Posted by jon_schram on August 23, 2017 at 18:30:21 from (70.37.213.40):
In Reply to: Raising rabbits posted by Charlie M on August 23, 2017 at 17:11:07:
My step-dad sold meat rabbits as a side business/hobby in Michigan. I think he had maybe 200-250 going at a time. He had a place that bought them all...maybe an Asian market, can't remember now.
I don't think there was alot of money in it. It wasn't very difficult to upkeep if I remember and it didn't take up a ton of space. He had them all in 2x2' pens, similar to what most chicken (egg) farms that I've been in/worked in. He built a narrow, long building that housed them on each side, with the cages maybe 3' off the ground.
Most of what I dealt with was scooping poo into wheel barrels inside his "bunny barn" and filling up a dump trailer. Some guy down the road bought the fertilizer.
We ate alot of rabbit while I was living out there, and I enjoyed it. I only lived there a couple years, and he shut the meat rabbits down sometime after I left. I think you would have to have a buyer ahead of time to be profitable. They do finish out quickly, and the actual labor input seemed to be pretty low.
One of the biggest issues he had was predators (cats, dogs, bobcats, fox, raccoons, black bear, etc) that were drawn to the "bunny barn." I'll bet I shot more varmints out from around the rabbit hutches then I did the rest of the farm combined.
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