What are all the uses of one rabbit?

I'm racking my brain trying to think of more ways to integrate my rabbit into my permaculture system. So far the uses I've tried are:

- Friendship
- Poop as compost ingredient
- Selling the poop online
- Growing oats for rabbit hay -> leftover oats composted or used as mulch -> more oats grow from this cycle
- Ripping up paper for future use as compost ingredient (he has a box full of paper to destroy)
- Temporary weed management (rabbits dont rip out the roots)
Naturally there's also:
- Breeding and using rabbits for fur/pinkies/selling pets/meat

^I'm a bit more interested in uses that don't have me killing my pet rabbit or obtaining more. Just trying to think of more ways that a rabbit is useful

Alex Laker wrote:I'm racking my brain trying to think of more ways to integrate my rabbit into my permaculture system. So far the uses I've tried are:

- Friendship
- Poop as compost ingredient
- Selling the poop online
- Growing oats for rabbit hay -> leftover oats composted or used as mulch -> more oats grow from this cycle
- Ripping up paper for future use as compost ingredient (he has a box full of paper to destroy)
- Temporary weed management (rabbits dont rip out the roots)
Naturally there's also:
- Breeding and using rabbits for fur/pinkies/selling pets/meat

^I'm a bit more interested in uses that don't have me killing my pet rabbit or obtaining more. Just trying to think of more ways that a rabbit is useful

Just brainstorming here... but they are a prey niche ecologically, so if you're interested in luring predators you can put them out in the open (possibly protected by fence).

They may be able to identify useful plants for you, though I'm not sure what they will categorically not eat, or what they eat when in need of medicine, etc.

Petting/animal therapy is popular. There were rabbits, dogs, and cats that got carried into my university campus during exam time. They were very popular.

By the way it can be useful to describe an entity in terms of its needs, products, and functions or behaviors.

So it might create new lines of thought to also fill in the list of needs and functions.

The classic example given in permaculture design classes is the chicken:

L. Johnson wrote:By the way it can be useful to describe an entity in terms of its needs, products, and functions or behaviors.

So it might create new lines of thought to also fill in the list of needs and functions.

The classic example given in permaculture design classes is the chicken:

Never did myself that work even after my pdc, but a quick search give me this description for the rabbit, found on pinterest. I could add too, that rabbit make a better use of most thining, weeding, prunus or garden surplus that your homestead produce , compared to compost or burning.

they can also clear small vegetated areas (rabbit tractor, movable fencing, etc)

I find it's sort of selective depending on what's growing there. If I had a space I wanted to turn into a new garden bed, I'd put rabbits on it intensively til even the roots are gone/dug up/etc. With heavy enough use they can totally denude a space, and leave droppings/urine.

The big use in my home is household waste disposal/conversion. We eat huge amounts of veg and fruit and probably 60-70% of my pair of rabbits' diet is the scraps from that (and our trash for city disposal is minimal). The remainder is weeds from my garden.