Could you do a video like this but with chickens? Trying to find comprehensive videos is near impossible and starting to get on my nerves… the way you’ve explained this is amazing, thank you.

I'm glad you are so respectful to the rabbit. It really helps that you thank him for his gift of life.

Excellent video on humane methods & showing gratitude. I really appreciate how you care for them & showing the eye touch.

This was an emotional watch for me… Definitely the exposure therapy I need for me to learn to emotionally and stomach this process. Thank you for recommending this video on your other platform. I’m no where near able to afford to leave urban, apartment living for a sustainable homestead life, but watching these instructional and educational videos are really helpful for me to prepare for the process someday.

@CedarHillsHomestead

3 ай бұрын

Exposure therapy was so incredibly helpful for me and the only reason I ever became comfortable doing it myself. Thank you for watching and your comment. That time before you’re able to actually get your hands dirty and homestead is just as valuable. I learned so much while I was waiting for our someday homestead. Future you will be grateful to present you for learning as much as you are. ❤

Great video - I was nervous but the way you handled it was very calm, educational, and humane.

im steffy's husband, she does not use this account any more, and google actually hates me! i always held the rabbit in my left arm, and petted it for a bit, then took my right hand and placed it at the back of the head with the neck between my thumb and forefinger. then suddenly i would THRUST my right hand towards the ground while tilting the head back with my fingers around the head. REAL HUMANE, THEY NEVER KNOW THEY ARE BEING KILLED!!! JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL TODAY. SO I SUBSCRIBED. I NEVER HAD ANY LUCK IN TANNING PELTS!!

My grandma told us stories of her childhood out on the farm where they would have starved had it not been for the rabbits.

Great video! Thanks for showing the complete process! You are the real deal! Most people have never experienced our food production process, and maybe find this chapter disturbing. I think you did a very nice job with possibly the most difficult job on homesteading! Keep up the great work of educating us!!!

Im very sensitive, and I don't know if I will capable of doing this. Im very disconnected from reality and this pull me into the ground. Thank you for teaching this, I appreciate it

Getting ready to dispatch my second chicken. And getting ready to get meat rabbits. So these videos are incredibly helpful in humanizing this! Thank you! ❤

Don't worry Sarah you look radiant. Country life is good life, it teaches us we can never dodge the hard parts of life.

Thank you for presenting this. I do not think that people appreciate enough the give that animals give us in supplying us with nutrition. My great grandfather moved out to a farm in his later years. He grew up on one but raised his family in the city. My grandmother would talk about how he dispatched his chickens. He would pick them up and pet them. They were used to being handled. He would pet them so they were completely calm and then in a smooth and quick move, he would twist their neck to break and they would not experience any discomfort or anxiety.

I just found your channel. Very impressed with the quality of your videos and the information you’re putting out. Thank you! ~Tammy (Oregon). My brother lives in Polson😊

You are so gentle and kind in the process. You show such gratitude for the rabbits life and purpose. Thank you for this education. ❤. I haven't raised rabbits (yet). You are helping so much!

Modern humans are so far removed from their food. Great video young lady.

Thank you for this video! I want to add meat rabbits to my farm, but I was nervous about this part😅 your video made me feel so much better about it❤

I can definitely see myself doing this. I subscribe. I’m loving your material. Thanks. Pammie from Chicago Illinois

@CedarHillsHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much Pammie!

So thankful for this video. Really useful info, really great to see the dispatching process too. Many thanks! ❤

Thanks for the great video! Looking forward to future ones as well. I'd love to hear more about your breeding schedule, as you only process them as you need them - I'd like to do something similar. I'm assuming you only raise one litter at a time? Love your content

@CedarHillsHomestead

3 ай бұрын

So far I have only been doing one litter at a time so I wouldn’t overwhelm myself with it, but I believe this year I will have more litters at once because I know I can handle it. I’m cooking with these rabbits today and will have another video very soon. Thank you so much for watching and taking precious time to comment. ❤❤

Thank you! A very good and humane process. I like that you show everything and your videos are so natural and easy to watch and listen to. Nice that you show kindness and gratitude for the life that you have taken to nourish and keep your family warm. Also I am grateful I could watch this without sharing my ID and having to verify my age...Feck that! Unfortunately I can't watch part 2 of the brain technique :(

@CedarHillsHomestead

2 ай бұрын

KZread put the age restriction on there and I can’t take it off, I think showing the brains was too much ☹️ I’m sorry I wish I knew how to fix this issue.

This is a very clear explanation. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for this video 🙏💜

My husband shared a short of yours we are interested in doing rabbits as opposed to all the meat chickens. Our concern is how long and how cold our Alaska winters are. So looking forward to your journey here on KZread and learning from you along the way.

@CedarHillsHomestead

3 ай бұрын

Your winters are brutal, I usually go to Alaska-based channels to get the guidance I need for gardening. That has been a challenge for me here. I definitely think rabbits are more cold tolerant than most chickens, but it’s not fun to go without fresh grass for long. Thank you so much for following along, I just followed you back. 🥰❤️

@modernhomesteadalaska

3 ай бұрын

@@CedarHillsHomestead thank you! Love it! I’m a big fan of learning from one another.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and time to see how you do it . 😊

You are such a good teacher/instructor❤

I’m very interested in getting into rabbits and these videos are so helpful! I can’t wait for your future videos on them.

