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We didn’t have time to process at the 12 week marker, so I think they were closer to 16 weeks. Close to sexually mature and a lot easier to weed out the culls. At that age they’re not going to do a ton of changing, just some thickening out. So basic confirmation like shoulders, good hips and...

That’s amazing! Almost the same as a whole chicken but so much better for you! What was the hanging weight of your rabbits?

Thank you so much, that was very helpful! There would definitely be variations between breeds and their feed intake but yes I agree. It would be better to just breed more rexes and increase the quality of my stock and just cull harder than to try and manage breeding multiple types of rabbits...

Thank you, I do think I might just go with breeding the rexes. I’ll have to raise more to produce the same amount of meat as a larger meat breed, but I think it’d be the same amount of feed to raise a larger faster growing breed anyway.

So I currently keep standard Rex and breed for confirmation for show. I send less than exceptional kits to freezer camp. A dual purpose program. So far I’ve only had one litter. My program is in the ‘garage’ phase. My question is, is there a breed I could cross with my standard Rex buck to...