I like that he really does care about his rabbit and Is giving them the best life he can unlike some people who treat them like dirt and don’t care about them

My husband and I are in our 60's and just started raising meat rabbits this is the one thing I dreaded but you showed and explained it very well thank you I'll be watching more

I always let my rabbits runs around in a fenced in area at least a few times a months even if they are destined for the table. I don’t think an animal can live a happy life if it only knows a cage. I also don’t want to be like the commercial meat industry

That rabbit plushy is the best investment for Bobby in making this video. Keep it up a good work 🐇

I really like your idea of showing all these methods with a stuffed rabbit. Brilliant!

"The better I keep them, the more they produce." Sounds like solid advice.

I really appreciated the way you used the stuffed bunny to show this. And also appreciate the other helpful comments below. It will help me be more informed before investing in meat rabbits. In the past I've only had pet rabbits, and unsure about meat rabbits. I've only processed wild rabbit before. So thanks again.

Thank you for the honest and genuine explanations. Just getting rolling on my journey of taking responsibility for my own meat production and I can always count on your channel to keep it real and informative.

Thank you for doing this humanly

Thank you, this helps. I'm gonna put down my old rabbit soon, and I needed to know how.

This is great information. I use the pellet method since my rabbits are raised in a colony, any handling and they stress out. One tip I’ve done is marking the shot placement with a sharpie. That way you can line up your exact shot quickly with no second guessing.

When using the broom stick method : Both feet on the stick, one on either side of the animal before you pull, or the neck won't break, with rabbits you want only the neck under the stick, no feet so fold the front feet back under the belly. And use a stick only, anything attached may prevent the stick from lying properly flat against the ground (and hard surface i preferred). If you need to check if the animal is dead : touch the eyeball, if you can without any blink/flinch response the animal is dead.

Yes, this is a very helpful video for people who are just starting a personal rabbitry. Thank you!

What a awesome video. Great content and I liked how sensitive you were with the stuffed bunny. Classy

Our first litter is approaching their date. Great timing with the video! I don't trust my aim so hubs and I agree, he shoots and I clean.

We just got our first rabbits to breed for meat a couple weeks ago and have a litter of 7 kits already (both does I bought were already bred). I love animals and was dreading the step between cute bunnies and rabbit meat/pelts. After watching this, I believe I'll be able to dispatch our bunnies when the time comes. Thank you for showing all the methods... and for using a stuffed bunny to do so!

Thanks. We have quite a large outbreak of mixamatosis, so i needed to find a cheap, fast, humane despatch method for any infected wild rabbits i come across

Thank you for the well thought out, well presented options.

That was great and right on time. My rabbits are approaching that size and this is my first litter.

Thank you !!! I like that you show us different methods just in case we don't have what we need LOL perfect

best video I've seen yet as said before stuffed rabbit was great

I'm slowly getting into the idea of wanting to harvest a rabbit for taxidermy and meat and I really appreciate your video for showing all these methods while only using a stuffed animal. I'm still nervous about doing it wrong so I may practice with a stuffed rabbit of my own when I get around to it.

The most humane video about dispatching the rabbits - love the idea with the plush toy. :) Would like to see similar videos about dispatching other farm animals (chickens, ducks, goats, pigs etc). Thank you.

Thank you for demonstrating each method. I just recieved a harvesting tool, but wasn't sure the best way to mount it or use it. Your way seems very good for a woman to use.

If only Elmer Fudd had access to KZfaq back in the day.

Love the stuffed rabbit, because you were able to show how to do it. Everyone else just said this is what we use and how we use it, without showing you. Awesome video! Thank you.

Thank you. I grew up watching the pipe method at a young age. But it’s been 30 years and knew there had to be a better way.

I really love Bobby rabbit videos and totally going to recommend the channel to my friend that try to start with meat rabbit 🐇

Very informative.thank you.

Thanks for this video! We often get questions about rabbit dispatching and this is now my go to video to share with them. We use the broomstick method.

I really appreciated this video. I have three pet rabbits, but I’ve been wanting to try rabbit meat for awhile (not mine, ha ha). This video and I’ll the great people commenting makes me feel so much better about the rabbit industry (at least local). My husband hunts deer and it’s the same thing, we try to be as humane as possible. Thanks for the great content and for caring about what you do!

