Category: rabbitry
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Big Steps
If I’ve queued this correctly, this post should be coming to you just a couple of days after my wedding. As I’m currently writing this, it is a fast approaching date. I’m excited and looking forward to what this will bring to my life. I’m grateful to have someone in my world who supports me…
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The Community
I have found that there is an incredible community of people who raise rabbits for meat. For the most part, they are very supportive of one another. There are of course the same gatekeeping snobs that you would find in any community, but as a generalized statement I would have to say that the people…
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They’re Not Pets
I often get asked if I sell my rabbits as pets. My answer is this: “Not if I can help it.” Don’t mistake this to mean that I don’t think that rabbits should be pets. I think rabbits make wonderful pets for many people. However, I do have my apprehensions about the community of pet…
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Sad Responsibilities
There is a lot of flack that comes with raising rabbits for meat. Top of that list is the subject of dispatch. If you are sensitive to the topic ending a life, this is your fair warning to skip this post. I will not be talking in depth about the actual dispatch method, but confronting…
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Hard Decisions
If you would indulge me to go on a personal ramble for a moment, I seem to have come upon a sort of crossroads in my life. Thus far I have been in a balancing act between a day job, and my two big hobbies: raising rabbits and making handmade paper and books. I think…
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The Investment
Like any domesticated animal, rabbits cost money to upkeep. Finding a rabbit may only be $20, a breeding pair $50, or a trio for $60. That’s if you aren’t looking for pedigreed or show quality animals. Then there’s everything else. Feed, hay, cages, waste collection/disposal, nesting boxes, supplements and medications, and more that adds up…
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Once Upon a Time,
I grew up a farm girl…starting at the ripe age of 13. Following the parental retirement from the military, we moved to the family farm. It’s a quaint sum of land in southeastern Missouri where my grandfather raised cattle, occasionally chickens, a couple of horses, and for a long time: rabbits. Time passed and this…
Paper and Rabbits 