Bunny poo, leaf mold and cover crop

I have an unlimited amount of rabbit dropping available to me from a couple of nearby rabbit 4H clubs and also a lot of well seasoned leaf mold. Small veggie garden. Does anyone know how much bunny poo top use, how thick to apply? The info on the internet all use so many pounds per square foot which isn't that useful to me. This garden is only two years old. I just put cardboard on top of the lawn and put leaf mold and whatever I could find on top of that. Was moderately productive.

Can I put a thick layer of leaf mold on top of that and just plant in the leaf mold? Couldn't find out anything on the net about planting in leaf mold although planting right in sheet mulch is supposed to be ok.

Too late for a cover crop?

I live in zone 6 in eastern Pennsylvania, spring is happening now, rapidly.

I have bunnies and use the manure in a few ways- first, in holes, when i'm putting in plants, if the hole is deep enough I put in a handful of manure.
I also use it as a top dressing, fancy word for just dumping it on the beds around the plants. I garden year round, and have no leaf mold, but if I were in PA I'd be putting a thick layer of bunny poo down and then topping it with the leaf mold and planting directly into it (starts, anyway, I guess large seeds would be okay but not sure about smaller seeds). This may depend on whether this manure has bedding with urine in it too, which might not be great for germination (air pockets, nitrogen). I age my manure in a barrel and even with bedding, coffee grounds (which I use to absorb pee), etc if there are any seeds they immediately sprout in there, though, so I think you're probably good.
Lastly I make manure tea, and apply when I need/remember to.

Rabbit manure is gold in the garden! what a great resource you have!

Thanks for the advice. Tererza. Will try that! The 4 H Clubs are a great resource - I am so lucky to that the donor lives just a little over half a mile (.8km) from my house. I'm going to gift some to my friends!

You may find this video interesting.

My experience of having rabbits direct depositing on raised beds before planting is that it attracted vast numbers of worms.  With leaf mulch over it should be even better.  The pellets are probiotic as well as prebiotic so improves soil life.  They are known for there safety in seldom causing fertilizer burn on transplants.

Rabbits  were part of our 4-H permaculture plan before permaculture was a know term in the 1950's.  Together with goat manure it helped us produce large harvests of vegetables to sell 0n our neighbor hood route. My mother was club leader and taught Rodale Institute principles of homesteading for a profit.   Encourage your doner to think about stacking a gardening project with the rabbits.  My sister and I won a county award for making the most profit on our combined projects even without counting the much of the produce used by the family.

Thanks, Hans, that's good to know you had such a good experience with the rabbit manure. The video makes me wish I were younger with more resources but I'll take the poo!