Same experience here when we began raising rabbits for meat 13 years ago. (Childhood in San Diego, CA, so the goat kid in the city only lasted for a few days! ) Although I have always been knee-deep in any animals I could get away with having, it was raising/showing/training but no harvesting. I'm excited to be a part of this community and meet y'all! Thanks for being here at the start of my journey ♥Ĭlick to expand.Welcome! Your start-up story sounds similar to our family's. So simple and cheap, really good option to consider for a colony. I video'd a lot of the production so I could condense it in a youtube short, but yall can search 'cattle panel greenhouse' to get the idea for set up, then build it out as you would a normal rabbit colony with wired bottom and a shade. We got the chickens to go with the rabbits and make it cleaner, they do well together but I wish I would've down about the different chicken breeds being lower on the pecking order, the low pecking order breeds work smoother in a rabbit colony.Īnyways! I can't wait to post my colony build, it's one of those cattle panel greenhouses and I'm so pleased with how well it held up in mountain snow and wind. I know rabbits are easier to skin, and I plan on doing strictly fryers so it should be simpler too. Our PTSD is healed now (I kid) and we have a bit of mental callouses developed. Removing the skin on an old chicken - whew. I cleaned our first chicken as they watched (they wanted to) but without a plucker we had to skin it. The kids don't seem too worried about it either, we watched many dispatches and cleanings online, and the first handful were difficult but now we are weathered to the idea. Now that I'm in my adulthood, pets are a luxury I can't afford - not in this economy with a young family, anyway - and I haven't issue with dispatching and cooking these childhood favorites (Cali's rather than lops this time). When I had pet rabbits I had mini lops, for a few years I had 2 in an outdoor hutch with a hedgehog! They got along surprisingly well, and it was very much a source of therapy for me to nurture those sweetie pies and see them nurture each other across species. But I know nothing, I've never done any other husbandry before. In many ways, they must be the perfect livestock. Had a few pet rabbits in my childhood, always a pleasure to deal with such gentle, loving, and easy creatures. I've been planning for meat rabbits since last year. Such is life, other's validation usually means you're playing too small anyways. Half traditional, half trend setter almost no one approves yet almost everyone follows suit eventually. Hi rabbit folk! My name is Renee, I am the matriarch of a millennial family with three gen alpha children and a husband who supports us so I can waste more time taking chances, making mistakes, and getting messy.
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