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When I was younger, my family raised rabbits until my sister realized the connection between her favorite rabbits 'escaping' and us having fried chicken for dinner.

If you speak with your school's local ag department or many states have a 4-H club they can put you in contact with sponsors who might be willing to come out and give you set up advice and purchase direction. My kids were in Ag, so we raised California rabbits for the rodeo as well as these grotesquely big breasted chickens from Texas A&M whereby one chicken could feed your family dinner. They were huge! We had a local guidance/sponsor who came out and gave us advice on set up, purchase, feeding etc. It was someone to call when we had questions during breeding and birthing etc. We were even encouraged to raise dwarf rabbits to sell to help fund the cost of feeding the California meat rabbits. We used large hooded cat litter boxes for the rabbits to birth their babies in and care for them.

Rabbits are too cute. I raised them when I was in Ag, but no way I could kill anything that cute

Kylene: I have no problem slaughtering, I grew up on a farm and we ate a lot of domestic rabbit meat. I love it, no one else in my house will eat it, so it is not practical for us. Being one never to waste, we also tanned the hides to make warm winter slippers, small muffs and collar attachments for winter coats. These days it is not acceptable to wear animal fur, but when I was a child, I had the prettiest white muff to keep my hands warm while waiting for the bus in winter. My grandma used to say we ate everything on the pig except the oink almost nothing went to waste. Good video on rabbit farming.

@TheProvidentPrepper

5 күн бұрын

I wish you lived by me!

I am looking forward to seeing how you set this up. I have been wanting to raise rabbits, so I am interested in more information. I love your set up!

Rabbit meat is very low in fat and therefore good for heart patients. I cook mine in a sou vide at 165F overnight and it falls off the bone. Your operation looks incredibly clean and organized. And I'm sure the quality is so much better than a CAFO protein. ❤❤ I raise rabbit and quail for meat, and silkies for eggs.

Miss Kyleene, not a rabbit eater, but this video as you shared has multi purposes (selling, fertilizer, etc.) . It is truly an excellent set up for us all to consider. we have coyotes and wild boars, so I would love a part 2 if your time permits. Thank you , cheers!

I can't wait to see more details on the construction! This is exactly what I've been studying to build for mine, right down to the nesting boxes. Just need a bigger overview on the building itself. It looks great!

Love those nest box coolers! Can't wait to see your future post on how you built everything. I was raising colony rabbits under a covered and wired in trampoline but hated crawling around on my knees to check the nest boxes. For those that say they could never kill and harvest them, I had that fear until the males started reaching maturity and started attacking each other. That hemologic virus came up from S. California and killed all the wild and domestic rabbits in my area. The wild rabbits have returned in the last couple of years so I am hoping the virus is finally gone so I can raise rabbits again. I don't know what it is about rabbit meat, but after eating it I am totally full with no cravings. I noticed my free range ranch eggs are like that too where as store bought eggs leave me hungry.

Gosh this brings back memories of my parents raising rabbits when we were young kids. Rabbit is excellent meat.

Might be an idea for beginners to start with just a single doe & buck. Butchering is traumatic, we've raised lots of rabbits before, but now in our old age, we just keep a few for manure for the garden, and "just in case" we can't afford meat any more. It is an extremely lean meat as well, it shouldn't be a sole source of protein.

I starting hunting a couple of years ago and wondered how I would do field dressing a deer for the first time. Way easier than I thought it would be so I don’t think I’d have an issue doing the same to rabbits. I would love to have a homestead where I raised animals for food. Good for you all.

Your rabbits look healthy and happy. There's no better fertilizer than rabbit manure. New zealands make great meat rabbits they're a much larger rabbit.

Oh wow!!! Fantastic set up!!!! I see so many wonderful ideas that I’m going to add to our set up! As always you do such a great service sharing wonderful ideas and also the message of being prepared. Well done!

@TheProvidentPrepper

5 күн бұрын

Thanks so much!

What an awesome video. I love your rabbit colony! I have some friends that used to raise rabbits but they did not do it sustainably, they only did it on purchased feed. Even though they used all of the rabbit products including the hides, it was getting expensive. I love this idea! I’m trying to make sure everything on my property I can do without any outside inputs. Right now I am still buying chicken feed but they also free range, get scraps and weeds and I’m learning to grill a variety of foods for them

This is an amazing video! First video that I have seen on how to humanely raise rabbits. God Bless you!

Learned so much! Getting ready to purchase cattle, may rethink rabbits, thanks so much.

I’d thought about raising rabbits too, on my property. There’s only me now, and I’m old-er ( laughing, not ready to admit anything yet) and there’s no way I could afford nor build, a gorgeous setup like yours, and I have difficulty killing anything too. But I’ve got acreage so I’d love to learn more about raising rabbits for meat.

I'm looking forward to seeing the construction and set up more fully in an upcoming video! I have rabbits right now but I'm in Texas and it's horribly hot in the summer. I'm praying I can keep them alive but looking for better solutions. Please share all that you're doing with them.

