Why Rabbits part 2
Last time we talked about the many wonders of Rabbit Berries, but that is just one in the long line of reasons to keep and raise rabbits. The main reason, in this house, that we raise rabbits is for meat. It actually took a while for my husband and I to get use to eating rabbit but now we wouldn't have it any other way. In our Rabbitry, we have two bucks (boy bunnies) who have 4 does each (girl bunnies). From those 8 does we get approximately 4 litters per month of 4-11 kits (baby bunnies). That's 60lbs of rabbit meat a month. We are a family of five, so this gives us plenty of meat to supplement the grocery bill and to put back. Now that the logistics are out of the way, let me answer this all time favorite question: Why Rabbit Meat? First off rabbits are cheap to keep. Rabbits do not eat a lot of feed (pellets, kitchen scraps, weeds, hay, etc) they waste a lot but do not eat much. There are thousands of feeding regimes for feeding rabbits and I encourage anyone i
