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...." 🤣
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.
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 😂
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.
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
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.
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.
Just watched your video for the first time- thank you for the informative video. We’ll get our first rabbits tomorrow- but they’re just pets for now….but you never know. Thank you once again.
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.
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!
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!
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 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.
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
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.
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 ❤️
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!❤
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 !
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!
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.
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 you for this video. I have been struggling with processing our rabbits. I kept watching videos that made it look so easy but it was so hard for me! This hanger and the x-acto changed everything. So much easier. We did 4 bunnies in an hour, including set up and tear down. I'm no longer dreading it. We made two hangers but we used pvc pipe instead because that's what we had and they still work great. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now I just need to get good at parting them (we prefer that to whole rabbits). Any tips for that? :)
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) :)
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!
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.
We are self building our homestead stead starting with a garage apartment to become rent-debt free and building our equity because we just bought 20.6 acres of raw forest land, and I feel like chickens I am comfortable with due to prior exposure but I never knew how versatile and efficient rabbits could be. How do you deal with emotions surrounding raising these animals and then processing? This is entirely respectfully intentioned and not at all a PETA sounding comment, I just feel like after 4 months or whatever raising an animal it is entirely normal to feel some type of way when harvesting, especially as a female farmer. Thank you for a respectful and tasteful tutorial, we are definitely giving this page a follow for future advice and experience
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.
This reminds me of the stories my Mom told me when she and my Grandparents would butcher chickens back in the day for that days meal. And the story of my great grandfather butchering and smoking pigs in the smokehouse. Odd as it may seem, but I loved hearing those stories about getting food from the yard. I definitely would have like to tasted those meals. Curious, what do you do with the rabbit fur?
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!
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 😊
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.
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.
Thanks! I have my first litter of silver fox kits (thanks to your vids) hopefully due next week. I am sure that I can clean a rabbit, but I am so nervous about the actual dispatch...
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
❤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. ❤
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.
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.
Thanks for this! Great info. I went to your page and searched, but could not find what you do with the pelts. Do you process them yourselves? Sell them? Toss them?
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.
You might also try a roofing hook blade for the skinning part It doesnt cut into the flesh if you dont push hard. Its been years since I butchered a rabbit and this was like a refresher course for me . Since I started raising meat rabbits again .
Fantastic video !! Thank you so much for educating us and sharing your hard won wisdom ! You are a beautiful example of capable woman . May you and yours be blessed .
Details are good . Thanks SO MUCH for your SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE. Thanks so much !!! Different methods of butchering your rabbits . Wow!!! How did U learn how to butcher?? How many different animals do U butcher yourself ??? I used to butcher squirrels when I was in my teens over 50 yrs. Ago. Butchered Raccoon also. Memories of growing up near farms !!! Good eats!!! 😅😅😊
I really appreciated seeing the broomstick method (in both this video and the other one you recently posted). I have a hard time with the hopper popper method and not being able to get enough force with it. I'm thinking the way you do it would work much better for me. I have about 5 rabbits that need to be dispatched today and I'll be trying your method. Also - love the trick with the tail and intestines!
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.
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. I'm hoping that you show everything in good detail because I don't want my rabbits to suffer. I want to be able to do it properly and how can you do it properly if you're never allowed to see it? I hunted wild rabbits and squirrels, deer excetera as a child with my dad but that was many years ago. There is one video from an actual butcher that shows the proper way to cut up a rabbit, but it's the only one I found that not only is accurate but also is detailed enough to show you exactly what to do and where and how to do it for the best results. For instance like bending the rear legs to the side excetera.
Good morning. Just found your TH-cam channel. What an informative and awesome video. My wife and I also have a homestead. We also just moved. We bought an acre and put a tiny house on it. We have rabbits for meat. Goats for meat. We have chickens and ducks for meat and eggs. We also live in Indiana. We're about 30 miles south of Terre Haute. Do you still make videos? I can't seem to find any recent ones. Have a great day, and God bless!
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!
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.
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 know I've been out of the field too long when I thought, "Poor bunny!" The tail trick that you showed would have made field dressing a whole lot easier when I was hunting getting the intestines out cleanly. Does it work on squirrels too? We decided on chickens because we got eggs from them as well. Unfortunately my daughter made them into pets and, well, the eggs were good! Thanks for sharing!
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:)
I love how brave you are! ♥️ My son was really upset the first time he helped me to butcher a rabbit and it was because he knew her. I keep the mindset that my rabbits are fun to enjoy but that they are at the end of the day food. We have a batch growing out right now. How old do you usually let them get before processing?
