crazy pricing? Are they nuts?

[coffeenutdesigns]

So, I'm on a FB page where local people can sell their farm/garden stuff. One lady is advertising rabbit meat $15 for 3 small or 1 large rabbit. :shock: I don't think I could make any money selling an already dressed fryer for $15 and if I did, it certainly wouldn't include any profit to cover the work put into processing the thing! I mean, I don't plan on selling any rabbit meat but I do sell some live rabbits and have given some butchered rabbit to my mom and boss, but if I had to compete with those prices it wouldn't be worth it to sell. Am I nuts for thinking that's low or is she nuts for selling that low. Maybe she gets feed for free??? :?

 

[Dood]

$5/pound is what rabbit sells for here.

A 5 pound rabbit would dress out around 3 pounds so sounds reasonable to me.

 

[coffeenutdesigns]

Well I'm thinking young ones being fryers, so a 5# rabbit dressing to 3 and then 3 of those would be 9# of rabbit meat for $15.

__________ Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:40 pm __________

I would be afraid of 3 "small" ones if they are dressing them out smaller than 5# live weight, but maybe people do??? She wasn't specific on price per pound, just 3 small, 1 medium + 1 small, or 1 large.<br /><br />__________ Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:42 pm __________<br /><br />But if that is normal pricing, it's a good thing I don't try to sell. I'd go broke so other people could eat.

 

[Peach]

In Georgia, rabbit meat was going $8lb dressed. The profit margin isn't really good with meat rabbits, but probably just enough to break even.

 

[coffeenutdesigns]

There's a big difference between $8 a pound and $1.50 or so a pound. Maybe she hasn't done the math or maybe her "small" rabbits are huge.

 

[CWD]

it sound like she is under pricing her self, or she has cheep feed.
I would like to know how much her 3 small rabbits weigh. same with the large ones.

If you choose to start selling rabbit meat, you need to factor in a lot of little things.
I even figured out how much each bottle of water cost per pen. after all I have to pay for the water.
then after all your prices are factored in, then you can set your price. it sounds like she has only factored in
a price her rabbits will sell for.nothing else.

 

[Lowell]

Selling rabbits, as in selling anything, is not dependent on the cost of raising or making it. It is dependent on what people are willing to pay for it.

If she can find no market for her rabbits, she is likely selling them for the most she can get!!

 

[coffeenutdesigns]

I guess if she's selling at a loss, she won't be doing it for long.

 

[Lowell]

She may be doing for her enjoyment as much as she is doing it for a profit.

I raise rabbits for meat and enjoy it and use the manure on my garden which I also enjoy. If it was just about getting cheap meat, I may be better of buying it elsewhere.

 

[phillinley]

She may be doing for her enjoyment as much as she is doing it for a profit.

I do it for the enjoyment too. I'm not even thinking about making a profit. We've given away every rabbit so far. Plan to keep at it for quite some time.

 

[coffeenutdesigns]

I give away some of my meat to friends and family, but I wouldn't sell to the public at a loss with no regard for people who might need to make a profit on their business. Stuff like that will keep me from ever selling meat to the public, I guess. I can sell a live animal for more money without doing the less than enjoyable job of butchering and I don't want to deal with jumping through legal hoops. I surely wouldn't be jumping through hoops or putting myself at risk legally to sell at a loss. I guess everyone is different, I just wondered if selling so cheap was normal and how anyone could make that work.

 

[Andrei]

1. One lady is advertising rabbit meat $15 for 3 small or 1 large rabbit. :shock:
2. Maybe she gets feed for free??? :?

1. Some people NEED money.
2. I never paid for rabbit food.

 

[a7736100]

Probably more than what they could get at auction.

 

[GBov]

1. One lady is advertising rabbit meat $15 for 3 small or 1 large rabbit. :shock:
2. Maybe she gets feed for free??? :?

1. Some people NEED money.
2. I never paid for rabbit food.

Please do explain!

