Rabbit, Guinea Pig and Hamster Waste For Compost?

Question

Can you compost the waste from rabbit, guinea pig and hamster cages? They have sawdust and straw bedding and I'm wondering if if would be possible to recycle it instead of binning it.

Thanks

Answer 1

I have been doing this for some years now. I have a large composting bag, into which I deposit the doodooh and bedding. I keep the thing going with any overripe fruit and greenery from the garden.

The whole thing is kept damp and is happily eaten by the worms, I have installed. The worms are huge and popular with my angling mates, for bait.

I drain the worm wee from the bottom. It is briliant fertiliser in its own right!

Answer 2

Absolutely. in fact, with a reasonable volume of shavings or sawdust these droppings are almost perfect for compost. The almost relates to a risk that the pile will burn if you do not keep it fairly moist. That is, bi0logical decomposition will create heat to sterilize the droppings, and that heating can cause spontaneous ignition.

So be careful to keep the pile moist.

Answer 3

Rabbits waste is very good for the soil as it contains a lot of nitrogen. Rabbit owners at one time or another were encouraged to collect their waste so it could be sold as fertilizer. I imagine the same could be said of guinea pig and hamster waste.

Answer 4

yes. As they eat a vegetarian diet it would be good.

Answer 5

Yes you can compost it.

When both me and my brother were kids we had 4 rabbits - 2 at one time - and we would always compost their bedding.  The primary school we went to composted the bedding from the Guinea Pig and Rabbit cages - that was back in the early 80's.

Answer 6

I would of thought so,they hav the right type of diet to make the type of poo that composts.The bedding will definatly make into compost.

Answer 7

Sure, it would be good for composting.