There’s nothing wrong with having pet and meat rabbits! That’s why I have Netherlands as pets 😊 I like to process preferably between 12-20 weeks old. It really depends on when I’ve decided who to keep/cull/sell
I’ve only butchered four rabbits thus far in my meat rabbit journey. I cried over each one of them as I dispatched them but tears ceased when I started the butchering process. If we aren’t feeling something for them we shouldn’t be doing this job at all. I don’t name them but I still connect…talk to them, hold them, give them treats, etc. it’s not easy but it is a worthwhile skill to develop.
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
That poop shoot trick…thank you!! When I butchered our first round of cremes that was my struggle point. Will be doing my second round in a couple of weeks I cannot wait to try that method. I canned everything the last round going to order some of the poultry bags and try freezing some whole this time! I saw you comment that you’ll be in Kentucky I’m around Knoxville and was thinking of driving up there do you have to be a participant to attend? I hope to get into showing cremes next year but would love to see how it all works and say hi!
Hi Kelli! You don’t have to be a participant to attend the show. Only if you want to bring rabbits with you. It is HUGE! Definitely come say hi if you end up coming!
Tiffany helpful video. I like your method of cleaning but I did see this technique for snapping the legs off. That way so you don't have sharp bones that may poke holes in the vacuum bags.
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 making this video. People need to learn how to survive in case of emergency. I grew up in communist Romania and food was hard to find. The government regulated everything and anyone who lived in the country had to raise livestock , then sale it to the government at government prices and then sit in line at the store to buy back just a small ration of your meat for 3 times more than what you were paid for… Anyway, when I became a teenager I began to raise rabbits to help feed my family because they were not regulated by the government. And so I ended the hunger in my family and we were the healthiest people in our village.
This is the best butcher video ive watched. Im a few weeks out from a cull. Do you have a video on the quartering out process. I have watched alot of videos and not learned from them but you explain So well I know I would learn from your videos!
The whole video is great. I plan to get multiple hutches built in case shtf. I also know that rabbit poop is the best fertilizer for growing,so I plan to build the hutches with floors that will be easy to dump poop into containers to either sell or barter with.
Thanks for the demonstration. I’ve done a few grow out litters, but I’m still new at this. One thing I’ve noticed is that the first rabbit to dispatch is very calm, but after that I have trouble with them. I was wondering if they smelled the blood and panic. Do you ever have this problem? I was thinking about dispatching them all in a row, but then worried that I wouldn’t bleed them out fast enough. What do you think?
@@TealStoneHomestead I’ve been butchering in a place without a lot of water, so I probably didn’t rinse enough. I’m moving our spot to a place near the hose, so hopefully that will make a difference. Thanks!
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!
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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.
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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!
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.
Been butchering rabbits since before you were born. Now I know the rabbit tail trick THANK YOU!
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...." 🤣
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.
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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I've watched a thousand of these videos over the years. This is one of the best. Definitely the most detailed.
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.
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Perfect from a OLD farmer and hunter. I could NOT have shown it better.Well done Lady.
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
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.
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.
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.
Just watched your video for the first time- thank you for the informative video. We’ll get our first rabbits tomorrow- but they’re just pets for now….but you never know. Thank you once again.
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.
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!
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!
Beautiful job, very respectful and clean process. It's wonderful to see a woman do the butchering demo, I learned a lot.
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 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.
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
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.
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 ❤️
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!❤
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 !
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!
Just butcher my first rabbit from your video. It went well and wanted to thank you.
This is the best video I've watched so far . Especially the magic with the tail❤. Thank you. Watching from Zambia in Africa
I appreciate the detailed cleaning. I feel I've learned how to clean mine myself now . Thank you
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.
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 you for this video. I have been struggling with processing our rabbits. I kept watching videos that made it look so easy but it was so hard for me! This hanger and the x-acto changed everything. So much easier. We did 4 bunnies in an hour, including set up and tear down. I'm no longer dreading it. We made two hangers but we used pvc pipe instead because that's what we had and they still work great. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now I just need to get good at parting them (we prefer that to whole rabbits). Any tips for that? :)
Thank you for taking the time to educate us. Very helpful to see this process all the way through! 🙏
That tail hack is awesome and I can't wait to try it out this season!
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) :)
Nice to see young people can still be connected with their food !
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!
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.
I have butchered many rabbits and I found this very instructive. Thank you for the training!
