Dude!!! ❤❤ Thank you so much for posting this video! This is an extremely important topic. I skipped a little here and there because I'm already a biochar expert, but a few points that you should not forget to tell people. 1. When you make biochar, you are helping to mitigate climate change! 🎉 This is because the carbon that you have in that biochar, will never go back up into the atmosphere (unless you burn it, and you should not do that!) Roughly, if you have made a pound of biochar, you have mitigated two or three pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere. Every little bit helps. 🌏💚 2. Biochar and charcoal are not the same. This is a very nuanced difference, but we need to make sure that people are not calling charcoal biochar or vice versa. Charcoal is something you burn in your cooking grill. Biochar should never be burned for a fuel. 3. Please, please, please tell people that they need to inoculate their biochar before placing it in the soil (like you are doing ). This is extremely important. You are inoculating it with rabbit poo and probably chicken poo. This mixing of the poo with biochar should sit together at the very least 2 weeks before putting in the garden soil. The reason is this: Since biochar has such great porosity, if you put it in the soil raw without any nutrients in it, at first for a little while, it will draw the nutrients out of the soil and into itself. This could starve the plants a little for a while. So be sure to charge up (inoculate) that biochar like you are doing before putting it in the garden or in any soil. 4. To answer your question, no, there is not a limit on putting biochar in your garden. But, since it lasts a lifetime, you do really want to make sure that if your garden is nice and saturated with it, utilize the extra biochar somewhere else. You can actually grow a plant in pure biochar as long as there are nutrients in it, but it's better to have a nice soil-biochar mix. 10 to 30% biochar in the soil and probably no more than 50% biochar to soil would be fine. Otherwise, you're really just wasting it. 5. Again, thank you for sharing your video. You are absolutely right that bunny poop is the number one choice of fertilizer. Honestly, it's even better than chicken poo which is super awesome. So thank you, and keep up the great work!! 😊 Side note: Biochar will also reduce the odors of chicken poo or rabbit poo. It will also reduce your compost pile much quicker if you do composting. And if you have erosion problems, or are trying to grow on a slope, biochar will greatly reduce erosion problems. And of course that's not forget (You mentioned already, but it's worth saying again) holding in water and nutrients, which means, saving water and not polluting aquifer water and freshwater with fertilizers and chemicals. I have done a lot of agriculture and sustainability consulting and this is where I fell in love with biochar. So much so, that I have built a team to build a biochar production facility in Spain. 😮 We are getting funding together this year (2023). So if you need any more expert advice, I'm your gal! My friends call me "the coolest biochar chick on the planet." 😂
as a source of extra income I like to dry out my rabbit manure, run it through a blender (dry) and turn it to powder...I then add activated biochar (dryed) to the manure and bag it up in quart size ziplocks and sell for $5.00 each at the local flea-markets and vegetable shops. As not everyone has heard of the benefits of these two ingredients, I place a small card in the bag that tells how to use it when planting crops in garden...(tablespoon of bio-poo in each hole with a plant and if wanted, sprinkle some on soil between plants..(of course this may cause more sells of the packets as gardeners see the benefits.....If the garden is turned over each year then there is no need to worry about applying to much biochar to the soil and it is thought that the biochar will remain in the soil for hundreds of years. As a side note...do not add biochar to gardens when planting crops if it has not been activated first as it will rob the soils of nutrients for itself first before releaseing them to the plant//always use pre activated biochar when mixing it into your soil.....just a thought....
Haha I just stopped the video to write this...I just busted up laughing...I don't know what breed means...I love kids!! Reminds of when mine were little. How I miss those days♥️
Oh WOWZERS!!!!! Dirtpacheaven!! Wow THANK YOU sooooooo much for watching our channel and commenting! We are huge fans of yours and started watching you way back in 2016 when we caught the homesteading bug. How is everything??
Thank you for sharing, and don’t feel bad. Yep, knew about biochar, but have never done it🙄🙄we have had rabbits for 9 year, and have used it in my garden, etc., but never knew about adding it to rabbit poo. So, thanks to you, now I know🎉🎉🎉🎉I’ll be doing this... God bless young man. I like your enthusiasm 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Regarding the application rate for Biochar, I have read between 5 and 10 percent by volume when added to compost for top dressing. A little goes a long way. In addition to the microbial benefits you mentioned, the biochar reduces manure and urine odors and will draw in nitrogen and other soil chemistry. With the microbes and the soil chemistry, it becomes part of the "soil economy" with the plants exchanging sugars from photosynthesis with the microbes for soil nutrients that are helpful to the plant. In heavy clay soils, the biochar will help with water retention and air spaces.
Terra Preta is amazing stuff. When you research this stuff you learn about something called the Ion Exchange Rate of your soil. Nothing has a higher IER than what is found in these Terra Preta soils in the Amazon. These soils before Terra Preta are terrible with IER's of around 3-4. It's reported that soil samples taken down there have shattered previous records in the high 20's to now over 200. It's mind boggling stuff. Love the videos and I love that you are a soil farmer. I am a soil-less farmer but we are one in our efforts.
