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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Wandering Through the Rabbits.

I was talking to my son on the phone and he told me he got a new rabbit or maybe it was two.  I got that CRS and can't remember stuff too well, but boy can I remember back 50 or 60 years ago real well.  Anyway, I said I would be down to see them, so I walked down to his place.  The next two pictures show the two that we talked about:



 
 
Since I was down there and had my camera, I thought that I would take a few more pictures.  This bunny decided to turn around and head to the back of the cage just as I took the picture:
 
 To give you an idea just how large these giant rabbits are (some are Flemish Giants), they average about three feet long when they stretch out.  My son raises some, buys some, trades for  some and then he shows some.  His rabbits win shows and that lets you know that they are well bred and raised.

They are not all brown or grey.  They come in all kinds of designs and colorations.  This one is grey and white:
 
 And this one is black and white:
 
He has between 30 and 40 of them and he is constantly building new pens.  He has constructed all the pens himself.  They are very well made and the slots (for 2x4's) look perfect.  He made the slots with one of his many chain saws:
 

The next two picture show you some more of his pens:

 
One day he put a harness on one of the giant rabbits and took it into Petco and everyone, even the clerks, loved it and wanted their picture taken with the huge bunny.  They are very soft and nice to pet.  Some of them do bite and I am sure they could give you a good hard swift kick.  But mostly, they like to be petted and my son handles them quite often and they are used to it. 
 
Now he is talking about going into worm farming from the byproducts of rabbit raising.  He is even thinking about fish farming.  I think rabbits and worms would be enough to keep a man busy and they do pay a profit that could be a source of income for his retirement.   There, you got the blue ribbon guided tour of the wabbit wancher rabbit farm, so now you can go and have a great day, today, you hear?  




17 comments:

  1. Bunny droppings work well in the garden. Good thing too as they make a pile of them.

    Looks like he's taking good care of those critters.

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    1. Yep, sure is good for the garden and they do make piles of it mixed with the straw and hay. He does take good care of them.

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  2. worm farms and rabbits go well together from what I read in permaculture literature. I would love to be able to pet a giant rabbit. :)

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    1. Yes, the two types of farming do go good together. They are so soft and pettable. Is pettable a word?

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  3. Is CRT the same as CRS? what's the T? hahaa… nice rabbits

    ohhhhh I love the rabbit at Petco… yes! sometimes I go into Petco and Petsmart to just see who brought what animal… I have seen parrots/cockteils or toos and ferrets and rabbits… even cats … HA! the cats just love being pushed around in a car… right

    saw a chihuahua in a tutu...

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    1. pushed around in a carT ... and how cool is it that your son raises rabbits!

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    2. CRT to me means "Cant Remember Things", maybe I should change it to CRS.

      Yep, everyone there had a good time.

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  4. I like to see bunnies but from a distance. I had an aunt and uncle who raised rabbits for food. I ate it once - they told me it tasted like chicken - NOT! Your son's rabbits are very nice looking animals.

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    1. I have eaten a lot of rabbits in the past, mostly wild but a few tame ones, too. I like the taste of rabbit and I like squirrel even better.

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    2. I dug thru my freezer and found one squirrel,, gave it to a friend for a wild game cook off,,,about a 100 entered. Yep,, it won.

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  5. Ditto on rabbit and squirrel to eat, DD. But we wouldn't eat the ones Dad raised,, lol,, to us they were pets.
    Will you ask your wife what all she puts in her biscuits? Besides yogurt?
    We always heart Mother talking about swamp rabbits, how big they were, and had never seen any til one time on the river here,,,,It was huge, kinda long haired. That was the only one i ever saw. You could see strange things on our river. