Butchering Meat Rabbits for Beginners pt2: Breaking Down the Rabbit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- One of the hardest parts about trying any new protein source is learning how to break the animal down into usable portions. This quick video will give you detailed explanations on how I prefer to break down and package my meat rabbits for my family dinners. I talk about which parts I use for what meals and what to do with what's left over after the main portions have been removed. So sharpen your knives and get cutting!
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Would love to see a video detailing your process for stock prep / roasting time and seasoning. The dispatch and butchering videos are excellent and very helpful - the carcasses are much different than a chicken so knowing where the surprises are is a treasure. Also would like to know your thoughts on preserving the stock, methods like canning or freezing etc. Appreciate your efforts and thoroughness of the videos.
I do have a stock recipe on our website. This one is a recipe for my smoked piggy stock, but I do the same for rabbit stock except I don’t roast the bones, I use them raw. Here’s a link:
www.omnivoresquivers.com/recipes/smokedpiggystock
Omg you took the fear away from me, you made it look so simple from butchering the rabbit to getting it ready to cook.
I’m new at this thinking on leaving the city PA and moving to TX before next winter. And this is exactly what I want to do, raised my own meat and vegetables.
Thank you, I’ll be following you so keep the videos coming. 😅
Your method of dispatching and dressing looks so much easier than how we have done it. Thank you for such a straight-forward video: parts 1 and 2! Maybe we won't dread it now. It's so cooooooooool 😜
I just had 8 rabbits butchered. I requested 4 whole and vacuum packed and 4 zip locked so I could break them down myself. This video is SO helpful! Thank you!
You mentioned in part 1 also that you make soap with the fat. Would you be kind to make a video as to how that is made with the fat? love the self-sustaining philosophy.
❤🎉Thankyou so very much for all your sharing ❤. Soooo Gooood. Blessing to you and all your Rabbits. You look like you got some Beautiful Gardens.
I just found you all! Thank you for your great videos!
Great job! You make it look so easy!! For me, Practice, Practice, Practice.
Awesome series of instructional videos, thank you.
We really need to know more about your knife please.
Also, I know nothing about taking off the pelt, please
You sure are quick and experienced, thank you!
New subscriber we are from Michigan, we rasie California amd New Zealand meat rabbits for meat. We do alot of our own growing the foods we eat. This was a great video Thank you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
Thank you so much! I love your step by step videos, specially when you’re about to get started. 💗 can you season them normal, like you do with chicken?
You make this look so much easier then it is .
7:28 First time in my life I've heard someone cursing their right handedness 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you, from a lefty.
Was this meat brined before being cut? Or will you brine them after this step?
It was brined prior to me doing this.
@@OmnivoresHomesteadAndQuiverswhat is your brine recipe
At the end of the first video you mentioned a brine to soak the meat in. Will you say what the brine is and how long the meat stays in?
You can find the brine here: www.omnivoresquivers.com/all-products/omnivores-brine-pack
@@OmnivoresHomesteadAndQuivers thank you, ma'am!
You said in your first video that you make brine and soak for three days after you soak them in cold water for a time. What is the brine mad of just salt water?
Here is a link to my brine: www.omnivoresquivers.com/all-products/omnivores-brine-pack
Quick question on rabbit. I cleaned a wild rabbit the other day and by mistake got soft feces on the back ham. I wiped it off, washed very thoroughly and soaked in water overnight. Should I be concerned about this?
Not at all. Shit happens. Just get it clean and you’re good to go.
@@OmnivoresHomesteadAndQuivers Thanks for the response!
Thanks for the info and demonstration 👍 I would like to know how you butcher your hogs, Or if you take them in to a shop .
We do all of our own butchering! We’ve only taken one hog to a shop because we wanted sausage links and they botched them. So we won’t be doing that again
What way do you use the ground rabbit? Just like ground turkey or chicken?
For the most part yes, but because of the brine I use it makes for a wet ground meat. I kept having to drain the excess liquid off. I have since just started packaging the scrap meat in 1lb packs and pulling them out for soups!
Thank you, for these videos!
Is it hard to just cook them whole? I really want to smoke a whole one on the pit after I butcher my first one.
Not at all!
Your knowledge of the anatomy and skill with the knife really shine. thank you so much for sharing this, I look forward to being one day as proficient at this. I'll be doing my first later this year. Cheers!
I just butchered rabbits for the first time. In one of the rabbits, the meat around the tenderloin has what looks like bruises, several people splotches. I wish I could add a photo. Any idea what could have caused it? Is it okay to eat?
