Dixie Chicks

[Alaskan]

Dang... I wish I could teleport to everyone's dinner tables.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Shoulda known... Felix comes back and makes us all drool again...

 

[hennible]

@hennible Will you be using beagles? That's the easiest and most fun way to get rabbits. Its great cause wild rabbits are free and it's easier to process them for me, didn't raise them. I've ate hundreds of them. I do have rabbits in the plans for spring, miss the bunny poop fertilizer. Lucked upon a breeder of American chinchila meat rabbits at our county fair. Super rare and great meat rabbits, didn't think there was any in our state.

I'll be going out for moose and some grouse as a bonus. I just figure if I can help kill and gut a moose a rabbit wouldn't be a big deal. I'll have to ask him about a rabbit hunt, makes sense seeing as there are tons here, why raise them... And it is easier to kill animals you didn't raise for sure, other people's chickens don't faize me at all.

 

[hennible]

...but I do love the conveinence of raising my own meat.

 

[Alaskan]

Also.. Home grown bunny will be bigger, have more meat on it, be more tender, and less wormy.

 

[Beer can]

Also.. Home grown bunny will be bigger, have more meat on it, be more tender, and less wormy.

WORMS!

Never had a problem with 'worms', I go by a old saying, gotta love the 'old timers' "only eat rabbits in the months that end with 'er' love hunting bunnies, the dogs have so much fun.

 

[Alaskan]

We follow a crazy boom and bust cycle.

When the rabbits hit their boom, and there is a carpet of rabbit poop from one edge of the world to the other... Because of the super high numbers, they all start getting wormy, and mangy and not worth eating. That lasts about two years, before they crash.

And then of course the over abundance of predators can no longer find bunnies, so come hunting chicken.

 

[vehve]

BC, yeah, they can be a bit mean. Ours are pretty mellow though, they've got dogs, chickens and the neighbor's kids running around the cage all the time. And the bunnies are really not afraid of anything. When we were cleaning the pen, Lissu (one of the two we kept from the first litter for breeding) kept escaping since a door somewhere was open all the time. And the dogs were playing tag around the cage, at one point the puppy ran over Lissu, and her reaction was to join the fun, she started chasing the puppy.

Sam, you could try trapping the wild bunnies too. If you've got some close to your home. I've been thinking of setting up traps in Karin's parent's yard, but I'm not sure if I want to eat bunnies that live that close to the city center.

Here's how the one-pot-bunny turned out:

 

[BriardChickens]

Looks good vehve! When are you inviting us over

Hennible, do it, quail are awesome! Quite easy to dispose off to I hear.

 

[minihorse927]

Dang... I wish I could teleport to everyone's dinner tables.

freshly processed Ancona duck and quail here...