They are soooooo cute and snuggly, they're extremely clean and healthy animals, they are also extremely quiet, they produce FREE fertilizer for your garden, and potentially meat for your family or income by selling them for meat or pets. Honestly, they're such a great pet for so many reasons. I hope you're able to convince your wife! My fiance had me at "cold manure". X-D
@@fayeryeyez definitely like the fertilizer and the meat side. Sometimes selling them can be hard however. If you are in it for the first two its a great way to become a little more self sufficient. Also let's not overlook how expensive fertilizers can be
let her know that rabbit meat is a healthy source of proteins, has less fats then beef or pork, can be cooked in a vast array of ways and are as easy if not more so to care for then most livestock. and they don't bark and wake you up in middle of the nights...
This is something that I will do in the near future!!!!both are things that I consider highly useful. Rabbit manure because its cold and biochar because of terra preta!!
I have 3 rabbits , just as pets and for the garden . I can not keep mine outside because of the issues we have here with snakes. I am doing some experiments with rabbit manure and worm castings as well. I have seen several ways to use it . I add a little now and then in with dry bedding for the worms in my bigger bins. If the worm bins are moist , just like you watering outside , it breaks down faster. I use a lot of it in new garden beds too , after soaking it down really well it does start to compost and then the worms move in and added to hot compost bins to help through the winter keep newer piles heated long enough to kill weed seeds.
u got a new sub thanks i got a rabbit and been trying to revive a apple tree and i think i stoped and thats y its diying plus no water drout thanks it still got a little life left ill keep treating it aloha from hawaii
Hello, you seem like a good guy with good info. I say this only to help. You’re not creating biochar the way you’re doing it. You said the essence of biochar at 2:47 of your video. When making biochar you use indirect heat. Your more cooking the wood. This process is what creates true biochar. The surface area is exponentially increased amongst other benefits. What your creating will work and is closer to creating potash which does have its benefits as well. The wood also plays a factor as well. You’re eating to use more hardwoods and or bamboos. Some softwoods can cause issues. Look into it more for your own farm if you’re truly looking to make biochar. Thank you again for the videos. I hope this helps you on your biochar journey. It’s a very interesting one. Follow it back to the amazon and the terra preta soil they created. :)
so, as added way to make biochar in a fireplace/ fire stove.....grab an old broiler pot (good will store), place small twigs in it and then place it in fireplace with the lid on..heat from fireplace with activate the airless burn of the twigs and you end up with biochar...just wet it down in the broiler pan to be sure it does not catch fire if exposed to oxygen while still hot...
gREAT minds think a like! love your ideas. There is no limit to the amount of bio char! Tierra Preta has been found in Egypt 2000 year old and in the amazon older than that...also do not over look the use of burned bones ( after you have used them to make bone broth, they are good enough to use with out burning ) and tierra cotta or any type of clay pots which were found at these sites, they too hold water and make macrobiotic condos for bacteria, yeast and fungi , oh my! lol Lastly, if you are in the city , you can attempt to make small portions of bio char in your bar b q, or buy hardwood organic charcoal WITHOUT any accelerants or Firestarter and in lump form NOT briquettes. Pound them a bit to make smaller chunks and get more area covered. Lastly, consider 99 cent store , big pack of sponges. Do not burn them, soak it in urine or do as in the video, you can chop them up in small piece and put these under some soil. This is specially good if your in the dessert, as I am and will help to retain water. I will be making a video of this. No sponges will not release toxins and will last a long time. If you like this type of info, please subscribe to my channel, thank you.
Funny how places are different! No calling in burn here at all although you can get in trouble bringing in material from off property and burning it! Have only heard one instance of that and it was a company doing it large scale and got fined 10,000 for it. They were burning stuff that shouldn't be burned (sometimes regulation is good but seldom).
BOH! We started homesteading the same time that you all did and have watched you over the years occasionally. I missed this video!!! Are your chickens doing well with the rabbits poop? I’ve heard so often that chickens can get diseases from the rabbits. How is that working?????
Hi there, thank you so much for your comment and super sorry that I just saw this one. Yea we never had any problems with the chickens scratching the rabbit manure. Worked GREAT for us! We don’t have rabbits anymore though.
I have really got to get rabbits back on my homestead. I had them near my house before and the flies were horrible. I like the idea of putting chickens in there to eat the fly larvae. I had a thought tho. you didn't specify to wait until the charcoal was cool to put it under the rabbits. I would hate to have someone start a fire under the rabbit cages! lol
I loved this video, I don't have any livestock where I live, but I can buy processed chicken manure. I have an old burn pit I am trying to grow corn in and will add the processed chicken manure to it to increase the growth. Thank you.
I have Guinea pig n just started an indoor worm tower in the Guinea pig room. Can I use their hay n poo right into the worm bin or do I have to do something with it first?
