This is one of the finest how-to videos ever produced on any topic. The mood, the music, the detail, the clarity, the thoroughness, your voice, your mic, the camera work, etc. You deserve an award for this video.
Ditto what ASmommaT89 just said: 5 years and have not seen this done so easily and quickly! Especially appreciate the "tail and intestine" hack. Thanks so much!
Surgeon here. Great video. I might suggest trying a #15 blade. Straight blades are design to cut with a sawing motion and focus all the cutting at the tip, dulling quicker. Curved blades are better for making longer cuts. You can buy disposable 15 blades too. Plus surgical steel stays sharp for a long time. Secondly, the membrane between the abdomen and chest cavity is the diaphragm. I can tell you really love these creatures. I raise Rex rabbits myself.
I don’t often reply to a lot of comments on this video anymore (I get a lot of crazy activists 😅). But I had to reply to you and just say thank you!! This is an awesome suggestion and I’ll be purchasing one of those blades pronto!
I realised the membrane had to be the diaphragm but I thought it was sheets of muscle. This looked sort of transparent, which was a surprise to me. Thank you Mr surgeon! Can you explain why the heart still beats and yet the rabbit is dead. So what are the criteria of death for this purpose. Not being critical, just want to get it right! Thanks
That goes for white spots, or any other color spots. Should look nothing other than like the one shown in this video. Dark, crimson, nice healthy looking meat, you will have no second thoughts or guesses when you see a heathy organ meat. It will just process in your brain as something good. If it makes you second guess, then you have some investigating to do.
@@bella-bee The heart, along with other organs (e.g. brain) continue to function because the chemical reactions continue for several seconds to minutes after death. The heart is a pump which beats in a certain sequence because of a series of electrical signals that coordinates the beat. The presence of this signal forces calcium out of the cardiomyocytes (heart cells) and the the passing of that signal causes calcium to re-enter cardiomyocytes. This occurs through calcium channels in each cell and the process happens for every beat. This will continue for as long as the cells are nourished (either by blood or within an appropriate solution). At some point, the cardiomyocytes die because blood no longer can nourish the heart and the beats stop. The definition of death needs to be defined for both clinical and legal reasons. The current criteria in the U.S. were adopted in the late 1960s and not without controversy. Without getting into too many details, lack of organized brain activity is one of the key criteria to define death. In Japan, it is defined when the heart stops spontaneously beating. This is one of the reasons why organ transplants can be performed in the U.S. but are not allowed in Japan. I'm sue that this is a lot more information than you wanted to know.
I butchered my first rabbit following your video today! It was so much easier than I thought it would be. lol I over thought it. I watched 30 videos and yours was the easiest to follow! You explained everything so well and ever clearly. Thank you!
@@vanessakarmann4521 I don’t know what that is abuse? I they have a bad 30seconds and then it over they done feel anything else. If this is something that bothers you then click don’t recommend and move on. Society is broken now a day, with people not knowing where their food is coming from. We as farmer/homesteaders know where our food is coming from how they are being cared for, and what they are being fed.
@@laurarowe8903I swear to God you are right they want to get red 😢all farms and they don't want us to eat meat 🥩 any more in 2030 they want to replace meet with artificial meat world economic forum 😢😢
@@edherrmann182 Haha, I really like your approach on this. This is SO me! And now I have this factoid to weave into conversations in the future: "Oh, and guys, did you know that the lungs and heart are called a pluck?" - all around looks that say very clearly: "Oh no, him again...." 🤣
This has to be one of the most comprehensive, detailed, well explained and respectable processing videos I have ever watched. You are an absolute gem. Thank you for sharing this process and doing so in such a respectable way.
@@talalztube I explained the dispatch method with the rabbit on the ground, and honestly if you didn’t understand, I can’t help you with that. Go watch the hundreds of other videos on it 😂
Processing, breaking down, and using every part of an animal is such a wonderful thing to know how to do.❤ It's been lost overtime and needs to be brought back.
@@evanesquik6526cows have the intelligence of dogs, and pigs are some of the most intelligent animals. Chickens aren’t particularly bright, but they are capable of experiencing pain, happiness, fufillment. You can’t argue to not eat rabbits but also eat pork. You don’t like rabbits because they are smart and affectionate, you like them because they are cute and fluffy. Don’t be a hypocrite.