@cherilundin-ku7ry

5 күн бұрын

Tamuks are specifically bred to withstand Texas heat.

@kristyholman3875

4 күн бұрын

@@cherilundin-ku7ry I've heard that but not sure where to get them. I'll have to research that more. Thanks!

I love your rabbit hutch setup. Would love to learn more about it.

I've always used rabbit meat like bone-in chicken so I fry it or use in a casserole. New recipes would be greatly appreciated. ❤️👍🇺🇲

My way to cut costs is to buy quality ingredients in-season and on sale, use very few processed foods for cooking and make my own wherever possible, plan ahead and don't waste food. I'm with you on slaughtering, and appreciate you being up front about it. I don't feel there should be stigma attached to that. It's a job and like any other job, some are suited to it and some are not.

Food and water are very important. Rain catchment water can be treated with pool shock. And boiling. We have 130 days until election. We all need to step up on our priorities water, food, medicine and medical, then gardening and canning supplies. Then weapons and ammunition.

I am looking forward to seeing the construction of the pen. I have 3 breeders and am currently using them for fertilizer. I run them in tractors during the summer in the orchard and the grass is a beautiful, thick, green turf.

@TheProvidentPrepper

5 күн бұрын

Awesome!

I’ve never been happy with people doing colonies. But I think you cinched it with your set up. I only do cages but this method totally intrigued me that had I known this I think I would have gone this way. I shared this to 2 people who have or going to start in rabbits.

@TheProvidentPrepper

21 сағат бұрын

I love this set up but time will tell if it works well over the long run. So far, so good. It is all such a learning process.

What a great set up.

Great rabbit colony!

What you did here is absolutely awesome. We have been considering rabbits for quite a while. I bought a processed one from a local grocery, cooked it well, but yech we did not like it at all. I know we could get used to it if we had to, but for now, we have tabled that idea. We purchased chicken processing equipment and are due to process our first batch of chickens in a week! But rabbits, yeah, quiet, really really cheap, once you have a good infrastructure set up. Thank you for this.

@TheProvidentPrepper

21 сағат бұрын

The rabbit that I have tasted was surprisingly good. I'm sure there are some tips that I need to learn. Good luck with processing those chickens. I have friends who do that but I just can't. Good thing I have friends!

@derr2438

19 сағат бұрын

@@TheProvidentPrepper Yeah, no friends, no support here on my end. IF I have to, I will learn to like rabbit. Somehow. In the back of my mind I am tucking away ideas as to how I can get a couple rabbits if things go BAD FAST if you know what I mean. I love your setup. I have seen the system of individual cages and the mess, watering, feeding each individually etc. Looking forward to your video on how to build this setup! And Kylene, I have to say that I have been mentally preparing for the chicken thing. I am like you...not built for the cone and the knife part. But, at my old age I think it is time I take responsibility and suffer through those feelings. If I cannot do it again, well, at least I tried. I do not make eye contact with the meat chickens. I do not make emotional contact. As much as possible I keep a hard-nosed business attitude. We shall see...

@TheProvidentPrepper

19 сағат бұрын

@@derr2438 Praying for you! We gotta get you some homesteading-minded friends. Our son, Sam (who LOVES hunting and fishing), lives in a tiny apartment without the ability to raise anything ... in comes mama ... I raise, he can process. I guess what I'm trying to say is you may consider building relationships with "unlikely" candidates. I'm so glad you are part of our community!!

Looking forward to seeing how the construction was done and how you manage pests such as rodents and insects.

FANTASTIC video! I absolutely loved seeing how you are raising the rabbits. I'm afraid I'll fall in love with the domestic rabbits & want to keep them as pets. So cute!! Really good job on this video, THANK YOU! (I bet you eat the chocolate rabbits without a second thought :) 😂😬

awesome.. getting some rabbits soon.. got to build a shed.. great info plan to do the same.. #1 Jones!!!

EXCELLENT!!! EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!

I absolutely love this idea!

Beautiful job at having a great space for them. QUESTION: where did u find the stainless steal cups for your water barrels? Appreciate you!

Great info, talk, share, visit. Kylene.

Great setup and a fab source of forever food.

How do you find buyers for the rabbits?

Very nice. I want rabbits, but didn't want to cage them in little cages. I hope you'll show more!

Love seeing what you have done here with the rabbits. Very impressive and enjoyed learning about them.

You should write a book on the beginning of how to raise these sweet creatures to sending them out to slaughter to cooking them to make delicious meal. God bless

ONLY problem with raising rabbits as food is there is hardly any fat. Any ideas there besides also raising chickens?

Good for you!

Wow, this is new to me. Love all this information 🐇

Really cool video, ty ty

Fantastic video. Great video, at least for me. Thank you.