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We are self building our homestead stead starting with a garage apartment to become rent-debt free and building our equity because we just bought 20.6 acres of raw forest land, and I feel like chickens I am comfortable with due to prior exposure but I never knew how versatile and efficient rabbits could be. How do you deal with emotions surrounding raising these animals and then processing? This is entirely respectfully intentioned and not at all a PETA sounding comment, I just feel like after 4 months or whatever raising an animal it is entirely normal to feel some type of way when harvesting, especially as a female farmer. Thank you for a respectful and tasteful tutorial, we are definitely giving this page a follow for future advice and experience
Could you show what you do with the pelts?? I’m interested to see how you process those
A rabbit pelt ain't good for much
Makes a decent lining, my grandma had a coat with rabbit lining, it was so soft and warm
@@hardtimerrabbit fur is great for moccasin and mukluk trim
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.
This reminds me of the stories my Mom told me when she and my Grandparents would butcher chickens back in the day for that days meal.
And the story of my great grandfather butchering and smoking pigs in the smokehouse. Odd as it may seem, but I loved hearing those stories about getting food from the yard. I definitely would have like to tasted those meals.
Curious, what do you do with the rabbit fur?
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!😂
who knew you could learn rabbit anatomy by a butchering video
We're new to butchering and have followed many other tutorials but yours was by far the most helpful! Thank you ❤
Raised rabbits on and off for a few years now. Thank you for the “poop chute” hack. VERY informative
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 😊
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.
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 haven't done this in twenty years, so I needed a refresher course, and you nailed it!
Thanks! I have my first litter of silver fox kits (thanks to your vids) hopefully due next week. I am sure that I can clean a rabbit, but I am so nervous about the actual dispatch...
Just don’t hold back on dispatch - pull as hard as you can, as fast as possible. You can do it 😊
Am in the Philippines and thanks for the detailed butchering process. So informative
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
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
❤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 😊
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.
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!
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.
Thanks for this! Great info. I went to your page and searched, but could not find what you do with the pelts. Do you process them yourselves? Sell them? Toss them?
Live in the city, have no plans of raising rabbits but that was fascinating!! I watched all of it! You did excellent!
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.
Nice video! Ive always lived in the city and Im very disconnected from where my meat comes from. Thanks for sharing!
You might also try a roofing hook blade for the skinning part It doesnt cut into the flesh if you dont push hard. Its been years since I butchered a rabbit and this was like a refresher course for me . Since I started raising meat rabbits again .
This video helps with the anxiety and sadness I felt for the animal going into this process thanks for a great video!!👍
Fantastic video !! Thank you so much for educating us and sharing your hard won wisdom ! You are a beautiful example of capable woman . May you and yours be blessed .
The tail part at the end was new to me. That's the first time I have seen that...very cool :)
Details are good . Thanks SO MUCH for your SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE. Thanks so much !!! Different methods of butchering your rabbits . Wow!!! How did U learn how to butcher?? How many different animals do U butcher yourself ???
I used to butcher squirrels when I was in my teens over 50 yrs. Ago. Butchered Raccoon also. Memories of growing up near farms !!!
Good eats!!! 😅😅😊
You are right, I have not seen the tail hack you demonstrated. I will try it out the next time we butcher.
Thank you. Your compassion shows in your presentation. ❤
Thanks for showing all this. I appreciate you showing the close ups.
I really appreciated seeing the broomstick method (in both this video and the other one you recently posted). I have a hard time with the hopper popper method and not being able to get enough force with it. I'm thinking the way you do it would work much better for me. I have about 5 rabbits that need to be dispatched today and I'll be trying your method. Also - love the trick with the tail and intestines!
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.
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!
Question please: if the liver had the white spots is it still edible? Love your video - I learned so much. Thanks!
I'm no expert but based on other vids I've seen, white spots on ANY animals liver is sign of disease/illness and not ideal for consumption.
Thanks for such a easy listening and straightforward explanation and demonstration... hello from Australia
Thank you. I'm hoping that you show everything in good detail because I don't want my rabbits to suffer. I want to be able to do it properly and how can you do it properly if you're never allowed to see it? I hunted wild rabbits and squirrels, deer excetera as a child with my dad but that was many years ago. There is one video from an actual butcher that shows the proper way to cut up a rabbit, but it's the only one I found that not only is accurate but also is detailed enough to show you exactly what to do and where and how to do it for the best results. For instance like bending the rear legs to the side excetera.
Good morning. Just found your TH-cam channel. What an informative and awesome video. My wife and I also have a homestead. We also just moved. We bought an acre and put a tiny house on it. We have rabbits for meat. Goats for meat. We have chickens and ducks for meat and eggs. We also live in Indiana. We're about 30 miles south of Terre Haute.
