Let’s face it, during the beginning process of adding meat rabbits to our homestead, I wasn’t the happiest girl in the world. The thought of butchering little animals that I had hand raised as ...

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 ...

A successful rabbit venture is underpinned by three essentials: appropriate housing, quality feed and perhaps most importantly, picking the right breeders. Housing can be renovated whilst the ...

Three years ago the couple’s Marin-area Devil’s Gulch Ranch had 250 breeding females, or does, a number that has since quadrupled to 1,000 and makes them one of the largest meat rabbit producers in ...

Violet Gichia’s love for rabbits developed quite early in life. When she visited Egerton University as a pupil in class eight, their vast rabbit farm mesmerised her. She bought a few rabbits and began ...

LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato, Philippines — A couple living on a secluded hill in the village of Lamlahak here have been enjoying their retirement years in the company of rabbits. Their goal though is to ...

The Gates Foundation funds research on engineering new genetically modified-varieties of staple crops – including rice, sweet potatoes, and bananas – to contain higher amounts of vitamins and ...

I used to wrinkle my nose at the thought of eating rabbit. How could I eat the grade school classroom pet? Some vile rabbit patties I sampled as an exchange student in France only confirmed my ...

She bought a few rabbits and began rearing them at home. The interest would soon fade away while in high school, only to resurface several decades later. "In 2006, I began keeping rabbits again, this ...