Our rabbitry

  We raise meat rabbits. We first started raising rabbits as part of our kids animal husbandry lessons. We also prefer hormone n steroid free protein. And to us knowing that they are raised with care.
   We have black New Zealand does and a Californian buck. Several years ago year we restarted our rabbitry and bought our breeding stock from kits. The next year we were able to start our breeding program. We added a stray that appeared to be a drop off. So with our 4 does n 1 buck we produced over 300 pounds of processed meat. Fresh frozen n vacuum sealed and canned. We will grind the heart,  liver n kidneys along with any scrap meat to make sausages.
 We also use the manure. Dried enough to get it through a branch/leaf mulcher then mulched. The hay that drops through the pens absorbers the urine. It along with mulched leaves n small branches all gets mulched together. Finishes out looking like fine topsoil with small pieces of hay in it. I feel like the hay helps keep the soil from compacting and provides another environment for beneficial microbial growth throughout the entire tilth of the soil.

Welcome! What's your setup (4 pens, colony, etc?) I'm always interested to learn how other folks do things. I've got two buns in separate hutches but they are really just my biodigesters making compost- they were pets and are now too old to breed, but it's always in the back of my head that i'd love to get the rabbitry running again.