Yampotatocarrot:
Thank you very much for your reply.... I appreciate. Please can u list d challenges u face, atleast so we won't think t z all rosy

This is a delightful question! Sincerely l had a couple of challenges when l started even though l had bred rabbits just like most other people when l was a child.No 1: I lost a good number of them to poor pen hygiene.My pens then were the wrong type with little or no space on the floor.Their dung got messed up with the urine and because l usually left it so for long,lots of them contracted some diseases & died! Now l don't let that happen; l simply ensure enough spaces are on the floor to properly drain their urine and this way l can even leave the dung there for long before removing it.No2; There was a time l experimented with putting all males in one large space but the mature ones fought and some died,some other ones sustained series of injuries! The solution is don't put the mature males together.No3:HEAT>Don't rear rabbits In the sun or in any hot place.They cannot manage heat;they will die! l made the mistake before. However,by and large,rabbits are almost the easiest animals to breed! l openly challenge anyone to challenge me on this! Rabbits don't have any problems if you don't invite problems by yourself.

Yampotatocarrot:
Good morning all, please I'll like answers to these questions. I've always thought of rabbits as kinda violent animals but nobody seems to be talking about t. Another issue is the market for t, I havent really heard much about t in the S.E, z t that t isn't eaten in those areas? (IMO to be precise), cos I'm thinking getting feed for them (leaves) will b difficult in a place like Lagos or isn't t so?

With due respect sir these are erroneous assumptions; l used to have more of such but today,l blame myself for not starting big when l did start! l tell you, right now l hide from buyers and this is why l sometimes intentionally suspend posting on this forum.People now pay for my rabbits ahead of time. l have said a lot in my past posts;please take your time to read all of our posts here and you will change your opinion completely! On other points,rabbits are never violent animals except for wild rabbits which we don't breed.On the issue of feed,you can alternatively compound using very cheap ingredients like wheat bran,rice bran and pkc...We can always talk more if you want.

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Give your rabbits clean water and reduce the stress of changing water everyday. Use rabbit nip.ple drinkers. Rabbit nip.ple drinker available in large quantity at N300 a piece. Call O8O33042312.

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812clothings:
I beg you pls add 09051939283,thanks and I'm currently in ilorin now for some things might visit your farm on Monday if there is time.

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BeMerciful:
This is interesting, hoping to try it someday. It is well OP.

Thank you bro.

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excelsiorfarm:
Great work you are doing op

Many thanks for your encouraging post and l wish you all the best.

D9ty7:

Okay... What's the payment medium and how long will it take to be delivered?

I am to send my bank account details to you for payment and on the following day,l will send your rabbits to you via a commercial bus.

lagbaja:


I have tried to reach you. Your number does not go through. How long does it take your breeds to attain 2kg and what is the fcr ?

Depending on how well you feed them but on the average,5-6 months.For the feed conversion ratio,it largely depends on the quality of the feed you are using.Basically however,rabbit fcr is between 2 and 2.5 If you want to contact me,pls call :08147927990

D9ty7:
Oh my God! I am presently in Ilorin, but travelling to Ibadan tomorrow.
I would have loved to visit your farm to see things for myself and of course, know more about the business but unfortunately, today is very tight for me.
Hopefully when I get to Ibadan, I will order for a family comprising of a buck and two . Can you just tell me the price?

At 2 months old,a buck and 2 does(a family) is sold for N4,000 + a processing fee of N500.

billyG:
Very good! I hav always wanted 2 breed Rabbit 4 meat,my q/s is How many rabbit does a doe give birth to at once,& how many times in a life time?

Well,the answers to your questions depend on the breed of rabbits you have.For instance,giant rabbits should not really be your choice when you are aiming at meat production because they have more bone and less meat in terms of meat/bone ratio compared to the commercial breeds like large white/newzelland white etc.Another important factor is that giants do not reach sexual maturity until 8-10months as against 4-5 months for those commercial breeds.It is true giants grow bigger, but not as quickly as commercial breeds which can be over 1kg in only 3months! Again,giants are not good feed converters; they require more feed to give a pound of flesh compared to commercial breeds.Now,l will answer your questions based on commercial breeds since you are looking at meat production.A rabbit can live up to between 8 and 12 years.A doe can give birth to between 6 and 14 kittens at a time and the doe can have between 7 and 9 births a year!

olamzy45:
pls sir I don't know what is wrong with dis my rabbit one ear is up ad order ear is down ad ave notice this 4 5days nw....pls hope knw problem sir

Your rabbit has ear mites.To treat this, simply mix some quantity of olive oil with little vitamin D and massage the affected ear with it allowing total covering. Repeat every other day for approximately 8-12days. This treatment drowns the mites.Alternatively,you can buy ivermectin and give it orally to the rabbit.Also repeat same treatment after 10 days to eliminate hatchlngs.Thank you.

