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

Well, rabbits are inclined to urinate quite a bit, so the degree of moisture 
was never a concern.  Now, I'm not sure about your weather but we had quite 
a bit of humidity and frequent inversion layers (heat that beat down on you) 
in good ol' Wine Country.  Seems it wasn't quite as humid as when we hauled 
horses in the south but close enough.  I would think you wouldn't need to 
add any additional moisture.  Of course, the sheets had been well 
"irrigated" by the time they ended up in the bottom of everything <g>

I think the urine was a good part of the process of breaking down the 
sheetrock.  I'm not sure diluting it would help.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "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..