Bunny Poo Comparison Shopping – Yes, You Actually Can …

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Rabbittude

Cuckoo for Cocoa Poos ?

This weekend, I started some research on rabbit poo that is for sale on the web. See The Wonderful World of Bunny Poo yesterday for how this investigative trail got started.

I had put a potential name of Cheeripoos below the picture of our bunny poo since the bunnies eat so much oat hay. However, Blaine thought that Cocoa Poos for the deep chocolate coloring might be more descriptive. Here we are already disagreeing about the name for a hypothetical product.

Someone commented yesterday that they thought that bunny poo might be available for sale on Ebay. So I had to look. Yes, you can find rabbit manure for sale on Etsy, Ebay and Amazon. Ebay had the most sellers, so the best ability to comparison shop is there.

I found three sellers of bunny poo on Ebay. The first seller advertises 6 lb. Rabbit Manure!!~~Best Organic Fertilizer There Is! The Buy It Now price is $6.99 with an $11.00 shipping cost. The picture shows the rabbit producers with their food bowl which I think is a nice touch. There is an excellent description with lots of benefits and reasons for using bunny poo. I like the added touch of using a green color for the text. It gives it a nice eco conscious feel. This seller says, “YOU’LL NEVER GO BACK TO MIRACLE GRO!!!” which is a strong closing. They have this listed with more than 10 available which is a scary quantity of rabbit poo sitting out there somewhere waiting to be bought.

The second seller on Ebay has two rabbit poo products for sale. They have 6 lb or 10 lb Rabbit Manure, Organic Fertilizer. Both sizes are Free Shipping. The 6 lb size is $16.95, while 10 lbs is $21.95. Awww, I open up the listing and see they have a description with a cute cartoon that includes a rabbit and a worm poking its head up out of the ground (one assumes fertilized with bunny poo!). There is a picture of the rabbit poo which looks disturbingly like pebbles on the beach in beige, gray and sandy colors rather than the deep colors I am used to seeing with our bunnies. So now I am concerned about the health of their rabbits. They call their product “Bunny Berries”. They say they make every effort to ship the manure “dry”. Eeeuwww, TMI. The background throughout is green providing a professional look to the listing with an eco feel.

Unlike the first seller, this seller has filled out the Ebay Item specifics. They give the condition as New. I guess a real debate could start as to whether manure / compost / fertilizer is new or used. I think I have to disagree with the “in its original packaging” part of the new statement. Wouldn’t that be still inside the rabbit? Anyway they list the application as “All Purpose” and I decidedly would not go that far. This seller also has more than 10 available on both the 6 lb and 10 lb listings. So this seller has an unreal amount of rabbit poo sitting around somewhere.

Which brings us to the final Ebay seller who has Rabbit Manure for a natural fertilizer. They too have filled out the item specifics with the bunny poo listed as New? However they have the application listed as being for plants, much better. They estimate weight at roughly 14 lbs. The Buy It Now price is $5 with $14.95 in shipping cost, however there is a Make an Offer option. You can haggle price on this one! However, they have less poo available, only 4 currently. This listing is straight black and white, so no eco conscious vibe. They have a nice description which almost makes it sound cute: “Rabbit manure is very unique, as it is solid, and comes in small round droppings a little larger than a b.b. pellet. They are almost like a time release capsule, and perfect for your garden.”

Wow, this is a whole lot more bunny poo for sale than I expected to find online! I am now running way late and pooped out.

A Quick Note …

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Rabbittude

Just popping in quickly here to say I am working on further research into bunny poo and what is already out there in the internet marketplace. A couple of comments yesterday sent me off looking for more things than I had thought of. Quite amazing really what people have for sale these days. I will post more later today, perhaps early evening for those on US Eastern standard time.

The Wonderful World of Bunny Poo

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Rabbittude

Oat Hay + Rabbit = Cheeripoos ?

As a cottage industry, seriously. I have often fantasized about getting the bunnies to earn their own keep. I had read at one time about a how-to book that had information for using bunny poo to start a worm farm and then sell the worms to fishermen. Blaine has a wonderful green thumb and we use bunny poo in our garden. So I have always been aware of the rich fertilization in the poo since it is already composted veggies and hay. It is also nice hard dry little marbles that are easy to pick up and don’t have much of an odor.

However, I had never heard or thought about the possibility of actually selling bunny poo online. I had just recently joined the Creative Breakroom forum. In one thread I learned about a challenge they had a while back for “Jars O Crap”. Everyone was to take a Mason jar and fill it with whatever, take pictures and then list their jars online.

Looking through the challenge thread and the very creative responses had me laughing myself silly. This is the one I loved the most: Un Bocal des Peaux D’Oignons. Oh so very special, I am almost tempted to buy it myself. If I had been there at the time to take part, the title had me thinking quite literally about my most available free item here, a jar of bunny poo!