I have never, ever seen this process before. Truthfully speaking, I am not sure how you came across my feed. But I did watch. LOL. I will say, I appreciate that you respect the animal and how you process them for meat. Very cool. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the information provided in this video. I am 87 years old now and most of my life my father, and then after him, myself, have raised New Zealand Whites for meat consumption with great success. I want to say thanks for the tip on the tail cutting at the very end. I always found this to be problematic, but your way is great and saves some annoying moments for the person assigned to the butchering task. Again thank you. I really enjoyed your video. I will be looking at your channel in the near future. Joel Landry
Thankyou that was a great tip. So wonderful seeing someone from the younger generation being realistic and genuine about food production. As an old timer, we were all taught the need to do the difficult stuff, to ensure survival. This passing down of knowledge has been stalled by our modern supermarket lifestyle which has basically turned many of us into couch potato's, with few survival skills. You are doing an amazing and necessary job, teaching people from far and wide. 5 stars from me.
in what kind of situation would I need these skills? I mean at the moment there is no electricity, access to food etc. it will be too late. Anyway thanks for the video, she was very respectful. That makes it somewhat tolerable. Cheers.
I had never seen the "hack" about the rabbit tail. Thanks for sharing your experience and your way of butchering. I'm sure I will watch this over and over again.👍 A great teaching video!
It's very interesting to hear someone from within the rabbit breeding world talk about the levels of care taken to meet 'standards', for us the deciding factors are essentially 'that rabbit made good rabbits, and so did that other rabbit, lets see what rabbits they make together' and we keep track of lineages to make sure no close inbreeding. Super interesting, Thank you!
It’s honestly as simple as that for breeding to standards sometimes, lol! Commercial breeds should be good at producing meat. Grow rates are a big focus for me. Balancing body type is where is gets more complicated.
@@TealStoneHomestead I lost one of my big breeding bucks and does this summer due to heat wave so now I'm back to breeding a different group to make another large breed of rabbits.
@@berniv7375if you think veganism means no animals are harmed, think again. Thousands of animals are killed in the process of harvesting. They are also poisoned and killed to prevent them from harming the crops. This severely harms the ecosystem - butchering rabbits for my family’s consumption kills way less animals than a crop of vegan food does.
Well done, and in a respectful way to the animal. I try teaching my sons to treat their food with honor to the farmer and the animal, and I see you doing this in your videos.
I have watched many videos in this regard. Surely this is the BEST demonstration ever. You definitely have the touch and art of explaining and demonstrating HOW TO DO IT. Very simple. Can't wait to try it out. Thank you very much for sharing your experience and expertise with us. Hans Strydom. Sandton. South Africa.
This is a real nice detailed explanation of the process. It appears the cremes look so much easier to peel than the New Zealands or Silver foxes. I felt the black rabbits were more difficult. I quit using trimming shears as I was getting too many tiny bone fragments in the dish so am painstakingly use the tip of my knife to whittle between the segments which I have troubles with even on chickens. Thank you much for educating
I know how hard it is to transition from a grocery store meat consumer to a homesteader. The feeling of needing to do this out of necessity is becoming more and more evident. I appreciate your content for this reason so much. Thank you for being transparent and informative.
Thank u so much for this video! We r thinking of adding rabbits to our animals but i wasn’t sure how hard it was to butcher them. U made it seem super easy and so informative! Thank u!
That tail hack is amazing! Thank you. I butchered two of my rabbits years ago but I was worried I wouldn't remember the details for my upcoming butchering. Thank you for the really clear (and great quality camera work) explanation of everything. Happy homesteading!
Thank you so much for the information. I really liked the way you took your time and showed everything up close. It gave me a greater appreciation for taking my time when I'm processing rabbit. The tail hack was priceless.
As someone from a family of butchers, I wish you could be the one teaching me cause the way you expalain it is so calm, detailed and easily understandable. Keep the good job ❤️
Well explained, great detail focusing on the truly important issues. I do find that your second video (I think) showing the actual dispatch is brilliant as it clearly illustrates the exact procedure thus avoiding unnecessary animal discomfort.
My dad raised rabbits just for butchering , I was always helping and watching this video brought back so many memories. I was around 10 years old im 44 now . Thanks for the video
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! This was absolutely wonderful and so well detailed. I like that you even took the time to show and teach the organs along with your tips and tricks!❤
I used this video as my guide for butchering my first rabbits. Thank you so much for the step by step. And for explaining about the heart still potentially beating. My third rabbit's heart was still beating when I cleaned it out and I would've panicked if I hadn't seen this video first.
