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Old 10/06/11, 04:59 PM
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Anyone now raising guinea pigs for meat? I'd appreciate your feedback.

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The math heavily supports rabbits.
Rabbits are larger, have larger litters, faster growth, better feed conversion, can breed back more frequently, have a longer healthy reproductive life, are more cold resistant and just as cheap/easy to come by and house and feed.

I love GPs, bred them for years, they are great pets, but for meat production the only reason I can think of to use them is if one couldn't get rabbits.
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Old 10/06/11, 05:11 PM
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they have a good market in the snake food trade, they would be more of a novelty/creative food source for humans unless the economic crash happens and we all have to eat what we have, if you have guineapigs and not rabbits then thats what you will eat,
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