So I got into a discussion in the Breakroom on the topic of bunny poo. What do you say the expiration date is on a bottle full of bunny poop? What kind of shelf life does that have? Or does it become vintage at some point? Rapid thoughts were running through my head as to whether that would be tagged as handmade or a supply. Do I say I made it myself or it was created by my rabbit collective? Some pointed out that a bottle could have explosive gas issues and that holes in the top or a plastic bag with a nice label might be better.

As we were verbally flinging the poo back and forth in this discussion, one member asked another if they had heard back officially on this. That is when I found out that someone had investigated whether selling bunny poo on Etsy was allowed. They were told that it was, as long as local laws and regulations in regards to animal compost are met. Hey, I am living in a farming community! I will just bet I can find out about that! That is where hysterically funny idea meets up with actual business opportunity. Too funny!

I suppose I should be incredibly alarmed with myself that the idea of selling bunny poo has generated more creative marketing ideas in my head than anything else this year. Perhaps there are whole huge cottage industries out there for the unemployed to sell pet waste and help feed their families. I did check this morning on Etsy and there are current active listings there for both Rabbit Manure and Llama Beans.

Objectively, the picture for the Llama beans was a great deal cleaner (does that term ever apply to compost?) than the Rabbit Manure. The Llama Bean title is also more appealing than Rabbit Manure which sounds a bit too down on the farm for eco conscious urban viewers. So I sense an opportunity to upscale the market for rabbit compost / fertilizer. I am intrigued in my research today on Etsy to see how many people have tagged their items with fertilizer when they aren’t selling compost ??? I am not at all certain about the thinking on that one for SEO keyword searches.

At this point, I have no idea where I am going (is that a poor word choice?) with this. The minimum I expect is to have some great fun and laughs here for the blog. Since laughs have been in short supply at many points this year that will be oh so welcome. So stay tuned for poo!

Just Thinking …

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Rabbittude

I just love this photo from istockphoto.com!

It is Saturday, a day to unwind, review, mull … zzz. Whoops have to catch myself. Actually, I have been hopping and bopping around the internet to various sites. I am always on the look out for great bunny things or funny bunny ideas.

I am thinking about bunny poo today, lots and lots of bunny poo. Part of that is because I see lots and lots of bunny poo. Even when I don’t see the bunnies, I see evidence of the existence of bunnies here.

We didn’t realize that the careful leaving of rabbit droppings in specific areas is part of rabbit territorial marking. Now we do. However, we keep telling Tigger and Shadow it really isn’t necessary to mark the area around their litter box as theirs by ringing it with poo. No one else is going to be claiming those boxes. We have found that a kitchen skimmer (dedicated to the bunnies, no going back to the kitchen now!) is a great tool to scoop those up and drop them in the litter boxes. The cat scoops always had holes too big and allowed the poos to drop right through.

So where am I going with all the poo? Oh that would be telling today and I am going to make you wait and come back another day to find out.

And Following Up On Friday – Eeuuuww …

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Rabbittude

Okay, I swear sometimes the bunnies read the blog and Twitter feed. It was only a couple days ago I wrote about The Things I Do For Bunnies and how I really gag over the smell of Cilantro. Someone on Twitter asked if I really hated it that much and I replied that I found the smell of Tigger’s SBDs sweeter than the smell of Cilantro. Tigger’s SBDs tend to smell like a skunk has invaded.

Last night, Blaine washed up a pile of Cilantro for the bunnies while I was working in the office. I came into the living room after the rabbits had finished eating. I got down on the floor and Tigger hopped over. She stopped right in front of me and yawned, sharing a cloud of Cilantro scented bunny breath.

With Tigger, I do have to wonder if she was addressing me with bated breath wanting to know what smelled the worst: Cilantro, her SBDs or the new entry, her Cilantro breath. I have to admit, I fled the room so quickly that I am not sure where I would rate the Cilantro breath. However, I know I don’t need to try it again just to be able to fine tune that answer. I now have a completely new Haiku idea for the folks on IHateCilantro.com. If only I could remember how a Haiku is supposed to be written.

Sigh … where is a good gas mask or respirator when you really need one.

Follow Friday – Fet the Tun Rimes Loll

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Rabbittude

Available on Amazon

I have always had the tendency to say the wrong thing. As a teenager, I heard a saying that I had to adopt, “I only open my mouth to exchange feet.” It hasn’t gotten much better doing things through email or online. Now I still say the wrong stuff, but due to those fat fingered / slippery key typos. I have all kinds of whoops going on at times.

One of my big speech problems is a tendency to Spoonerisms, dyslexic transposition of full words or parts of words. Here’s the Wikipedia definition with some funny examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism. It happens for a lot of people and some people all the time. The best example I ever saw was a weatherman who meant to talk about cold air masses, but instead reported that there was a possibility of cold mare as_ _ _ , you get the drift.