Thank you for the information on just how easy it is to make biochar using this method. I have found videos that , well..... too many steps....too much prep and hard work going into and out of it .
How does the poo fall out of the cages? What floor do you have inside? We're starting our little garden in a rural area in Portugal and I would like to have some rabbits and we want to build the cages DIY.
Most cages for the bottom have wire mesh some say to use 1/2x1 wire mesh coated vinyl believe mine is 1/2x1/2 I coated. But looking into the coated next cages I build. Which all of this let’s the poop fall thru. Hope this helps
I know this video is a bit old but I have a question: would it be better to use my kitchen scraps to feed rabbits, thus cut down on feed costs, or in a compost bin? In other words, which is a better fertilizer? Poop or compost?
Rabbits are herbivores. So it really depends on what your kitchen scraps are. It would be good to plant forage crops so you can feed your rabbits from your own garden. Focus on the greens.
You should take that cleared bunch of trees in that pile you have and spread them out over your pasture and do small fires and then afterwards take your rabbit poo out there and spread it over those spots.
You are sooooooo right!!!!! As soon as I have water in the back of my property I will be doing that. I just don't feel comfortable doing it without water. There are still things that my newbieness shows! lol!!!!
Love this idea. I have a completely different question. Have you found a way to control the rabbit urine smell? We are having a real issue with this and the smell is getting too much and then the flies, oh don't even go there....Thanks
Our rabbit setup is pretty similar to yours. I'm definitely going to try this! kind of off topic of biochar, but our does are 8 months and buck is 1 year now and they won't breed! Any thoughts?
Hmm, not sure. Is he trying to breed her and she is just not letting him? That is called “not lifting”. Or, is she lifting and he is not having any “fall offs”? Or..... does he have “shy buck syndrome”? And just not chasing her.
Can we please get a rabbit 101 video?! I’ve never thought of rabbits and I’m thinking of buying a home with 1-5 acres to start a homestead. Thank you for your informative videos!!!!!
I can, but youtube will demonetize processing videos. So that is why I will be creating the complete Rabbit Course! Please remember to go to bettertogetherlife.com/rabbits so you don’t miss out on when our rabbit course will be released! Sometime this summer. 😁
This is interesting and informative information however owning 3 rabbits myself, I am concerned about their living conditions. I hope they have some free range time and are not cooped up in those little cages 24/7.
I know ash can be good for the soil but I was pretty sure biochar and charcoal while look alike were difrent because of the way it burns without oxgen. Perhaps I could be wrong. In the Amazon they burn in ditches and cover. They been dooing it for centuries in the same area.
Hey, question, maybe you can help me. None of my rex does are receptive right now and I am fairly certain they are not pregnant. All of my other does are receptive,except the rexes. Any idea what I can do?
Hi Great Videos and awesome information. But what do you feed them... most Hay has been sprayed with some kind of broadleaf weed killer … most cases probably Roundup. We now know that this chemical stay in the soil for over 5 years killing your broadleaf crops. That's all your vegetables.. Please reference if you have made a video regarding this.. Thanks...
@@BetterTogetherLife for bedding or food? sorry I am so inquisitive, but very little information on rabbit husbandry is available in South Africa.. I want to start breeding for my veggie patches .. like the way the bunny pooh can go directly into the garden beds.. I have bought 10 bags and love the results.. but can buy 3 Rabbits for the same price.. Now need to address the hay vs grass vs wood shavings issue before I set up camp...
@@Bierpens I'm in Pretoria, South Africa. I have bunnies (pets, not for eating). I buy oat hay bales from a pet Deli. They are meant to get mostly hay as part of their diet, they go into stasis if they don't have this. I don't know about breeding for food, but hay is a very important part of their diet. You should be able to go to a farmers co-op to get a bale if you're in one of the smaller towns
Never mix you biochar in the garden! You should always super charge your char first. Otherwise it will steal the nutrients from your soil for the first year or two. It should work fine after that, but who wants to lose fertility for a year or two? As long as you charge it first you're golden. No worries.
2 Questions, #1 is it a good idea to put a solid surface ( such as linoleum) under your rabbit hutch to capture all the nutrients not allowing them to seep into the soil directly under your hutch? #2 what are tour thoughts on pasture raised rabbits and how to harvest their manure?
Hey! Great questions...#1 you might like a chute under the hutch that captures the waste and angles toward a bucket for Easy clean up and transfer to the garden. if you’re going to take a step to put something under it.#2 if you raise on pasture, my thought is that that IS where you are using the manure. So pasture them and where it drops it’s at work.
try placeing biochar on the floor under the hutches to absorb the urine (smell and all) and along with the rabbit poo it will build the soil under the hutch..
Wait. Why not smolder the poop? Put it low down. And the bits of hay burn off. You get the holes between the poo bits to fill it with microbes. So the gold bits burn off, and you get all those holes.
