Hello all!
I'm grateful to have found this website! I just picked up three American Blues yesterday. One doe and two bucks. One buck is a cull from the seller I purchased for meat. The other is a fairly nice quality boy. I was entertaining acquiring either meat rabbits or Coturnix quail for my tiny homestead almost 4 years ago, and decided on the quail, since I can eat quail eggs but I'm too reactive to chicken eggs, and did not feel like I could look in a rabbit's eyes and still process it. Quail are easy. I thank every one of them. I am now a pretty good quail mama. They have a lovely aviary and are busy little birds. I currently have around 65 of the little stinkers! They peck at my feet and follow me around and demand all their various goodies! They love getting their chins rubbed.
I hope with the help of this forum to be a good responsible kind mama to my rabbits. I found the American Blues locally which was a great help. I intend to turn my second quail run into a rabbit run. I'd like for them to have a comfortable space with enrichment. I acquired them for meat and I'm interested in other heritage meat rabbit breeds, just like my quail, but I want them to have the best life I can give them. Since I appreciate that there are people here who have rabbits as pets, I will probably be mostly hanging out in the meat rabbit part of the forum. My reasoning is that one, I need to feed my dogs well. My dogs are champion Poodles which only means that I love that breed and supported an amazing AKC breeder of merit who is working very hard to improve the breed. I have a partnership in three, one was imported from Ukraine and he was born amid shelling. Two is that I am so heartbroken by the way meat is produced in this country, factory farming is horrendous. I know people need to eat and don't have a choice (except for choosing to eat less meat), but my husband and I eat very little meat now because of this. I want the meat I feed my dogs to be sustainable and raised with kindness. Therefore I want to learn everything I can to give my rabbits the best life I can.
I'm grateful to have found this website! I just picked up three American Blues yesterday. One doe and two bucks. One buck is a cull from the seller I purchased for meat. The other is a fairly nice quality boy. I was entertaining acquiring either meat rabbits or Coturnix quail for my tiny homestead almost 4 years ago, and decided on the quail, since I can eat quail eggs but I'm too reactive to chicken eggs, and did not feel like I could look in a rabbit's eyes and still process it. Quail are easy. I thank every one of them. I am now a pretty good quail mama. They have a lovely aviary and are busy little birds. I currently have around 65 of the little stinkers! They peck at my feet and follow me around and demand all their various goodies! They love getting their chins rubbed.
I hope with the help of this forum to be a good responsible kind mama to my rabbits. I found the American Blues locally which was a great help. I intend to turn my second quail run into a rabbit run. I'd like for them to have a comfortable space with enrichment. I acquired them for meat and I'm interested in other heritage meat rabbit breeds, just like my quail, but I want them to have the best life I can give them. Since I appreciate that there are people here who have rabbits as pets, I will probably be mostly hanging out in the meat rabbit part of the forum. My reasoning is that one, I need to feed my dogs well. My dogs are champion Poodles which only means that I love that breed and supported an amazing AKC breeder of merit who is working very hard to improve the breed. I have a partnership in three, one was imported from Ukraine and he was born amid shelling. Two is that I am so heartbroken by the way meat is produced in this country, factory farming is horrendous. I know people need to eat and don't have a choice (except for choosing to eat less meat), but my husband and I eat very little meat now because of this. I want the meat I feed my dogs to be sustainable and raised with kindness. Therefore I want to learn everything I can to give my rabbits the best life I can.
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if you have a small homestead... soon you'll be adding pigs and goats to the mix. Your dogs will be living the high life! 
