Beyond The Pellet (The Urban Rabbit Project Book 2) Kindle Edition

While there is -some- information on plants to avoid and a bit on some plants to try, what's missing is how to make good nutrition choices for your rabbits. Nothing about the nutritive content of different plants ("they're natural! What more do you need!"), nothing on how to balance plants for a varied and nutritious diet. Even basic portion size is totally absent (though described for pellets in some detail ironically). Instead pages and pages of rants about GMO, the cancerous agenda of non-organic foods etc. We hardly need to buy a book for that: having the INFORMATION to go "beyond the pellet" is lacking, and that's what I think most of us buy a book for. Anyone can let rabbits forage in their field without buying a book, and the militant granola routine is free on YouTube for the taking. Essentially this says: eat weeds and rejoice in your organic lifestyle. The rest is up to you.

I'm not sure there is actually any credible information in this entire book. The author has no actual understanding of nutrition and instead is feeding a Hodge podge of "stuff" regardless of what is healthy or correct. The author also gets very "conspiracy theory" in the beginning before stating that he's just a guy and really doesn't have proof to any of his claims. Total waste of money. Buyers of this book will be lucky if they don't end up killing rabbits after following this BS advice

These shouldn't be "volumes". These each are tiny books with 14 size font and double spacing, totaling 80 pages or so.I wouldn't personally charge the customer for two "volumes" when they should have been one book together. I say you should have ceased printing the first and made a second edition with the information from beyond the pellet put into backyard meat rabbits and made a normal sized book.Second, this book doesn't add any knowledge when compared to the internet as a resource and the combined use of common sense. Not to be overly negative folks, I see a lot of people have had a great experience with it, but in my opinion, it is VERY much so geared towards a middle school science project or hobby. Something you would buy your kids who want rabbits and you want them to take some responsibility in figuring out how to take care of them best.

This book tells you what a rabbit can eat, how much they need each day, how to make hay yourself and gives website's you can purchase items that might be hard to find. Worth every penny and I have had meat rabbits for years and wanted a way to feed them myself year round. From spring to fall I feed them a lot from the garden and yard (good weeds and herbs) but I did not know how much more I could be feeding them! Will buy more books from this Author!!!

There is a lot of helpful information and although the other books such as the colonial rearing I will personally not be using myself, if you only interested raising rabbits and cutting the cost of feed or even other ethical reasons this is an excellent book and I have every intention of using. he I raise rabbits for meat, I want to give them the best I can possibly afford and pellets are though nice and affordable nothing can beat feeding them off of your garden and work (if you can put the time in). It is a great book if you want to find a way to feed your livestock or even pet rabbits in a more naturally and holistic manner in which you are in control of the kinds of foods you give them.

Really wanted to find ways to feed something other than just pellets and as the title says, that's what this book is about. Everyone kept saying, "You can't feed rabbits greens, you have to feed them pellets." That made no sense to me. I grew up on a farm and I distinctly remember feeding our rabbits giant armloads of grass that I picked every day. Boyd goes into this topic teaching about nutritional balance and has many idea for how to and what to feed your rabbits. Great book. Easy to understand, straight forward and to the point.

I read this book in two sittings, and it is an easy read. The tone conversational, in an advisory way of sharing knowledge. There is no right or wrong way, just what works for the authors. I live in the High Desert of California and reading the book I became jealous, because growing green things here is difficult, but it did find a number of things I can grow and improve my rabbit's diet. And therefore mine.The information in this book is amazing. It gives lots of pointers on introducing fresh foods to the rabbit herd, safe foods to grow or buy, where to get seeds, starter plants and so on.I highly recommend this book to everyone wanting to feed their rabbits the best possible natural way. And learn about growing foods without the dry technical scientific terminology. This book left me willing to try new ways, did not make me feel like a failure for feeding pellets (for now)

Keeping in line with our decision not to feed the animals at Icebox Farm commercial food, within a month of adopting our first two rabbits, we switched them to a non-pellet diet. They eat oats, wheat, boss and a plethora of greens and vegetables grown in our garden. We are so thankful to Boyd Craven and the passionate folks on the Backyard Meat Rabbits FB page for the support, knowledge and willingness to share as we all learn together. After tons of research, Boyd has launched his new book (today). If you have any interest in raising rabbits naturally, please download it. It's a great resource!!

Insightful book, however it's COMPLETELY written around rabbits being caged for meat, so the language is quite unpleasant in places for those looking to enrich the lives of their companion animals.Very little nutritional information besides 'it's natural' and 'I've had success therefore it's ok'. The whole book is written around creating nutritious meat for humans, and not necessarily giving buns a long life, so I'd questions whether a lot of the plants, or this diet at all, is ok to feed long term.It is ok as a starting point for further research, and maybe a single source if you're planning on raising your own meat. But if you're looking to create nutritious meals for your beloved pets, this very short (almost a blog post) book is best taken with a pinch of salt, and supplemented by extensive research elsewhere.

A very interesting book (albeit short) for country people contemplating rabbit raising on a commercial scale. The rabbit pellet diet normally talked about in small scale set- ups is simply not profitable. This publication goes a long way in discussing a diet made up predominately of grass, willow twigs, comfrey and good hay along with other greens. The only missing part are sections on high tonnage root crops such as mangles, beets, turnips etc. Well worth a read or two as a good start.

I was thoroughly disappointed by this book. This is my first review (after years on Amazon) but I felt it necessary to warn others. One third of the book is dedicated to the subject of pellets, 10 pages dedicated to the "evil-ness" of pellets their GMO ingredients and pesticides used (which can easily be avoided). 6 pages dedicated to safe plants lists (Google was more exhaustive). the remainder 20 pages (yeah...it's the helium of books and may float away) to willow, fodder sprouting and comfrey (and some bits on tropical plants that I'm pretty sure only Floridians have). Lastly some bits on drying hay/gardening. That's it that's all. At least when/if I live to 129 years old I can easily read the large print of this book. Book in need of serious editing and refinement to get to the point and supplemented with visual examples of plants, model feed plans, nutritional analysis of many common ones. One page would suffice to say pellets are easy but a double edged sword.

Very informative, learned lots of new info. Would recommend this to all new people starting out or for all owners for good reference.

Was disappointing. Really large print, short, and didn't have comprehensive lists of plants to feed. I like the concept though.