So I'm Told I'd Like To Raise Rabbits

[BucketBack]

So, Fluffy and Buffy always made it into the stew pot when I was a little one crying when my rabbits "ran away" to the stew pot.
I've built rabbit hutches for customers at GM Truck & Bus, ie the bosses.

Now Mrs BB wants me to actually raise the rabbits, now I need advice on where to start :thinking:

I have some screws, 1/2" hardware cloth, some wood,and no patience .

[hawgrider]

So, Fluffy and Buffy always made it into the stew pot when I was a little one crying when my rabbits "ran away" to the stew pot.
I've built rabbit hutches for customers at GM Truck & Bus, ie the bosses.

Now Mrs BB wants me to actually raise the rabbits, now I need advice on where to start :thinking:

I have some screws, 1/2" hardware cloth, some wood,and no patience .

Chickens and rabbits are a pain in the ass. Winter time water for them is a pain in the ass up north this a way.

[BucketBack]

I'd be doing all the work, saw heated dog bowls at FF & Home while waiting yesterday, and little effing duckies........

I should have picked a better meeting spot

[Mad Trapper]

Make some big brush piles in the woods, and they'll breed like rabbits in there......

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I think the fisher got this one?

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[T-Man 1066]

Chickens and rabbits are a pain in the ass. Winter time water for them is a pain in the ass up north this a way.

Dad had game chickens all his life. Every cock had its own pen outside, 6x8 or 6x10 quonset hut, 2x4 welded wire, and a little 2x2 covered hut to get out of the snow. If it was cold and no snow, we only put about 1/4" of water in their cups. 1/2 pint galvanized cup hanging on outside of the wire, chickens could poke their head through to drink but not kick the cup off the pen - usually. Any more water than 1/4" and it would freeze before the chickens drank it. That way sometimes we could go 10 or more days before the ice built up to the top of the cup and we had to melt it out. 3 minutes on a electric hot plate would detach the ice from the cup, enough to shake it out, and start over. If we had snow on the ground, we didn't water them. They could eat snow for 3 months. Never lost any due to dehydration. T-Grandpa and T-Great Uncles used to do this as well, think they must have used the wood stove to melt the ice...

On a warmer sunny day, the cups would melt enough to detach the ice block, we would dump every cup even if only half iced up.