Eating my rabbits you will never die of "rabbit starvation "🤣🤣🤣my rabbits have fat on them not a lot but come on don't starve your rabbit and you won't die from rabbit starvation
I dont think you are making biochar correctly. From my understanding you put it in an air tight container (metal most likely) and then burn the container roasting the wood at high temps with no oxygen. Although wood ashes are probably very good to mix with your rabbit poo too.
You wont reach the amount easily, you have to make a crazy amount of biochar to make it less helpful than it can benefit. You can find all the info you need in about 6 hours of videos on living web farm channel
Well you just said, “no doubt that your method works too”. So if it works, then it is a way to make biochar. There is more than one way to skin a cat, am I right? To my knowledge, biochar is merely charcoal. Charcoal that has been inoculated. Which we inoculate ours in rabbit waste. 😁👍🏻
I understand what the benefits are but it is cruel to have rabbits on wire it hurts their feet. I have seen another guy doing the same thing you do but he has them inside a pen on the ground and scoops everything. It should be a fair trade, you care properly for them while they provide you with that manure. Wire soars their little feet. 😔
The correct wire Does Not hurt their feet, but there are definitely a lot of bad hutches and cages out there! People who do their research know to put a tile or piece of wood in the cages for the rabbits to have a choice of surface. Wire cages are easier to clean and have good airflow, and that lends itself to healthier rabbits. Wood floors actually have a better chance of producing sore feet because the rabbits walk in their own urine and poo, and that causes urine scald and infection.
I’ve watched your videos and see your buns are very sweet. The conditions they live in are wretched. I’m thinking any kind of info about this has been removed. Need to do some homework and not just “get by” with them imo. They have needs that aren’t being filled and take a lot of work to do it right. Laziness shouldn’t be an excuse for these kind of conditions. Rabbit meating has been done for the ages. You don’t think there are better situations now for the animals to actually thrive in? They shouldn’t have to live like this and then die, knowing they’ve been treated as such. I would never eat any kind of meat, knowing it was raised like this. I would be too happy in eating food from animals that have been responsibly and properly cared for.
Its kinda heartbreaking that gardeners are normalizing abuse of rabbits just because they want their poop. If you want rabbits it is a commitment just like adopting a dog or a cat. Those metal wires as floor are destroying rabbits feets.
Dude!!! ❤❤ Thank you so much for posting this video! This is an extremely important topic. I skipped a little here and there because I'm already a biochar expert, but a few points that you should not forget to tell people.
1. When you make biochar, you are helping to mitigate climate change! 🎉 This is because the carbon that you have in that biochar, will never go back up into the atmosphere (unless you burn it, and you should not do that!) Roughly, if you have made a pound of biochar, you have mitigated two or three pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere. Every little bit helps. 🌏💚
2. Biochar and charcoal are not the same. This is a very nuanced difference, but we need to make sure that people are not calling charcoal biochar or vice versa. Charcoal is something you burn in your cooking grill. Biochar should never be burned for a fuel.
3. Please, please, please tell people that they need to inoculate their biochar before placing it in the soil (like you are doing ). This is extremely important. You are inoculating it with rabbit poo and probably chicken poo. This mixing of the poo with biochar should sit together at the very least 2 weeks before putting in the garden soil. The reason is this: Since biochar has such great porosity, if you put it in the soil raw without any nutrients in it, at first for a little while, it will draw the nutrients out of the soil and into itself. This could starve the plants a little for a while. So be sure to charge up (inoculate) that biochar like you are doing before putting it in the garden or in any soil.
4. To answer your question, no, there is not a limit on putting biochar in your garden. But, since it lasts a lifetime, you do really want to make sure that if your garden is nice and saturated with it, utilize the extra biochar somewhere else. You can actually grow a plant in pure biochar as long as there are nutrients in it, but it's better to have a nice soil-biochar mix. 10 to 30% biochar in the soil and probably no more than 50% biochar to soil would be fine. Otherwise, you're really just wasting it.
5. Again, thank you for sharing your video. You are absolutely right that bunny poop is the number one choice of fertilizer. Honestly, it's even better than chicken poo which is super awesome. So thank you, and keep up the great work!! 😊
Side note: Biochar will also reduce the odors of chicken poo or rabbit poo. It will also reduce your compost pile much quicker if you do composting. And if you have erosion problems, or are trying to grow on a slope, biochar will greatly reduce erosion problems. And of course that's not forget (You mentioned already, but it's worth saying again) holding in water and nutrients, which means, saving water and not polluting aquifer water and freshwater with fertilizers and chemicals.
I have done a lot of agriculture and sustainability consulting and this is where I fell in love with biochar. So much so, that I have built a team to build a biochar production facility in Spain. 😮 We are getting funding together this year (2023). So if you need any more expert advice, I'm your gal! My friends call me "the coolest biochar chick on the planet." 😂
Are you a free thinker or a propagandist when it comes to climate change?
Great post. I read the book, "burn." I think biochar is the next "industrial" revolution. I need to follow your work!!