Excellent video. Thanks! 👍👍

@TheProvidentPrepper

5 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I ordered some meat, and realized it would not be enough, so I double ordered, the next round..it was an OUCH. However, it' wasn't then, what it is now! So, now, I restock about every 8 weeks, on the meat and have gotten my freezers as stocked as I can get. The rest, we eat what I can scrap out of the garden. And we really rely on grains! I'm grateful the Lord pushed me a few years ago to stock up. So, if worse come to worse we have beans, rice and wheat. I'm NOT an ugly chicken, or any canned meat person. We grew up on it, and frankly it smell of boiled meat gags me now! 😆 Kylene- Your chocolate tooth...is actually your body calling for what it needs. But, if you could find a dark, 85% cacao content, your body will be able to "USE" it better! Add a small amount to your granola's, cookies etc...SMALL amounts! When it's what the body can use, it only takes a little bit.

Interesting.

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I always ask and not being a smarty pants is will you be able to keep what you have or are you actually prepping for someone else?

I want to try rabbits

Do you share your designs for raising rabbits?

If I raise rabbits it would be for fertilizer and dog food.

@e.duncan6256

4 күн бұрын

That’s part of my plan too. Store bought meat is expensive and I like to give my 2 dogs raw meat with their kibble. The dogs like to find their own food, if they can, by hunting for it on my acreage, but I don’t like it when they go after wild turkeys and their nests, as the wild Turkey population is becoming increasingly smaller in Tennessee. So I could provide them with rabbit meat.

There's plenty of wild rabbits here down under in Aus to survive.😁

Omg all the comments crying about eating rabbits 🙄. Ppl are such snowflakes.

@rodneymoore7270

4 күн бұрын

less real hunger than they think would cure that "feeling" pdq ....

I've been trying to talk my husband into raising rabbits. He won't let me have chickens either

@TheProvidentPrepper

5 күн бұрын

Sorry!

@sheilabrennan5543

5 күн бұрын

Make him believe it is his idea

I'm wondering if rabbits will bring in snakes? Does anyone here know? I've never seen a real rat so I'm not worried about that, just stupid snakes.

@katatbat

4 күн бұрын

As a teen, the family I lived with raised them in cages. We had one doe that we thought was psycho, and we thought she ate all her babies. Turns out a snake was living between her cage and the next and was the culprit. Poor girl was terrified because she knew death was right beside her 24/7. We did not discover the snake until it had gotten so fat it began to push the wooden wall of the cage outward. It could not escape because of its size. So make sure there is a plan for the safety of your girls and their babies. I always felt so sorry for that poor rabbit. It was obvious she was severely traumatized before we found the snake. She remained mentally unstable.

@annieoakley1905

4 күн бұрын

@@katatbat oh yuck!! Scary! Thanks for this info, I’ll watch out for something like that, it’s a terrifying thought!! Snakes freak me out!

Just let them live.

@ALT_RIGHT

5 күн бұрын

Don't eat ANYTHING or wear anything that comes from animals and you can speak.

@BellofattoBrews

4 күн бұрын

Actually none of them would ever have been born had they not set up the rabbit pen. So they do live and then provide. Win/win

@vestagirl8484

4 күн бұрын

Oh look at the censorship here! Hypocrites.

@BellofattoBrews

4 күн бұрын

@@vestagirl8484 What are you talking about? Who here is censoring you?

Just want to clue you in on something. In case you don't know, you don't have to eat meat to survive. I don't eat meat. I don't hurt animals and I'm still a prepper. It's ridiculous that people think they have to slaughter souls and eat them. You don't. That's just my opinion

First 🥇

How can you kill an animal that looks to you for protection?

@BellofattoBrews

4 күн бұрын

The only thing those rabbits might possibly see people as is someone who puts the food out that they are eating. They have no concept of being protected by someone.

Meat addiction will make you value a dead carcass more than the soft sweet warm love of a fellow earthling, absolutely demented

@ALT_RIGHT

5 күн бұрын

Ever wear leather shoes or a handbag?

@eflychique

5 күн бұрын

@ALT_RIGHT yes but I don't buy those anymore either

Eating rabbits is just as bad as eating pork.

@jackhsiehhautecouture

5 күн бұрын

Why?

@Tattiepoo1

5 күн бұрын

Why ???

@joanbogart5348

5 күн бұрын

Why

@michaeldunwoody3629

5 күн бұрын

I like meat, most any meat, and I prefer any meat to starving.

@justnana2256

5 күн бұрын

Qualify that statement with some facts. As far as I have read, rabbit meat is a lean meat and if you raise them yourself is a clean meat.Domesticated rabbit meat also has fewer calories than chicken and has less cholesterol than any other commonly consumed meats, like beef, pork, and chicken. For those looking for high vitamin content, rabbit is an excellent choice.

I hope you're not eating those rabbits. That's terrible. I could see the manure but not anything else. I don't want to watch your postings if that's what you're doing. Sorry

@ALT_RIGHT

5 күн бұрын

Bye

@Tattiepoo1

5 күн бұрын

I am a vegetarian/vegan. But if I was hungry I would eat meat. Anyone would. Grow up

@sheilabrennan5543

5 күн бұрын

Wait until you are hungry and the only thing left is a rabbit

@BellofattoBrews

4 күн бұрын

LOL I love when people post they are not going to watch anymore or they are going to unsubscribe. Just do it then without having to announce.