So, last Saturday I butchered four rabbits and I found myself still processing rabbit products on Tuesday. This got me thinking about what I get from my rabbits. As some people have said, you don't have to actually sell rabbit products to consider it a profit, things that you use yourself can be considered profit too.
Here is what i get from four rabbits:
Eight back leg quarters, leg and thigh - four to eight meals depending how hungry I am
Four one-pound (approx) packages of meat (backstraps and belly flaps)which means four curry chicken recipes of which I get five meals out of each - twenty meals
Eight front legs, I just started saving these so not sure if that is one or two meals
Four rib/spine/tail sections for soup, two per pot which gives me eight bowls of soup per pot x two pots is sixteen bowls of soup
Liver, heart and kidneys, just can't bring myself to eat them yet... someday....
Four furs soaking in brine
So, by my calculations, I get 40+ meals out of four rabbits. I don't have a cost per bunny figure down solid yet but I'm working on that. I know all these meals include other ingredients but to take care of the meat ingredient on more than forty meals is something I'm pretty happy with. I also realize that me being single is different from many of you but instead of a meal you could consider it a serving so I could serve four people ten meals.
It's my ultimate goal to use as much of the rabbits a possible. As I get more comfortable with these ideas I can add more one at a time. My freezers are filling up....
Here is what i get from four rabbits:
Eight back leg quarters, leg and thigh - four to eight meals depending how hungry I am
Four one-pound (approx) packages of meat (backstraps and belly flaps)which means four curry chicken recipes of which I get five meals out of each - twenty meals
Eight front legs, I just started saving these so not sure if that is one or two meals
Four rib/spine/tail sections for soup, two per pot which gives me eight bowls of soup per pot x two pots is sixteen bowls of soup
Liver, heart and kidneys, just can't bring myself to eat them yet... someday....
Four furs soaking in brine
So, by my calculations, I get 40+ meals out of four rabbits. I don't have a cost per bunny figure down solid yet but I'm working on that. I know all these meals include other ingredients but to take care of the meat ingredient on more than forty meals is something I'm pretty happy with. I also realize that me being single is different from many of you but instead of a meal you could consider it a serving so I could serve four people ten meals.
It's my ultimate goal to use as much of the rabbits a possible. As I get more comfortable with these ideas I can add more one at a time. My freezers are filling up....