Excellent information on rabbits! There's so much more to rIsing rabbits than most people think! When my daughter started raising rabbits for 4-H, we were exceptionally blessed to meet a family who had not only raised New Zealand rabbits but also showed rabbits nationally & were accredited ARBA judges. We got to be good friends & they were a huge help as we researched new breeding stock & made our way through the usual rabbit raising "oops"!! Finding an experienced person can make all the difference! Thank you Heather & God bless!!

Lots of good information here, thank you for sharing! Our “5 Things” installment on goats will be up later this week!

Very interesting, thank you for sharing. Raised checkered Giants when I was a lot younger and used for food.

Great info and a fun video! Thanks for pulling this together. We'll try to get our video posted on Monday. Cheers Heather!!

Informative! Thank you!! Bunnies aren't for our Homestead but looking forward to hearing about meat chickens!! ☺️ ~jc

Thank you Heather. Always good info.

My comment is thank you for your support for us out here in web land!!!!🐷🐷🐷

Great information. Thank you!

Great info! Thanks… I’ll be checking out the playlist for sure. Bees are definitely a future interest for us.

Great meat rabbit set up, 😊

Thanks for another interesting and informative video!!! Stay safe!!!

Love this collab! Thank you!

What a great collaboration.. I don't have rabbits but Great information on rabbits!🐇 I could think of five things I wish I knew before I got my chickens. 🤔

Great information thank you!!!

I'm glad I found your channel. Sweet Briar Farm sent me over! I love goats. I wish I could own a few or more, probably more!

I'm so glad I found your channel! I really enjoy the content and find it very informative. You are a wonderful speaker and are so easy to listen to. I have been thoroughly enjoying your videos on goats as I want to get some. Thank you!

Great video full of good information. Love that you advocate for the purebred meat rabbit as that is something we are passionate about on our homestead as well. Looking forward to checking out the rest of the collaboration ( already following most of the channels). You should add sheep and geese to the list as they are amazing homestead animals in our experience.

This is so fun! I subscribed to all of the channels, and I watched all 4 videos that were uploaded today! I'm looking forward to the other videos that are coming! Great idea! Thank you! ❤️

MY DADDY RAISED MEAT RABBITS AND PETS! HE SOLD TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD STORE REGULARLY, AND STORES THAT HAD CAGES OUTSIDE OF THEIR STORE THAT SOLD ALWAYS RIGHT AWAY! :) HE HAD MORE THAN 100 RABBITS AT A TIME. HE ALSO STRETCHED THE SKINS AND GRANDMA MADE EVERYTHING OUT OF THE PELTS, INCLUDING CHILDRENS PURSES, AND HAND WARMERS DAD LOVED EVERYONE OF HIS BREEDING RABBITS...

Hello Heather. I've been so busy all day I finally got a chance to watch your video. Good job. You did great. Lots of good info. I was already subscribed to most of the people in your collaboration but I did sign up with the ones I hadn't yet. Love you guys

Love this idea

That's a great book! I want to read more of his stuff. Very inspirational. I need to look up RHD now.

I love your channel, thanks for all the awesome info on rabbits!!!

Thanks for your information, especially about the hay.

Registered CA rabbits are the ones I would raise again.They put on an extra pound for the same amount of grain as unregistered stock. I like their size. New Zealands are to large for me to comfortably handle. We raise grass fed Hereford for breeding stock, however, rabbit meat is heart healthy. In the 10th Edition of The Encyclopedia of COUNTRY LIVING, on page 837, it lists foods to raise for rabbits. That is great to augment grain or if grain is unavailable. They would be my meat of choice in hard times. My neighbor uses rabbit manure to raise bait worms and it is amazing for the garden. Diseases can be challenging. I would have a bunny barn ~ Diane

Heather this was incredibly informative. I had no idea rabbits don’t mother their babies. Or about the hay and the RHF. Thank you and thank you for hosting this wonderful collaboration!

MY MOTHER EVEN CANNED RABBIT, I REMEMBER IN THE 1960'S, AND WE ATE IT REGULARLY IN THE WINTER MONTHS, ALONG WITH SALMON AND DEER MEAT.... I AGREE WHOLE HEARTEDLY ABOUT CHICKEN, I NEVER DID LIKE CHICKEN UNLESS IT WAS CHICKEN AND DUMPLINS... WE ATE RABBIT, AND DIDN'T STARVE TO DEATH LIKE PEOPLE SAY THE NATIVE AMERICANS DID FROM EATING ONLY RABBIT, BUT THEN WE ATE FISH, SQUIRREL AND DEER IN THE SAME WEEKS AND TIME . :) MY DADDY MILKED GOATS, AND THE GOATS MILK FED MY BABY WHEN SHE WAS ALERGIC TO FORMULA AND EVERYTHING ELSE UNDER THE SUN, AFTER AN ACCIDENT, AND I COULDN'T NURSE HER ANY LONGER.... SO GOD BLESS YOUR ADVENTURES AND YOUR FAMILY!!! :)

Thanks for sharing !

Thanks for the video! I have always had pet rabbits, but I am seriously considering meat rabbits. One question about the hay: We have always given them unlimited hay because they need it to grind down their teeth. We had a rescue once and he was given no hay, only pellets. His front teeth grew through his cheeks, and his back molars were so overgrown he could not eat. So I guess just a word of caution when it comes to not feeding any hay at all.

