6 Reasons Why Rabbits Should be the FIRST Animal On Your Homestead
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Have you been on the fence about raising rabbits? Here is SIX Reasons why you should raise meat rabbits or pet rabbits on your homestead.
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I'm locked up in quarantine, stuck in an apartment, dreaming of buying a half acre in the hills. Dreams are starting to become plans... keep inspiring, man! Your energy's infectious!
Mood of the month ^ Run away and start a farm. I think this quarantine is going to drive more people out of the cities mostly because of how trapped they feel right now.
I'd suggest a little more than a half acre
Me too!!
When you get a rural homestead you'll be amazed at how fast it will conform to your needs
Same here!
TH-cam really got me planning my homestead when I’m supposed to be doing math hw smh
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You got this!!! Get your math done and find a way to save money for your future homestead!!!
Same!!
Sam Peterson u got time now to soak it up ☺️🙏🏾🙌🏾
Courtney Scott now I’m planning how I’m gonna implement rabbits into my post apocalyptic strategy
Same!! Except it's chem HW :D
Me at 3am and living in an apartment in the city: yup this video's for me!
Well yay!!!!
If it goes dwn and ya bug out go by pet store grab a sack full of rabbits on your way out .
high five bro
LLIP DER don’t reveal my plan! 😂
@chucky23 same!!!!
"Rabbits don't make noise."
Well, ...generally, yes. But, when they are threatened and in danger, they scream like a teenage girl getting attacked in a slasher movie!
Yes!!!
And thump and grunt but the screaming oh goodness yes they do not often though
@@realcookin3720 On the other hand, if they do scream, you know that something is seriously wrong, as opposed to a dog barking, which might just be because of an impertinent squirrel.
My dog caught a rat or something, while we were on a walk one night. I didn't see anything but the scurrying and, he dropped it when it let out a scream! It got away. The way he grabs things with his mouth, I'm sure it wasn't injured either.
😂 dind’t know that
Absolutely brilliant. A proper man, husband and father. Well done sir.
Well THANK YOU!!!!!!
Rabbits were the first business I started when I was still in high school in the early 70's. I sold 4 to 5 dozen of them a week. I was getting $4.00 each. Cost about .50 to .75 to raise them to butchering size. And I would use the feed sacks to put the manure pellets in and sell them for $25.00 each. Made enough money while still going to school to buy me a 67 SS Chevelle and start another business. Eventually sold the rabbit business but I still have the Chevelle....
Lol!!! This is Awesome Danny!!!! You are a rockstar!
Wanna sell the car and take the cash to buy more rabbits again! ??????
@@jameslaw3740 Sorry sir, Car must stay with me. I've had it so long now it would miss me if I ever let it go!!! But thanks for the offer!!! lol!!!
Wow that's awesome! :)
Rabbits can transmit trichanosis. Be cautious. Examine the meat carefully before you eat it. Same as pork.
I'd DEFINITELY be interested in an online course for raising rabbits
What I learned is when animal manure is in a pellet form (as you said rabbit, goat and sheep) it slowly releases its nutrients rather than being taken up by the plants too readily. BONUS. Slow release fertilizer!
I grew up with rabbits, it was my job to feed them and help my dad skin them which I hated but I was keen for rabbit dinner. When we touched the babies, the mother would behead her babies by the next day and we figured it was because we put our scent on them. We had rabbit stew with spaghetti and baked rabbit casserole with prunes, potato, carrot and onions. The meat can be dry because of the little amount of fat so good to serve slow cooked with sauces. Another bonus with rabbits in the fur. I've seen a rug made from many fur pieces.
My mother used the rabbit urine and manure straight on her vegies and they grew fast and big!
Could NOT agree with you more! Our very first animal was rabbits. Here in Alberta, we don’t have the same weather as you do, obviously, but we started with rabbits and built from there. Rabbits worked out really well for us as our “starter” animal. We’re just a small homestead, we’re a semi-retired couple and our kids are all grown and flown the coop, and we raise animals strictly for our own use and our extended family & friends. Rabbits are a primary protein source for us, so they feed us, their manure sustains our gardens and our chickens, and we sell their furs to a shop in the city. Truly a wonderful animal for any homestead, and I’m surprised more people don’t keep them.
Awesome video 😊👍
This is soooooooo good to hear!!
I would love to find out more about how you sell their fur. That is something I haven’t dove into yet.