Thank you so much for mentioning why you raise rabbits for meat. We do the same. We love our rabbits they have great lives with excellent food and care. That means the mist to me. That animals are treated well. We are all to familiar what happens to most animals in big production farms. Rabbits are clean, fast to reproduce. They are also fun to care for.Growing our own meat has been a very good experience. Your video was a fantastic representation on how to properly and efficiently dispatch rabbits. Beautiful breed !
Thanks thinking about getting rabbits I’ve had chickens, turkeys, cows, and pigs and ducks. I am ready to try raising some rabbits your video has been very helpful. Thank you.
I’ve been butchering rabbits for years and have always struggled with how to easily get the tail and end intestines out… your hack has me excited for the next butchering day!! Thanks so much (also for the idea of using an xacto… genius) :)
My goodness… I went to your earliest comments this video received and people are absolutely nasty to you! I am so so sorry people are so horrible to you! I greatly appreciate this video as we are looking at getting rabbits for this specific purpose 💚 my mom raised rabbits for years for meat and so I’m going back to our roots
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, experience and skills. Appreciate so much how you care for your rabbits at every stage. Please continue. Tiffany you are a god-send.
Great video. I’m starting on my rabbits and have lots to look forward too in the future. I have learned by butchering multiple numbers of my turkeys and chickens that I get more confident with my turnover. Your recommendation for chickens is great. Europe did an experiment with families wanting chickens, the end result was life changing for many, please look up the research. As well look into local fowl laws for chicken hens, as it turns out our county has a law dedicated to raising hens and the laws supersede HOA rules! All you need know is your land amount per county and to build size regulation cages. The noble chicken Rules the roost.
I see why you do the tail thing, but I personally find it easier to cut through or break the pelvis bone between the legs and pull out the bum and bladder together first. After those are out of the body I remove the other intestines. The rabbit stays entirely poop free because of it. I learned it from the Rabbit Talk forum, lots of awesome information there. I personally love kidneys and onions, or kidney fajitas! They taste best if they are cut up, instead of eaten whole. I've also tried Kindey jerky before; I don't recommend it, since it was nasty lol.
We love rotisserie-style rabbit, especially in the summer, and that requires an in-tact pelvis. This method isn’t fail-proof but 95% of the time it works for me and the rabbits stay poop free! Of course there’s nothing a little water can’t fix 😂 Eating the kidneys that way sounds interesting. I’m not opposed to trying them again 😊
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! We will be butchering our first rabbits soon and I’m nervous/anxious! This helped me understand the process!
Thank you. You came up randomly in my feed, but I appreciate your detailed walkthrough on this process. I'm very interested in raising my own meat/food and this makes the process seem even easier to take on.
The tail hack!! That's exactly what I needed. I am pretty good with the process except that tail and poop shoot slow me down. Thank you for the tips!!! I love the detail you give.
Pardon the pun, but I was just going down the TH-cam rabbit hole and came across you. I may never do meat rabbits, but is was informative the care you give your live stock and the process you do to butcher. Thanks for sharing, great work.
Great explanation of your process. I shoot wild rabbits (to eat) with my .22 lr on a friend’s farm and I’m definitely going to adopt your tail method for a cleaner back end. Cheers from Australia:)
Great all points covered video. After catching wild rabbits in Canada and eating them, I now learned the proper way. Here in Brussels Belgium i want to start with meat rabbits/chickens so i can be autonomous concerning healthy meat
yo girl...that was great video... more more more videos... the biology lesson for me was great to...please continue as this is a way of life....thankyou👌👍
A while ago I googled "teal rabbit hutch" because I wanted to paint my hutches that colour and wanted to see what that would look like and stumbled upon your channel, really glad to have found that! Loved this video because I learned something new; the tail trick looks so great, I will be doing that too from now on.
This is SO helpful, thank you so much for the gift of your time and experience! We are seniors on fixed incomes watching the price of everything keep going up. We have had quail for two years for eggs and meat, have gardened year round for four, and just added rabbits to our little homestead to help feed us and our dogs.
@skaur6580 We already do. Meat is a condiment for us! The quail go into a rice and vegetable stew. The dogs will get most of the rabbit. We will make soup out of everything else. We eat the veg and greens from the garden, and a lot of rice and lentils.
