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There are tons recipes online for liver pate. Any recipe using chicken liver translation beautifully to rabbit livers. In more recent months, I've been adding the livers to various soups I make, having grown weary of pate!

I have breeding age. Kits will not be available until after the first of the year.

In other words, they did not have enough silvering?

Yes, it was. My original trio was underweight and other issues keeping them from the SOP, so I've worked hard to get the herd to where it is today. :-)

I have a list of breeding age Silver Foxes up on Craigslist for sale, if anyone is seeking a new breeder or just getting started. Individuals, pairs and trios can be made from the list of those available. I will not have young kits available until after the first of the year...

Are you seeking kits or breeder age?

I sell individuals, pairs, trios....whatever is needed so long as I have them. :)

At the moment, I do not have any blue available.

Hello! I am 30 minutes east of Pittsburgh in Greensburg PA, so not too far. What are you seeking?

Thank you, everyone. I'm going to give it a try, going straight to cooking. The reason I posed the question was just the sheer fact of butchering so many at one time. It takes hours and I get pretty tired after standing for so long, etc. I'm searching for a way to have my rabbits and eat them...

As a kid, I recall a friend of mine having to go home before mom got home for work because she, my friend, was tasked with butchering a rabbit for that evening's meal. I have never butchered from life anything until I started raising rabbits a few years ago. However, all that I have read talks...

Yes, this is what I am finding! No need for as much pellets and $$ savings in feed. I do make sure all of my breeders always have grass hay so they have something to nibble on when they run out of pellets. Not the grow-outs, tho. I consider grass hay (any hay other than alfalfa) as diet food, so...

All fantastic advice. I am just going to add that you should bite the bullet and get him weighed. Then, I would weigh him daily (if at all possible) for at least a week to keep an eye on him to know he is responding well and to know for sure it was a human induced issue and not another health...

Alaska Satin's answer is spot on. As for weights, dispatching, etc., I think breed plays a huge role in when to dispatch. I am assuming you have a "commercial" breed. Commercial just refers to those rabbits with the meat body type. I raise Silver Fox, which is a commercial breed. When I first...

I switched to Home Fresh (extruded) Hutch Deluxe 17% last November. To begin, you still get a full 50 pounds when you buy a 50-pound bag. I used to feed Manna Pro Pro (16%) and Manna Pro Gro (18%). I always transfer my feed from the bags to food grade lidded 5-gallon buckets from Tractor Supply...

Situating your rabbitry under a tree canopy goes a long way in keeping the rabbitry cooler, overall. If you don't have a canopy, consider purchasing shade cloth and suspending it over the rabbitry (if that is possible) to emulate a canopy. Best wishes! :)

I agree. I checked those rules for PA. It turns out that in PA, one is allowed to sell younger than 8 weeks to another breeder, but not to someone as a pet. Unfortunately, "breeder" is not defined. I had to look in to that a few weeks ago to accommodate a customer's schedule who needed to make...

I am happy to announce that all kits born in my rabbitry are now bred from rabbits who have met the Standards of Perfection "SOP" as outlined by ARBA and are now ARBA registered. I have one great breeding doe who is not registered simply because her coat is lilac, but otherwise, she meets all...

I tend to look at which rabbit is staying at the back of the cage and which are coming forward to greet me when I come into the rabbitry. In my experience, those individuals who hide out in the back of the cage are the ones who grow up and continue to avoid human interaction and contact. To me...

I am in Southwesten Pennsylvania and have female meat breeders. What part of Maryland are you in and what are you seeking/needing in rabbits?