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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Arg, that was the ex's job <g>  and a long time ago.  <g>  I think he did 
the complete under the cage thing about every 6 weeks to 3 months and the 
sheetrock had become a crumbly mess with the pellets.

Now, the thing is he had it doing triple duty.  We had the rabbit cages 
handing in a barn on two walls.  He put sheetrock up behind the cages to 
keep the urine off the walls.  Then he had the "chute" piece that came away 
from the wall at an angle toward the front so that everything kinda slid 
down.  On the ground where everything slid to, he had more sheetrock.  So, 
the sheetrock started on the wall behind the cages and then moved to being 
the chute and when it become more beat up (began to fall apart), it became 
the stuff on the ground.  I'm guessing that all told the sheetrock lasted 
between 6 and 9 months.

However, by the time it went into the compost, it had really fallen apart 
and crumbled into little pieces and the paper had more or less 
disintegrated.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> Lynda, how long does it take for a piece of sheetrock, say the 5/8"
> thick stuff, to loose its integrity under rabbit cages?