Thank you for showing the call the the city fire dept. coming from a city I never would know but it makes good sense.
as a source of extra income I like to dry out my rabbit manure, run it through a blender (dry) and turn it to powder...I then add activated biochar (dryed) to the manure and bag it up in quart size ziplocks and sell for $5.00 each at the local flea-markets and vegetable shops. As not everyone has heard of the benefits of these two ingredients, I place a small card in the bag that tells how to use it when planting crops in garden...(tablespoon of bio-poo in each hole with a plant and if wanted, sprinkle some on soil between plants..(of course this may cause more sells of the packets as gardeners see the benefits.....If the garden is turned over each year then there is no need to worry about applying to much biochar to the soil and it is thought that the biochar will remain in the soil for hundreds of years. As a side note...do not add biochar to gardens when planting crops if it has not been activated first as it will rob the soils of nutrients for itself first before releaseing them to the plant//always use pre activated biochar when mixing it into your soil.....just a thought....
I love this! Not a rabbit, or any other animal, farmer-he's a soil farmer!
Great video Beau! We built our first hutches off of your videos a year or so ago, and have never been disappointed. Keep up the great work!
i unknowingly "supercharged" my rabbit manure recently and now finding this video makes feel am on the right track
Hahaha don’t you love it! Our instincts are good 🤣
Haha I just stopped the video to write this...I just busted up laughing...I don't know what breed means...I love kids!! Reminds of when mine were little. How I miss those days♥️
Have never heard of using the biochar under the cages. That is amazing!
Oh WOWZERS!!!!! Dirtpacheaven!! Wow THANK YOU sooooooo much for watching our channel and commenting!
We are huge fans of yours and started watching you way back in 2016 when we caught the homesteading bug.
How is everything??
You had me at “I do not know what breed means” ❤❤😂
Found your channel recently, really enjoying it. Subscribed, thanks, keep up the good work!
Awesome!!! Thank you very much Robert!
Thank you for sharing, and don’t feel bad. Yep, knew about biochar, but have never done it🙄🙄we have had rabbits for 9 year, and have used it in my garden, etc., but never knew about adding it to rabbit poo. So, thanks to you, now I know🎉🎉🎉🎉I’ll be doing this...
God bless young man. I like your enthusiasm 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
That is so cool. I love using the combination. Good soil, good garden.
You cracked me up and you are teaching me so much thank you!!
I like what you're doing here. I recommend rabbit manure, worm casting and biochar.
yup!
Regarding the application rate for Biochar, I have read between 5 and 10 percent by volume when added to compost for top dressing. A little goes a long way. In addition to the microbial benefits you mentioned, the biochar reduces manure and urine odors and will draw in nitrogen and other soil chemistry. With the microbes and the soil chemistry, it becomes part of the "soil economy" with the plants exchanging sugars from photosynthesis with the microbes for soil nutrients that are helpful to the plant. In heavy clay soils, the biochar will help with water retention and air spaces.
Awesome 👌 video sir 👏 👍 had to subscribe for future advice 😊 thanks
The urine is useful too! Goes into the biochar! Some rabbit farmers collect the urine, dilute it and use it as a pesticide!
Hi.... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍
Terra Preta is amazing stuff. When you research this stuff you learn about something called the Ion Exchange Rate of your soil. Nothing has a higher IER than what is found in these Terra Preta soils in the Amazon. These soils before Terra Preta are terrible with IER's of around 3-4. It's reported that soil samples taken down there have shattered previous records in the high 20's to now over 200. It's mind boggling stuff. Love the videos and I love that you are a soil farmer. I am a soil-less farmer but we are one in our efforts.
That's some super interesting stuff! I want to get some rabbits if only for the manure, still working on convincing the wife 😄
I got 2 rabbits about 8 weeks ago. So far super easy and cheap to raise. Can't wait to start breeding to up my income + get meat ^_^
They are soooooo cute and snuggly, they're extremely clean and healthy animals, they are also extremely quiet, they produce FREE fertilizer for your garden, and potentially meat for your family or income by selling them for meat or pets. Honestly, they're such a great pet for so many reasons. I hope you're able to convince your wife! My fiance had me at "cold manure". X-D
@@fayeryeyez definitely like the fertilizer and the meat side. Sometimes selling them can be hard however. If you are in it for the first two its a great way to become a little more self sufficient. Also let's not overlook how expensive fertilizers can be
@@fayeryeyez Yeah, what could be more fun than watching your kids face when you tell them they are eating their cute, cuddly pet.
let her know that rabbit meat is a healthy source of proteins, has less fats then beef or pork, can be cooked in a vast array of ways and are as easy if not more so to care for then most livestock. and they don't bark and wake you up in middle of the nights...
very interesting content..hope all is well on the homestead
😂just found your channel and I love it! Informative, practical and entertaining! Keep up the great content!
Gardener Scott (youtube channel) is a big advocate for biochar. He has tons of info on it.
I couldn’t agree with you more about being a soil farmer primarily!
I'm down to one bunny!🐇 but now I know how to make her poo 💩 more valuable 😁. Thanks 😊
There's a channel that has a GREAT series on everything practical you need to know about biochar. It's amazing stuff!!!
seems like rabbits are a must have . food and fertilizer.
