good morning everyone thanks for joining
us in today's video we're going to be
talking about the rabbits but first we
got to go feed them so come along with
us
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all right so as you guys can see we're
over here in one of the main areas where
we keep our rabbits
we also attract our rabbits as you guys
saw earlier on the video and in today's
video we just wanted to address the main
question we get is why do we raise
rabbits so there's two main reasons that
we raise rabbits the number one reason
is for meat and the second reason is for
just a little extra income on the farm
so like Alex was saying is the the main
reason is for me and the breed of
rabbits we have our meat rabbits we have
New Zealand Rex cross and we went with
the New Zealand because they are a meat
breed they range from 9 to 12 pounds and
they're kind of the standard meat rabbit
the Rex a little bit smaller but it's 8
to 11 pounds of and but there's still
big rabbits there's still the meat
rabbits so you're still going to get a
lot of yield for your when you're
processing for the the reasoning for the
mix of the new zealand the rex the rex
rabbit its fur is a lot softer it's more
of a velvet then the new zealand is and
one of the reasons why we kind of wanted
to mix that is because we also sell to a
local farm store that they sell these
during the seasons during a certain
season and we kind of wanted that fur
just a little bit in
kids because it is softer and that's
what people like and that's another
reason why you see some of a variety of
colors you know we have black gray black
and white I mean just a mix of them
because the store really likes that
diverse colors because you know how
people come in they don't want all white
you know 12 white bunny rabbits they
want a variety and last year when we did
it
they sold very well because they were
diverse so with rabbit meat it's very
good for you and that's one of the
reasons why we like to raise it it's
very lean it's like leaner than chicken
is and so they actually sometimes sell
it in stores and it's it's really good
for elderly people that can't have you
know like say a lot of fat and stuff
like that but they still want to eat you
know meat rabbit is a very good option
for that so the number two reason that
we raised these rabbits is to just make
a little extra income on the farm and
there's a few ways you can make a little
extra money with rabbits we don't by any
means expect to get rich off of these
rabbits you know it's just a supplement
our income here on the farm and the one
way you can make money off of the
rabbits is by selling their manure
actually and it's as gross as that
sounds a lot of people like to use that
on their gardens because it is a cold
manure and it can be put straight onto
your garden so it won't burn your plants
or anything and it works really well we
use it in our garden this year and our
plants did better than they ever have
and we're really impressed with it and
another way you can make money off of
the rabbits is by selling the kits so as
Jacob was saying we do sell our kits to
a local farm store but we also sell to
our community and people around here
just straight off the farm and the third
way you can make money buy these rabbits
is by selling their hides we are just
now starting to experiment with the
the high tanning process so we hope to
be able to sell hides in the future but
that's just another way that you can
make money from the rabbits so today's
video is just to answer the main
question as why we raise round so we
will have future videos on exactly how
we have everything set up like this case
here this is not finished yet I just
have kind of the bare bones where we can
put it together and we have this tin so
they don't get rained on but I will be
building an actual somewhat hutch later
to come and we'll go in depth about that
we'll show you the tractors will go real
depth about it
may even build a tractor if you all want
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we also tractor our rabbits as you guys
saw yesterday
in the third way that you can make money
off of these rabbits is by selling hoose
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for now we're done folks