@skaur6580 The blood type found more commonly in the Asian community does well with the diet you refer to. Most other populations do not fare so well. I was a vegetarian most of my adult life, mostly due to a desire to not promote inhumane industry practices and an inability to afford quality, humanly raised and dispatched meat products. The vegetarian diet, while helping my budget, did take a toll on my health. It is not for everyone.
man, that rabbit that you demonstrated on is gonna be telling all the other bunnies for the rest of his life about how he escaped a near death experience haha!
❤we need to do some of our first ones. We have way too many. I just dont want to. But u make it seem better. Your videos on this are some of the most respectful i have seen. ❤
I appreciate you doing this video, I don't do this often enough to remember and I want to do it as quickly as possible so they don't suffer. I haven't gotten a full rabbitry yet but it is a future goal. Thanks for all your help!
Thank you so much. You made my job easier. I raise rabbits for meat and my breeders are the pets lol. I am trying to teach my kids how to live off the land
It's been many years since raising and butchering chickens for meat. We're considering getting back into small scale egg production and meat chickens and rabbits are just the next phase for us. I enjoyed your video and thought your method for rabbit butchering was awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this video! You’re right about not seeing the tail hack elsewhere, because I’ve seen plenty of butcher videos and this is the first time I’ve seen it. It’s definitely something that I’ll have to try on our next butcher day.
Thank you for this! I dont own rabbits and dont plan to, but I do want to raise other animals for meat-purposes (+just want to understand where my food comes from). Your video is extremely clear and well-detailed, so again- thank you!
Never had any Thumpers raised for meat. All ours came from the field. There's a not a ton of meat on them. But you can breed quite a few in a small space with fewer resources than other critters. Very educational and thank you for sharing with us.
This is one of the finest how-to videos ever produced on any topic. The mood, the music, the detail, the clarity, the thoroughness, your voice, your mic, the camera work, etc. You deserve an award for this video.
I think she’s married
😂😂😂@@woo1818
Ive been raising rabbits for 7 years and yet this video just showed me some easier ways to get it done. Thank you
Ditto what ASmommaT89 just said: 5 years and have not seen this done so easily and quickly! Especially appreciate the "tail and intestine" hack. Thanks so much!
Been butchering rabbits since before you were born. Now I know the rabbit tail trick THANK YOU!
Surgeon here. Great video. I might suggest trying a #15 blade. Straight blades are design to cut with a sawing motion and focus all the cutting at the tip, dulling quicker. Curved blades are better for making longer cuts. You can buy disposable 15 blades too. Plus surgical steel stays sharp for a long time.
Secondly, the membrane between the abdomen and chest cavity is the diaphragm.
I can tell you really love these creatures. I raise Rex rabbits myself.
I don’t often reply to a lot of comments on this video anymore (I get a lot of crazy activists 😅). But I had to reply to you and just say thank you!! This is an awesome suggestion and I’ll be purchasing one of those blades pronto!
I realised the membrane had to be the diaphragm but I thought it was sheets of muscle. This looked sort of transparent, which was a surprise to me. Thank you Mr surgeon! Can you explain why the heart still beats and yet the rabbit is dead. So what are the criteria of death for this purpose. Not being critical, just want to get it right! Thanks
Please forgive the question but what do you do if the liver has white spots?
That goes for white spots, or any other color spots. Should look nothing other than like the one shown in this video. Dark, crimson, nice healthy looking meat, you will have no second thoughts or guesses when you see a heathy organ meat. It will just process in your brain as something good. If it makes you second guess, then you have some investigating to do.
@@bella-bee The heart, along with other organs (e.g. brain) continue to function because the chemical reactions continue for several seconds to minutes after death. The heart is a pump which beats in a certain sequence because of a series of electrical signals that coordinates the beat. The presence of this signal forces calcium out of the cardiomyocytes (heart cells) and the the passing of that signal causes calcium to re-enter cardiomyocytes. This occurs through calcium channels in each cell and the process happens for every beat. This will continue for as long as the cells are nourished (either by blood or within an appropriate solution). At some point, the cardiomyocytes die because blood no longer can nourish the heart and the beats stop.
The definition of death needs to be defined for both clinical and legal reasons. The current criteria in the U.S. were adopted in the late 1960s and not without controversy. Without getting into too many details, lack of organized brain activity is one of the key criteria to define death. In Japan, it is defined when the heart stops spontaneously beating. This is one of the reasons why organ transplants can be performed in the U.S. but are not allowed in Japan.
I'm sue that this is a lot more information than you wanted to know.
I butchered my first rabbit following your video today! It was so much easier than I thought it would be. lol I over thought it. I watched 30 videos and yours was the easiest to follow! You explained everything so well and ever clearly. Thank you!
Stop the abuse...
@@vanessakarmann4521 I don’t know what that is abuse? I they have a bad 30seconds and then it over they done feel anything else. If this is something that bothers you then click don’t recommend and move on. Society is broken now a day, with people not knowing where their food is coming from. We as farmer/homesteaders know where our food is coming from how they are being cared for, and what they are being fed.
Very weldone
@@laurarowe8903great job! Thank you for comment too, it’s very encouraging. This year we’re looking to start.
@@laurarowe8903I swear to God you are right they want to get red 😢all farms and they don't want us to eat meat 🥩 any more in 2030 they want to replace meet with artificial meat world economic forum 😢😢
Just a small note, that was the trachea that came out with the lungs! The esophagus is the tube to the stomach, trachea goes to the lungs :)
You are so right. Thank you for the correction!
FYI- the trachea and lungs and sometimes the heart is called the pluck. Now you have a factoid to add to other useless stuff😅
@@edherrmann182 Haha, I really like your approach on this. This is SO me! And now I have this factoid to weave into conversations in the future: "Oh, and guys, did you know that the lungs and heart are called a pluck?" - all around looks that say very clearly: "Oh no, him again...." 🤣
I've watched a thousand of these videos over the years. This is one of the best. Definitely the most detailed.
This is a good idea and it seems simple. Thanks for the upload! People definitely need to learn this in this economy of high-priced meats.
This has to be one of the most comprehensive, detailed, well explained and respectable processing videos I have ever watched. You are an absolute gem. Thank you for sharing this process and doing so in such a respectable way.
only its not when you dont show the dispatching
@@talalztube I explained the dispatch method with the rabbit on the ground, and honestly if you didn’t understand, I can’t help you with that. Go watch the hundreds of other videos on it 😂
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These videos are gems, because people should know.
Processing, breaking down, and using every part of an animal is such a wonderful thing to know how to do.❤
It's been lost overtime and needs to be brought back.
Thanks for sharing in detail.
Les lapins sont comme des chats heureusement que les gen en mangent de moins en mois voir presque plus
And the best part is that you know your meat, and it was raised as God intended, not through some corporate process we're not allowed to see
@@evanesquik6526cows have the intelligence of dogs, and pigs are some of the most intelligent animals. Chickens aren’t particularly bright, but they are capable of experiencing pain, happiness, fufillment.
You can’t argue to not eat rabbits but also eat pork. You don’t like rabbits because they are smart and affectionate, you like them because they are cute and fluffy. Don’t be a hypocrite.
I have never, ever seen this process before. Truthfully speaking, I am not sure how you came across my feed. But I did watch. LOL. I will say, I appreciate that you respect the animal and how you process them for meat. Very cool. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the information provided in this video. I am 87 years old now and most of my life my father, and then after him, myself, have raised New Zealand Whites for meat consumption with great success. I want to say thanks for the tip on the tail cutting at the very end. I always found this to be problematic, but your way is great and saves some annoying moments for the person assigned to the butchering task. Again thank you. I really enjoyed your video. I will be looking at your channel in the near future. Joel Landry
Thankyou that was a great tip. So wonderful seeing someone from the younger generation being realistic and genuine about food production. As an old timer, we were all taught the need to do the difficult stuff, to ensure survival. This passing down of knowledge has been stalled by our modern supermarket lifestyle which has basically turned many of us into couch potato's, with few survival skills. You are doing an amazing and necessary job, teaching people from far and wide. 5 stars from me.
Thank you so much!
How long is the BART between the rabbits legs that you hang them from
Gi vegan old timer, 1:28
in what kind of situation would I need these skills? I mean at the moment there is no electricity, access to food etc. it will be too late. Anyway thanks for the video, she was very respectful. That makes it somewhat tolerable. Cheers.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍@@TealStoneHomestead
I had never seen the "hack" about the rabbit tail. Thanks for sharing your experience and your way of butchering. I'm sure I will watch this over and over again.👍 A great teaching video!
It's very interesting to hear someone from within the rabbit breeding world talk about the levels of care taken to meet 'standards', for us the deciding factors are essentially 'that rabbit made good rabbits, and so did that other rabbit, lets see what rabbits they make together' and we keep track of lineages to make sure no close inbreeding. Super interesting, Thank you!
It’s honestly as simple as that for breeding to standards sometimes, lol! Commercial breeds should be good at producing meat. Grow rates are a big focus for me. Balancing body type is where is gets more complicated.
@@TealStoneHomestead I lost one of my big breeding bucks and does this summer due to heat wave so now I'm back to breeding a different group to make another large breed of rabbits.
Would you like to sell the rabbit hides
Please Go Vegan, and then nobody gets killed. Thank you. 🐰
@@berniv7375if you think veganism means no animals are harmed, think again. Thousands of animals are killed in the process of harvesting. They are also poisoned and killed to prevent them from harming the crops. This severely harms the ecosystem - butchering rabbits for my family’s consumption kills way less animals than a crop of vegan food does.
Perfect from a OLD farmer and hunter. I could NOT have shown it better.Well done Lady.
Well done, and in a respectful way to the animal. I try teaching my sons to treat their food with honor to the farmer and the animal, and I see you doing this in your videos.
I have watched many videos in this regard. Surely this is the BEST demonstration ever. You definitely have the touch and art of explaining and demonstrating HOW TO DO IT. Very simple. Can't wait to try it out. Thank you very much for sharing your experience and expertise with us. Hans Strydom. Sandton. South Africa.
This is a real nice detailed explanation of the process. It appears the cremes look so much easier to peel than the New Zealands or Silver foxes. I felt the black rabbits were more difficult. I quit using trimming shears as I was getting too many tiny bone fragments in the dish so am painstakingly use the tip of my knife to whittle between the segments which I have troubles with even on chickens. Thank you much for educating
Awesome video. Just started working with rabbits and this video is on point. Thank you
Just butcher my first rabbit from your video. It went well and wanted to thank you.
Beautiful job, very respectful and clean process. It's wonderful to see a woman do the butchering demo, I learned a lot.
I know how hard it is to transition from a grocery store meat consumer to a homesteader. The feeling of needing to do this out of necessity is becoming more and more evident. I appreciate your content for this reason so much. Thank you for being transparent and informative.
Thank u so much for this video! We r thinking of adding rabbits to our animals but i wasn’t sure how hard it was to butcher them. U made it seem super easy and so informative! Thank u!
That tail hack is amazing! Thank you. I butchered two of my rabbits years ago but I was worried I wouldn't remember the details for my upcoming butchering. Thank you for the really clear (and great quality camera work) explanation of everything. Happy homesteading!
Thank you so much for the information. I really liked the way you took your time and showed everything up close. It gave me a greater appreciation for taking my time when I'm processing rabbit. The tail hack was priceless.
As someone from a family of butchers, I wish you could be the one teaching me cause the way you expalain it is so calm, detailed and easily understandable. Keep the good job ❤️
This is the best video I've watched so far . Especially the magic with the tail❤. Thank you. Watching from Zambia in Africa
Thank you for taking the time to educate us. Very helpful to see this process all the way through! 🙏
Well explained, great detail focusing on the truly important issues. I do find that your second video (I think) showing the actual dispatch is brilliant as it clearly illustrates the exact procedure thus avoiding unnecessary animal discomfort.
My dad raised rabbits just for butchering , I was always helping and watching this video brought back so many memories. I was around 10 years old im 44 now . Thanks for the video
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! This was absolutely wonderful and so well detailed. I like that you even took the time to show and teach the organs along with your tips and tricks!❤
I appreciate the detailed cleaning. I feel I've learned how to clean mine myself now . Thank you
I used this video as my guide for butchering my first rabbits. Thank you so much for the step by step. And for explaining about the heart still potentially beating. My third rabbit's heart was still beating when I cleaned it out and I would've panicked if I hadn't seen this video first.
Thank you so much for mentioning why you raise rabbits for meat. We do the same. We love our rabbits they have great lives with excellent food and care. That means the mist to me. That animals are treated well. We are all to familiar what happens to most animals in big production farms.
Rabbits are clean, fast to reproduce. They are also fun to care for.Growing our own meat has been a very good experience. Your video was a fantastic representation on how to properly and efficiently dispatch rabbits.
Beautiful breed !
That tail hack is awesome and I can't wait to try it out this season!
who knew you could learn rabbit anatomy by a butchering video
Raised rabbits on and off for a few years now. Thank you for the “poop chute” hack. VERY informative
I have butchered many rabbits and I found this very instructive. Thank you for the training!
