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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

ok, that's what I was hoping to hear.  I made 'bins' out of scrap wood, 
about 6-8 inches deep under the hanging cages to keep the pellets in one 
place (I swear those things bounce more than superballs..lol)  Today, I 
started my biannual shovel-out, and hopefully I will finish it this week 
while I am on vacation.  I have some leftover grody-;ooking sheetrock to 
lay down on the bottom of the bins and hopefully by next summer, when 
it's time to shovel out again, it'll be crumbly.  It's pretty dry in 
there, though, the only moisture is the urine.  Perhaps I should wet it 
down once a month or so to help things along? It's a 4 doe/1 buck 
operation, and right now, I have a couple of cages of grow-outs..

Bev

Lynda wrote:
> 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?
>
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