NZ / Cali crosses

[nascarwc88]

Anyone know how nz/cali crosses that are bred to other nz/cali crosses will turn out meat wise?

Thanks,
Fred

 

[Demamma]

When crossing a Nz to a California you get a better meat rabbit. They both are great meat rabbits but when you cross them they gain weight faster.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

:welcome: Nascarwc88!

NZ/Calis are usually butchered as meat.

Supposedly the crossed kits have a better growth rate in that first generation (if both sire and dam were good quality rabbits), but you lose that "hybrid vigor" in subsequent generations.

If you are just starting out and that is all you have to work with, by all means breed them. You will still get meat from them, it just may take a bit longer.

 

[wsmoak]

Anyone know how nz/cali crosses that are bred to other nz/cali crosses will turn out meat wise?

Just fine. That's what the feed store up the road from me sells, and she butchers the extras for her own table.

Not everyone can arrange to keep two purebred lines going in order to get those crosses. (I tried it, but the commercial NZW's I got did not thrive in my outdoor rabbitry.)

-Wendy

 

[nascarwc88]

Thanks all, for the replies.