Hi
Thank you. Your compassion shows in your presentation. ❤
You are right, I have not seen the tail hack you demonstrated. I will try it out the next time we butcher.
I haven't done this in twenty years, so I needed a refresher course, and you nailed it!
Thanks for your patience and time,you are a awesome instructor.
What do you do with the rabbits if you find white spots on its liver? Thanks
Thanks thinking about getting rabbits I’ve had chickens, turkeys, cows, and pigs and ducks. I am ready to try raising some rabbits your video has been very helpful. Thank you.
I’ve been butchering rabbits for years and have always struggled with how to easily get the tail and end intestines out… your hack has me excited for the next butchering day!! Thanks so much (also for the idea of using an xacto… genius) :)
My goodness… I went to your earliest comments this video received and people are absolutely nasty to you! I am so so sorry people are so horrible to you!
I greatly appreciate this video as we are looking at getting rabbits for this specific purpose 💚 my mom raised rabbits for years for meat and so I’m going back to our roots
Am in the Philippines and thanks for the detailed butchering process. So informative
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, experience and skills. Appreciate so much how you care for your rabbits at every stage. Please continue. Tiffany you are a god-send.
Thanks for such a easy listening and straightforward explanation and demonstration... hello from Australia
I like your tail hack! Thank you so much for making this video
Great video. I’m starting on my rabbits and have lots to look forward too in the future. I have learned by butchering multiple numbers of my turkeys and chickens that I get more confident with my turnover. Your recommendation for chickens is great. Europe did an experiment with families wanting chickens, the end result was life changing for many, please look up the research. As well look into local fowl laws for chicken hens, as it turns out our county has a law dedicated to raising hens and the laws supersede HOA rules! All you need know is your land amount per county and to build size regulation cages. The noble chicken Rules the roost.
I see why you do the tail thing, but I personally find it easier to cut through or break the pelvis bone between the legs and pull out the bum and bladder together first. After those are out of the body I remove the other intestines. The rabbit stays entirely poop free because of it. I learned it from the Rabbit Talk forum, lots of awesome information there.
I personally love kidneys and onions, or kidney fajitas! They taste best if they are cut up, instead of eaten whole. I've also tried Kindey jerky before; I don't recommend it, since it was nasty lol.
We love rotisserie-style rabbit, especially in the summer, and that requires an in-tact pelvis. This method isn’t fail-proof but 95% of the time it works for me and the rabbits stay poop free! Of course there’s nothing a little water can’t fix 😂
Eating the kidneys that way sounds interesting. I’m not opposed to trying them again 😊
Thank you, we have just started raising rabbits for meat and this was a blessing!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! We will be butchering our first rabbits soon and I’m nervous/anxious! This helped me understand the process!
Delicious and wonderful! Thank you!
Thanks for showing all this. I appreciate you showing the close ups.
Thank you so much for this. Seems relatively straightforward and this was very educational
Live in the city, have no plans of raising rabbits but that was fascinating!! I watched all of it! You did excellent!
Nice to see young people can still be connected with their food !
Thank you. You came up randomly in my feed, but I appreciate your detailed walkthrough on this process. I'm very interested in raising my own meat/food and this makes the process seem even easier to take on.
The tail hack!! That's exactly what I needed. I am pretty good with the process except that tail and poop shoot slow me down. Thank you for the tips!!! I love the detail you give.
This video helps with the anxiety and sadness I felt for the animal going into this process thanks for a great video!!👍
We're new to butchering and have followed many other tutorials but yours was by far the most helpful! Thank you ❤
Very nice and professional demonstration.
Pardon the pun, but I was just going down the TH-cam rabbit hole and came across you. I may never do meat rabbits, but is was informative the care you give your live stock and the process you do to butcher. Thanks for sharing, great work.
Thank you for such an informative video. God bless you as you grow your home.
Great explanation of your process. I shoot wild rabbits (to eat) with my .22 lr on a friend’s farm and I’m definitely going to adopt your tail method for a cleaner back end. Cheers from Australia:)
Amazing video! Thank you for taking the time to make this video and show us your technique.
Thank you. I think this is the most detailed video I have seen. Needed a refresher so this was extremely helpful. Love the tail tip!
Thank you for doing this video! I will reference this over and over.❤
The tail part at the end was new to me. That's the first time I have seen that...very cool :)
Great all points covered video.
