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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:27 pm
by ross
Quit doin this bout 10yrs ago , back at it glad I kept my cages . Pics 4 of 7 young bunnies . Brood stock for meat rabbits for personal consumption . Luck
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:32 pm
by nekoatsume
What's rabbit taste like? Don't say chicken.. LOL.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:43 pm
by kenya
Nice colours
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:53 pm
by Satellite
Wonderful! We had bad luck with ours this year. One mom who had babies last year would NOT get pregnant (or cannot anymore. ..more likely the case) . The other one had her first litter of 8 and promptly died the next day! We tried to save the babies but to no avail.
When it works out, it is a great source of meat. Smart of you to have kept your cages.
Nekoatsume....I found it mild tasting....my husband says along the lines of pork.
Good luck Ross!
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:51 pm
by windwalkingwolf
nekoatsume wrote:QR_BBPOST What's rabbit taste like? Don't say chicken.. LOL.
It depends what you feed them. Only fed "rabbit food" pellets, they taste a lot like store-bought white meat chicken. Wild diet, they taste like free range chicken LOL. Mixed diet including whole grains, they taste like if a chicken and a pig had a baby. But still like chicken :D
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:56 pm
by ross
Yep many ways to cook which gives many different flavours . Stews , oven , open fire , bbq , slow cooker etc . Yu get my drift . Yep like any other critter endeavour all have there issues . Plan to do colony breeding as well as cage in spring . Found works real good like chickens . I feed scratch grain & pellets free choice . Luck
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:05 pm
by Skinny rooster
Lol, I agree with WWWolf they doooo taste like chicken but that's ok in my book, I luv chicken. I can't kill a bunny that is why I switched to raising the pet breeds lol. Rabbits are probably my number two animal to keep after chickens, easy to look after.
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 7:02 am
by Killerbunny
Cooked with white wine, stock,cream and toasted almonds. Had that in Northern Spain!
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 11:27 am
by Ontario Chick
Californians?
We used to raise rabbits when the kids were small, and called them "Spanish chickens" to protect our children's sensibilities, until they asked why we call the rabbits Spanish chicken so that was the end of that.
Had them processed at one of the small local abattoirs, that have long disappeared.
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:27 pm
by ross
Yep? & one blk & one grey buck mixed . Don't want big ones I'm the only one that eats them .