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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEA curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Animal Care.

In this Badge Bit you will share appropriate kitchen scraps with a vertebrate animal system



Minimum requirements:
  - Feed a gallon of kitchen scrap material to a vertebrate animal or animals
          - Spread out over multiple sessions
  - Must be appropriate for that animal

Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
  - Feeding your vertebrate animal system food scraps
  - Prove the volume adds up to a gallon over time
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Yeah! Bunnies were going to take forever to get to 8gal.
I estimate the pumpkins are a gallon each, the 5# bag of muffin mix is a gallon and the 2 salid bags are 1/2gal each.
Most of the time I give them scraps during the day and what ever they don't eat becomes chop and drop, but when the pumpkins froze and thawed I put them in their night cage for them to spend all week snacking on.
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Muffin mix rancid
Muffin mix rancid
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Pumpkin getting scalped
Pumpkin getting scalped
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Lilac with pumpkin
Lilac with pumpkin
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Blonde with pumpkin
Blonde with pumpkin
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Bag 1
Bag 1
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Bag 2
Bag 2
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More normal offering
More normal offering
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Luckily this BB only requires 1 gallon of food scraps.  By "food scraps" it means left over bits from cooking.  Like peels, cores, outer leaves, stems, etc.  I see some carrot peels in one pic.  Was the salad mix bought for them or the end of the bag that got wilty?  I'm not sure rancid muffin mix really counts.  How did the pumpkins get frozen?
 
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Mike Haasl wrote:Luckily this BB only requires 1 gallon of food scraps.  By "food scraps" it means left over bits from cooking.  Like peels, cores, outer leaves, stems, etc.  I see some carrot peels in one pic.  Was the salad mix bought for them or the end of the bag that got wilty?  I'm not sure rancid muffin mix really counts.  How did the pumpkins get frozen?


My husband buys the salad for himself at Costco but if he is slow at eating it the bunnies get what's heading towards green slime. The pumpkins were sitting on my porch and we had a week of 20F- weather before returning to our normal winter 40-50's. The muffin mix hubby opened the bag said "take a wiff of this, I'm not eating it!" I figured most of it was grain with a bit more sugar than I'd like to feed them regularly but for a 1 day treat why not. I don't know if it was deer or other wild life but something hoovered up every last bit over night after I moved the cage.
Addition stale tortilla chips.
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Tortillas
Tortillas
 
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Could I get this badge if I ran a gallon of scraps through invertebrates and then fed those to my vertebrates? I only have quail access to work with for vertebrates--I can feed their feeders, and then the quail will eat the resulting meal of mealworms and maggots, but like Uncle Roger they think vegetables "taste like sad."  I have a household of picky eaters (I won't eat non-organic stuff or white flour and she doesn't like leftovers) so I have the leftovers needed for this badge bit.  Hm, and the quail are picky too. . .did I infect them with my contagion?
 
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I don't think that fits this BB...  Can you take your scraps somewhere and feed them to someone else's vertebrates just enough for the BB?
 
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Bumped and see if I can get to 8 gallon for pep.
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Goo tends to end up more Ruth stout
Goo tends to end up more Ruth stout
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But they do eat some
But they do eat some
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And rain Rinse
And rain Rinse
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Trace contribution
Trace contribution
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Lilac getting ready to escape
Lilac getting ready to escape
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Strawberry tops
Strawberry tops
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More salad
More salad
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Even more salad
Even more salad
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Eat faster
Green beans
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Wow my husband waisted a lot of salad
Wow my husband waisted a lot of salad
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Yard waist for veriety
Yard waist for veriety
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Banana
Banana
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1 quart rice
1 quart rice
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Salad and peppers
Salad and peppers
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Sad lettuce
Sad lettuce
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$ of forgotten salad
$ of forgotten salad
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Broccoli leaves
Broccoli leaves
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Never ending salad waist
Never ending salad waist
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Errant gust of gravity
Errant gust of gravity
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Fat and sassy bunnies
Fat and sassy bunnies
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To get the PEP BB, you need to post your proof over in that BB.  Based on these pics, I'd want you to be clear on if that is "kitchen scrap" material or new purchased food for the bunnies.  The BB requires it to be scrap.  Plus you need to prove the volume so collecting it in a container (1 gallon pail?) would help the certifiers.

 
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Everybody got sick the day before the church had Christmas supper, Mama was supposed to make a big ol' salad. Everything went slimy
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Gallon jug for scale (did not feed them grease)
Gallon jug for scale (did not feed them grease)
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