I'm a mom. Started a homestead 3 years ago. It's time. :/ thank you♡

I invested everything in a large ranch to raise bison only to find out I'm not capable of killing one. My German Shepherd's hobby is chasing rabbits on our ranch. He won't hurt one and if he somehow corners one or the rabbit quits running, the game is over and he walks away. Several months ago, there was a cotton tail that he didn't notice. I pointed it out & told him to "get it!" He did & brought it back to me! It was completely limp but breathing hard. In a panic, I rushed it inside & layed the poor thing on my bed. When the rabbit realized the dog was gone, it got up & appeared fine! It was apparently faking! Relieved I left it alone in my bedroom to recover. My wife found it before I had a chance to tell her the story. So she supplied it with a cat litter box, alfalfa from the barn & fresh water. Next thing I know we have a "pet rabbit" living in our bedroom! Turned out he actually uses the litter box so no issues there & made friends with us almost immediately. Not only does he come hopping when called, he waits until I'm in bed then jumps up to lay against my back. I don't know if it's for warmth or security, but it's a nightly ritual. I didn't know he was a he until later btw. Assuming he might be lonely I bought a companion rabbit from the feed store. Oops... now we have seven baby bunnies. Now these things are beyond cute but... I'm not living with 9 rabbits in my bedroom! I briefly considered putting them in our freezer but after seeing this video, that's not an option. Our ranch is so remote it's impossible to find suitable homes for them so we are stuck with them... for however long rabbits live. Mom & Dad are temporarily separated. When the babies are old enough everybody is going to the vet for permanent birth control, then they are relocating to our barn. We have very spoiled horses with heat & AC in the barn so they should be safe & happy there. And we get our bedroom to ourselves again. Silly me, I thought I was tougher than this. Lesson learned. They don't cost as much as horses & buffaloes to feed & they don't take up as much space either. Overall I think I got off easy.

Thanks for showing me how to use the tool.

Thanks Bobby, this was great!

To be fair, I love the cicada scream in the background. Makes for a nice atmosphere (and reminds me of anime lol)

Thanks Bobby.always good to improve ,I have been using a broom handle on the ground.😊👍

Thank you for sharing. That was an awesome demonstration. I'm new to this and I have learned so much from you. Thank you for doing what you do to teach us!!! Its important for me to know the fastest/kindest way to dispatch. I really want to be able to do this. Thank you again.

I understand your reasoning for using the stuffed bunny, but I think for anyone watching videos about butchering rabbits, it’s important to see the brutality so you mentally prepare for it yourself. We don’t need someone not understanding that they are about to kill, messing up, and then not having the mental will to finish off the animal.

When I was younger my father would use the pipe method.. well with his hands he would karate chop the hell out of the rabbits when he dispatched them. It worked.

Very well done video. Depends on the rabbit on which method I use.

I’ve always used the chain method. It is easiest for me and quick.

Thank you.

Perfect with the stuffed animal have seen some

Hey tanks for the vid😎. So handy to see all the methods

When my dad was still processing he used the whacking method, but I don’t trust my self to be strong enough to give a fatal blow, so I use a BB gun. I place them in a small carrier with some raspberry leave a to make sure they don’t move, let them kick out a little, hang the up and bleed them.

I just butchered my first rabbit, and use a broomstick to break its neck, and it was instant and no blood and very little shaking even. I just couldn't bring myself to use a gun, and definitely wasn't going to knock it in the head. I've shot enough lame hogs and knock enough baby pigs in the head over the yrs, having had hogs on the farm basically my entire life, that I just can't bring myself to shoot or knock anymore animals I raise in the head anymore. I had put off butchering any of my meat rabbits and was just selling them live, but had 1 of this group I kept back for butchering, so I put it off until I needed the grow out pen for the next group. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy and quick it was using the broomstick method. I think I'm going to make me one of those bars or buy one for the next time, since my old bones don't bend as easy as they use to getting down on the ground using the broomstick. But dislocating the neck like that is definitely the most humane way to do it, because the rabbit doesn't feel a thing, and with a gun or hammer, I just feel there is at least a little pain even if its only for 1 or 2 seconds, but with dislocating the neck, they are dead quicker than you can snap your finger.

