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Raising meat rabbits is such a fun endeavor, although it was one I had no interest in in the beginning. The most important part of raising rabbits is providing them with the proper housing.
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Raising meat rabbits was something I wanted nothing to do with it because I grew up with rabbits as pets. My husband originally wanted our meat rabbits, so I set out to do my research.
How much room do you have? What is their turn-around rate and how susceptible are they to illness? What breed is best for you? What housing method should I use?
I suggest buying the book “The Rabbit-Raising Problem Solver
We chose New Zealand Whites because they were the most widely used for raising meat rabbits. Since we were wildly uneducated in the field, this seemed like the safest route. They are one of the larger breeds of rabbit and one Crock-Pot Rabbit Stew fed my husband and me for almost two weeks!
We went to our local Rural King to buy our rabbits. In hind-site, the number one thing we should have really brushed up on was how to sex a rabbit. When it comes to raising meat rabbits, sexing a rabbit is probably close to the hardest thing to do for a beginner.
The beginning of our horror story is that the employee at Rural King sold us 5 rabbits – we were looking for 4 females and 1 male. M