Rabbits - do they live in muck heaps?

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Hi all. Had a big hole in my muck heap the other day and this morning there was a rabbit sitting on the top of my muck heap digging away. I don't mind if they want to live there - has anyone else had this? Surely there is nothing that they are eating in the muck heap so I can only assume they want to live there!
 
They are highly unlikely to build a permenant burrow in a muck heap becuase it isn't stable enough for them. But it is quite possible that they are feeding there. If someone has thrown our some old hay or carrots or something. Rabbits are what is called noturnally coprophagic - which means they pass a semi digested poo at night which they then eat before finally passing the little round balls we are more used to. I suppose they may well find something in horse poo which is appetising.
 
Yes, last summer we had a whole load of babies come out of our muck heap. I wouldn't mind except that they kept flinging shite everywhere and making such a mess!!
 
Now you think rabbits in a muck heap is bad ...... here is the rabbit poo in 1 of my fields that i found last week when our snow melted , thousands of rabbits come down off the moors here in winter hence this mess ! at night i watch the cctv in my stables and often there are rabbits munching the hay along side my horse !!!

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Hi Christi! That is a lot of rabbit poo!!! I only had one rabbit on the muck heap - obviously there are more around. I hope they don't make a nest in the muck heap cos they won't be happy when the farmer comes and takes the muck away.
 
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