Yes! Rabbits are awesome! And yes, they poop a ton! However much you think a rabbit will poop, it's at least 2-3 times that.
❤ the first channel i see that not have this adorable bunnys for consumer. Love you ❤. I will subscribe. Gratitude for this big lesson. ❤
Oh my goodness “I’ve gotta tell you guys some sing. I do not know what breed is.” 👍🏻 🤣
Great information, from now on my rabbit poop will be super charged. Thanks.
I love using manure for my garden. - Ruthie
This is something that I will do in the near future!!!!both are things that I consider highly useful. Rabbit manure because its cold and biochar because of terra preta!!
Y’all are a great inspiration!
Thank you for sharing that tip. Hopefully I will have rabbits this fall or next spring.
I have 3 rabbits , just as pets and for the garden . I can not keep mine outside because of the issues we have here with snakes. I am doing some experiments with rabbit manure and worm castings as well. I have seen several ways to use it . I add a little now and then in with dry bedding for the worms in my bigger bins. If the worm bins are moist , just like you watering outside , it breaks down faster. I use a lot of it in new garden beds too , after soaking it down really well it does start to compost and then the worms move in and added to hot compost bins to help through the winter keep newer piles heated long enough to kill weed seeds.
Gotta love my garden gold makers. I use the pre and poop.
u got a new sub thanks i got a rabbit and been trying to revive a apple tree and i think i stoped and thats y its diying plus no water drout thanks it still got a little life left ill keep treating it aloha from hawaii
Wow THANK YOU Josh!! Very nice to meet you. Merry Christmas!!!
Hello, you seem like a good guy with good info. I say this only to help. You’re not creating biochar the way you’re doing it. You said the essence of biochar at 2:47 of your video. When making biochar you use indirect heat. Your more cooking the wood. This process is what creates true biochar. The surface area is exponentially increased amongst other benefits. What your creating will work and is closer to creating potash which does have its benefits as well. The wood also plays a factor as well. You’re eating to use more hardwoods and or bamboos. Some softwoods can cause issues. Look into it more for your own farm if you’re truly looking to make biochar. Thank you again for the videos. I hope this helps you on your biochar journey. It’s a very interesting one. Follow it back to the amazon and the terra preta soil they created. :)
Super informative!!! Thank you
Daddy: Can you show me what breed means 🤔🤷♀️? ..... precious 😂😂😂
In your opinion, is it better to have chunks of charcoal or can you use powdered charcoal with the same effect?
Small chunks is best
Wow, super interesting! I need a little fireplace now. I already have a ton of branches that I was going to give 10 years to compost. :D
so, as added way to make biochar in a fireplace/ fire stove.....grab an old broiler pot (good will store), place small twigs in it and then place it in fireplace with the lid on..heat from fireplace with activate the airless burn of the twigs and you end up with biochar...just wet it down in the broiler pan to be sure it does not catch fire if exposed to oxygen while still hot...
gREAT minds think a like! love your ideas. There is no limit to the amount of bio char! Tierra Preta has been found in Egypt 2000 year old and in the amazon older than that...also do not over look the use of burned bones ( after you have used them to make bone broth, they are good enough to use with out burning ) and tierra cotta or any type of clay pots which were found at these sites, they too hold water and make macrobiotic condos for bacteria, yeast and fungi , oh my! lol Lastly, if you are in the city , you can attempt to make small portions of bio char in your bar b q, or buy hardwood organic charcoal WITHOUT any accelerants or Firestarter and in lump form NOT briquettes. Pound them a bit to make smaller chunks and get more area covered. Lastly, consider 99 cent store , big pack of sponges. Do not burn them, soak it in urine or do as in the video, you can chop them up in small piece and put these under some soil. This is specially good if your in the dessert, as I am and will help to retain water. I will be making a video of this. No sponges will not release toxins and will last a long time. If you like this type of info, please subscribe to my channel, thank you.
Funny how places are different! No calling in burn here at all although you can get in trouble bringing in material from off property and burning it! Have only heard one instance of that and it was a company doing it large scale and got fined 10,000 for it. They were burning stuff that shouldn't be burned (sometimes regulation is good but seldom).
I wonder if the charcoal from the woodstove I use to heat my home would work? I have a huge pile of charcoal that did not burn completely
It certainly might work. You just need to “listen” to it. If it sounds like broken shards of glass….then you’re there! 😁👍🏻
Your local fire department can inform about requirements like a grate cover for fire in city.
Love that growing soil (the 🌎 earth)
BOH! We started homesteading the same time that you all did and have watched you over the years occasionally. I missed this video!!! Are your chickens doing well with the rabbits poop? I’ve heard so often that chickens can get diseases from the rabbits. How is that working?????
Hi there, thank you so much for your comment and super sorry that I just saw this one.
Yea we never had any problems with the chickens scratching the rabbit manure.