Better Together Life Oh my gosh. I’m so sorry about the delay on answering. Not entirely sure why, but YT hasn’t been notifying me about responses for the past few weeks, not until this latest update 🤷🏻♀️ As, the joys of using a tablet 🤦🏻♀️
I honestly don’t know how other people do it, but for us we started out selling the fur to a local leather crafter who I’d bought items from over the years (she makes moccasins, gloves, mittens, etc at a few of the farmers markets in our area). Eventually, a couple years later, when I was trying to locate some bison leather to make a drumhead from, I located a shop in Edmonton (nearest large city to our home, about 3 hours from us) called “Halfords Hide & Leather Co” who purchase furs, hides, etc. They are pretty unique as they purchase primarily from local suppliers, First Nations trappers, etc.
There used to be several shops similar to this one across Canada who traditionally bought and sold furs and leather, but through the years they’ve gradually gone under or been phased out by other international big name shops, etc. I personally think Halford’s have stayed afloat largely due to their commitment to purchasing from primarily local suppliers, but honestly? I’m not 100% sure - I do know that we’re sure glad they’re still there though, and still a family run business after all these years. There’s quite the history to that business! www.halfordsmailorder.com/history
We still supply furs to the crafters within our local area, but we are very fortunate to have Halfords as well. Unfortunately, I don’t know if any of this will help you guys at all, but hopefully it’ll maybe give you a couple of ideas? We are really lucky to have found buyers this easily, but having local farmers markets was truly the biggest help for us.
I am 74 yrs old and have eaten rabbit as far back as I can remember. i raised my own rabbits as a kid and still do to this day. I am from Canada and was born in Canada. The bush rabbit kept many families alive during very hard times. Excellent for kids to learn responsibility and learn to do business. Good job guys!!!
Thank you very much Peter!!! 😁👍🏻
What's your preferred method of putting them down?? My only hurdle is just getting over the killing something cute part.
Sec Tex
I guess you will have to eat yours alive or wait until they die of old age or disease. 😐
You got that right. I didn't even butcher any for meat. I had a good buyer that would buy as many as I could sell. You can make a lot of bunnies in a hurry. Then my garden grew to a truck garden, and a greenhouse, and a nursery. All from starting with a few rabbits. Then came chicken, geese, and 3 nice incubaters. I was selling something every couple days. Once I switched to meat rabbit, I bought New Zealand whites and got 9 to12 babies every drop.
WOW!!!!!!! Keith this is sooooo awesome to hear!!!!!!!!!! Wahoo!!!
You never mentioned that rabbits are also useful for their eggs.
You’re funny
yeah especialy during Easter
They only produce eggs around easter.
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Why does the Easter Bunny hide eggs? he doesn't want anyone to know he's been dating the chickens!
That rabbit in Monty python & the holy grail always had me thinking twice about raising any.
That rabbit was dynamite!
Valley in the Bluffs Homestead Lmao!! Funny movie!!!
NI !
Caerbannog
it was no ordinary rabbit ... it had fangs...it could leap...LOOK AT THE BONES !!!!
Yes, I'm interested in adding rabbits to our homestead and a series on that. This is the first video of yours I've seen. It was very good.
Thank you very much Mary!!!! Haha, well I am glad that you watched this one first.
Haha. There are some that are high production values like this one. But during our 30 videos in 30 days there were some that were more like Instagram Stories. 🤣
It was a very good video. Now we need a "convince your husband to allow your wife to raise rabbits for meat" video. Lol! I live in an suburban neighborhood that allows us to have 6 rabbits without needing a permit. Even our landlord said we could have rabbits but my husband says no. Not until we get our own land. I told him it would help me practice for when we had our own land. No go. I just need someone to convince him to let me. Lol!
You know what’s cool about this guy? He has a real life! He’s got lots of projects going on, he likes what he’s doing, that’s great. And he’s right about rabbits. They’re delicious.
That's it, I'm getting rabbits. That course you mentioned in rabbit husbandry would be great! Thanks for your enthusiasm!
Thank you!!! Please be sure to sign up for the course form in the description so you don’t miss the release date later this summer!
Back in the day after Easter I would rescue two does and a buck from animal shelter. They lived long and happy lives. Off course I harvested the offspring. I kept two rescued Guinea pigs with the buck. They got along well and calmed the buck. Called them the nuns. They sat on his back in the winter for warmth and cleaned his ears. Seemed fond of each other.