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It's possible for a husband and wife to maintain a herd of up to 1,000 does!
- Dr. Lukefahr
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The following "rabbit facts" were taken from C. Park Romney's book, Raising Rabbits at Home:
1. One doe can produce between 32kg - 50kg of dressed meat every year!
2. Rabbits are multipurpose animals. They are used for meat, fur, wool, laboratory experiments, etc.
3. Rabbits breed and grow so quickly that one pair of healthy does (females) can produce more than 600 pounds of meat in a year. Compare that to the dressed yield of 400 pounds for an average year-old beef steer.
4. Rabbits also use feed more efficiently than cows do: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a rabbit needs 4 pounds of feed to make 1 pound of meat. In comparison, beef cattle need 7 pounds of feed or more to create 1 pound of meat, reports Michigan State University’s Department of Animal Science.
5. Believe it or not, even if your back yard is no bigger than a queen-sized mattress (about 30 square feet), you can produce 200 pounds of homegrown meat every year ... by raising rabbits!
6. Only 500 to 600 does provide full-time employment.
7. There are over 300 different recipes for rabbits.
8. Rabbit wool is lighter and warmer than any other animal wool.
9. After slaughter 93% of the entire carcass is useable.
10. Only about 7% of the rabbit consists of bone.
11. Rabbits have no diseases communicable to humans.
12. Most felt hats are made from rabbit pelts.
13. Rabbit fur can duplicate 85% of all other furs.
14. Rabbit meat helps stomach disorders.
15. The rabbits foot has been a good luck charm for centuries.
16. Gardeners will virtually beg for rabbit manure as plant food.
17. Rabbits are the only edible farm animals able to produce 1,000% of it's own weight in offspring per year.
18. They are the cleanest of all vegetarians.
19. They can produce a litter in only one month's time.
20. They can breed all year around.
21. Some people claim rabbits are rodents. They aren't; they are lagomorphs.
22. Rabbit manure is almost odor free if kept fairly dry.
23. Rabbit manure will not burn plants even when applied fresh.
24. Rabbits won't crow, bark or howl at the moon at midnight or any other time.
25. Domestic rabbit meat does not have a strong or wild taste.
26. Rabbits can begin reproducing by 4 to 5 months of age.
27. In 1/70 of an acre about 5 tons of rabbit meat can be produced annually.
28. Raising rabbits requires a very low investment.
29. Geologists claim that rabbits are opossums and are the oldest known living mammals.
30. The office of home economics, state relations of the U S Department of Agriculture has made extensive test and have stated that domestic rabbit meat is the most nutritious meat known to man.
31. Rabbits will produce 6 pounds of meat on the same feed and water as a cow will produce 1 pound of meat on the same feed and water!

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Nutrition
Nutritional Value of Rabbit Meat
Many people will cringe at the thought of this article. Many people here in the United States will be outraged to even think of the various aspects of this article. Yet the fact remains that rabbit meat is one of the most nutritional meats available.
Cholesterol
Lets start with a talk about cholesterol. The wrong types of cholesterol leads to many types of heart problems. Red meat and pork are equally high and are often discouraged in low cholesterol diets. Those who want to continue to eat some form of meat should consider rabbit which is lower in cholesterol than chicken. Below is a chart on this nutritional aspect of rabbit meat from a study by Alabama A & M University 1989.