Worked GREAT for us! We don’t have rabbits anymore though.
I have really got to get rabbits back on my homestead. I had them near my house before and the flies were horrible. I like the idea of putting chickens in there to eat the fly larvae. I had a thought tho. you didn't specify to wait until the charcoal was cool to put it under the rabbits. I would hate to have someone start a fire under the rabbit cages! lol
I loved this video, I don't have any livestock where I live, but I can buy processed chicken manure. I have an old burn pit I am trying to grow corn in and will add the processed chicken manure to it to increase the growth. Thank you.
I have Guinea pig n just started an indoor worm tower in the Guinea pig room. Can I use their hay n poo right into the worm bin or do I have to do something with it first?
Thank you for the information on just how easy it is to make biochar using this method. I have found videos that , well..... too many steps....too much prep and hard work going into and out of it .
How does the poo fall out of the cages? What floor do you have inside? We're starting our little garden in a rural area in Portugal and I would like to have some rabbits and we want to build the cages DIY.
Most cages for the bottom have wire mesh some say to use 1/2x1 wire mesh coated vinyl believe mine is 1/2x1/2 I coated. But looking into the coated next cages I build. Which all of this let’s the poop fall thru. Hope this helps
There was an episode of Port Protection In the last season where one of the guys made a barrel burner to make char from wood.
Good information thanks!
I know this video is a bit old but I have a question: would it be better to use my kitchen scraps to feed rabbits, thus cut down on feed costs, or in a compost bin? In other words, which is a better fertilizer? Poop or compost?
Rabbits are herbivores. So it really depends on what your kitchen scraps are. It would be good to plant forage crops so you can feed your rabbits from your own garden. Focus on the greens.
Bad Ape...😉 Dude, love your channel
Please what are you using for their water drinker
You should take that cleared bunch of trees in that pile you have and spread them out over your pasture and do small fires and then afterwards take your rabbit poo out there and spread it over those spots.
You are sooooooo right!!!!! As soon as I have water in the back of my property I will be doing that.
I just don't feel comfortable doing it without water. There are still things that my newbieness shows! lol!!!!
Thank you
Lol..."I want to improve my soil, because I want Food"
Love this idea. I have a completely different question. Have you found a way to control the rabbit urine smell? We are having a real issue with this and the smell is getting too much and then the flies, oh don't even go there....Thanks
Chickens help with the flies. That’s why he has the poop and urine going on the floor directly.
Our rabbit setup is pretty similar to yours. I'm definitely going to try this! kind of off topic of biochar, but our does are 8 months and buck is 1 year now and they won't breed! Any thoughts?
Hmm, not sure. Is he trying to breed her and she is just not letting him? That is called “not lifting”.
Or, is she lifting and he is not having any “fall offs”?
Or..... does he have “shy buck syndrome”? And just not chasing her.
Another way to make char is to get some wood burning well then cover it with soil to slow the burning. Small vent on top maybe needed.
Can we please get a rabbit 101 video?! I’ve never thought of rabbits and I’m thinking of buying a home with 1-5 acres to start a homestead. Thank you for your informative videos!!!!!
I can, but youtube will demonetize processing videos. So that is why I will be creating the complete Rabbit Course!
Please remember to go to bettertogetherlife.com/rabbits so you don’t miss out on when our rabbit course will be released! Sometime this summer. 😁
I’m starting tomorrow
Also, if there isn’t a “crazy rabbit lady”, we should start that lol
wouldn't Justin luv that! lol
This is interesting and informative information however owning 3 rabbits myself, I am concerned about their living conditions. I hope they have some free range time and are not cooped up in those little cages 24/7.
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I know ash can be good for the soil but I was pretty sure biochar and charcoal while look alike were difrent because of the way it burns without oxgen. Perhaps I could be wrong. In the Amazon they burn in ditches and cover. They been dooing it for centuries in the same area.
Thx
Hey, question, maybe you can help me. None of my rex does are receptive right now and I am fairly certain they are not pregnant. All of my other does are receptive,except the rexes. Any idea what I can do?
Wow that is weird. Yes there is a phenomenon going on the past year of Rex rabbits not lifting!!! It is very strange.
No one knows why
Can I use charcoal?
are those salt licks?
Hi
Great Videos and awesome information.
But what do you feed them... most Hay has been sprayed with some kind of broadleaf weed killer … most cases probably Roundup. We now know that this chemical stay in the soil for over 5 years killing your broadleaf crops. That's all your vegetables..
Please reference if you have made a video regarding this.. Thanks...
They need hay. So we do our best
@@BetterTogetherLife for bedding or food?
sorry I am so inquisitive, but very little information on rabbit husbandry is available in South Africa.. I want to start breeding for my veggie patches .. like the way the bunny pooh can go directly into the garden beds..
I have bought 10 bags and love the results.. but can buy 3 Rabbits for the same price..
Now need to address the hay vs grass vs wood shavings issue before I set up camp...
