Re: RE: Fertilizer

On Aug 27, 2004, at 3:40 PM, J. Griffin Crump wrote:

Before those of you who may have used Rabbit Chow for fertilizer rush out
and erect scarecrows in anticipation of a corn crop, I think you should
consider that this may just be a (sub)urban legend.

Well, not quite. The issue is not kernels of corn in the rabbit pellets, but corn by-products. Corn by-products have growth inhibitors in them (that come naturally in the corn).

Perhaps the inhibitors are destroyed by the "cooking" process what ever that is, but then again why take the chance, and why pay for something that you don;t want anyway. I can't say that all rabbit pellets have the same composition as Griff's, some may have more or less corn and other ingredients.

It is the alfalfa that is the important ingredient.

John



As promised a few months ago, I checked the ingredients of Rabbit Chow for
corn at the feed store today. Only "grains" were listed. About that time,
the store owner, with whom I have dealt for many years, came over and I told
him what I was looking for and why. After he stopped laughing, he noted the
size of the pellets (smaller than a kernel of corn), the fact that they are
composites, and that they are cooked in the manufacturing process. Even
allowing that corn was probably one of the grains in the mix, he didn't look
for it to produce any corn stalks.

I should emphasize here that the product I have been using these many years
(with neither corn nor crows resulting) is Purina Mills Rabbit Chow. If you
use some product that has whole kernels of raw grain, that might be another
story. And as to corn being a growth inhibitor, you couldn't tell it from
looking at this year's crop of seedlings. As I mentioned earlier this year,
I tilled in alfalfa in one seedling plot and Rabbit Chow in the other. I
can see no difference in growth. The seedlings are growing prodigiously,
with some fans having as many as 11 leaves.

-- Griff

zone 7 in Virginia


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernon G. Brown" <vgbro@peoplepc.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:51 AM
Subject: RE: [iris] RE: Fertilizer


Rabbit pellets have corn, etc. In them and the horse pellets do not making
the horse pellets straight fertilizer and the rabbit pellets will have
corn
growing around your iris.

Vernon G. Brown
Malevil Iris Gardens
Region 17 - USDA 7
AIS,ASI,MIS,RIS,SPIS,TBIS
Lubbock, Texas 79403

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf Of Char
Holte
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:43 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: [iris] RE: Fertilizer

BlankHi,

There was a big discussion on different types of Fertilizer. Including
rabbit
pellets. Anyone remember the reference?

Thanks, Char, New Berlin, WI

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