That’s hilarious!
Excellent info as always. I love the idea of "stealth homesteading" where HOA regulations may prohibit other "livestock". One other point is that rabbits are a PORTABLE livestock for suburban homesteaders. It wouldn't be too hard to set up a modest operation in the backyard that could turn a profit and add value to a home garden.
It was great seeing you and Kelly this weekend. We all had a blast and the food was really tasty. God bless you guys. We will chat soon.
I grew up on rabbit, squirrel, chicken from grandparents farm, so I love rabbit meat, and thanks to you, it will be the first of my farm animals to come there.
Subscribed because of the phrase "they graduate to your freezer"
Hahahaha! Glad to have you!
On your rabbit poo..we raised meat rabbits...for years...what we did to work smarter, not harder..we hooked up long plastic siding..under the rabbit hutches...length wise. Attached high up at one end and gradually lowered gradually to the other end and have it roll into a wheel barrel and every day take the hose start at the high end and gently spray the poo & pee..down the plastic tray and drop into the wheel barrel at the lower end...doing it this way there was no more shoveling, sweeping, it all went down into the wheel barrel. ..then wheeled over to the garden and dumped..so easy this way...and this cleaning kept the whole rabbit area nice and clean , no files no bugs and into summer the area stayed very cool for them, we would just wash the concrete floor, with the cold water from the hose..we had their hutches in a three car bay run in garage..in which two of the bays where all rabbit hutches...and the back wall was where we kept the hutches for the bucks......
YES!!!!! This is an excellent point. I’d like to move towards a better way to harvest the poo and urine like you said. I am wasting some time with shoveling for sure!!!
It would be way easier to use the tarp method.
Chris. Thanks for your idea. Here in New Hampshire I would prefer some type of bunny barn. Your garage situation is perfect! We just built a home and no garage. A small bunny barn with screening and a central cement isle would be ideal for me. I tried New Zealand and Californian and liked the Californian. Easier for me to handle. The meat is excellent. I noticed a good registered breed for meat puts on an extra pound of meat. Bread for larger hind quarters. Folks here will pay a premium for composted bunny poop for the garden and for their worm farms.
Hi Im new to your channel but enjoyed thus video. I woukd like to learn more about raising rabbits. Thank you for really great info to start.
This system of tilted plastic panels sounds real good. Right now my rabbits are in cages with sliding trays underneath. The trays require cleaning every day and I keep a layer of "Mega Zorb" absorbent pellets in them. The cost of the Mega Zorb pellets is adding up and the chore of pulling out the trays for cleaning is tedious. Thanks for the tip!
I did something like that with plywood running down the legs and then added a 'v' to funnel the poo into a bucket.
This video just reminded me of when I was a kid growing in a third world country in the middle of nowhere. We had to grow everything only thing we bought was salt and that’s bc there wasn’t any around. Cool video man.
You are soooo right!! The wife and I were very happy to run across this video and realize that you have made a lot of progress since you moved the shed/house onto the property! We saw that video and have not seen any of yours since then. So you have done a great job! awesome!
I came across this channel after watching a post (not from this channel) on 5 ways to survive a historic economic depression. #1 was invest in land! When I watched what you need to know when buying land from this channel, your video helped me understand my connection with trees is really real, while everyone else would always tell me I’m crazy and if I take illegal drugs? 😂 And now rabbits! OMG! I always knew ever since I was 5yrs old, if I ever lived on land, rabbits would be the first animal I get...........NOW I FEEL BLESSED I never changed what I always felt, no matter what anyone else said and I had no clue of all the benefits and reasons of my connection to trees and rabbits! NOW THAT I DO, I CAN MAKE MY DREAM COME TRUE! ~coming from a totally out of place soul, currently living in Baltimore city!
You need to drop ground up charcoal under that hutch. Make biochar and keep the smell down at the same time. You are loosing a lot of nitrogen from their urine that is draining into the soil. Just a thought.
Oh WOW!!!!!!!!!!! James, this is the absolute BEST comment I have heard!
Yes yes yes, such an awesome idea on how to super charge our biochar!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!!!
Ashes are also handy for absorbing urine for fertilizer.
James P -- what is biochar?
@@terrim.602 You should look it up. Lots of video's about it. But the quick is that it is charcoal that has micros in it. Charcoal is very porous and gives them a place to live. These pores also hold water and nutrients as well.
