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Is anybody using acorns as rabbit food? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460383/

Will rabbits eat hot peppers --red dried or fresh or jalapeno fresh?

I am in Jersey City -- an urban environment within view of the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Starting around 35 years ago, the neighborhood has many raccoons. I see the outdoor hutches and tractors many here use. In Jersey City, would defecate on top of them. Is this paradoxically not an issue...

1) The topic is rabbits. 2) Quail have all the disadvantages of chickens and none of the advantages.

"... Dr. Steven Lukefahr has been an avid advocate of rabbit-raising ever since his parents showed him how to raise them for the family dinner table as a young boy. He has spent his career touting rabbit as a solution for protein-energy malnutrition in the developing world. Rabbits, Lukefahr...

It's reported that in Nigeria and South Africa, rabbits are raised commercially. There's a South African meat rabbit breed: Phendula. "... Independent farmer Gavin Grgurin keeps 500 rabbits at his farm outside Johannesburg. He says he thinks it’s the meat of the future. “As National Council...

Rabbit is popular in China, but that country is the world's largest producer. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174018302390

For the Sunni Moslem, eating rabbits is permitted, but the animals have to be slaughtered in an approved facility. https://islamqa.org/hanafi/islamicportal/117904/is-it-permissible-to-eat-rabbits/

My thought is that rabbits can be a better option for small farmers than pigs or poultry. But considering rabbits as an agribusiness, there are additional dimensions. Are there large buyers / brokers who will buy rabbit meat?

What is your goal? To setup a large commercial operation? Or to enable individual families to produce food for themselves? Rabbits would seem to offer at least one great advantage over chickens. Rabbits can be fed gathered plant material not digestible by people or poultry.

Breeding brother to sister or father to daughter and then getting rabbits with eight legs or three eyes is a myth. If with close breeding, some genes for lethality or feeble young do become apparent, those traits are perhaps deleterious as hidden recessives. Inbreeding serves to sift them out...

I am considering growing Grapevines for rabbit food. I see that Concord Grapes appear to be the easiest to grow in the northern US. Concord are a different species than European grapes -- Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera. Are both equally palatable to rabbits? In terms of food, is there any...

"Date of the first full-sib mating: April, 1964. Date of the 20th full-sib mating: June, 1981." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3732413/ That's 20 generations of brother - sister matings. Labs do this so that they can produce animals that are identical for the purpose of experimentation...

Commercial (for human food) producers of sprouts keep them in the dark. This way, the sprouts basically have no flavor and just give texture. Sprouting mung beans for birds, I keep the jar on the kitchen counter where there's light from a window maybe 10 feet away. This way, the sprouts are...