For Shire Farms in Windsor, rabbits didn’t start out as a commercial livestock possibility, but the animal quickly turned into a runaway – or in this case – a hop-away success. As Grace Asbenson tells ...

Beverens are a recovering breed that are cold-hardy and economical to raise. This heritage Beveren rabbit breed is ideal for beginners, 4-H projects, and learning best practices for raising livestock.

Karen Patry, who has owned and operated Angora Rex Rabbit Ranch in Port Angeles, Wash., for years, has got you covered, whether you’re interested in feeding a family on rabbit meat or want to know ...

Let’s face it, during the beginning process of adding meat rabbits to our homestead, I wasn’t the happiest girl in the world. The thought of butchering little animals that I had hand raised as ...

At 10 weeks, a rabbit dresses out at 2.5 pounds; at 14 weeks between 3.5 and four pounds. Stewers or large roasters are mature rabbits at between four and 6.5 pounds dressed. He crosses four breeds of ...

SEBEKA, Minn — Perry Cuperus learned as a pre-teen growing up in Michigan that you just don’t pull rabbits out of a hat. While on some ‘hare’ raising tours in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bosnia, and ...