So it helps hold the nutrients and water which makes a ideal place for fungi, bacteria, and other good guys. When the soil dries out this always these guys to survive.
Because it is carbon only the soil dwellers do not break it down quickly. Compost has a half life of just a few years and biochar has a half life of up to and over 1000 years. SO if you get it in your soil it is a long time benefit. Longer than you will be around.
So look at some videos and learn about it. I have only given a little info about it.
@@jamesp2391 Thank you!! I have been working my tail of to enrich my dead dry nutrient lacking soil. My farm still has some of the original fruit trees planted in the Orchards. I'm doing my best to amend and enrich the soil. I raise our food and rabbits are a big part of it. Thank you, I will look it up. I have the need, means and time, just need more knowledge!
We should have watched this before we started our homestead :) We started with sheep and I am pretty sure they are considerably more work than rabbits. I can't compare to rabbit poop, but sheep poop is proving probably just as valuable in our garden. The soil here has little to no value for gardening, but mixed with rotten wood from our forest, composted sheep poop has made for beautiful produce in our garden. Keep up the great work!
Oh YES!!!! Sheep and goat manure is excellent also. Second to only rabbits.....which is GREAT!!!!!!!!
So glad you enjoyed the video, please be sure to share it so more people can benefit! 😁😁
rabit manure is a slow release nitrogen that can feed your garden all season without burning the plants. I like how you use chickens to spread it and work it into the soil. The chicken manure is a fast release nitrogen so it give plants a quick burst of growth to start and rabbit manure continues to feed the plants through the season. Rabbits really are a great animal to start with on a small farm.
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! Ben you have killed it on the comment! LOVE IT!!!!!!
Thank you so much!
I totally love your approach to sustainability on your homestead. You can grow in many more directions but I can see one item that is missing...Bees. Managed properly the first year colony can be spilt for two or more hives. Once up and running they will be sustainable and provide pollination for your gardens, honey for your consumption and another harvest to pay for themselves. Honey, wax and propolis are all highly marketable by products. Good luck my friend
Oh man Joseph!!!! Bees just scare me soooooooo much! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bees are the other thing i am working on learning how to raise. What a good point about including them in the homestead ❤
How do you keep your bees from swarming each year? Do you devide when you see a queen cell, destroy the cells or do ypu keep he cells and sell the old queen...or do you just let them swarm naturally?
@@gritklein345 That is a question with a lot of answers. I am not inclined to let my hives swarm. I have a swarm trap bated and in relatively close proximity to my hives to entice them if they should swarm unexpectedly. If there is a swarm cell in a hive and the cell hasn't been capped you have the option of destroying the cell and giving the queen more room to continue laying eggs or... you can split your hive. You have to ensure the split will be strong enough, (time of year) and if you have the equipment/room...You have to decide also how important honey production is to you. Every hive needs to be managed toward a purpose and every beekeeper needs set goals and react to make the best decisions to meet them. It comes down to what do you need more, another hive or a stronger production hive.
Grandpa raised meat rabbits- as kids we did not want to eat "cute pets." So we were fed "fried chicken"- we knew it was rabbit- so the kids called it "long chicken."
Man to me rabbits aren't cute in that I have empathy for them; big fat rabbits make my mouth water.
@Haakon Dahl Why I love me some long pork. My friend Hannibal introduced me to this delicacy...
@Haakon Dahl Ha.... cannibalism jokes.
@Haakon Dahl both rabbits and pork are unclean
Lolol long chicken
We’re closing on our homestead this week; our current home sounds a lot like your Suburbia. This video gets me psyched to start building our homestead from scratch!
Congratulations and hope to hear how it goes.
Closing on mine March 10th!
Congratulations! We closed on our 3 acres with a home Jan 10th, 2020! I can't wait to be settled here to start my garden!
@@queenEsther318 sounds great..
That's so exciting!!! Congrats!
You have opened up my eyes.
Never thought about rabbits before.....but this makes perfect sense all way round....great for dog meat (off grid living), all done correctly.
I will look into this further...thank you.
Excellent! So glad it was helpful for you Karren. Thank you so much for watching!!
You can build automatic feeders and waterers for chickens and leave them on vacation, too. They cost like $35 and are made with big buckets.