@CedarHillsHomestead

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! ❤️

I've had animals (dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, mice, rats, snakes, and most recently chickens) for almost sixty years, since I was a little kid, and I've never heard that about the constant salivation in rabbits and horses! I'm so glad to know it, even (maybe especially) in meat animals, I certainly don't want them to be uncomfortable, wherever it's in my power to determine. Thanks for a wonderful video, and particularly for the excellent dispatching and butchering. You're a rock star!🎉

Awesome instructions, thank you.

@CedarHillsHomestead

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful, and thank you! ❤️

Good video! Nicely done!

Your video has been the best I have seen thank you

Excellent video.... I have seen several dispatch vids and you are absolutely kind to your rabbits

Thank you for such a humane video. I am very disconnected from a lot of the food I consume but I know that if i eat meat, this happens somewhere. Ive also read a book called On Eating Meat by Matthew Evans about the industrial process of meat and i think it is definitely better to do it yourself as you have complete control over the elements of the dispatch.

Really great video. You have awesome content.

excellent video. Thank you

@CedarHillsHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

Great and very educational video

@CedarHillsHomestead

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much

Wow! Thank you. I learned a lot from you. ❤

@CedarHillsHomestead

2 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness, thank you so much 🥹❤️ you are too kind, means a lot 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Clickable timestamps: Dispatching starts 2:22 Dispatching ends/Processing Starts 6:32

@CedarHillsHomestead

3 ай бұрын

This is awesome, thank you!

You may want to consider getting a “rabbit wringer” for dispatching. I had a refular sized one give to me by a friend and my husband made a much larger one for my Flemish Giant culls ((I use to show them)). You can find videos here on YT about them and selling them. Most definitely makes dispatching easier!!

@Dinkyjean1

2 ай бұрын

You are an amazing young lady. I am proud of you!! You should be proud of yourself showing others how to do this!! Your children & husband are blessed to have you. Hugs & blessings💕

Thanks!

@CedarHillsHomestead

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!! ❤️❤️

I was wondering about this

As a child my mom always said skin a rabbit when she would help us change out of our shirts and I always wondered what that meant and it wasn't until a few years ago that I discovered how easy it was to actually skin a rabbit and it hit me for contacts though, I am a southerner

Thank you for this educational video. Few questions: Can you eat a sick rabbit? Where did you store the dead rabbit that you didn’t process the same day? Why don’t you eat the heart, kidney, and liver? Thank you!

Over all very helpful video. Thank you for talking through the entire process . I have learned a lot. May Allah guide you to accept Islam.

I cant remember which video of yours but could you elaborate on why you would maybe choose not to mix in chinchilla ? Also what is your breed crossed with ?

Video was great and informative, but I wish you would have gone into a tiny bit more detail on the rigor mortis part. I hear about it often, and know what it is, but not how it should be handled with eating animals. How long would they sit in the water bath? Why? How long before you can cook with them? Do they have to be frozen before cooking/grilling/stewing? Can they be frozen before/during rigor mortis? Very few people ever elaborate more on that part but many of them mention it in passing, so I'm not really sure how to handle things at that point. Within my 5-year plan, I hope to be at a point where I can butcher my first rabbits/chickens so am trying to learn as much as possible now since it will be a very new experience for me.

How long have you been homesteading? Did you and hubs grow up in Montana?

@CedarHillsHomestead

2 ай бұрын

I grew up on a hobby farm with horses, goats, rabbits, and chickens, but spent a huge chunk of time at my grandparents (all summer and most weekends). My grandparents are the ones who really got me into agriculture, they had cattle, hogs, a big homestead garden, they canned, and commercially farmed soybeans and field corn. We used to hand pick and strip tobacco too. I lived in Indiana until I was 19, then my husband and I got married and lived in his semi for a while. We bought our home in MT when I was 24 and we’ve been here ever since.

My 8 year old granddaughter joined 4H to raise rabbits. When I asked what method they use to teach the kids to kill the rabbits for butchering, it was like I said a foul word. The educator refused to share that information except to say they called it “dispatching” the rabbit. I was very disappointed that they denied teaching the kids this basic information.

Why is it important to have them calm? Is it because the meat will be filled with hormones if it is stressed?

21:10 congratulations you just performed a cholecystectomy, my friend that costs somewhere in the ball park of 1000 $ on a human xD

@CedarHillsHomestead

2 ай бұрын

Dang I’m in the wrong profession 🤣

so how long dose it take you to do thw whole processing start to finish on one rabbit with out having to stop and explain stuff,

@doinacampean9132

2 ай бұрын

I don't think she stopped when explaining :)

@danietkissenle

2 ай бұрын

@@doinacampean9132 she was going slower to make the process easier to understand while working around a camera and a tripod

Im glad my Dr cut me not ripped me for my c section.... Ouch...

How far away from the house do you dispose of the remains to reduce the risk of predators in your yard?

@CedarHillsHomestead

2 ай бұрын

Before I was composting, it had to be wrapped up tight in trash bags and disposed of in the trash bins (our area recommends this because of the bears). Now that I’m composting, I put it under a big 3x4ft pile and don’t have any smells or issues. This compost pile is separate from my others, I know which is which so that way I’m not putting these carcass piles on the garden too soon.

How would you process a rabbit foot? For us superstitious folk.

@CedarHillsHomestead

3 ай бұрын

I’m learning that one as I go, I’ll make a video on it but I’m going to put the disclaimer that it’s my first time preserving them. Before they had been composted but several people told me to try using them so that’s what I’m gonna do! 😊❤

@byuidan

2 ай бұрын

I like the rebar method better than the hit the back of the head with a board method, because it would seem like sometimes I wouldn’t quite hit right with the board. With that said, I have low back issues, so I am concerned about the bend and pull motion.