Calories
Many diets focus on calories. The lower the calories of a food the greater impact it has on a positive diet. Amazingly rabbit meat is less than half the calories of pork, and about one half the calories of lamb and beef. The chart below shows the calories of various types of meat. The information is from USDA Circular 549.
Fats
Most meats are high in fats. Unfortunately they are high in the most undesirable fat which are the saturated fats. Below is a list of the percentage of fat content for various meats. As you can see rabbit meat again is the best meat choice as it is lowest in fat. This information can be found in 4-H publication 4H-1510.
Proteins
We continue from the 4-H Publication, 4H-1510 which references USDA Circular 547 which details the percentage of proteins in various meats. Again the rabbit meat exceeds all other meat products.
Other Various Facts
In my research I have found some other various nutritional facts. 100% of the recommended daily allowance of B12 can be found in just 3.5 ounces of rabbit meat according to askDrSears.com. Many people will like the fact that rabbit meat is an all white meat, makingit suitable for many diets. Rabbit meat also has 33% less sodium than chicken.
To summarize here are the benefits of rabbit meat:
- Low in cholesterol
- Low in calories
- Low in saturated fats
- High in protein
- Low in sodium
- All white meat
- 100% of the RDA for B12
These facts led the USDA to proclaim that rabbit meat is the most nutritious meat known to man. Although we are not doctors and you should check with your physician, rabbit meat is recommended for a variety of health specific specialty diets. Hopefully you find this article interesting and thought provoking.
The Merits of Domestic Rabbit Meat
The tender, healthy white meat-domestic rabbit.
Let’s begin with a closer look at what the above statement is really saying to us. Tender, means “delicate” and in looking at something that we consider as “delicate” we see in the domestic rabbit the development of stress-free muscle growth contributing to an all-white meat product that is, therefore, tender and more easily digested. This means that those who are experiencing digestive problems-whether young, old, or on special diets-can enjoy the tender texture and mild flavor of domestic rabbit. And to others it may serve as a preventative measure.
We are confronted daily with the words “healthy” or “healthful.” So what is the meaningof this word that appears to us in such a myriad of instances? The word health, according to Webster, means “a sound state of body or mind” and we find healthy defined as “beneficial.”
Again, looking at the domestic rabbit we see from its lifestyle- preferring to live in a clean, quiet, undisturbed orderly manner-an environment that the rabbit lives in with quietness and confidence. Expressing the attributes of prayer and meditation, content with accepting its place in this world and going about its business.
From this, we witness “a sound state of body or mind”-sound meaning whole, firm and healthy. Thus, it then becomes ” beneficial” to us to nourish our bodies with this same soundness-a lesson in living for all of us.
We find among those eating chicken the majority of people prefer the breast portion, which comprises itself of all-white meat.
So looking at the domestic rabbit, we have everything considered healthful and desireable by most people-a finer boned, fine grained, chewy textured, tender, mild-flavored, beneficial all-white meat.
Looking at the benefits of this allwhite meat, we can make some comparisons with some of the more commonly accepted varieties of meat eaten in today’s society-chicken, beef, pork, veal, turkey, lamb and yes, the domestic rabbit (being very popular in Europe). The USDA has provided a statistical breakdown of the nutritional value of the above mentioned meats.
Protein
Since we all know protein is important in our diet, let’s consider the protein level per pound, beginning with the rabbit. Rabbit meat contains 20.8% while turkey follows with 20.1% and chicken with 20%. Medium-fat veal has 18.0% and a good grade of beef comes in at only 16.3%. A medium-fat lamb contains 15.7% and medium- fat pork slides in last at only 11.9% of protein per pound.
Fat
Domestically produced rabbit meat contains less fat than other meats. Again, beginning with the rabbit we see only 10.2% fat per pound compared with chicken at 11.0%, turkey at 20.2%, veal at 14.0%, good beef at 28.0%, lamb comes in at 27.7% and once again pork has a whopping 45.0% fat per pound.
Moisture
What about the natural moisture content found in meat? How much are we paying per pound for water when we purchase pre-packaged meats? (All meat has a natural moisture content and this offers no nutritional value.) Rabbit meat leads with a moisture content per pound of only 27.9%, with chicken at 67.6%, turkey with 58.3%, veal at 66.0%, lean beef showing 55.0% and lamb is close with 55.8%. But look what happens; pork is rabbit meat’s closest competitor in moisture per pound with 42.0%. Too bad there is a high fat content in pork, but wait, there is more coming.
Calories
We have one more thing that is howling at us daily. Calories! Looking at the per pound measure again, rabbit is ahead of the race with only 795 calories, chicken runs a close second with 810, but turkey loses with 1,190 calories. Veal beats out turkey with 910 and lamb comes in with 1,420. But here comes beef sliding in at 1,440 calories per pound. Not too bad if you compare it to lamb, but where is pork? There it is, coming along at the end of the race with 2,050 calories per pound. (Oh, how I do love my pork chops and ham!)
Well, thinking about all the merits, it looks like it’s thumbs- up for rabbit meat at our table. And add to the high protein, low calorie features of rabbit meat, it is also low in cholesterol.