Nobody NoHow make your own with pvc pipe! TH-cam it. :)
This was a real eye opener!!! I'm glad I took a moment! You didn't miss a thing as far as I am concerned. Thank you!!!
I truly appreciate your enthusiasm & courage. Breaking away from societal norms is no easy task. I’m both envious & sincerely inspired to make significant changes for my family. Thank you for sharing. I am happy to follow along. Best to you & your’s! 🗣RABBITS!
Wow!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Please tell us more about you! We love to meet like minded people! 😁😁
My pleasure Better Together Life! In short, I’m California born & raised... together with the same woman over twenty years & educating our 2 children without the public school system. We are painstakingly working toward life changes that will hopefully land us on a piece of property away from the West Coast altogether. I can’t tell you what a joy it is to discover others respectfully sustaining their dreams with purpose. Grateful to’ve discovered your journey... provides me with hope. Keep sharing. Your efforts aren’t in vain. Respect.
I live in America, and I absolutely love Rabbit Meat! Very, very lean! Almost no fat at all (makes sense, since they are literally jumping around all day long too). Rabbits are a very easy source of meat (populate fast), with very little cost to raise. I can't wait to be able to move out of my Apartment and back into a House again, so that I can get some more Meat Rabbits again. Mini Rex's were always my favorite!
I’m really excited I found your channel! I loved this video and have been telling my husband for a few months that we need to get rabbits. I would love to see more videos on them and everything you’ve learned along the way!
TH-cam algorithm: 6 reasons rabbits should be your first animal on a homestead!
Me: .........ok, I'm in
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Love it!!! THANK YOU sooooo much!!!
Boss sunflowers are a must for a homestead. Rabbits love them.
YASSSSSSSS!!!!!! Rabbits love sunflowers!
One disadvantage for growing sunflowers is that they need so much water....unless you have a well or underground spring on your property.
@@LethalSaliva true.
Rabbits were the first addition to my little farm and I love my babies ❤️ Two of my girls surprised me with nine babies the other day and I'm loving every minute playing with my sweet babies. You're definitely right tho because those droppings go straight to our garden and it's wonderful 😊
My wife and I have been planning on moving on some property and starting a homestead! Your videos are great. You make the homestead lifestyle seem so much fun. We are hoping to buy some property later this year and start our homestead. I will definitely be watching more of your videos. They are extremely informative and fun to watch. Keep up the good work!
It’s wonderful I found this channel as myself and my family are doing the same thing in this moment in our life!! Will be watching all your videos this week! Thanks!
Yay!!!!!!! Thank you so much Ivonne! Please never hesitate to let us know if you ever need anything. We love to help where we can.
Better Together Life thanks! We sure will!
Good reasons for keeping rabbits, man. They're pretty easy to keep and harvest, and having the babies in the fluffy fur is so cool.
I really want to get into growing my own food, and keeping my own animals, and rabbits seem like an amazing choice!
I'd love to learn more!
Growing up we had a home based commercial rabbit production. Several hundred at a time. They were great to have in every respect. The thing to watch out for though is mosquitos. They nearly wiped out every rabbit we had.
Oh yikes, we never experienced that. And we lived in Houston. Which is basically a swamp!
Totally interested in a rabbit breeding and raising course!
Alrighty! Thank you Kendra. I’ll need to begin writing up the course. 😁👍🏻
Better Together Life me to! I would love to see your breeding schedule to get 600lbs. Most o can get safely is 300bone in. 180-190lbs bone less.
@@BetterTogetherLife i can't keep my rabbit anymore 😫. I need to find him a good home
@@pinkrainn8904 dinner table
True
Getting garden beds ready for my winter growth, first thing I added was magic bun poo! Couldn’t agree more 🙌🏼
Yay Miyah!!!! Love this!
My neighbors cant believe how tall my tomato plants get, and the amount of production. I use rabbit manure, burn barrel ash, which is just yard waste and paper. I also use fish parts left over from cleaning fish. I do use some miracle grow too, but I know the Rabbit poo works good. Ive had plants 7' tall or a bit more. I use t posts and cattle panel. I got these plastic clips to clip tomato plant branches to the cattle panel. Works better than tomato cages, and easier to get to all the fruit. My zuchinni do really good until squash beetles come. Them things are hard to combat. I think their larva eat the stock from the inside out.
