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  1. Rabbits
    Hello folks, I'm currently breeding 6 female does so I'm kinda low of space. I have 2 growout cages and one of them are being shared by 2 different litters both 2 weeks apart and they have no issues, ill process them all in 2 weeks (10wo and 8wo currently). Both litters have 6 each. Whats the...
  2. Rabbits
    Hello folks, I have a bit of sorrow with my flemishes (9-10mo) first litter of baby's, 11 kits At 1.5 weeks the runt got smooshed and starved I think and died. At 2 weeks (yesterday) the BIGGEST one I found outside of the nestbox with its head inside the hay rack and it's leg/side chewed off...
  3. Rabbits
    Good afternoon Folks, I wanted to share my rabbit project that started early August 4 months ago and has been growing and going since. Ill post pictures at the bottom with more info about everything. I started this because of my grandpa, he was getting tired of rabbits because of how often they...
  4. Rabbits
    Good morning Rabbit folks, I'm still kind of new to raising rabbits and have only 1 litter of kits with a different buck that i no longer breed. My only and current buck is a 1/2 Californian, and 1/4 each of rex and Flemish. The 1st photo is of him and 2nd photo is my female that i have...
  5. Rabbits
    Hello, So i have 6 Rex rabbits that are fully grown. I need to get rid of a few because that's too many for me My 2 heaviest are 8.36 lbs. and 9.34 lbs. My others are around 7.8 But my lightest is 7.08 lbs. But my lightest is a sleek black and looks beautiful. Should i breed her for some...
  6. Rabbits
    Good afternoon, I'm wanting to start producing rabbit mean but i don't know the cost of it. I'm mostly also wanting to know how much should i charge myself, because i want to keep track of my expenses and income from it so having meat is saving money but how much should i charge it like its...
  7. General Chat
    The time to secure a homestead is already late: The American city members of C40 include: Austin Boston Chicago Houston Los Angeles Miami New Orleans New York City Philadelphia Phoenix Portland San Francisco Washington, D.C. Seattle See more on Exposing the Darkness substack, the piece...
  8. Online Recipe Book
    Is it possible to render tallow from ground beef?
  9. Poultry
    Still finding our way towards efficient production of eggs and meat-ideally both at the same time, with dual purpose efforts. We have a large poultry pen (around 225 sq.ft) and small coop with 6 layers. This has worked great so far. Now we've added 4 more layers and getting our feet wet with...
  10. Pigs
    Got a 250lb sow today, tearing up our deer feeder area. She's skinned, quartered, gutted etc, on ice in coolers. Local folklore holds that one should pour salt on fresh feral hog meat and let it sit for a few days. We're not too keen on the added sodium, but also have heard that aging the meat...
  11. Rabbits
    I have a 2 yr old New Zealand breeding doe that has developed sore hocks. She's on wire. We've never had this problem before in any of our other rabbits. We're going to put her down- we have her only for breeding/meat production and she wasn't productive at all with that. My hubby is...
  12. Pigs
    I just wanted to get some opinions from those who know. I am wanting just a couple feeders for my family and some close friends. I would like a darker/more red meat with good marbling. Also, the more bacon the better (that goes without saying I am sure). What breeds should I be on the look out...
  13. Cooking
    Here is a little video I made for those that think you can't BBQ wild hog.
  14. Cattle
    I am having trouble finding clear answers on this. I would love it if someone could post the link to the actual law or code that defines this. I am trying to figure out what the process is to be able to sell retail cuts of meat from our farm. At like farmers markets etc. we will be wanting to...
  15. Homesteading Questions
    My wife and I are brand new to farming/homesteading. We just got three feeder pigs to raise and are looking to get into something else also. All my like I have loved goats, growing up on and off we had one as a pet here and there. I was thinking about getting into meat goats but the problem I am...
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