Raising rabbits on our homestead has been such a joy for me, personally. It is a livestock that can be inexpensively taken care of, and is easily handled, processed and cooked. Not to mention, rabbit meat is making quite the comeback in modern cuisine in the United States and Europe. Rabbit is, in fact, one of the most common meals that our ancestors ate, and thousands of groups of people all across the world still thrive off of rabbit meat as their main source of protein.
I’ll be honest, though — raising rabbits wasn’t always a joy for me. I wasn’t really keen on the idea of raising rabbits when my husband first mentioned it. To think that I would have these tiny little bunnies one day, and dinner in the freezer the next, didn’t quite appeal to me as a woman who loved cuddly things. But the more my husband talked about it, the more I became intrigued.
Here’s Why:
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We also raise rabbits for me and I struggled with the thought in the beginning. What breed of rabbits do you raise? We have Flemish Giants and I love to snuggle with our mama (Lola) and daddy (Bugs). We had a New Zealand female for awhile too but she turned out to be not so great of a mama and was super skittish.