I like this video, I watched it once a few months ago. My little family just got our first pair of wabbits before valentines day and they mated, we have 7 kits and now i'm watching again :) I wanted to mention a gamechanger for us-a solar powered automatic chicken coop door. It's a couple hundred dollars but totally worth it!
Great video!!! I would like to see a video on processing them. I was just telling my husband we needed Rabbits for the manure because I love gardening. We are about to move to 7 acres with a double wide manufactured home. I knew about the manure for the garden but none of the other things!!!! Great to know
Did you buy the land and houseat same time?
My husbands grandmother lost her husband early. She raised her boys by raising rabbits and selling them for meat. The meat company would come by once a month and buy the bunnies ready to harvest. Rabbits reproduce quickly and are similar to chicken. It was nothing for one of her sons to go get a rabbit, kill it, skin it, and bring it in for her to cook up. French people eat rabbits like we eat chicken.
Don’t you mean frogs?
@Aj Jj I make my husband do the butchering
gosh, gentle rabbits Filipinos wouldnt eat
Susan Lett Wow, that’s wonderful. Where did your husband’s grandmother live? In France?
Rabbits are pets for children in France, don't listen to those fake informations. As for eating rabbits, it's such a shame to pet an animal and kill it after, for a 5 minutes meal. They make us happy, here's their value.
HI, yes that course sounds fantastic my family is starting homesteading.
Thanks for the video! I'm going out and getting my first rabbits next week and your video has me really fired up and anxious. Very informative and knowledgeable. Subbed!
So true about the gardening! I have one as a pet and her pine chip litter and poop makes the best mulch. Glad to see you are letting some stay in the same hutch as the others. They love company and cuddles.
the rabbits are really cute. i would end up not killing them for meat, and having way too many rabbits!
It can happen for sure!
I have a friend that did just that , he ended up with 130 rabbits
Change the water bottles for water bowls the bottles dont let the rabbits get enough
Part of the trick is not naming them or spending too much time with them. If you want one or two as a pet keep them separate from the meet rabits
Never could eat
Great video! This is something I have been considering since we live in an Hoa neighborhood and I am very much a backyard gardener. We have a decent size backyard and I am using it as my classroom for myself and my homeschool kids. Thank you so much for the awesome information and for posting this video.
Oh wow Amandia you sound like “our people”!!!!!
You have got to contact my wife Kelly on Facebook or Instagram.
Instagram is best, she is @BetterTogetherWife
We LOVE meeting new people that homeschool!!!
Better Together Life homeschoolers are their own kind of people and I always enjoy meeting and learning how other people homeschool especially when they include their everyday life. I followed your wife on Instagram and ❤️ her feed! Does she do videos too?
My partner and I are starting our own rabbittry this spring. Instead of hutches were converting a shed we already have into a colony enclosure. It's just easier to use what we already have. We decided on Rex rabbits because they have amazing temperaments, good color selection, and very soft fur. Were big believers in using everything so a multipurpose breed for pet, fur, and meat is a necessity.
Sooooooo true!!!!! Love this! Congrats Haley!
Yup. Raised rabbits when I was 12-14 years old in the early 1950s. Fed our family when we needed it.
Wow! Who knew? I was thinking chickens first, but you've convinced me about rabbits!
Oh YAY!!!!! Thank you very much!
@@BetterTogetherLife Question: how do you identify and deal with parasites if you are raising rabbits for meat?
A homestead like this is my dream to own and this video makes me so happy! Thank you for the video :)
Oh YAY!!!! Thank you Sable!!
Growing up on a farm was such a good upbringing. Yes you learn about loss. But then Mufasa taught me about the Circle of Life. You care for the bunnies, and then the bunnies take care of you
This was a very encouraging video! I’ve been wanting to add rabbits to our homestead and this sold me. Not only that but I want to spin my own yarn and that downy hair would be awesome for it!
Love this!!! Rabbit poop is how we got our Moringa forest to grow.
Where about are you growing Moringa?
@@raisingrisings9835 central Texas
My moringa tree didnt make it a year. I plan on trying again
@@fmfdocbotl4358 good luck! Plant a bunch of seeds in 1/2 sand, 1/2 soil. You got this;)
@@poteethomesteadandmoringaf1568 I bought a little twig from a nursery but I had a lot of personal things going on and pretty much let my garden go to hell. Now I'm working on it again. I have a 15x25 ft already with 8 raised beds and an area with containers.