Possibly just a bruise. It could have fought with a cage mate
I just butchered my first rabbit today and came across the same thing. The flies were getting to him and he wasnt very active, so I wanted to put him down before it got worse. As soon as I got to the abdomen cavity I noticed the bruising along the inside of the tenderloin, so I decided to discard that section. I kept the back thighs and upper chest section for meat. I guess he got in a fight before I bought them at auction, I'm not exactly sure.
We just butchered 7 meat mutt rabbits yesterday. These are our first kindling that we raised. I am trying to decide if I should leave them whole, break them down, or pressure can them. I put them whole in the refrigerator to rest overnight. I don't have a meat grinder.
Also, how do you have the neck so clean? Do you use a bolt gun? I used a piece of rebar and the broomstick method then cut off the heads and let them bleed out.
I usually break down about half of what I butcher. I’m only feeding a family of three, so sometimes a whole rabbit is too much. And there’s more versatility in having different cuts of meat vs the whole thing all the time.
I’m not sure what you mean by the neck being clean? I bleed my rabbits to dispatch them. Once they’re bled I’ll twist the neck to break it and then cut it off at the break.
And a video stock making and how you use it.
It’s coming up real soon.
Great post, very informative. Thanks!
If you were to be planning on shredding the meat for soups, gravy and such would you just skip most the process and cook and then pick the shredded meat apart or would that make it harder to separate the fat and silver skin and tendons?
I always leave some whole to do just that for soups. I’ll just check it over and remove any fat or hair that got stuck to the meat.
At what age do you normally butcher the rabbits?
10-12 weeks
You should do a cooking video or 2 on you and your families fav recipe. I have a batch of 9 grows out ready to butcher. Great video!
I’m super picky. I like rabbit and squirrel in anything that would normally take dark meat chicken, such as dumplings. I don’t like it just roasted. I would also like to see how she uses them.
So interesting, thank you!
What do you do to prepare the meat for the freezer? And do you brine the livers?
How old are your rabbits when you butcher
They are between 10 and 12 weeks.
Thank you for this video. Sometimes it hard to find the right video.
What blade and brand-style knife are you using. great video. Thank You.
How come rabbit meat isn’t eaten more commercially? It seems to be quite sustainable and easy to process.
because then you'd be a horrible monster or something haha
It's crazy sustainable, rabbits reproduce... Well, like rabbits, the meat is almost fat free, so super healthy, and they re delicious. No idea why they re not consumed more commercially. I'm thinking of starting my own herd.
Very low yield of valuable meat (here most of the weight of rabbit went to stock or grind), combined with a fairly niche market. It's also low fat, so that makes it harder to cook with and more gamey.
Great job mam!
Excellent video. Thanks, I want some rabbit now.
We just started raising American Chinchillas too! I haven't processed any yet, but I'm happy with the breed itself. Just chill, docile, and easy to handle.
Congrats! It’s been my favorite breed so far!
Cant lie....thats a tasty critter
excelente video muchas gracias
I think rabbit stock tastes better than Chicken stock, If you use fresh herbs
Great video.
Nice video....big rabbit.....You always cut off the head? What vid is part one?
Yes, I always remove the head.
I can’t share a link here for some reason but it’s in our video library.
@@OmnivoresHomesteadAndQuivers its an older video....or new one ? Thx👍
Looks good!
Nice video, thank you for posting
Very informative! thanks for posting.
Looking for part one....
lady full video please
Part one is in our video library
The legs look like chicken legs
I don’t like hurting animals
No sane person enjoys hurting animals.
Well If u don’t Like hurting animals u probably need to go to another channel
@@jerryduncan9282 That was in reply to the non-hunter. I have been a hunter all my life, and live for hunting. If you actually enjoy hurting animals you are a psychopath, not a hunter. Not one single hunter I've ever known enjoys hurting animals, and I can assure you that I know more than most.
Hurting? You must be kidding me. The animal was dead before she butchered him to pieces.
The nature harms animals all the time. I just seen a video where wolves had torn aprat hare _alive_ . It was truly harting and brutal. Then I came across another one, even more brutal and hurting. The crocodile ripped off face of zebra. It was alive and suffered to death. Truely sickening. You still think it was hurtin? Checkout videos:
Doomed hare: th-cam.com/video/pU2TldjGet4/w-d-xo.html
Doomed zebra 1: th-cam.com/video/zrGgVA6HyV4/w-d-xo.html
Dooemd zebra 2: th-cam.com/video/Frlet-tOXFg/w-d-xo.html
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