Trickle down animal bedding economics, is my new weak sauce hack.
Our bunnies are pampered, indulged pets.
The receive locally grown no spray hay to eat and hardwood pellets to pee on.
Our chickens are tough old birds that get the bunnies spoiled hay as bedding.
It is much better than the autumn leaves I used to give them, both more absorbent and warmer.
The soiled wood pellets and bunnies berries go directly on the surface of garden beds, any time of year.
When I clean out the chicken coop in the winter, the bedding goes directly onto garden beds.
During the growing seasons, that bedding goes onto the compost pile, where the chickens process it into oblivion, and the worms turn it into castings.
I've considered building my next coop directly over a worm bin, but I think the moisture that worms would need would not be good for the chickens lungs.
Besides, it's good mulch for garden beds.
I wish I wasn't paying for hay in the first place but since I am, I might as well get the most out of it.
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