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Top 10 Reasons to Raise Rabbits For Meat

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You may have been considering raising chickens, geese, ducks, goats, sheep or other small livestock for meat, but once you learn how easy it is to raise rabbits, you’ll never consider another animal for a primary meat source.
  1. Rabbits have an extremely high reproduction rate. One healthy, mature doe can produce up to 1000% of her body weight every year. Owning just one female and one male can supply meat twice a week for a family of four. 
  2. Rabbits need very little living space.Whether you’re living in a condo or out in the country, you can always find space to raise a couple rabbits. No grazing is required and they’re rarely classified as livestock which allows you to keep them virtually anywhere. How many apartment complexes would let you keep a chicken or goat in them?
  3. Rabbits are low maintenance. Check in on them every evening to feed, water and do quick health checks, clean their cages once a month and keep a simple breeding journal – that’s all you need to do! Females take care of the young themselves and the only special tools you’ll need are nesting boxes which you can even build yourself. No incubators or hand feeding required.
  4. Rabbits are virtually silent roommates. Aside from the mating shriek, rabbits are extremely quiet animals. They won’t reveal your location to anyone, even if you’re traveling with them. Who knows what a chicken, goose or duck is likely to attract, not to mention a rooster. If outdoor cages are well hidden and clean, neighbors may not even know they are there.
  5. A little rabbit feed goes a long way.  When bunnies are being weaned (6-8 weeks old), they are large enough for consumption. This allows you to skip giving most of the bunnies feed as you gradually cull the young, leaving only the adults to consume expensive rabbit feed.
  6. Rabbits are the perfect sized meal for a family of four. Rabbits are compact and usually butchered at “fryer size” (3-5 pounds), so you don’t have to worry about storing or eating leftovers.
  7. Rabbit manure will make your garden love you. Rabbit manure is an excellent fertilizer for your garden that won’t burn plants. Plus, if you vermicompost, your worms can be fed the droppings which will make them love you too.
  8. Rabbit meat is very high in protein and extremely low in fat and cholesterol. Very few other meats have nutritional values like rabbits, and none of them can be raised in your living room. Doctors have actually been known to prescribe rabbit meat diets to overweight patients.
  9. Rabbit fur will make an incredibly warm coat and is a great bartering item. On a cold winter’s night, snuggling into a blanket made from rabbit pelts will keep your family warm long after the fire has gone out. You can also make hats or other accessories, and kids love getting a lucky rabbit’s foot.
  10. Rabbits are relatively easy to butcher and clean. No one likes doing it but if you’re going to eat them, they day will come eventually. Someone with experience can take a rabbit from cage to freezer in 15 minutes or less. No plucking is needed and there’s very little cleanup.
Tiffany Savage is a suburban homesteader who has been living a more sustainable life for too many years to count. When she discovered how easy raising rabbits for meat was, she immediately wanted to share her knowledge with others. That’s when she wrote the eBook Raising Rabbits to Survive!, a comprehensive eBook which gives even those who’ve never even raised a goldfish the courage to start on their own journey to freedom by raising rabbits.


Source: http://preparedforsurvival.blogspot.com/2015/10/top-10-reasons-to-raise-rabbits-for-meat.html



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    • crunchy74

      Meat production is a drain on the environment and bad for the health too. It takes at least an equivalent 6 pounds of grains to produce 1 pound of meat. If you can factor in compassion then that’s all the more reason to give up meat altogether.

      Beyond carnism and toward rational, authentic food choices – TEDx
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0VrZPBskpg

      https://www.ciwf.org.uk/research/environment/eating-the-planet-summary/
      http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781844079032/

      • Doccus

        You can always follow the SE Asian propensity for ALT meat sources. Rats breed better than rabbits and can be fed industrial waste (the ones in my basement ate all my plastic piping!). Cockroaches deep fried in oil are wonderfully crunchy with a nice soft gooey innards that just gooshes out on the first bite ;-) . If meat production is “inefficient” you can truy eating the same thing that rabbits and cows and sheep eat. Oh.. wait.. we’re unable to digest grass.
        My problem with all these people that want to factor in “compassion” in their food diets have almost unlimited budgets for food. These diets are impractical for poor people of which the world’s majority are. We started eating meat thousands of years ago because it is a cheap and rich protein source. Grain is NOT.

    • Anonymous

      Leviticus 11:6 The bible says the hare is unclean to eat and is still the same as it was in the old testament along with everything else that was deemed unclean. Most are being deceived that everything deemed unclean somehow magically became clean to eat in the new testament.

      • CrowPie

        Guess you didn’t read the words of The Savior then……Matthew 15:11

        “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”

        • Anonymous

          Can We Eat All Things (1 Timothy 4) – 119 Ministries
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_MCeWcROQ

          • CrowPie

            1 Timothy 4King James Version (KJV)

            4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

            2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

            3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

            4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

            • Anonymous

              Matthew 15:20 These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

              Jesus clarifies verse Matthew 15:11 by mentioning unwashed hands and does not mention the particular food. Careful that you put things in context.

            • CrowPie

              Finish reading the verses that put the subject into context before you give warnings.

              Verse 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

      • AllRoadsLead2NWO

        It was probably deemed ‘unclean’ to eat because the jews didn’t see the animal as profitable as the Hindu godz sacred cow- see there really is a ‘HOLY COW’ – it just depends on which god you are talking to.

