This is a super old thread but it keeps coming up in search result so I wanted to add some information. Dogs cannot exclusively eat rabbits. They will starve to death. There is almost zero fat in a rabbit. When we feed rabbits, we have to deliberately keep and feed all chicken skin from chicken that we would normally be cooking for ourselves, as well as still feed chicken at least once a week. Even doing it this way, one rabbit a day per dog with 2 days of chicken instead of rabbits, our dogs lost a ton of weight. Pound for pound they were getting about double the amount of food with the rabbits. There's just no fat. Also, I have raised meat rabbits for 6 years now and I tend to have six does and two bucks at any given time, and that creates only about a 150 rabbits a year. Rabbits might have a lot of sex, but in my experience a lot of them aren't that great at knowing how to raise their babies. And they are practically unable to be raised by humans. And one last thing, there is certainly no need to skin or butcher a rabbit. We kill them and hand them to our dogs and they eat everything they want, and all that tearing and holding and ripping is really good for their musculature and it properly wears them out so they aren't insane tearing up the house. They usually eat at least part of the fur, all of the head and ears, most of the gut except they sometimes don't eat the stomach or the gallbladder, and then almost all of the meat, sometimes not the lower hind legs. We also simply hand our dogs killed chickens, and on 20 acres we don't care about the feathers but they're not that hard to clean up.
