meat rabbits

I am just getting started on my meat rabbit herd. So far I have got a New Zealand White buck and 2 Californian does from one breeder and then 2 broken New Zealand does and what I was told is a Red New Zealand buck from another breeder. From googling I am thinking that maybe he is a meat mutt...

Hatties Hoppy Hoppers journal. Currently I raise Mini Rex, Meat rabbits, "my does are NZW and buck is a Californian" and I have some lionheads. I started showing Mini Rex as of Oct 2017. Right now I have a litter of 7 and a half week old mini rexes and a litter of 6 week olds. I'll have to...

Hello, I have recently gained an interest in raising rabbits for meat. I have done a considerable amount of research, but have several questions that are more pertinent to raising rabbits in NC, as well as a few general questions that I'm hoping others who have raised rabbits for meat purposes...

I have a small 'farm' up a couple of canyons in the high desert of Idaho. I made the decision to eat only the meat that I have raised and killed myself, and rabbits are our main meal. We also raise chickens, turkeys, a couple of calves and (hopefully soon) pigeons. Lots of green stuff as well...

I'm I breeding for the meat pen but I don't nessesarily want to bring in a new pedigree rabbit with perfect loins just so I can breed it inefficiently. I'm not nessecarily against inbreeding as long as there's no mutated toes or brain damage, but I don't wanna breed brother to sister. How would...

Yes, I'm asking a newbie question. But my last breeding stock died off because caging and ventilation specifications were not met, and this time, I'm done being stupid. And by efficient, I mean money efficient. I don't want to spend 1,000 to house my breeding stock and fryers just for it to be...

I have a system that can catch rabbit poo, but the pee is acidic and will burn your poor plants, and make your compost smelly~ :sick. So the question is, how do you separate urine from fecal matter? Should I rinse it? Use a dry solution? Separate it somehow? And the 'poo collector' has a wire...