This video is more like "How to beg your parents into getting you a rabbit!" FORREAL THO hahahahahah
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Jennifer this comment made my day!!!! Hilarious!
Love it! So glad I found this video and really glad you mentioned moringa!
Absolutely love your rabbit enthusiasm, we were gifted a few rabbits from a friend and love them they will complement the large chicken population and the 5 calves and 12 Nigerian
dwarf goats 3 dogs and 3 cats that we have on a small 6 acre farm I wish ya'll the very best
Watched this and I'm now a subscriber.. Nicely thought out, it's a great, informative and entertaining vid! Thanks
Thank you so much!!!!
"Then...they graduate to your freezer"..LMAO
Yea, circle of life
Sort of like Bovine University
I so happy this video showed up in my recommend. I been thinking of getting angora rabbits to make yarn. You sold me!
I also have really been thinking of buying some Angora. That type of yarn is a very trendy product right now!!
Great video! We love our rabbits and they live under our kids trampoline on our homestead. We just cleaned out their poo for the garden yesterday!!!
Great positive spirit in this video, a you-can-do-it-too vibe. Thx to u and ur family for sharing. Keep making these vids, please.
Thank you very much Alan!! 😁😁😁
I couldn’t agree more Alan Zapp!
I sell the poo! I make about $300 a year selling rabbit poo at $10 per 5 gallon bucket. But I have about 30 rabbits at a time.
NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wowzers! You know, you could probably turn that $300 into $3000 if you were to feed the poop into worm castings.
Better Together Life How does one use rabbit poop in a suburban garden? I’m completely clueless about gardening, so sorry for the dumb question
freaknutt33 rabbit poop can be used right away by mixed it with your soil. Chicken, cow, and horse poop need at least 6 months to 1 years sit outside before you use it.
Yes unlike other manures, rabbit poop can be put straight into the garden, turn, then plant your crops. It will not burn roots like other manures. It is truly magic poop.
I hope you are kind to your bunnies...
I took the end off of celery and stuck it in water, it limped along for several months. I dropped 1 rabbit "pellet" in the water and in less than 1 day it doubled in size and turned a beautiful dark green. It is truly amazing.
WOW!!!! That is an amazing testimony of POOP!!!! hahah!
Wow
Excellent, informative no BS video, well presented without a lot of back story jabber.
Best to you and your family and thanks for the education.
I am impressed to see how sensitive you are to other peoples, feelings, way of life, not pushing what you believe, but allowing others to see the whole picture, and letting them take away what they want from it. Cudos, most people like to just jam what they believe, do, preach and let's face it, you wanted to educate about rabbits, not start a religion.
Well thank you Tim!! That is very kind of you to say! 😁😁
You are 100% correct. I used rabbit poop on strawberries and the plants and berries were outstanding.
LOVE HEARING THIS!!!!!!!
Amazing idea!
@@KehillahHamashiach My depression era Dad taught me this back in the 60s.
@@JD1459 may you find blessings in your life brother
@@KehillahHamashiach Thank you brother, and Gob bless you and your family.
We are getting ready to move to a large acreage property in a few months and you have convinced us to start with rabbits :)
Hey man - hoping to follow your course. Really digging your content.
You have sold me....now if I can make the pitch and sell the rabbit idea to my husband we will be in business! Suburban homesteader here so sounds perfect!!!!
Yeeeeessssss!!!!!!! Love love love to hear that!!!!!
You are going to be so happy with them, I PROMISE!!!!!!!
Convincing Wifey!!!!LOL
Yea, I know the feeling! I'd have to convince my boyfriend but I don't think he can handle the thought of raising animals for meat... I worry when we get a place I'll only be allowed egg layer chickens and dairy goats. I'd like to raise quail, chicken, rabbits, and pigs for meat but I've a feeling I'll have to take a lot of time convincing him, lol.
Well Finally got the husband on board and our first kits happened today! So we shall see how these first time mommas do!
You sold me on rabbits❤ yes please do have a class, i need to learn how to do this properly. ❤☉
Got 2 1/2 acres and we remodeled our hole house studs up. Just got our 20
Chicks and this really makes me want to get rabbits. Especially because rabbits to great with chickens. Amazing video and great vibes to you
FANTASTIC!!! I'm learning everything I can and you convinced me about rabbits. GREAT WORK
I love pet sitting for my farming clients. Rabbits and chickens are my favorite.
Wow that is so cool!!!!!!
