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 Post subject: Eat up little piggies.
New postPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:11 pm 
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Here are the pictures of my meat rabbit breed experiment. The white rabbits in the photo are 8 weeks today. The Black rabbits are 6.5 weeks today. They are all outside in chicken/rabbit coops right now to grow out. One group is 5 and one is 4. They are all males. The group of 5 has a little more room so I think it works out to the same per rabbit. The black ones are Blue silver fox buck to Cali/ nzw mix doe. The white are NZW doe to NZW /Cali mix buck.
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Black buck-59 oz
Black buck-58oz other smaller cage
White buck-48 oz
White buck- 49oz
White buck- 51oz
Unless noted from the large cage.

So black IS slimming because I was surprised to find that the younger cross (black) out weighed the older cross by an average of 10 oz. I thought it would be the same.
gallery/image.php?album_id=74&image_id=615 larger cage with 5
gallery/image.php?album_id=74&image_id=616 smaller cage with 4
About 2-3 weeks from now I plan to report dress out weights and results. :chef:

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I've also noticed that completely black rabbits tend to look smaller than they are. You can't always trust your eyes.

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