ButtonsPalace
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So, over the past couple years, I have bred a ton of rabbits and been selling them for $5 a piece to a girl who butchers and sells the meat. I don't have the space, nor am I in a good location to process, we live right off a main highway and I had been processing in the carport but it's a struggle to hang sheets up so you have a semi private area, now my boyfriends car is sitting there while we wait until we have the money to fix it so I really just don't have space. I could do it in the backyard but this means butchering in front of all the animals and I can't imagine they wouldn't get in the way if nothing else.
So my solution to my problem is there's a man I know of that I could bring my rabbits to and pay him to butcher my rabbits. My question is at that point is it even worth it? I mean I would be getting the meat back and I would ask if I could keep all the organs and such as well as I have use for every part of the rabbit. That being said, I have recently been buying hay with my mom (I pay her before she buys hay for her horses and she gets a few extra bales for me and I get 3-4 as I need them, she's been getting Orchard grass hay, which I've been told is high in protein and I would think would cut back on both my feed bill and hay bill as it'll last much longer. I can ask how much the guy charges if it would help. I'm just kinda theoretically asking as I'm just trying to get some ideas as to how I could breed/butcher in the small/awkward space I'm in right now, preferably without traumatizing bypassers. I haven't bred in a while and I've been thinking about this a lot and I thought some opinions from others who've been in my spot would really help me decide which path is the best path for me
TLDR: I live in a crappy area where I can't process without either animals being right up in my space or being right off the road, would it be worth it to pay someone to butcher? Or should I just continue selling for $5 a piece or quit breeding until I have more space? :bunnyhop:
So my solution to my problem is there's a man I know of that I could bring my rabbits to and pay him to butcher my rabbits. My question is at that point is it even worth it? I mean I would be getting the meat back and I would ask if I could keep all the organs and such as well as I have use for every part of the rabbit. That being said, I have recently been buying hay with my mom (I pay her before she buys hay for her horses and she gets a few extra bales for me and I get 3-4 as I need them, she's been getting Orchard grass hay, which I've been told is high in protein and I would think would cut back on both my feed bill and hay bill as it'll last much longer. I can ask how much the guy charges if it would help. I'm just kinda theoretically asking as I'm just trying to get some ideas as to how I could breed/butcher in the small/awkward space I'm in right now, preferably without traumatizing bypassers. I haven't bred in a while and I've been thinking about this a lot and I thought some opinions from others who've been in my spot would really help me decide which path is the best path for me
TLDR: I live in a crappy area where I can't process without either animals being right up in my space or being right off the road, would it be worth it to pay someone to butcher? Or should I just continue selling for $5 a piece or quit breeding until I have more space? :bunnyhop: