Daniel Ellwanger

I know I am late to the game, but you could cut the IBC totes in half and make them into wicking beds.  Turn them into useful raised bed gardens for either flowers or vegetables.  To make them less painful to look at, you could either paint the tubs a pretty color, or wrap them in wood planking.  I did this just for the raised beds, but if you're thinking of putting IBC totes up anyway, cutting them in half and turning them into garden beds seems like it could both be productive and function as a vehicle block.  Depending on how much space you need to cover, this could be a very productive use.

Just for ideas, here is one way to do it...

https://www.instructables.com/Veggie-Planters-From-an-IBC-Tote-and-Old-Fence/

I guess it is situational.  For that person in their location that may have been true, but my experience was different.  
It is something to try, and if it doesn't work for you, then you have to work through the issues.  For me, because I have pure-bred Silver Fox rabbits, they may not have a genetic resistance to Cocci.  One of the rabbits I have is from Joel Salatin's farm, where his son had spent years developing through genetic lines a resistant rabbit that can function on grass.  Although the buns from that line had less susceptibility, they were mixed with my Silver Fox line, and every one that I grew out on grass in the tractor had some level of liver disease.  

Good luck with your plans!

Josh Hoffman wrote:

Daniel Ellwanger wrote:
My buns developed coccidiosis from the contact with the ground.

Daniel, thank you for the information!

I had read in the book I referenced in the post that coccidiosis is not normally an issue if you butcher 14-16 weeks.

I am glad you mentioned it because your experience is telling me it is.

Hello Jersey Permies!

I am in Camden County. Looking  to make connection with like minded Permies and homesteaders.

I have 1/2 an acre, raise laying hens and rabbits. I've been developing a perennial garden for a few years.  This year I plan to add in meat chickens and a permaculture orchard.

Would love to meet new people who have the same goals.

I tractored rabbits a few years ago. Only my grow outs. I converted my old rabbit cages to Salatin-style rabbit tractors (wood slat floors). Although I initially liked it, here are my thoughts.

Pros:
Definite savings on feed.
Diverse forage (if you're not a monocrop grass lawn)


Cons:
My buns developed coccidiosis from the contact with the ground.
The slats only allowed access to about 50% of the grass at the base of the tractors.
When moving, a lot of the new grass was compacted by the slats (this happens with wire as well.
When I harvested the buns, I discovered one had a broken leg (obviously from moving the tractor, even though I didn't know that until I harvested them.

Possible improvements:
I recently heard on Jack Spirko's podcast, that a solution to crimping the grass is to have a completely open bottom to the tractor. Then lay out your welded wire or other wire fencing on the ground (lol Ike a roll of it. Place the tractor on the roll of fencing, and just slide the open bottom tractor along the rolled out fencing. This can prevent the crimping of grass while still providing the protection of escaping bunnies.

I still won't do this as I have the problems with coccidiosis, but this sounded like a good solution to a lot of the other issues I gmhad with it

Best of luck!

Love the Ferments and the Rocket Kiln ideas