I have been doing a lot of reading about lawn care, gardening, and so forth. We have 4 sheep, 5 chickens, and 4 rabbits, I don't have to tell you that's a lot to clean up after! It turns out that all the "cleaning" is some very valuable fertilizer. The chicken poop is considered "hot" so it has to be set aside and composted for several months, I learned that the hard way when I transplanted some flowers and shrubs.
My latest venture was what to do with the rabbit mess. I have started to take the left over hay and rabbit droppings and collecting them into a trashcan and when the can is full I have been shaking it over a particular section of yard. I do this before I mow and just mulch everything together. This has yielded some very awesome results! This section of lawn grows as much in 3 days as the rest of the yard does in a week. The weeds and clover are being chocked out by the grass and it as green as I could ever hope it to be.
I have also started taking the leftover hay scraps and collecting them, the molding stuff works the best and spreading those around and mulching them into the yard. I have some spots where the ground is a bit more rocky and the soil not so great, and the additional organic matter helps keep the water in andd provide a layer of thatch that would not be there.
I quit bagging and I'm exclusively mulching until just before winter sets in. I have a few bad spots in some areas where the ground is very hard, so I have started to aerate the ground and I'll add some off my rabbit mix to those spots and see if I can replicate the results. I'll start to take some pictures and make a record of my progress and try to tabulate some kind of structure to it all.
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