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  • From: "Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Rabbit's?
  • Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:18:51 -0700

Very labor intensive to do it right but if I have more time then money and enough good pasture it can be done - lots of moving pens and in the right areas there is a premium paid for all that labor.  I have a problem with animals living their lives in cages - even the movable pens dont capure my heart which is why I dont raise bunnies any more myself. 
 
Good that you have such great options in your area.  Sounds like you are off to do well.
 
aliza
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Rabbit's?

I am raising rabbits-- I  sell to a local  pet food processor, and am in process of writing the technical stuff needed and designing a  processing room to be my own State inspected facility for several purposes-- I DO  have a  caterer and a few restaurants knocking at my door.....
 the pet food processor actually pays more than Pel Freez at this point-- is only 30 miles away- and takess all sizes and colors of rabbits- not so with PelFreez
 Aliza-- pasturing rabbits is not as simple/inexpensive as you make it sound-the more rabbits one is raising, the harder it is to hold feed costs down- every method of raising rabbits has plusses and minuses...
 
TerryW

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Aliza <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com> wrote:
I think the lady I know that does lots of bunnies is getting about$7 or $8
here in southern oregon sold to a guy that picks them up for processing. She
has an intensive cage/barn rabbit system.   In Oregon you can self process
up to 9,000 (I think thats the number for bunnies)  without going USDA.  You
sell the bunnies live and butcher them as a gift.  Poultry is 20,000 I think
before you have to go USDA.  Of course you cant sell to restaurants and
stores but you can sell to individuals.  In our area if you went to pasture
raising the bunnies you could get real dollars for them sold straight to the
consumer.  I dont think I could kill 9000 little bunnies (I do have some
bambi syndrome going on LOL) but if you think about it that would be at
least $90,000/year gross if you got ten bucks a pastured bunny.  Remember if
they are raised on pasture in movable pens you arent feeding any pellets
past weaning time so your costs ought to be pretty low.  Marketing 9,000
rabbits would be the trick. And having quality enough pasture to raise them
to good butcher weight.

Aliza
----- Original Message -----
From: "Desert Eagle" <jimi@hdc-nm.com>
To: "Desert Eagle" <jimi@hdc-nm.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 5:21 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Rabbit's?


> Just curious, does anyone out there raise rabbit's for meat? Or know
> anyone
> who does? Was wondering what the market prices were now for a fryer size
> bunny? Cleaned and dressed?
>
> Back years ago when I was in Rabbit production, 138 does and 9 bucks, (was
> delivering over 500 fryer size to Pelfreez in Clovis NM a month) the going
> price was $5.00 on the hoof, $6.00 dressed.
>
> Just looking at some options.
> Jimi
> USCG ITWPATWT 100% Vet
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