I invested in the bolt gun because it is in my opinion the easiest and least stressful. Many times i have done it right in the cage so the rabbit doesn't even have the stress of being removed from its environment and handled before the kill.

man im interested in where you get the corn seeds!!!!! that corn in amazing for such a small space

Whoa there…broomstick method..both feet.

Thanks

I want to start to learn to raise my own meat but it is very important to me that they suffer as little as possible so thank you for this video. We'll see if I get the guts to do it though.

A shoe horn Works wonderful very inexpensive and most your thrift stores have them

Thanks for the video! The harvest tool and the noose (choke chain) seem to be similar just a different angle. What makes you like the choke over as your favorite?

It would be interesting to see the rope method in real action for efficiency. I have watched others using an actual choke chain for this method, but have never seen a rope used for real in this method.

Good. Really like the V kill.

Clean, quick, humane kill. Thank you for sharing.

How does one use the Stunning Apparatus for Small Animals? Is there a video on it? There also was a dislocation device, but I cannot find videos on it.

Killing cute little fuz balls is going to be difficult, I’m thinking pellet pistol to the head, then slice the jugular to bleed, is going to be the easiest method for both me and the rabbit.

My husband and I use the broomstick method and the only thing I don't like about it is that the shoulders/neck area seem to have a lot of blood and bruising after. I'm watching this to look into a cleaner way to dispatch, if that makes sense. Thank you for sharing these methods. Does using the neck popper method lessen the bleeding/bruising of the shoulder/meat? Or is it similar to the broomstick method in terms of how the meat looks once the head is removed?

Sorry for the ignorance but when you are doing the "broomstick method" or any of the others. When you jerk the rabbit by the legs, are you only trying to break the neck/separate the spine or are you trying to decapitate it during this?

I've been using lead free pellets directly to the brain. To me, it's the the most humane. I free range my animals so they are doing what comes naturally and are not in an excitable state.

I went looking for your harvesting tool, found a nice picture of it, and discovered that you also have gambrels available on that site. Could you add a picture of the gambrel? I'm interested in both but would like to see both first if possible. And, thank you for this informative, compassionate video.

I expected to find a link to purchase pelts, but where is it? I'd rather buy a pelt from you instead of Amazon any place cus you can't tell where they were raised and how they were dispatched. Give me a link.

Rename the choke one to, Noose release, noose dispatch... if you use is all the time and define it when you do, you can change the term. Besides its not a chain, its a noose, people will go for it!

Hey there! I love your videos and im honestly considering starting my own rabbitry, you've given so much inspiration and really done more than i've seen quite few other folks do giving genuine explanations and informative videos instead of slapping a 5 second horrible quality together and shoving folks on their merry way. I do have a question, when preforming the ' Hopper Popper ' how do you know all brain activity is ceased and you haven't paralyzed the rabbit? I don't of course mean to come across as foolish or whatnot but the question arose from my partner.

Hi Bobby! Thank you so much for your video. I really liked that you used a stuffed animal. I would like to see the real thing because I’m interested in seeing the rabbit behavior. We don’t eat rabbit but we will have to dispatch a mean one and we plan to raise rabbits eventually and use as dog food to lower costs if times get harder. Can you explain the physiology of how the rabbit dies by pulling his hind legs? The first time I saw it was with the broom and pull method and it freaked me out so much! The guy didn’t even explain it.

Does anyone know if the use of the first tool he uses would be legal in the UK? The rule here says a blow to the head is allowed in anomals under 5kg but would this count as such?

1st method seems most humane. thanks for the vid! need more cooking vids (not deep fried) lol maybe a bbq or something

The Rabbitry Center, I didn’t find the method where you use a sharp meat cleaver knife and then chop off the rabbit’s head with force using the knife basically like classic decapitation. The method where you chop the head off is definitely not in the video, is that like one of the less humane methods? The methods mentioned in the video are nice though.

You didn't mentioned the fastest and easiest way. No materials needed. Just your hands. It takes me 1 step from taking the rabbit to having a death rabbit in my hands. You put one hand around his head thumb at the side of its body palm under its chin. With your other hand you grab his hind legs. Bend its head upwards. Stretch that arm downward and pul with the other upward. You break its neck. Instant death. Works also with poultry. One pro tip. Don't pull to hard otherwise you decapitate it and You're covered in blood.