After catching wild rabbits in Canada and eating them, I now learned the proper way.
Here in Brussels Belgium i want to start with meat rabbits/chickens so i can be autonomous concerning healthy meat
Cant thank you enough for the tail-trick 🙏 Greetings from sweden
yo girl...that was great video... more more more videos... the biology lesson for me was great to...please continue as this is a way of life....thankyou👌👍
A while ago I googled "teal rabbit hutch" because I wanted to paint my hutches that colour and wanted to see what that would look like and stumbled upon your channel, really glad to have found that! Loved this video because I learned something new; the tail trick looks so great, I will be doing that too from now on.
Excellent watch and very informative! Best i have seen. Definitely will watch and like your videos ❤
This is SO helpful, thank you so much for the gift of your time and experience! We are seniors on fixed incomes watching the price of everything keep going up. We have had quail for two years for eggs and meat, have gardened year round for four, and just added rabbits to our little homestead to help feed us and our dogs.
@skaur6580 We already do. Meat is a condiment for us! The quail go into a rice and vegetable stew. The dogs will get most of the rabbit. We will make soup out of everything else. We eat the veg and greens from the garden, and a lot of rice and lentils.
@skaur6580 The blood type found more commonly in the Asian community does well with the diet you refer to. Most other populations do not fare so well. I was a vegetarian most of my adult life, mostly due to a desire to not promote inhumane industry practices and an inability to afford quality, humanly raised and dispatched meat products. The vegetarian diet, while helping my budget, did take a toll on my health. It is not for everyone.
I watched your second video first and you answered my question in this one. Thank you for really teaching how to clean a rabbit.
man, that rabbit that you demonstrated on is gonna be telling all the other bunnies for the rest of his life about how he escaped a near death experience haha!
He’s still here!! His name is Krisu! 😂
@@TealStoneHomestead krisu, you lucky dude!😂
Thank you so much for sharing us. We’re getting ready to do our first dispatch in. This was incredibly helpful.
❤we need to do some of our first ones. We have way too many. I just dont want to. But u make it seem better. Your videos on this are some of the most respectful i have seen. ❤
I love my animals, and feel it’s important to respect everything they give to us ❤️ I’m glad this was helpful to you 😊
Very educational I love your videos I'm just getting started with rabbits thank you for for your videos
I’m so happy you finally made this video!
Wonderful detail!
Thank you so much 💚
The intestine trick is a game changer!!! Thank you!
I appreciate you doing this video, I don't do this often enough to remember and I want to do it as quickly as possible so they don't suffer. I haven't gotten a full rabbitry yet but it is a future goal. Thanks for all your help!
Just found your chanel, this video was perfect thank you for the many interesting and quick hints on this topic. Green love from Australia 💚🌲🌏🙏
Excellent tutorial! Thank you! Blessings on your day Kiddo!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿
The tail technique is interesting, never saw that before. Will try in the future. I had never considered using an exacto knife before. Good video.
Thank you so much. You made my job easier. I raise rabbits for meat and my breeders are the pets lol. I am trying to teach my kids how to live off the land
It's been many years since raising and butchering chickens for meat. We're considering getting back into small scale egg production and meat chickens and rabbits are just the next phase for us. I enjoyed your video and thought your method for rabbit butchering was awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent video! You are a great teacher.
Thank you for this video! You’re right about not seeing the tail hack elsewhere, because I’ve seen plenty of butcher videos and this is the first time I’ve seen it. It’s definitely something that I’ll have to try on our next butcher day.
I've been butchering rabbits since my childhood, but I never knew about the tail trick. Thanks! Its always nice to learn something new.
Great video! This is information thats hard learned without the instruction, thank you!
Thank you for this! I dont own rabbits and dont plan to, but I do want to raise other animals for meat-purposes (+just want to understand where my food comes from). Your video is extremely clear and well-detailed, so again- thank you!
Never had any Thumpers raised for meat. All ours came from the field. There's a not a ton of meat on them. But you can breed quite a few in a small space with fewer resources than other critters. Very educational and thank you for sharing with us.
Ooooh, thank you for the tail hack. I have been trying to figure out a better way to do that part! This is brilliant!
Beautiful presentation, really loved that
This is so good! Exactly what I needed.
Thank you so much!
Great vid, thank you! I love your attitude and the fact you're not afraid to do the tough part yourself. Greetings from Europe!