So a couple of years ago when I saw the children’s book Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein, I had to get it. Even as an adult, I loved reading about Toe Jurtle, Goctor Doose, Bumping Jean, Rirty Dat, Flutterby, Batty Meaver, and of course the star of the book, Runny Babbit. It is wonderfully illustrated throughout with cute black and white line drawings.

What started me thinking about my oopsies was a thread on Etsy that was talking about a feature I thankfully hadn’t become aware of with any of my keyboard slips. It seems there has been a built-in automatic censor to keep offensive language out of titles and chats. It has however had unintended consequences in some cases when someone did one of those keyboard typos.

The thread I was reading provided a link back to a truly funny example from a thread in 2009 (now closed and archived, but still readable). A woman intended to type in her discussion title as “What do you think about men’s shirts?” Only she accidentally left the “r” out of shirts while typing. The automatic Etsy censor replaced her unallowed word choice with something it was programmed to believe was more appropriate for a title. So her discussion thread posted under the title: “What do you think about men’s poops?” Needless to say, it had quite a run and drew a lot of people into the thread.

Others on Etsy reported it had been disconcerting to be discussing watching birds (tits) in the chats and have the automatic censor change what they were writing to boob watching. As I program some things on the web for others to use, it is a cautionary tale of not making assumptions that everything is either black or white, on or off. I don’t / won’t / can’t always know better than users. Which brings me to a second favorite saying I saw years ago, “HUMOR, never leave home without it”.

So this weekend, grave a heat time!

Does My Bunny Love Me … How Will I Know?

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Rabbittude

Me & Tigger, in the shot my Mom wanted to take of her. Tigger sweetly held still even for a non digital camera 🙂

So how do you know with rabbits? Since bunnies are prey animals, they aren’t used to letting anyone who isn’t a bunny in on how they feel about things. They are hiders. Over the years, we have learned sometimes it isn’t so much what they do, but what they don’t do anymore.

They will stay out in the open and not hide as much. When they feel like it, ours will come when we call. Some might actually hop up to greet you when you come home. My first bunny Thumper and Portia, the one we lost a few years back, would both come up and pull at pants legs or paw at ankles to get attention.

You will see a difference in their attitude and behavior if you have been away from them for a while. I know someone who took a day trip and could tell her bunny missed the family, he was so excited on their return. Another person I know has moved and isn’t at home with the bunnies as much right now and one is acting out a bit.

Shadow will bounce up, flop down and stick his head under our hand. In return for head pets, he will lick whatever part of us he can reach, hands, arms, legs, faces. Shadow also gives invitations to play. He will zoom up, zoom a little away and look back over his shoulder. He wants to play chase.

Tigger is a very kitty style bunny, a standoffish Princess. It has always been harder to read her. However, she started to show just how much she cared and trusted us at vet visits and when ill. She hates to be picked up and held, but at vet visits I started to notice when I would try to put her down on the table, she was clinging to my shirt. One time while there, when the vet let her lose to hop back into her carrier, instead she jumped up into my arms. I truly believe she is telling me she wants me to protect her and recognizes me as a protector for her.

Recently while very ill, Tigger had Blaine very misty eyed. We had to pick her up a lot to medicate, feed and clean her up. After putting her down, each time we expected her to want nothing to do with us. However, one time she hopped up beside Blaine, flopped down and clearly wanted to be petted and comforted. They stayed together enjoying each others company for a good while.

One of the most obvious ways that bunnies show loving approval is by tooth purring. We don’t always hear it, sometimes we feel it as they gently click their jaws and we feel their jaw movement as we pet them.

One vet said one of the best guides to knowing we had bunny love and approval was that we were being shown their true personalities and that only happens when a rabbit feels completely comfortable in their environment.

The Things I Do for Bunnies

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Rabbittude

Today is a day of reflection and there are a couple of things that come to mind on this topic. The first is T-shirt sacrifices. There is no T-shirt color that can properly hide the discolorations that come from spit out bunny food, bunny pee and bunny poo. Portia and now Tigger have both needed syringe feedings and would soil themselves and have poopy butt while really ill.

Portia was pretty good about holding still to be taken care of and cleaned up. Tigger however, has always been a bit like holding the Bugs Bunny style Tasmanian Devil. You might hang on, but her position changes regularly and rapidly. I try to use baby style drop cloths to cover me up while Blaine feeds or cleans her, but she twirls around all over me and I always end up wearing whatever she wants to share. Immediate laundering doesn’t always get out the ground in stuff that comes with all her wiggling around. So, there goes another shirt designated to bunny care only. I know someone out there is thinking, just bunny burrito her in a towel. I cannot describe how fast she moves, there is no getting her wrapped up into a towel like that, even at a slower ten-year old speed. Only at her very sickest will she hold that still and then the towel burrito isn’t necessary.