And I sell it dressed for $10 a pound to family and friends. Not too many at a time but enough to cover feeding the rest of the herd and giving us lots of nice meat too.

 

[Andrei]

Rabbits eat greens.
Unless one live in the desert there is green rabbit food everywhere.
I raised over 1000 rabbits without ever buying any un-natural pelets food.
40% of rabbit diet is trees and brush.
Some trees bark is 23% protein.
Any vegetable kitchen thrash is desert for the rabbits.
Any dry bread is bacon for the rabbits.
Banana peels are a special treat for the rabbits.
Rabbits are so efficient because they can digest celulose better then most herbivores and absorb the proteing very efficient.
At $10 per poun YOU are making a killing.
120 lbs of alfalfa is $10 - $18 depending on location and can feed 100 rabbits easy.

 

[Mary Ann's Rabbitry]

Rabbits eat greens.
Unless one live in the desert there is green rabbit food everywhere.
I raised over 1000 rabbits without ever buying any un-natural pelets food.
40% of rabbit diet is trees and brush.
Some trees bark is 23% protein.
Any vegetable kitchen thrash is desert for the rabbits.
Any dry bread is bacon for the rabbits.
Banana peels are a special treat for the rabbits.
Rabbits are so efficient because they can digest celulose better then most herbivores and absorb the proteing very efficient.
At $10 per poun YOU are making a killing.
120 lbs of alfalfa is $10 - $18 depending on location and can feed 100 rabbits easy.

I wish I live where you do to be able to feed 1000 rabbits with no pellets... I do have winters here

 

[coffeenutdesigns]

I actually do live in the desert, so the lady who lives here also lives in the desert, so not much foraging and the green plants there are are usually toxic in some way.

 

[GBov]

Rabbits eat greens.
Unless one live in the desert there is green rabbit food everywhere.
I raised over 1000 rabbits without ever buying any un-natural pelets food.
40% of rabbit diet is trees and brush.
Some trees bark is 23% protein.
Any vegetable kitchen thrash is desert for the rabbits.
Any dry bread is bacon for the rabbits.
Banana peels are a special treat for the rabbits.
Rabbits are so efficient because they can digest celulose better then most herbivores and absorb the proteing very efficient.
At $10 per poun YOU are making a killing.
120 lbs of alfalfa is $10 - $18 depending on location and can feed 100 rabbits easy.

When I think of the TIME it takes for me to chop branches for my herd it makes me quake to think of gathering the forage for their entire diet!

I thought I was getting a pretty good price at $10 a pound but my middle brother gave me a huge lecture on pricing and costing and that rabbit is going for $20 a pound in his area (Washington state) so I am cutting me own throat selling at that price :lol:

 

[Andrei]

Well, I did not know that Texas has deserts but I am learning.
Mesquite is a great tree for feeding rabbits and the pods are desert.
$20 per pound?
He must be doing some vo-do or else ........
http://seattle.craigslist.org/search/gr ... k=&maxAsk=
In Washington state I see very low rabbit prices.

 

[SatinsRule]

So, I'm on a FB page where local people can sell their farm/garden stuff. One lady is advertising rabbit meat $15 for 3 small or 1 large rabbit. :shock: I don't think I could make any money selling an already dressed fryer for $15 and if I did, it certainly wouldn't include any profit to cover the work put into processing the thing! I mean, I don't plan on selling any rabbit meat but I do sell some live rabbits and have given some butchered rabbit to my mom and boss, but if I had to compete with those prices it wouldn't be worth it to sell. Am I nuts for thinking that's low or is she nuts for selling that low. Maybe she gets feed for free??? :?

Bear in mind that she is likely not using the most expensive feed on the market, either. $4-5/bag may not sound like much, but on a large scale meat operation I can only imagine that it adds up pretty quickly.

And I'm with the others. $5/lb does sound reasonable.