      • ElOregonian

        “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”
        -Matthew 15:11

        You are not under the Law. You are a new creature in Christ.

      • gospel_rooster

        The Bible also told the children of Israel that “after they return to their land and enlarge their borders they may eat whatever animals their hearts lust after…but only they may not take it into the temple (which was rebuilt and WILL be rebuilt agan)”

    • freedom007

      @crunchy, vegetarianism isnt possible to the majority of White Westerners. People with East Asian or Indian genetic roots, and perhaps also Blacks, will adapt much better to a meatless diet.
      Look at the daily-life history of the respective ethnic groups.
      In East Asia and India, eating meat has been an exception for holidays at least for the poor majority of people, and has been entirely forbidden for religious reasons to certain parts of the population; the regional cuisine thus is based mainly upon cereals and legumes, and foodstuff particularly rich in protein was developed from the latter and used instead of meat and broth for millennia, for example soy sauces, tofu, tempeh.
      In Europe, where the Whites all over the world originate, however, animal protein of every kind and in substantial amounts was essential to everyone, and no efforts were made to substitute it, except within the sub-cultures of ascetic religious Orders where, for example, mushroom dishes were eaten instead of meat, and legumes (peas, lentils) were eaten on an almost daily basis. During Middle Ages, all people ate excessive amounts of meat every Autumn, for they had to butcher most of their livestock before winter and had no adequate means to conserve it. The part of meat they could conserve by salting or drying was eaten during winter. The time of Fasting between Carnival and Easter was the time when meat was naturally scarcest; the normal people would not have afforded meat during this time even if they had not had a fasting custom; but they could endure the meatless time only by imagining it to be holy Penance, and by substituting the meat by large amounts of fish. And some few centuries earlier, in Pagan times, Celts and Germans loved meat, milk, cheese, and deer-hunting, and they had no fasting customs, and didnt even need it, for at this time there still was plenty of game to hunt – an activity later forbidden for the populace and allowed only for Aristocrats, probably to prevent over-hunting. See, we Whites are the most carnivore race of humans to-day…

      This is why it is a good idea to give us an alternative to the usual buying of mass-production pork and chicken.
      I had some rabbits for meat production when I was a teenager.
      I fed them on grass, non-toxic weeds, remnants of veggies, breadcrusts, cooked potatoes, and a little barley, wheat or maize (spikes, collected from the edges of grain-fields…). They thrived well.
      I never, NEVER would have bought industrial foodstuff for them. I would have felt that this makes them too expensive. The aim was to raise them on Zero Dollars, and by collecting spikes, and 3rd category potatoes left on farmland after harvest, this was really possible.

      Even a suburbian rabbit-owner can reach the same result and even without collecting spikes – if he or she finds a bunch of neighbors who give him / her their remnants of raw veggies, and the bread that has become too old to eat, and the potato skins… This can be organized as a win-win game. See, one family could raise one or two rabbits on “garbage” ALONE. This does not pay – too much work for too little a result. But if one person does this for a neighborhood of six, eight, ten families, it pays off. Imagine that every family gets one rabbit a year for FREE, as a pay for the food they gave, and the rabbit-raiser him/herself keeps the rest of the rabbits, and the furs, and the manure, and he may make a little money by selling the furs, and may give the manure to gardeners and get veggies for it… This would be really “making something outa nothing” … come on, US citizens, DO IT.

      (NB, a warning: I was obliged to butcher myself – being a teenage girl, with a single mother, who was scared at the very thought of butchering, but needed meat as all Whites do … We raised rabbits and fowl because we had an acre of land but no money. I could do the butchering technically, an old man from the neighborhood had taught me how, but psychologically it was a little bit too much for me on the long run… Four years later I became a vegetarian, thus, and remained so for seven years; then the White Race genes prevailed, and I needed some meat and fish again. Thats where I got my ideas about Ethnicity and Diet from… I would have loved to remain vegetarian, but it was impossible, I was constantly hungry for animal protein during Year Seven…)

    • Anonymous

      Sorry, but I saved two “meat rabbits” from slaughter and they lived three more years with TLC. People do NOT really perceive rabbits, chickens, cows, pigs as sentient beings with feelings, intelligence and emotions. The result is horrendous suffering and cruelty, which is absolutely unnecessary. If you look into a creature’s eyes you will see there is not much difference between us.

      • AllRoadsLead2NWO

        Look, i will make this simple for you. PETS ARE NOT PEOPLE TOO. Stop personifying animals.

        • AllRoadsLead2NWO

          if ‘animals’ want rights or lefts for that matter- LET THEM VOTE ON IT.

      • jknbt

        they are not sentient beings.

        only humans, gorillas, chimps, and gibbons are self-aware.

        anyone who has ever seen a dog get into a fight with its image in a mirror knows this.

    • white cat

      Dont kill rabbits ! There is enough other food .

    • Anonymous

      It was only a matter of time before Elmer Fudd posted an article on beforeitsnews.

    • Eggzactly

      #rabbittslivesmatter~ until they go over the roasting pit that is. ;o)

    • Coalpony

      Nya ! Don’t pick on me doc”, try du’ Guinea pig .🍴

      • freedom007

        You are right – in Peru, guinea pigs are raised for meat and fed on remnants of meals. All that applies to rabbits as a meat source also applies to them, and it is said they taste just like rabbits.

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