Will try to get some more posts up but things came up and have to reorganize for a big move

One of my favorite things about raising meat rabbits is having good, homegrown meat ready for easy meals. Today, it's homemade rabbit soup in the crockpot! I start with a whole rabbit in the crockpot, adding enough water to cover it. Season with salt, pepper, and your choice of spices. I use Kentucky Chicken Rub, a little turmeric, and a bag of frozen chopped seasoning vegetables (onions, red peppers, and green peppers). Right before setting it to cook I add: - About 2 cups of chopped portobello mushrooms - Chopped green onions - 2–3 cups of cubed or diced potatoes - About ½ cup of diced carrots - Any other vegetables you enjoy! Set the crockpot on LOW for 8–12 hours. I usually let mine cook while I'm at work so its ready when I get home. . Collard greens are also excellent in this soup, although I recommend adding some pre cooked bacon if you're using collards. It adds a wonderful flavor. Remove the rabbit, carefully debone it, shred the meat, and return it to the soup. Give everything a good stir, and it's ready to serve! Meal Prep Bonus: I portion mine into individual serving containers. I froze over half the batch and put a few servings in the refrigerator for easy grab-and-go meals throughout the week. Simple ingredients, very little hands-on work, and plenty of hearty meals from one rabbit! Share your recipes! #RabbitRecipes #MeatRabbits #FarmToTable #RabbitSoup #HomesteadCooking #MealPrep

Howdy!! On the hunt for a new breeding buck. I haven't even started this year and our semi-annual cleaning took my only Senita breeding buck. He was gorgeous. The girls are looking great and packed on the pounds. We are starting to trim back to 10oz of pellets a day to get ready for breeding season in a few short weeks.

One of my biggest concerns when buying rabbits is something many people never think to ask about: Has this rabbit been allowed on the ground? That does not mean a rabbit that has touched grass is automatically sick. It does not mean every outdoor rabbit is carrying parasites. It means something much simpler: ground exposure changes that rabbit’s biosecurity history. If someone wants to pasture their own closed herd, use rabbit tractors, or let rabbits play in the yard, that is their husbandry decision. What concerns me is when rabbits with that exposure are sold into other breeding herds without the buyer being told. I deliberately maintain my rabbits off the ground. If I purchase an animal that has been running through soil visited by wild rabbits, raccoons, cats, rodents, ticks and other wildlife, I may be importing exposures I specifically designed my management system to avoid. And keeping rabbits separated from the ground is not a strange modern invention. It has a surprisingly long history. Rabbits have been confined for centuries The Romans maintained European rabbits in managed enclosures called leporaria, and later medieval rabbit production developed around warrens. Those systems were not equivalent to modern cages and generally involved managed populations rather than individually housed domestic rabbits. As rabbit domestication developed, husbandry changed. Agricultural writings from 1572 and 1600 distinguished wild rabbits, warren rabbits and domestic rabbits maintained in clapiers. Breeding does were maintained separately, while bucks were housed apart except for mating. Individual confinement was therefore already part of domestic rabbit husbandry by the beginning of the seventeenth century (Lebas, Tudela & Gidenne, 2010). Historical research from England shows the same general transition. Domestic rabbits were being raised in hutches, sheds, pens, courtyards, lofts, cellars and specialized rabbit pits during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Thick, 2016).

Rabbit Ick. I will Not buy anything from people who take pictures of their rabbits in the grass.