We haven't had much trouble with parasites, pests, or disease but the rabbits have only been in the colony for 3 seasons. We may run into trouble down the road.
I don't really know how to figure out the appropriate size for a colony. We just put rabbits into a system we already had to see what would happen and it worked.
Basically just used permaculture to tell us how to best utilize our rabbits and the area that we were growing the cannabis in.
The system utilizes a ton of permaculture principles:
Integrate rather than segregate (cannabis and rabbits in same place)
Value the marginal (used a failed hugel mound as burrows)
Slow and small solutions/change (built the system over the course of a couple years)
Obtain a yeild
Use and value renewable resources/materials (used fencing we already had)
Catch and store energy (positioned high on slope to manage nutrient flows)
quotingThats awesome. I have been thinking about adding rabbits here.
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Do rabbits have any negative effect on the land if left in one place too long?
I would imagine the size of the colony would matter. How about parasites and such?