Do you still make videos? I can't seem to find any recent ones. Have a great day, and God bless!
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!
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.
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 know I've been out of the field too long when I thought, "Poor bunny!" The tail trick that you showed would have made field dressing a whole lot easier when I was hunting getting the intestines out cleanly. Does it work on squirrels too? We decided on chickens because we got eggs from them as well. Unfortunately my daughter made them into pets and, well, the eggs were good! Thanks for sharing!
Haven’t tried it on squirrels! lol
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:)
You're now my favorite rabbitry TH-camst!
Wish we were closer to each other. I'd love to buy from your herd!❤️
With love from the PNW!🙏🏼❤️
I love how brave you are! ♥️ My son was really upset the first time he helped me to butcher a rabbit and it was because he knew her. I keep the mindset that my rabbits are fun to enjoy but that they are at the end of the day food. We have a batch growing out right now. How old do you usually let them get before processing?
There’s nothing wrong with having pet and meat rabbits! That’s why I have Netherlands as pets 😊
I like to process preferably between 12-20 weeks old. It really depends on when I’ve decided who to keep/cull/sell
I’ve only butchered four rabbits thus far in my meat rabbit journey. I cried over each one of them as I dispatched them but tears ceased when I started the butchering process. If we aren’t feeling something for them we shouldn’t be doing this job at all. I don’t name them but I still connect…talk to them, hold them, give them treats, etc. it’s not easy but it is a worthwhile skill to develop.
Making a friend and then butchering it is kinds cruel. No surprise your son was upset.
@@kezif her son is learning where his food comes from and understanding that it DOES NOT originate in the grocery store.
I watched your second video first and you answered my question in this one. Thank you for really teaching how to clean a rabbit.
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
I have never seen the pull tail trick, gunna try it this weekend when we cull some of our rabbits (NZW). Thank you!
Just as an update for anyone watching, the pull tail trick TOTALLY works! Thank you again Tiffany!
That poop shoot trick…thank you!! When I butchered our first round of cremes that was my struggle point. Will be doing my second round in a couple of weeks I cannot wait to try that method. I canned everything the last round going to order some of the poultry bags and try freezing some whole this time! I saw you comment that you’ll be in Kentucky I’m around Knoxville and was thinking of driving up there do you have to be a participant to attend? I hope to get into showing cremes next year but would love to see how it all works and say hi!
Hi Kelli! You don’t have to be a participant to attend the show. Only if you want to bring rabbits with you. It is HUGE! Definitely come say hi if you end up coming!
Tiffany helpful video. I like your method of cleaning but I did see this technique for snapping the legs off. That way so you don't have sharp bones that may poke holes in the vacuum bags.
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 making this video. People need to learn how to survive in case of emergency.
I grew up in communist Romania and food was hard to find. The government regulated everything and anyone who lived in the country had to raise livestock , then sale it to the government at government prices and then sit in line at the store to buy back just a small ration of your meat for 3 times more than what you were paid for…
Anyway, when I became a teenager I began to raise rabbits to help feed my family because they were not regulated by the government. And so I ended the hunger in my family and we were the healthiest people in our village.
This is the best butcher video ive watched. Im a few weeks out from a cull. Do you have a video on the quartering out process. I have watched alot of videos and not learned from them but you explain So well I know I would learn from your videos!
The whole video is great. I plan to get multiple hutches built in case shtf. I also know that rabbit poop is the best fertilizer for growing,so I plan to build the hutches with floors that will be easy to dump poop into containers to either sell or barter with.
Thanks for the demonstration. I’ve done a few grow out litters, but I’m still new at this. One thing I’ve noticed is that the first rabbit to dispatch is very calm, but after that I have trouble with them. I was wondering if they smelled the blood and panic. Do you ever have this problem? I was thinking about dispatching them all in a row, but then worried that I wouldn’t bleed them out fast enough. What do you think?
I don’t typically notice this, but, I also butcher away from the main herd of rabbits. I always rinse my hands before getting the next rabbit.
@@TealStoneHomestead I’ve been butchering in a place without a lot of water, so I probably didn’t rinse enough. I’m moving our spot to a place near the hose, so hopefully that will make a difference. Thanks!
I've been butchering rabbits since my childhood, but I never knew about the tail trick. Thanks! Its always nice to learn something new.
Thank you, we have just started raising rabbits for meat and this was a blessing!
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!