Backyard Aquaponics
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Can rabbit poo be used as fish food?

It's true, you do need an awful lot of growth-hormone, steroids, antibiotics and GM-grain to get much off a ferret. But they are delicious if you age them well, 3 weeks in the sun is the sweet spot.

We used to breed the little shits..... there so cool... but yet again....... not allowed to have them!

We fed them Warm milk & Bread.... Not very sustainable.... and unless u mince a whole one to make Sausages.... im sure theres not much feed on them

Best way to get rabbits though, so long as there are healthy rabbits about.

i do a bit of camping and have a property just outside perth thats riddled with big fat rabbits... no myxo, no calesi.
I also bowhunt (no not a bl@@dy crossbow) but only for food i eat and ferals like foxes and goats (yet to get me a goat). I also try used survival methods to catch them ie. snares and log fall for my own personal training/knowledge.
It's smart to always check eyes and livers for discoloration in wild rabbit and obviously if they are underweight and mangey you dont touch them. Id love to have a little farm set up like that stable but i live in full suburbia and my kids will fall in love with all of them.

Im actually concerned about when the time comes to eat my fish as to the reaction of my kids. might have to be done around the same time of night santa and the easter bunny come.

I was worried about my kids Reactions, i threw them straight into it.... against wifes requests and wanting them to not see it....

they were doing finger puppets with the heads when i removed them and were quite facinated by the whole thing.

I was brought up on land, Killing animals for food was something we done and we never questioned it. I think its a fundimental thing that my Kids will learn slowly.... iv never sheltered them when they ask Whats Pork Chops or Whats Steak..... iv told them straight up from the age they can understand it... and even before

dame you all!! Queenslander the Stupid State

I agree completely. I was brought up in a combination city/country. As a little kid we used to pick field mushrooms the size of dinner plates while we hunted rabbit and collected firewood. I remember spitting pieces of lead back onto the plate from fried rabbit.
I was taught to never let an animal suffer and how to harvest meat correctly and to never kill for fun something that ill be teaching my little ones too.
Ill show my kids the way with my fish but ill probably do it in the wild first.

Simple rule with my kids: Fish are food and not pets. Cant name them etc. Let them see you kill them, they are fine if you tell them whats happening beforehand. Decided to be obvious about it all when my 5yo asked "dad, where does chicken come from?"

im probably getting ahead of myself anyway my kids are 1 and 3 but by the time im ready to harvest my daughter will be well into 4 so maybe not

My daughter is 4, I accidentally read the part where the Wicked Stepmother plots to kill Snow White during her bedtime story tonight. It was a bit awkward. Killing fish is not a problem though.

hahaha

That's an interesting question, been raised a couple of times in the past, probably because they look like fish pellets... They may be ok for some species perhaps, I'm not sure, I think someone said there would be an issue with all the rabbit pee doing into the fish tank though..

Rabbit pee would just add more nutrients to the water. I'll be giving it a try at some point if I can get things setup so it all looks ok. Some of the issues I have heard have been more along the lines of possible parasite problems or other viral type things being passed along by warm blooded mammels. I don't see the problem though as long as everything stays healthy.

http://www.plainsproducer.com.au/?p=283

there is apparently a GM rabbit ^^