Anybody breeding meat rabbit?

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Widgeondeke:
Good info so far. @Jackelope learned well you have :chuckle:

my kids have cut back on the bunnies. They currently aren't breeding. Focusing more on 4-H poultry, gardening and creative arts.

As stated:
no on alfalfa, Grass or Timothy is the best hay. I also give my rabbits treats from the garden: radishes, strawberries, root crop greens such as carrots, turnips, beets, parsnip, etc
Yes, Flemish are big boned. Look into California, Florida Whites, NZ, Rex or Chinchilla for meat.
Honestly, any breed can be eaten: even the backstraps of a Jersey Wooley make a nice snack :yike:

Saw dust has fine particulates and can cause respiratory issues. Pine shavings, pellets are good. I used hay in a pinch cause they'd eat there bedding

if we culled at 12 weeks or younger, fried em up. the older ones hit the crock pot or ground for tacos :drool: I like me some rabbit tacos

jackelope:
We were using gem white shavings for litter for a while but recently switched to the dry den pellets. The stuff is magical at keeping the odor and ammonia smell down.

We feed pretty much only pellets and a treat mix/conditioner stuff for show purposes. Occasionally we give them some sweet potato chunk or some carrot tops or radish tops as a treat. Too many vegetables can be too rich or make them fat.
My wife shows jersey woolies and my daughter shows Dutch rabbits. A few of the Dutch have gone to folks' freezers but they'd be the Cornish game hens of the rabbit world.

Machias:
I just put 14 in the freezer last weekend. Mine are NZ and California does bred to a Harlequin buck...some pretty colored babies for sure!

KFhunter:
I lost electricity last winter and the heated water bottles all froze up and broke, so everyone went to the freezer rather than buy 8 new water bottles.

I'll start again eventually but I want to rebuild the hutch entirely. It'll be a big hutch tractor that's cattle proof and designed for feeding hay mostly. 1/2 chickens and 1/2 rabbits in this big mobile hutch I move around with the Kubota.

jackelope:
Always look at hay as mostly a filler lacking the nutrition they need. Dunno.

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