@@Bierpens I'm in Pretoria, South Africa. I have bunnies (pets, not for eating). I buy oat hay bales from a pet Deli. They are meant to get mostly hay as part of their diet, they go into stasis if they don't have this.
I don't know about breeding for food, but hay is a very important part of their diet. You should be able to go to a farmers co-op to get a bale if you're in one of the smaller towns
Never mix you biochar in the garden! You should always super charge your char first. Otherwise it will steal the nutrients from your soil for the first year or two. It should work fine after that, but who wants to lose fertility for a year or two? As long as you charge it first you're golden. No worries.
Why do you throw your styrofoam plates in your compost? Genuinely curious
What? I NEVER buy styrofoam plates. Ever.
And I would never put styrofoam in compost. I hate anytime a business ships with styrofoam.
The rabbit pills also feed your hens. It attracts bugs and worms to feed your hens
2 Questions,
#1 is it a good idea to put a solid surface ( such as linoleum) under your rabbit hutch to capture all the nutrients not allowing them to seep into the soil directly under your hutch?
#2 what are tour thoughts on pasture raised rabbits and how to harvest their manure?
Hey! Great questions...#1 you might like a chute under the hutch that captures the waste and angles toward a bucket for Easy clean up and transfer to the garden. if you’re going to take a step to put something under it.#2 if you raise on pasture, my thought is that that IS where you are using the manure. So pasture them and where it drops it’s at work.
Thank you for the info. That's a great idea and will definitely give it a try. Thanks again, love your videos !
try placeing biochar on the floor under the hutches to absorb the urine (smell and all) and along with the rabbit poo it will build the soil under the hutch..
I know a lot of people will use gas or some kind of other starters, would you not want to do that for this?
I wouldn’t. But that is just me.
When are u redoing the hutch
This weekend!!!! Finally! We had some small emergencies pop up and it got delayed.
K
Wait. Why not smolder the poop? Put it low down. And the bits of hay burn off. You get the holes between the poo bits to fill it with microbes. So the gold bits burn off, and you get all those holes.
So will using bio-char on my plants make them cannibals?🤔🤔
Wow, we've been burning trash trees and shrubs for years out here, I didn't know it was so good for the garden. Duh!
Eating my rabbits you will never die of "rabbit starvation "🤣🤣🤣my rabbits have fat on them not a lot but come on don't starve your rabbit and you won't die from rabbit starvation
Awesome
Charcoal versus Ash???
Yup! Biochar is far better!
@@BetterTogetherLife okay then!! Yup. Thx!!
Biochar for rabbit mix &
Ash for soil potash: potassium 🤩
I dont think you are making biochar correctly. From my understanding you put it in an air tight container (metal most likely) and then burn the container roasting the wood at high temps with no oxygen.
Although wood ashes are probably very good to mix with your rabbit poo too.
Biochar is 100% just charcoal. It is dummy proof.
It might not be the commercial way, but WOW you can’t argue with our fertility results!
You wont reach the amount easily, you have to make a crazy amount of biochar to make it less helpful than it can benefit. You can find all the info you need in about 6 hours of videos on living web farm channel
Yeah thats not how you make biochar though. You need a burning chamber for that. No doubt that your method works too.
Well you just said, “no doubt that your method works too”.
So if it works, then it is a way to make biochar. There is more than one way to skin a cat, am I right?
To my knowledge, biochar is merely charcoal. Charcoal that has been inoculated. Which we inoculate ours in rabbit waste. 😁👍🏻
I understand what the benefits are but it is cruel to have rabbits on wire it hurts their feet. I have seen another guy doing the same thing you do but he has them inside a pen on the ground and scoops everything. It should be a fair trade, you care properly for them while they provide you with that manure.
Wire soars their little feet. 😔
The correct wire Does Not hurt their feet, but there are definitely a lot of bad hutches and cages out there! People who do their research know to put a tile or piece of wood in the cages for the rabbits to have a choice of surface. Wire cages are easier to clean and have good airflow, and that lends itself to healthier rabbits. Wood floors actually have a better chance of producing sore feet because the rabbits walk in their own urine and poo, and that causes urine scald and infection.
If you Google soy face memes you'll stop making thumbnails like that. Try it. You'll see....
Don't keep bunnies like this.
I’ve watched your videos and see your buns are very sweet. The conditions they live in are wretched. I’m thinking any kind of info about this has been removed. Need to do some homework and not just “get by” with them imo. They have needs that aren’t being filled and take a lot of work to do it right. Laziness shouldn’t be an excuse for these kind of conditions. Rabbit meating has been done for the ages. You don’t think there are better situations now for the animals to actually thrive in? They shouldn’t have to live like this and then die, knowing they’ve been treated as such. I would never eat any kind of meat, knowing it was raised like this. I would be too happy in eating food from animals that have been responsibly and properly cared for.
Its kinda heartbreaking that gardeners are normalizing abuse of rabbits just because they want their poop. If you want rabbits it is a commitment just like adopting a dog or a cat. Those metal wires as floor are destroying rabbits feets.