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  1. Disaster Preparedness General Discussion
    Hello Folks, I want to feed rabbit ears, feet, liver and heart to my dog and cat but I'm worried that they would go crazy when they see my live rabbits and try to jump at their cages and bark more at them because he wants to eat them. Do i just rinse it and that's all? or do i need to soak it...
  2. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    Good afternoon Folks, I wanted to share my rabbit project that started early August 4 months ago and has been growing and going since. Ill post pictures at the bottom with more info about everything. I started this because of my grandpa, he was getting tired of rabbits because of how often they...
  3. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    I was wondering at what age should i ween my baby bunnies? I have a small litter of 2, They hit 6 weeks on thursday. I see online different things about it, from 6 weeks, to 8 weeks, to 10 weeks. What is the best age to ween them since you have experience? they do eat pellets and hay even though...
  4. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    Good evening fellow Survivalists, I picked up my Grandparents 7 female meat rabbits over the weekend, i have them temporary in cages in the chicken coup. I also bought a female Giant Flemish rabbit and my sister gave me her male Holland flop (not really a meat rabbit) because she was done...
  5. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    I know this isn't specifically survival, but a lot of people here have rabbits, and this makes managing your rabbits a lot easier. We have had rabbits for over a decade, mostly for meat and fur production. We kept rabbit records on paper, just like most of the books tell you to. After several...
  6. Members Farms, Gardens & Homesteads
    Uggh! My garden space is awful, really. I never put the tomato cages away, the trellis I built for beans and birdhouse gourds is still hanging with old vines. Corn fodder, tomato vines, sweet potatoes hills, Oh my! :o: My troy tiller blew up and it just took the wind out of my sails, so to...
  7. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    So I have been reading everything I can find on raising meat rabbits, including a great deal of posts here on SB. Based on all the information I have read, I went ahead and designed a small backyard rabbitry. The idea of this is portability, I want to use this hutch cage design at my home, and...
  8. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    So, brief overview for you folks just flipping through. This is a cheap and easy way to feed your rabbits, quail, chickens, goats, bison....pretty much any animal, at a very reduced weight. The source (barley, in this case) is cheap and can be stored much like wheat and rice. Beyond that, one...
  9. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    Hi All. I've been thinking about posting this for a while. It's a piece I put together for a rabbit class I'll be teaching this summer. If you're thinking about raising rabbits, these are tips and tricks I've learned over the years. These are just my opinions and some folks will say I'm...
  10. Disaster Preparedness General Discussion
    Anyone else going to the Prepper's Expo at the Mohave County Fairgrounds today? I went yesterday and there's scads of excellent info and several terrific businesses there. Seminars on raising rabbits by Hostile Hare, straw bale gardening by Happy Gardener and aquaponics by Endless Food among...
  11. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    Wife is raising domestic rabbits and I will be doing the harvesting and everything to do with harvesting. I need input, best most humane way to slaughter. How to cut up etc. Last time I skinned a rabbit I was a kid. And we only kept the backstrap and hind quarters. And I just shot them in the...
  12. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    Interesting article about how Whole Foods is testing the market for rabbit meat, and the protest that followed. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/are-rabbits-pets-or-meat/378757/ Seems people are confused that rabbits were food before they were pets. What I find disturbing...
  13. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    It's a new year, so a new thread. (Yes, I realize that the new year was almost 3 months ago. :D:) I have been thinking a lot about what I'm getting accomplished and what I'm not getting accomplished, :o: I blame it on the fact that I have not a clue what I'm doing. :D: So the next 3 years...
  14. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    My wife and I have a bag of deer corn for the feeder. While I was filling up the rabbit feeders, I thought why not add some corn to their feed. Wild rabbits eat the corn out of the feeders, so why not add some corn to my rabbits food bowl? I'll keep yall updated on how things go.
  15. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    After building the rabbit hutch, my wife and I built a couple of hide-away boxes for the rabbits to get into. The box also acts as a birthing box, a place to get out of the cold winter wind, and a place to get off the wire of the cage. The problem is, the rabbits have been urinating in the...
  16. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    Wondering a little bit about other people's experiences. It looks like a viable way to get some meat. What kinds of problems have people had? What were your startup costs? Your results? What do you wish you'd done differently when starting out?
  17. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    What are the best rabbits to raise for meat and why? I am writing and article for the blog and would like some suggestions. My current list contains: New Zealand rabbit Californian rabbit Flemish giant The new zealand the californian are some of the best meat stock rabbits out there, that is...
  18. Disaster Preparedness General Discussion
    There are all kinds of articles out there talking about meat after SHTF. You want to know what is missing in a lot of those articles? Exact details. Awhile back we talked about how many chickens would be needed for SHTF. I would like to do this article in the same manner as the chicken...
  19. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    A rabbit hideaway box serves several purposes – it provides a place for the rabbit to hide, provides the doe with a birthing box for her litter, and provides a high place for a lookout point. Rabbits are prey animals, and as such will want to hide when they are scared. The rabbit hutch was...
  20. Farming, Gardening & Homesteading
    Have you considered raising rabbits as part of your long term SHTF survival plans? Rabbits are easy to raise, do not take a lot of room, do not make a lot of noise,, what is there not to like about rabbits? A couple of weeks ago my wife and daughter got a two Californian white rabbits. The...
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