Elevating Pastured Rabbits for Meat

An accessible, sensible useful resource for pasture-based rabbit production-complete with rabbit husbandry fundamentals, enterprise budgets, and pointers for rising, processing and promoting rabbits commercially.

Lately, there was speak within the meals world that rabbits make extra sense than rooster. In a rustic with a $41 billion broiler rooster business, this may appear to be a fairly daring assertion, however it’s hardly unsubstantiated. And but whereas media has been abuzz in regards to the supposed tremendous protein, only a few farmers are stepping as much as meet the quickly growing curiosity in sustainably raised rabbit meat. That is partly as a result of lack of obtainable assets within the subject of rabbit husbandry.

Elevating Pastured Rabbits for Meat is the primary guide to handle the rising development of ecological rabbit husbandry for the start to market-scale farmer. Impressed by Daniel Salatin, who has lengthy been thought of the pioneer in built-in rabbit farming, Nichki Carangelo proves {that a} viable pasture-based rabbitry will not be solely potential and user-friendly, it’s additionally worthwhile.

In Carangelo’s strategy, joyful, wholesome rabbits are seasonally raised exterior on pasture, utilizing a pasture and wire hybrid system that promotes pure behaviors and a various eating regimen, whereas successfully managing the related dangers. Elevating Pastured Rabbits for Meat provides helpful info on how farmers can construct their very own rabbit enterprise from scratch and contains tips about breed choice, breeding strategies, vitamin pointers, file maintaining instruments, slaughtering and butchering directions, advertising and marketing recommendation, and enterprise guides to assist farmers plan for profitability. That is a vital information for anybody fascinated with integrating rabbits onto a diversified farm or homestead.