Where can I order a harvesting tool?

Couple questions about the pipe and bleed method, is the rabbit Instantly dead after hitting it or does it only knock the rabbit out? If it only gets knocked out how long do I have to toe the rabbit up and bleed it? Does it require significant force? I use the first method but I'm not the strongest person and ive had too many rabbits suffer because I didnt pull hard enough the first time. Thank you for the video by the way, I'm pretty eager to try something new.

i just had to put my rabbit down yesterday it was hard

Which way does less Damage to meat

my heart was hurting but I know it has to be done if we are gonna eat. does it get easier?

The first method seems the most painless to me.

Hello, I want to ask when the rabbit is the daughter of the male, can it be released for babies because here in Bulgaria they don't do it and there is no one to explain to you if there will be any anomalies. Thank you

I would like to know if and how long, will the heart pump after neck os snapped? I like your ways of dispatching the rabbits, I've done the bat behind the ears when I was younger. I think I might weld up that snapper you had bolted to the wall. What's your thoughts on heart pumping out blood after the snap? Thanks

I am so terrified of killing my rabbits...they all know me and i cant look at them when i know they need to go.

I prefer a hand pelet gun, Just like shown here you plase them on grass with food and pet / comfort them. Quickly pull a loded and ready to go pistol and pop. The rabit never feels a thing or has a clue about wahts about to happen. Just be sure to use steel or copper shot, lead is not something you want in your animal.

I put them in a five gallon bucket with a lid and take them away from the others and use a 22 short

On the broomstick method, at the end, was it a slip of the tongue or do you actually also use it for chickens? Perhaps you meant to say "rabbit"? Or could that work with chickens as well?

This is going to be difficult. If there was a way to do this with minimal contact/holding the rabbit, that would help. Which one of these methods accomplished this the best? (I would think the pellet-I’m a pretty accurate shot) My best friend in LA has a mini farm. (Sheep, rabbits, chickens , purebred Yorkies and Schnauzers) She can be a resource as well.

I love your channel, I'm a subscriber, but i definitely don't agree with this, it's b.s. people need to understand that living animals make the ultimate sacrifice, to provide us with nutrition. I kill and slaughter my rabbits the same way polyface farm does there's. No wasted meat and very humane. P.s. your video is awesome, like all the others. People need to understand the reality of food supply is all. I myself dread slaughter day, but it's reality is all.

Oh, thank you for the toy bunny. Jeez, I can't stand any more than I absolutely have to see of it; even though I intend to dispatch my own meat rabbits....

Animals dont instinctively know what a gun it. They're pray animals. Anything new is a possible danger. Somthing that size is for sure a danger

Do you have a breeding pair for sale ? I'm not to far from you

This video needs to be shown to the eagles/ coyotes/ snakes/ alligators ect.. that preys upon them.

Thank you for using a stuffed animal. I was looking for video like this but couldnt watch one using a live animal. I own a rabbitry and wanted to know how to humanely euthanize a bunny in case there's an emergency where I cant save the bun.

Never EVER use a choke on your dog. Fucking NEVER. AND CERTAINLY NOT AS PUNISHMENT. I love this video by the way, it's mostly family friendly, lots of people can't handle watching the live animal demonstration. It is hard to watch. But some people get too upset over it. So this was a harmless alternative that educated me❤️

I want to start raising for meat, but i don’t like to kill . I’m scared of starting to raise for meat but end up kipping them for pet just because I don’t like to see them in pain

Anyone ever tell you that you look a little like dr Eric Berg?

I cut the head clean off with one chop

I'm SOL, mine are pets and I just don't have it in me. I would probably have to have someone else do it.

I've learned allot owning and raising my rabbits. I have learned allot about human behavior also. I will not let them go like this. Anyone out there reading this that has rabbits for their kids and it's a family member, get them fixed before you end up in my situation. Only animal that reproduces faster than humans and cockroaches. Man, I thought dispatch meant how to let them go in safe environment. Before this is over, I'm going to be a vegetarian I believe.

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