Let’s face it, during the beginning process of adding meat rabbits to our homestead, I wasn’t the happiest girl in the world. The thought of butchering little animals that I had hand raised as ...

For beginning homesteaders (or even those more established), raising meat rabbits it the perfect first step to take toward raising your own livestock. As natural herbivores, rabbits eat low on the ...

For those looking to build a more self-sufficient life on a small plot of land, finding an efficient and sustainable meat ...

BREVARD - The Transylvania County office of the N.C. Cooperative Extension of N.C. State University will offer a workshop titled "Backyard Meat: Rabbits for Family Food" at 6 p.m. Feb. 21 at the ...

Violet Gichia’s love for rabbits developed quite early in life. When she visited Egerton University as a pupil in class eight, their vast rabbit farm mesmerised her. She bought a few rabbits and began ...

Three years ago the couple’s Marin-area Devil’s Gulch Ranch had 250 breeding females, or does, a number that has since quadrupled to 1,000 and makes them one of the largest meat rabbit producers in ...

She bought a few rabbits and began rearing them at home. The interest would soon fade away while in high school, only to resurface several decades later. "In 2006, I began keeping rabbits again, this ...