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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaggieJ" data-source="post: 156308" data-attributes="member: 53">There is a lot of information in our ebooks. You can "buy" them with your BunnyBucks. Just go to the menu bar at the top of the Index Page and click on EBOOKS.Gathering forage was often a job for children. And likely all the weeds from the kitchen garden were tossed in as well. Rabbits were often raised entirely by the farm kids. They would glean the harvest fields for grain and pick forage. Add some hay and the rabbits did just fine.Most rabbitries were of the backyard variety in those days... Something to put some meat on the table. Like chickens, rabbits can be used one or two at a time with the main supply kept alive until needed. A whole cow, sheep or even a pig was a lot of meat to process at one time... Very difficult unless the weather was cold.There are commercial rabbitries in France that raise their rabbits on alfalfa hay and grain for the most part. These are premium meat and fur rabbits, so you can be sure they are not short-changing them. Link below... Please excuse the clumsy Google translation.<a href="http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.rex-du-poitou.com/&ei=sR4uS73RBYuXlAeVgOWWBw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAwQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DRex%2Bdu%2BPoitou%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DbUg" target="_blank">http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl ... 26hs%3DbUg</a></blockquote>