Great video.. 👍

Excellent information!! I really enjoyed the entire collaboration of videos! Thank you so much!!!!

Love the sweat shirt! 😊

Very interesting! ❤

Hello & happy holidays!🎄 I came from Lisa's channel over at yogi hollow! We plan on getting meat rabbits next year so this is perfect! Thank you for sharing!😄

Great series idea, looking forward to watching the rest! I agree with the warning, especially with rex. My first rex were quite small and the seller wasn't that truthful. I did get a good sized rex pair with good growth (I think the male was 4lbs at 8 weeks, but I'll have to check) from Alberta, so now it's a project to get that consistently. But we did also get silver fox this summer and if those do well for us, we might decide to do more with those instead. Except.... my husband gets too attached to certain ones and it always happens to be the poor producers! 🤦🏻‍♀️We had Californians a few years ago and they were really great. RHDV 2 is scary. There haven't been any reported cases here in Manitoba, but I see it's in Minnesota, so it'll probably hit here soon. Ontario has had a number of cases- though those all seem to be affecting pet rabbits and hay was the source.

i now there is a "dual use" angora (i forget which kind of angora- french maybe?) that is wool and meat, but i do know the feed to meat will never equal a pure meat rabbit. incidentally your california bunnies are adorable

We like your sweat shirt😄

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Hey Heather! I've been watching your channel for a few weeks now and loving it. I'm new to farm animals, but I'm considering getting some meat rabbits and was wondering what size your hanging cages are? Are there any special features they need to have? Thanks!! 😊

I know this is an old video, but do you have a video on those rabbit hutches behind you??

Do you have a video on the outside pens behind you in this video?

How do you disbatch the rabbits when you butcher? You probably have a video on it?

been thinking about rabbits...but first i gotta deal with chickens...get enough to cover 34 people in the house....ugh...

hello! apologies if you've answered this, but if your breeders "age" out, will you start looking at what they produce to raise replacements? or will you go back to another ARBA breeder to get replacements, if only to expand the gene pool? (is that important if you're just raising them for your freezer?)

what about Tamuk breed I think they come in pretty colors

I wish I had known this info as well, I have 7 rabbits now and 1 is a harlequinn, Rex, and the other 5 are the babies of those 2. The babies came out so small 😮‍💨 and black which is fine but I'm sad about it. Father is Rex and beautiful and soft which is what I was breeding for, but I wanted moms color in them. Didn't get the color and I didn't get Dads fur quality... so sad. So now I have 5 rabbits too small for meat and no use for their pelts. Can't sell them, and I can't even give them away. No one wants them. So what do you do?

I need some help, one of my does had her kits yesterday morning and she has been acting lethargic and not eating or drinking much she fed the kits this morning but she just not acting right I have ruled out the it's not a stuck kit but I am thinking that it's her placenta does anyone know how I can help her?

I like to buy pure Californian rabbit I live in south of Louisiana if you can recommend me some one that have let me knob .

I don't feed any hay

I want to buy the Californians (I think) those are the ones with the red eyes? Just because they freak me out, you know? They look like a meat animal, like chicken broilers, meat animal 😂 Accidents of Mother Nature ? Who knows but they don’t look like my sweet bun bun boy🥰 they look like they need to escape from inside that body 😂 The more they freak me out the better for me at processing time😊 I follow Sprague River and I want to get my rabbits from her on a trip to go see my kids, if that doesn’t happen soon I’ll buy them locally, but I feel like I’ve learned so much thru her videos, that I almost have to. Thanks for sharing all these tips, they really helped me in my constant need of information when I’m getting into a new animal. What do you think about the hostil haré cages to keep breeders? I feel like I can do a nice hutch for breeders like a bachelor pad , one on top of the other and the girls side by side but I wonder if it is worth the money and time, or are those cages ok? Have you seen them? I’m going to be honest with you, I want to have rabbits but I also want a good setup for them, I really like streamlined processes and happy animals, I’ve started to follow channels on Yt where I want to go and free those rabbits, and let them go in the wild, their sanitary conditions are horrible, over crowded and in a really cold weather despite being inside with hundreds of chickens in a less than perfect in as converted into a coop. I’m not critiquing them at all, I’m sharing what I’m seeing, and this is not a commercial producer, it’s a homestead. And it makes me sad to see them in those conditions, so it always makes me keep researching, looking for things and adding to my rabbit notebook where I keep my ideas and plans on how to set them up… I look at your rabbit setup and I always see happy rabbits, living I. A clean space, and an effective meat production, so thank you! Because you inspire me, you make it seem doable for a family homesteading and encourage me to make it my own. Thank you friend, sorry for the rant, maybe I should have emailed you instead 😂 But is the truth and how it makes me feel some other people Have a great week! It’s still dark outside here in Oregon so I’m catching up with everyone’s videos while doing dishes, because my New Years resolution is no dishes left behind! In the sink, they need to be washed and put away for my mental sanity! And because we live in less than 300 sq ft 😂 Blessings Lety

Hay prevents gut stasis, it’s definitely a good thing to give them hay. 80%.

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If they are hard to breed get rid of them

I love this collaboration 😍 much love from Cleveland Ohio ❤️ FarmFresh_USA