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So I've gradually developed a method for slaughtering that seems a bit different from most of the descriptions and videos ive seen, so i thought id do a quick outline in case somebody finds it, or just part of it, helpful or interesting. id like to publish a little video at some point, but so...

Just fishing for a little feedback... background: We've been feeding the meat rabbit herd twice a day forever. We feed mix of pellets and fresh forages in the am, much larger helping of fresh forage and pellets, plus a little bit of roots, fruits, or sugarcane in the evening. they also get...

Hi folks! It's been a while since I've visited Rabbit Talk. We've settled into a routine with our rabbitry recently that has been working well, and so other projects have been taking more of our attention and R and D. Recently, though, I've been dreaming of transitioning to a colony type set...

We culled a 3 1/2 year old NZ white breeder, Mr. Pinky, last week. His clean, well-rinsed, carcass was transferred promptly to a refrigerator, placed in a glass bowl with a lid and a clean rag in the bottom to absorb liquids. This was last Thursday, so it's now exactly one week later, and when I...

Hey folks! I've got a doe I'm raising up for breeding, and for the past few days at least she's been showing very obvious and strong signs of readiness (dark purple and very swollen, grunting and lifting her tail when petted, etc). But she's only one week short of four months old. Though she...

The guy I got my rabbits from a couple years back fed a pellet diet, but he also fed Cordyline (the large green leafed variety mostly, I think). He's been breeding them for years, so when I got home, determined to convert to a natural diet as quickly as possible, Cordyline was naturally one of...

Hey guys, how's it going? It's been a while... :) Rabbits are doing great--some bunnies out in the orchard right now in a tractor, enjoying the lush clover. Anyway, I was researching the "swedish method" on this site and I've tried it once. Before that I was using essentially the method shown...

Okay, I've never had quite such a thing happen before. All suggestions, anecdotes, etc., welcome... I tried to breed yesterday afternoon. It was a bit warm (mid to low 80s), in hindsight maybe I should have waited--I usually like to do early morning matings in summer. Anyway, there was some...

Ok. So, I've noticed a few of my litters of fryers recently have had a little bit of extra fat on their carcasses--around the shoulders for example, and inside the body cavity (like along the spine, near the kidneys). I always use my fingers when I rinse off the carcass to peel away the...

A couple of you may recall the post I submitted a while ago asking for advice about supporting does nursing extra large litters. Well, here's a cute photo I took today of the happy campers. There were ten, one runt didn't make it almost a week in. The other runt, "Demi," and the rest are doing...

I've been struggling for a while to keep the fresh forage for the grow-outs off the floor of the hutches so it stays clean. The adults are all self toilet trained and go in only one spot, so we can safely put their forage on the floor of the hutch (away from that spot) and it stays clean. But...

I stumbled across this little gem today! I especially liked their little section on feeding, which naturally assumes no access to commercial feed whatsoever (why I thought I'd post this in the natural feeding section). :) The wording is basic, very clear and thorough, and the pictures are a...

Have you all seen this? It's a great little report on the usefulness rabbits as meat animals and the joys of the rabbit renaissance in North America. :bunnyhop: http://www.good.is/posts/backyard-bunni ... n-chickens

I just put this in the "recipes" thread under meat rabbits also, but it probably makes more sense to post it here... I originally got the inspiration for this from Michael Pollan's book Cooked. It's an elegantly simple, easy, one-pot meal, with only a few ingredients, that you can put together...

Ostara had ten (10) kits the other day! We've never tried to let her nurse that many before (only eight), but these all looked lively and healthy so we thought we'd give it a go this time. She's an experienced mother by now, she has done well every time, so if any doe can manage it, she can...

I can get the plain old white salt spools from the local feed/farm shop where we go all the time. But I've never seen the trace mineral salt spools there. I would have to try to order them online, and pay shipping on top of the higher price (sometimes twice what the plain spools cost), and...

I was musing about this: We almost always take access to refridgeration and freezers as a given when people talk about raising their own meat. And we always talk about "freezer camp." But suppose you had no refridgeration or freezer technology whatsoever (it could be you live in an undeveloped...

Does anyone know what this weed is? It grows all over our place. It survives among the grasses and other weeds in the lawn, where it stays tiny and low to the ground, but in spots that aren't mowed in can get to be knee high or higher. Usually has one main stem, with larger plants developing a...

So, I've been cutting fodder from the property for months now, growing some perrenial and annual plants specifically for the rabbits, but also cutting twigs from legume trees and bushes, the hibiscus hedges, grasses, and weeds and greens from the garden. THey also get oats, sunflower seeds...

So, we were discussing this this morning, following a successful kindling last night, and trying to imagine how a kindling actually happens. We assumed all the bunnies are attached to a placenta. And I was assuming that they all come out one by one, followed by the placenta, but wouldn't that...