Chupang - you mentioned that your does don't eat that much more with kits... ours didn't while she was pregnant, but now that she's lactating and feeding 7 kits, she's eating and drinking an enormous amount, about 3x as much as usual. When they're outside, we have them in small runs on grass, and the whole house and run gets moved every day (we have some really nice pasture out back). When they have the option to eat the grasses and herbal ley under their run, they hardly eat any pellets at all (they have free choice pellets at all times, but hardly touch it... but we moved the doe inside when her kits were born, as we had a terrible cold and wet run of weather - mountains of hail, and didn't want to risk the kits to the cold. OK, I'm all over the place, I know. Just my morning ramble. roll
Anyway, I'd also be quite interested in what KY Rabbit Man has to say about feed to meat conversions, as I always like to hear from first hand experience rather that what one reads in reports, etc.
Thanks for all the input.
Andrea
NZ