Advise please!!!

[Hobby Farm]

One of the things I don't know is at what age do you process them for meat. How old/large do you let them become.

I think around six pounds live weight is a good processing size. Age is less important than size. Depending on what you feed them will determine how quickly the get to 6 pounds. I think this weight pertains mostly to larger breeds like Cali's and NZ's.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I usually butcher mine in between 8 and 12 weeks, at that age, they are around 8-10 lbs live weight. I won't go past 12 weeks b/c their fcr drops and you are feeding for not much growth.

 

[PatS]

You might check the 3rd page of this link. (Feb 5, '09) it is a blog by a young man who worked on Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm.
The are good pictures of the "tractor" the rabbits live in.

http://polyfaceapprentice.blogspot.com