Those of you with Rabbits for meat... *Pics Page 4*

[menageriemama]

IMHO, rabbits are yummy!!!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I look forward to the pictures.

I do not find cage-keeping quite as compareable to battery farming. The biggest issue about battery farming is the lack of space, you have 7-9 hens in one cage. Most of the pictures of rabbits I see, have only one rabbit in the same size cage. They have room to move about. Battery hens are in constant contact with the sides of the cage or eachother at all times, these rabbits have enough room to sprawl out in their cage for naps. It may not be ideal, but I do not think we can compare it to the battery farming. Just my opinion on the subject.

-Kim

 

[Sunny Chook Farm]

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IMHO too.. it is after 11pm and I'm thinking how good some fried rabbit and pan gravy would be..
hmm dinner tomorrow.

 

[Cara]

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Again, that is not what I said. I do not have a problem with anyone raising rabbits for meat, what I do disagree with is raising them in small battery cages. That was my point in my last post; it is not the only way and it is not hard to offer them a better life, for however long they have.

 

[Dinos_rock]

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IMHO too.. it is after 11pm and I'm thinking how good some fried rabbit and pan gravy would be..
hmm dinner tomorrow.

What does it taste like?

 

[Bluedog420]

Rabbit's were made for eating, the way I see it. How ya raise em should be your own business as long as it is done proper. You can't let em run free and then catch and kill em when ya want...This ain't television Alot of bleeding heart's will whine about a rabbit, and then go out with friend's and see who can eat the biggest steak...What about the poor cow?? I never complain about anything. It is gonna happen anyway. People need to worry more about the children that are starving EVERYDAY and quit fretting about the silly stuff...PEACE

 

[KLH2010]

I raise rabbits also (I have setup similar to those pictured with wire cages off the ground) and I don't feel like it's comparable to battery cages at all, like Wolf-Kim said. The rabbits each get their own cage (unless they are young and with their litter-mates) and they have plenty of room to stretch out and move around. They always have food and water in front of them. I just don't see a safer option right now...rabbits are extremely susceptible to a lot of diseases and parasites and mine at least are definitely not predator savvy. I do let mine out to run around when I can-they spend most of that time laying around like they do in their cage I have noticed-and they get right across the fence from my dogs without a care in the world.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Now, adding on to what I said earlier. If a rabbitry crammed 4-8 rabbits into a single cage and then stacked the cages 4-8 high, then I could very easily compare it to a battery farm and see why it would be undesireable. Many pictures and actual rabbitry's I've been to have been "acceptable" by my own personal standards.

I remember going to a couple rabbitries when I was young. I remember that the rabbits were given boxes to birth in(this would be a luxury to a battery hen to have a nestbox) and the owners even took boxes of dust bathing material in and out of the cages for dust baths. I "highly" doubt the battery farms do either of these for their hens.

Both rabbitries raised rabbits for meat and fur.

It's just my opinion, we all have our own.

** Rabbitry and rabbitries are the correct terms, right? Please let me know if I'm making a fool of myself. LOL

-Kim

 

[BantyHugger]

Its nothing like a battery farm. My hutch is set up like this rabbitry: www.holdinggold.com
This was sent to me by the owner (Mallary), on this site. Backyard producers are not generally trying to make a fortune off of rabbits (meat,fur,or live sales) A lot of us are raising them to feed our families. (mine is 6 people) So naturally we have the best interest of the animals in mind. If they aren't healthy they will go NO where near my dinner table.

 

[Cara]

Nothing like a battery farm?! So other than the cramped wire-floored cages with little stimulation, no exercise, and no opportunity to express natural behaviours, how are they not one and the same?