Can I eat Rabbit Poop?
I know that rabbits eat their droppings (cecotropes) and I have heard of feeding rabbit droppings to pigs. Rabbits are vegetarians. There droppings do not have the same consistency or negative secondary factors as carnivores or omnivores (i.e. people, dogs, cats, etc). In essence rabbit poop is partially digested plant material.
In a survival situation, finding and catching rabbits can be done, but it's not easy. Finding and picking up rabbit droppings, would be a lot easier.
Can a person safely eat rabbit droppings? If yes is there any nutritional value in it?
Note: this question is only about the fecal droppings NOT the cecotropes. Cecotropes are NOT easy to find.
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There is one story of someone doing this,
You see rabbits are animals that chew their cud. Unlike ruminant animals-cows-they don't have divisions or multiple stomachs. You see, a rabbit on first pass excretes little balls of hi-energy, vegan wrapped enzymes. The rabbit, a few hours or days later, returns and eats round one, and on second pass thru the stomach it becomes poop. Rabbits eat their round one veggie balls and/or their neighbours. Rabbits are highly communal animals. Anyhow, with the aid of his trained eye, Grandpa and I collected and added these rabbit poops to our soup mix, one of the most enzyme rich foods known to man.
Quick and Easy One Pot Rabbit Poop Soup
And supposedly rabbit poop cures hangovers, see here and here.
On the other hand rabbits can get worms,
Rabbits consuming fresh grass or greens might consume tapeworm eggs. Obeliscoides cuniculi, a stomach worm, causes appetite and weight loss if your rabbit carries a lot of them. Pinworms (Passalurus abiguus) are among the most common worms infecting bunnies. Rabbits might also pick up roundworms, or ascarids. Wild rabbits are prone to additional types of worms, but these rarely affect domestic bunnies.
So it really doesn't seem like a good idea.
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