well if your canning or making sausage toughness is not a huge issue.
Oldsters can get boned and get ground up for sausage.
I use a mix with garlic and of all things the cheap parmesan cheese in it. YUMM
What age to dispatch?
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Oldsters can get boned and get ground up for sausage.
I use a mix with garlic and of all things the cheap parmesan cheese in it. YUMM
Hi there,
I use a digital one for the rabbits, it’s fine for a ballpark weight. We have a larger mechanical scale for weighing our hay and I trust that one more.
I was just talking to our son about mixing the rabbit entrails, liver heart and kidneys that we have frozen with moose meat and making sausages. He has about 50# of moose meat that still needs to be processed. Probably use a sweet Italian recipe and brats. Mix in ground jalapeño peppers for hot brats.
Good to use all the meat we can. I generally take the kits away from the moms before 8 weeks. They can really abuse the does it seems. That probably effects the growth rate. At 12 weeks our goal has been a 5# live weight. 2-1/2# frier average. Your line breeding program seems to be working well. Good on you ! We are restarting our rabbitry a few years ago. Had to miss a year because we couldn't find a decent Californian buck. We finally found an adoption. Big buck. We also have a cross from our stock that will be ready next spring. Hopefully, he wasn't very interested or successful last year. Maybe too young. But he has filled out nicely and we will hopefully have a good buck from our linebreeding. We are raising a lilock color. So be nice to breed our blue buck and a blue doe. Just enjoy the color.
Thank you for the information
Good to use all the meat we can. I generally take the kits away from the moms before 8 weeks. They can really abuse the does it seems. That probably effects the growth rate. At 12 weeks our goal has been a 5# live weight. 2-1/2# frier average. Your line breeding program seems to be working well. Good on you ! We are restarting our rabbitry a few years ago. Had to miss a year because we couldn't find a decent Californian buck. We finally found an adoption. Big buck. We also have a cross from our stock that will be ready next spring. Hopefully, he wasn't very interested or successful last year. Maybe too young. But he has filled out nicely and we will hopefully have a good buck from our linebreeding. We are raising a lilock color. So be nice to breed our blue buck and a blue doe. Just enjoy the color.
Thank you for the information
depends on my needs. Bucks get done early... usually before 10 weeks, does... when I have time/desire/need. Bucks are normally turned into critter food, though I might save the loins. I'm more flexible with the girls.
