Are rabbit droppings edible/paleo?

[Sally]

Hi guys,

I remember in grade 5 at a french-Canadian school watching an education video for kids where an Inuit boy was stuck outside in a storm.  In one of the scenes he came across rabbit droppings and began eating them ravenously.  During an intermission our teacher explained to us that rabbit droppings are a great survival food, and very nutritious.  I noticed that in french-Canadian culture discussion of eating animal feces and drinking animal urine for medicine are less taboo than in English speakers.  I can't find any sites on the internet promoting rabbit feces as a survival food, only vague reports of dangerous parasites/bacteria.  Was this just a wives tale?  Anyone have knowledge about this?

[Brad462]

I hear the taste is really shitty.  I think I will pass.  Urine therapy is about as taboo as I get.

[goodsamaritan]

Industry feeds chicken poop to fish ponds and pigs

[jessica]

Hmmm... I have rabbits.  All I know about rabbit turds is that once in while they will produce a cluster of droppings that they will then eat for it's probiotic properties.

[JeuneKoq]

When there were still cows in the fields next to where I live, I would walk my dog over there and she would eat the fresh cow shit. The other owners didn't allow their dogs to do the same 

 My guessing was she ate it for the fibers and all the good stuff she wasn't getting from her raw meat diet. When carnivores eat an animal, they also eat its guts where all the predigested/ fermented vegetables are left. Maybe that's why she was attracted to it.

[sabertooth]

I have rabbits that are feed mostly grass and vegetables and the droppings taste like earthy grass. Real clean but not very appealing, being mostly dry plant fibers.

I am mixing the droppings in with my compost heap which has scraps from my butchering, and vegetable wast from my girlfriends juice bar, and hay from my chicken coop... in the spring I am going to have the best soil ever for my raised garden beds

[TylerDurden]

From what I read, rabbits eat their droppings. That is not  the dried out pellets which presumably are the result of a second trip through the rabbit's gut, but the cecotropes which  are moist and just predigested hay/grass which has gone through the rabbit's gut once. In theory, because the cecotropes are fermented they would be "less worse" to eat than the dried out pellets, the latter being the toxic remains gotten rid of by the body. That said, we humans are not designed to eat grass or hay, however fermented, and eating what has just gone through a rabbit's gut  is just not palatable. Plus, the rabbit needs this food.

[goodsamaritan]

whoa interesting tyler

[cherimoya_kid]

I have rabbits that are feed mostly grass and vegetables and the droppings taste like earthy grass. Real clean but not very appealing, being mostly dry plant fibers.

I am mixing the droppings in with my compost heap which has scraps from my butchering, and vegetable wast from my girlfriends juice bar, and hay from my chicken coop... in the spring I am going to have the best soil ever for my raised garden beds

I'd add some minerals like dolomite (or raw crushed bone), and some seaweed emulsion for trace minerals.

[raw-al]

Not sure I would make a habit of it but Aajonus of course suggested eating the intestines of butchered cattle, provided of course it was grass fed etc. probiotics was the reason. I once had a dropping from a rabbit and I lived to tell the tale. If the rabbit was eating pellets or something unnatural then I would stay away from it

AV and his crowd told tales of PPL with some pretty serious issues who 'got healthy' from eating the cattle intestines.

Urine therapy (has been discussed here many times) may gross some out, but it is legit and very useful for persons with chronic disorders. Probably a raw diet would be better choice, but I am not chronically sick, so I cannot say.

[sabertooth]

Ive been making blendec smoothies with sheep stomach and intestines. It turns into a pudding which I find quite good.

I have only been eating it for the last month, but from what I can tell, it has the potential to be an extremely nourishing super food, which may help people with gut and digestive issues.

I have a hunch that a three week stomach smoothie fast could even heal many digestive disorders such as ulcers, crones, irritable bowl, leaky gut, etc!

Though, I may have difficulty in finding someone to back any studies which would prove my hypothesis!