@@SgtSnausages makes sense. My purebred Calis are also somewhat slower growers (compared to NZ, champagnes, and crosses, anyway), so it makes senses sense for them to size up a bit more, too.
What country and what are the requirements? There are several sizes of cages here for varying ages, sizes, and stages. All rabbits here are in cages that exceed the cage recommendations outlined by the U.S. Animal Welfare Act and recommendations from leading Universities and ARBA. www.canr.msu.edu/news/determining_cage_size_for_rabbits arba.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/rabbit-care-recommendations.pdf
A little, but not a lot because we primarily raise the rabbits for household meat. I do sell some live rabbits and breeding stock periodically. One of the problems is that finding inspected processing is hard and where I live it is a barrier to selling rabbit meat. A lot of states are much friendlier and more workable, though. Another outlet is selling rabbit meat for pet food. There are a lot of prey diet feeders and raw feeders who approach me for meat sales for pets. All in all, I do think there is potential for money to be made with meat rabbits.
Do you think they are getting bred? In other words, does the problem seem to be with getting the does pregnant or are they losing litters when they kindle? Could you tell us a little more about your rabbits and housing set up? I do encourage you to come over to the website at meatrabbits.org. There are some troubleshooting and information articles there that I think will help. Also feel free to comment on any of those articles and we will see if we can spot what might be your issues. My first guess would be overweight does. I would start there.
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We do Californians.
We start @ 8 months.
No particular reason - it just works with the replacement schedule we've worked out over the years.
@@SgtSnausages makes sense. My purebred Calis are also somewhat slower growers (compared to NZ, champagnes, and crosses, anyway), so it makes senses sense for them to size up a bit more, too.
Hi, so for Champagne Argent it is better 4 or 6 months when taking into account weight and quantity of food consumed ?
@@ludovic_into-another-world I would definitely wait until six. Four would be too young for them.
eating rabbits is totally fine, but in my country we luckly have bigger cage requirments. those cages are a shame.
What country and what are the requirements? There are several sizes of cages here for varying ages, sizes, and stages. All rabbits here are in cages that exceed the cage recommendations outlined by the U.S. Animal Welfare Act and recommendations from leading Universities and ARBA.
www.canr.msu.edu/news/determining_cage_size_for_rabbits
arba.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/rabbit-care-recommendations.pdf
Are u making any money on them
A little, but not a lot because we primarily raise the rabbits for household meat. I do sell some live rabbits and breeding stock periodically. One of the problems is that finding inspected processing is hard and where I live it is a barrier to selling rabbit meat. A lot of states are much friendlier and more workable, though. Another outlet is selling rabbit meat for pet food. There are a lot of prey diet feeders and raw feeders who approach me for meat sales for pets. All in all, I do think there is potential for money to be made with meat rabbits.
My rabbit haven't have a successful birth and they are over 1yr old
Do you think they are getting bred? In other words, does the problem seem to be with getting the does pregnant or are they losing litters when they kindle? Could you tell us a little more about your rabbits and housing set up?
I do encourage you to come over to the website at meatrabbits.org. There are some troubleshooting and information articles there that I think will help. Also feel free to comment on any of those articles and we will see if we can spot what might be your issues.
My first guess would be overweight does. I would start there.