Rabbits can save the world.
It is a fact universally acknowledged that rabbits reproduce at a rapid rate. But did you know that
rabbit meat is kosher, halal and acceptable for Hindus who decline beef for religious reasons? All of that is good news for the world-wide war on hunger—if bad news for bunnies.
Dr. Steven Lukefahr has been an avid advocate of rabbit-raising ever since his parents showed him how to raise them for the family dinner table as a young boy. He has spent his career touting rabbit as a solution for protein-energy malnutrition in the developing world. Rabbits, Lukefahr points out, are easy to raise, procreate, er, like rabbits , are relatively disease-free, more easily digestible than some other proteins, are low-fat and have a pleasant taste. While wild rabbits are a little gamier, domestic rabbits taste—okay–a lot like chicken and can be adapted to a wide variety of international culinary tastes.
“There are no known taboos against eating rabbit,” Lukefahr says. Eating it during Lent was even condoned by Pope Gregory I who proclaimed in the year 600 that rabbit meat was not meat at all. According to Harvard ‘s Broad Institute, the papal proclamation led to a boom in cuniculture (rabbit-raising) in France ‘s monasteries. No wonder the rabbit still has a role on the kitchen tables of France, Italy and Spain, the southwestern region of Europe that is the birthplace of the modern, domestic rabbit.
But perhaps the most important element in popularizing rabbit production is that the animals can be raised on a grain-free diet. In a world of rising prices and increasing demand for grain, the ability to raise a good protein on garden forage is a plus in poor countries. Lukefahr’s first two-year rabbit project was in Cameroon in 1983 under the auspices of Heifer International and rabbit is now on the family menu in that Central African country.
An agriscientist at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in South Texas, a stone’s throw from one of the icons of the protein world, the legendary King Ranch cattle empire, Lukefahr recently spoke about his latest work at a meeting of the World Rabbit Science Association at the 10th World Rabbit Congress. It was held in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, a country that is high on the rabbit production list. Both small farmers and large production facilities feed the Egyptian demand for rabbit meat which is less expensive there than chicken sold in community markets.
Lukefahr reported to the association on the success of the Haiti project, underwritten by the U.S.-funded Farmer to Farmer Program. Following the catastrophic 2010 earthquake, many Haitiansmoved out of their devastated capital and back into the countryside, relying on small holdings to grow vegetables. Using a local crossbreed rabbit suited to the Haitian climate, the project has helped increase cuniculture. “Ten females and one male can produce around 200 offspring per year,” Lukefahr says. “That’s enough to provide high protein meat for the family and have some left over to sell at the local market.”
Over 1,700 Haitianrabbit producers now maintain some 1,250 rabbit facilities, Lukefahr says, which are home to 32,650 breeding rabbits. The program has grown by 142% in the last two years and has helped increase family income by an average of $19.95 a month per family with some producers seeing as much as $200 a month in income from meat sales, a significant boost in a country where the average annual family income is $1,700.
Back at the Texas rabbit ranch, Lukefahr has been working on another symbiotic solution for rabbit production in the developing world — the harvesting of sweet potato leaves and vines to serve as rabbit food in warm climes where the tubers flourish. Over the last 10 years, Lukefahr also has visited Southeast Asia where there is a rising interest in rabbit production as Asian bird flu—incubating among commercial and family farming–has caused alarm in some communities. “China is the world’s biggest rabbit producer,” Lukefahr says, emerging as a major player in the last 20 years along with Indonesia and Vietnam.
In the U.S., rabbit meat has not been a feature on most family dining tables since World War II when the animals munched on Victory Garden scraps and later landed on the table while other meat products were diverted to the troops. “But on the cooking channels and with chefs rabbit meat has taken off,” Lukefahr notes, adding that he believes the economy likely will prompt more and more families to consider raising rabbits.
In Oregon, Camas Davis, a food writer and founder of the Portland Meat Collective is seeing that trend unfold. The collective offers classes in rabbit slaughter and butchering techniques, focusing on utilizing the whole animal. About half the participants come in for economic reasons or because they want a sustainable protein — rabbits feed on grass, their manure is a great addition to the vegetable garden and their meat is a healthy protein. Plus, as Davis points out, unlike chickens, ducks or goats, they have escaped the bureaucracy. In Portland, backyard farmers are limited to two chickens and/or one goat, while rabbits “have slipped through the cracks.” The same goes for federal regulation, Lukefahr notes, and the Department of Agriculture does not list rabbits as livestock — hence the lack of firm numbers on rabbit production in the U.S. and the lack of red tape governing production, a status favored by some rabbit farmers.
The other half of the students at the collective are foodies, Davis says. “A lot are coming in to explore what they deem to be an exotic protein.” For her part, Davis, who trained in the culinary arts in France, domestic rabbit meat is rather bland and she adds flavor by cooking rabbit in duck fat. “It’s a mild meat and in line with how Americans eat their meat,” she says. To that end, rabbit meat would seem perfect for the American diet, low-fat and without gamy flavors, but the biggest barrier to its popularity, is the image of the furry bunny (a word Lukefahr shuns). Davis says the collective gets the most negative comments online about upcoming classes when rabbit is on the menu. The collective’s rabbit supplier was even targeted by animal activists who stole his rabbits last February. And so, if the rabbit doesn’t become the solution to the world’s protein needs, it can thank Disney, Beatrix Potter and the Easter Bunny.

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