Second, the smell of Cilantro makes me gag. I don’t know why, but I really hate it. So of course, the bunnies love to eat Cilantro and want it for variety in their diet. For me, the only thing worse than the smell of Cilantro in the room is the aroma it leaves hanging around on my hands when I wash it up for the rabbits. I cannot get it off no matter what I use. It follows me everywhere.

Usually, I get Blaine to handle the toxic veggie. I have trouble even being in the same room with it while the bunnies eat it. I went looking for info on Cilantro to see if there are any kill the odor suggestions. Instead, I found there is a member website for Cilantro haters with over 3,000 members: http://ihatecilantro.com/submit.php. Amazing, I am not alone. I will have to look over the haikus of my fellow sufferers.

Back to Tigger for the third, SBDs. Tigger can clear a room with her gassy issues. She is the sweetest, fluffiest, cutest most beautiful rabbit and yet if she lets loose, you would swear there was a skunk in the room. I cannot believe how much toxic gas a five pound rabbit can hold. Now this isn’t just because she has been sick lately. Tigger let loose her first SBD right in my face when she was just a baby. I thought I was going to find a huge pile of poo underneath her and was really surprised to find nothing at all and realize my cute little bunny could let loose a silent stinker like that. It was a very teary eye opener into the dark secrets of fluffy bunnies.

Dust Bunny

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Rabbittude

Ah, bunnies never learn. The minute I open the door to our half bath, Shadow’s rabbit radar goes off and within seconds, he is there to zoom in. He always follows the same course with a lap around behind the toilet.

You would think he would learn about the spider webs back there. One thing really enjoying a high growth cycle this past couple years in Georgia is the spider population. I beat back cobwebs on a daily basis in some areas.

It has gotten to be a habit for me to always look at open spaces before walking through them. Overnight, the spiders will build a web across open areas and doorways. I hate getting a face full of web. It is a major freak out that everyone hears about if the spider happens to be in the web at the time. So I have learned to look first now and proceed cautiously. Little Shadow hasn’t yet. He came out from his lap, hit the dining room and starting cleaning his little face off.

I tried to tell him not to go back there, but he just wouldn’t slow down and listen.

I Don’t Know Nothin’ About Birthin’ No Blog

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Rabbittude

Greetings Bunny lovers. I’m Pappa Bunny. Momma Bunny had a rough day today. **Tigger !! No !!! No !!! Stop that !!** She fought off pirates yesterday who hijacked her Twitter. **Shadow!! Quit chewing on that !! Bad Bunny !!** She is enjoying a little quiet time. Me, I’m trying to keep the babies out of trouble (fat chance), and help out a little bit here.

Tigger has shown remarkable improvement over last weekend. Looking at her, you would never guess she was at death’s door then. Her appetite is back to normal, and she is being very good about eating hay. I swear we have the only two rabbits in the world who don’t like timothy hay. I tried a new brand of timothy on them last night, and they seem to have eaten it all. **Tigger !!! Leave Shadow alone !!** Sorry about the interruptions. Bunnies will be bunnies.

I am still concerned about Shadow. He has a lot of energy, and is still very playful for his age. It’s just that his appetite seems to be slowly decreasing. At his last few vet visits, he has dropped a little bit of weight each time. I am going to try to make some banana / critical care balls for him. Maybe he has a slight blockage. Or he just needs a little something to stimulate his appetite more. **Shadow!! Get down off of Momma’s chair.**

It is so hard watching them grow old. It seems like yesterday that we had two hyperactive little puff-balls running around like maniacs, getting their little bunny selves into everything. They were a lot of work, and at times very exasperating. But I wouldn’t change it for anything. Even those runs around the dining room table at midnight trying to get Shadow to go to bed.

Thanks for letting me share with you. Momma Bunny should be ready to go for tomorrow. Me? I gotta go feed the Prince and Princess another pile of kale leaves.

Its a Tiggerific Saturday

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Rabbittude

Last week on Saturday, Tigger wasn’t eating or drinking and appeared to be fading fast. After lots of work this week with syringe feedings of Oxbow Critical Care, water, Simethecone for gas, pain meds and tummy rubs, Tigger has bounced back.

Last night she and Shadow were running all around the house up and down. Such a joy to watch. This is a collage of pictures I took of Tigger this afternoon relaxing on a bunny favorite, the plant tray chaise.

A Sweet Treasury

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Rabbittude

Click on image above to go to Etsy treasury and view these items

Earlier this week with all the bunny troubles going on, I was craving things that were sweet and light and happy to perk me up. So I created a treasury of items that took me to a happy place just looking at them all. These would all be lovely buys, so I wanted to share.

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