Escaped Rabbit, a feel good story

Mar 17, 2024 06:29:25

My spouse and I raise American Chinchilla rabbits for meat, and we are selling breeding stock today!

This morning I was out feeding everyone and I turned around to see a rabbit sniffing around between the grow out hutches. The hutches of rabbits not for sale were still secured, so it was a rabbit that we are selling this afternoon. I alerted my spouse and we cornered her until we could nab her and deposit into a more secure cage with her sisters. It involved a fishnet, stomping around in crocs, and a few pricker bushes, but we made it! She didn't even seem to know that she had done something wrong, but knew she really liked being out of her hutch.

This is a testament to our efforts in making them just nice enough to not have a hard time when we need to handle, catch, or slaughter the rabbits. Our method is easy, we just pick up one baby rabbit every day while we feed the breeders, pretty much their whole lives. No need to handle every rabbit every day, or even ensure you get a different rabbit each day. Just grab the easiest to catch, feed their parents, and throw them back.

We're still in our first year, but rabbits move so quickly that you end up learning a whole lot in one year.

Apr 01, 2024 06:02:24

I'm glad you caught her :). Rabbits are farther down my list of animals to get, but I have been interested in the American Chinchilla rabbits. How do you like them? Have you ever had other breeds to compare them to?

Apr 01, 2024 06:42:52

We love them and highly recommend the breed. We've never had any other breed, but our understanding is that they're known for being among the most docile. They're also huge, good mothers, and have a good meat to bone ratio.

All of our rabbits are very sweet, to the point where it's hard to discern who to keep.

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