in my cocoon harvesting bins. I use a 2-1 mix of peat moss and rabbit manure, both fine sifted

[@ericcarve4476]

@@TheGardenAndWormLady oh! Also if you find a local homesteader near you that raises rabbits, they will likely sell you their rabbit poo for $5-10 per 40 lb feed bag. I bought 10 to get me through the winter! :)

[@Paula_T]

You will be able to get LED Xmas light strings really cheap after Xmas. Your wigglers look huge to me :)

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

That’s a great idea but I don’t know if they’ll be bright enough. We’re exploring the idea and seeing what’s the best option. With the price of everything going up.

[@Paula_T]

@@TheGardenAndWormLady Yeah, I meant the ones in the weatherproof tubing. I use white ones outside on my deck all year and they are pretty bright!

[@johnthomas5806]

using the fish water spray, thinking it is a great idea so I also will give it a try. Worms should go through it so fast that I doubt if there will be any major smell problems...

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

Let me know what happens when you do. I’m curious to see

[@TheEdMonix]

Im having trouble distinguishing the difference between Grow Out Bins and Breeder Bins. Are they the same thing? And then nursery is for generating cocoonsv

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

The grow out bins are bins that you put a Adult Worms in so they can start expanding. I also call them breeder bins because I often catch the worms breeding in them and laying cocoons. The giant nurseries are for them to grow up in and also reproduce. I can give the nurseries veggie and fruit scraps

[@theunskoch4256]

If i have to add Rabbit manure to my systems im going to have to add a lot of bedding as cover due to them being in an outside room, i guess the chow will go first

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

Yes that’s a great idea. Usually I cover it also but for the sake of this experiment for me and you guys to be able to see I left the rabbit manure on the surface and just cover the entire thing with newspaper.

[@ladawilson9265]

Have you tried just using red lights. Its what i use with mine. And I believe from what Ive read its suppose to raise production by 63% I also use it with my feeder insects I raise for reptiles.

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

I did an experiment with red light. Do you know that it’s a light that the worms don’t sense? So you can put red light on them and watch them and they’ll never know you’re there.🤣

[@ladawilson9265]

@@TheGardenAndWormLady yes I did know that. And yes it seems weird that there are those that say it helps reproduction. Thank you for your response. I've just discovered your channel in about the last month and love watching it. Keep up with all you do. Thanks again

[@normshives275]

How do you soak the poop

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

I keep a bucket only for the poop. After I soak it a little while I drain it and then feed it.

[@القناص-و7م]

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[@sandraschofield7017]

Doe the manure attract ants

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

My worm room is indoors and so far I don’t have any ants

[@___Aaron___]

Does anyone have a link to any information on baby wiggler hatchlings? I got a nursery set up and I've noticed some empty cocoons. BUT im seeing some tiny translucent worms under the bread im using for bait. Cant tell if they are pot worms or baby reds and I don't wanna scoop them out and toss them incase they are baby reds, but if they are pot worms then ill toss them. Just can't seem to find any good solid straightforward info on baby red hatchlings..

[@ericcarve4476]

Between you and I, a few pot worms aren’t going to hurt anything. Don’t risk killing your new baby red wigglers

[@TheGardenAndWormLady]

I’m here to give you the straight forward because I know what it’s like to feel frustrated and nobody answer your question directly. The little white translucent worms are pot worms. They don’t hurt the worm bin at all they come naturally and they are part of the composting world. Baby worms will be a very light pink in color. You might not see them sometimes because when they are born they are so teeny😊 I think they’re adorable. I hope that helps if you have any other questions just reach out to me☺️

[@brookeonyx6271]

Sometimes my baby worms just stay towards the middle or bottom corners of my nursery bins, rarely do they come up to the food scraps early on, once they get a bit larger they will come up to the food. They are hard to spot since they seem to blend in with the bedding. I get pot worms sometimes but leave them be unless they get to be too many, then a sprinkle of DE lowers the population by a lot, it won’t harm the baby worms at all.

[@___Aaron___]

@@TheGardenAndWormLady its a better answer then I could find trust me.. one place was sayin baby reds were pink.. other place said they were completely red.. the another place said they were translucent with a slight shade of pink.. the info is all over the place about what color baby reds are haha.. im not worried about the pot worms. I just didn't wanna lure baby reds out with bread and thinking they were pot worms and toss them out by accident haha. Kinda defeats the purpose of my cocoon nursery inside my castings lmfao. I'll just give my castings a long enough rest for the baby reds to get more color so I can single them out from the pot worms.. probably the best thing for me to do.. but thank you for the straight forward understandable answer.. lol. Love the videos and thank you for your time.. cheers

[@ericcarve4476]

@@brookeonyx6271 remember that DE only works to reduce pests when it is dry, and it targets bugs that have exoskeletons by puncturing their shell which dries them out.