I’d like to learn more. Most definitely
I just found You and your video. Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to inform and teach us your experiences and knowledge. I can't do anything right now, but I'm interested in your classes about learning about raising and growing rabbits. Again Thank you for all that you do.
😷just started my homestead and I'm loving them rabbits..thanx a lot
When the young males fight (depending on breed and usually close to harvest age) they scream like Banshees!! So they can make some noise occasionally. But the Buck and Doe breed stock almost never do.
Great video! Keep'em commin!!
Good point. We haven’t experienced the males fighting that much.
I have heard that scream twice. Once when a young rabbit was corned by a cat and once when a dying buck took his last breaths. Both times it startled me and made me realize how loud they can be if they choose it. It is mostly only in dire circumstances though.
They bite the balls off each other in battle
My tiny dwarf pet rabbit used to huff and puff.
Im from the Caribbean and one of my coworkers gave me a rabbit slaughtered and clean..best meat ever.taste better than chicken.
Jerk rabbit is amazing.
Trini here. My elder brother is raising rabbits right now, he has about three dozen right now. The first one he Bar b qued in a toaster oven tasted better than chicken. He occasionally lets some yhat he plans to keep as pets run around our yard but sadly early one morning dogs came in our yard and killed two of them also a loose pregnant female even started building her nest in our living room before he moved her back to the pen.
Hi,Ya'll old,old rabbit breeder/eater/sold meat - or as pets / feed alot off the land n used the poop too !!! Had a colony or "Warren" which was name mostly for colonies back To years ago !!! LOL
But a can't remember how soon young ones can be breed.si please tell !!! Don't pay any mind to all the dislikes on your videos cuz some come from baby bunnuy lovers n some from phone handling n just plain errors !!! I also tan the hides n maybe u can do vlog on that too one day ...but ya !!! Love to c more on rabbits , ftim fellow Texan in the piney woods area N.E. great house,love the ceiling /floor/ n just about everything ,it's beautiful !!! Good job, take a bow !!!
I absolutely love your videos! There are still so many to watch. I look forward to getting to know you! My husband and I are blessed to have a few acres of farm land in west central Saskatchewan that we decided this past weekend to utilize! We plan to sell our house that we're living in to pay off all our debts and live in our trailer until we build a bunkhouse. You guys are so encouraging! Thanks for all the great advice! I pray God will continue to bless you and your family!
I was just letting my pet rabbit run around the house earlier today so I couldn't imagine raising them for meat.
great work ; succint information and very inspiring ! thank you very much, keep it up !
You are VERY WELCOME!!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this information! I'm really looking forward to learning about canning. Those biscuits look amazing!
You are a riot, love your candid approach, we are posers here, we were all posers at one point or another, you would be a great neighbor hear in the sticks of South Western NY. God bless you and your family. PS you will never regret homeschooling. ( we did 5 kids)
I highly recommend planting African green tree collards. My rabbit loves the green collards. The purple ones he won't eat because they have a horseradish spicy flavor to the leaves. Tree collards are effortless brassicas to grow and like the moringa, they seem to thrive the more you take. Very prolific. Stick a cutting in the ground and you have a new tree collard. They root easily.
Oh wow!!!!!! I’ll have to check that out.
Thank you Jon and super nice to meet you!! 😁👍🏻
We fed ours kudzu along with grass, and pellets. Feeding collards is a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you, Im convinced!
Hey! Musta?
Thank you Angie!!!
Good information my friend. With experience comes knowledge and I am happy you chose to share it.
Rabbits are always #1. I started with rabbits and when I got tired of ducks and chickens we increased our rabbit production. Rabbits rock!
I would love to see some "101 videos" on raising rabbits! I want to build a homestead (1- 5 acres) with a garden just south below the rural Tahlequah, OK area near Lake Ten Killer. Any suggestions on doing this in such a "colder/storm-prone" area also appreciated. I'm currently living in San Antonio.
I just discovered you! Loved your video! Thank you!
Thank you SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!
Awesome video, don't think you missed a thing. You're so knowledgeable about rabbits and that was such an informative, sweet video. like the drone shot of your farm:)
Your rabbits look so happy & healthy. I may be interested in learning how to raise rabbits. Interesting!
Yay!
Please remember to go to bettertogetherlife.com/rabbits so you don’t miss out on when our rabbit course will be released! Sometime this summer. 😁