For beginning homesteaders (or even those more established), raising meat rabbits it the perfect first step to take toward raising your own livestock. As natural herbivores, rabbits eat low on the ...

Amanda Corey shows off two rabbits during a Vermont Wild Kitchen workshop held in Franklin County on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Food insecurity here has been rising. And according to the nonprofit Hunger ...

Learn about the best meat rabbit breeds, including how to raise meat rabbits quickly, nurture the kits, and what the right size will be. The primary characteristics of a good meat rabbit breed are ...

For Shire Farms in Windsor, rabbits didn’t start out as a commercial livestock possibility, but the animal quickly turned into a runaway – or in this case – a hop-away success. As Grace Asbenson tells ...

SEBEKA, Minn — Perry Cuperus learned as a pre-teen growing up in Michigan that you just don’t pull rabbits out of a hat. While on some ‘hare’ raising tours in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bosnia, and ...

Rabbits will likely run through Carbondale trustees’ minds for a while longer, as the town debates whether meat rabbits should be left on farms or are a fit for the town’s funky, sustainable character ...

FILER — The challenge for showing or weighing rabbits can sometimes be getting them to remain still. Assorted breeds of rabbits and their young owners were put through their paces Wednesday morning at ...

BREVARD - The Transylvania County office of the N.C. Cooperative Extension of N.C. State University will offer a workshop titled "Backyard Meat: Rabbits for Family Food" at 6 p.m. Feb. 21 at the ...

Our family always had chickens when I was growing up. When I was off on my own I missed the messy little critters. I wintered a pair in my basement. The rooster would crow 20 times every morning when ...

Former "Bachelor" contestant Bekah Martinez argues that letting her children raise and cuddle rabbits that will eventually be slaughtered isn't "cruel," as her Instagram followers claim. “Just because ...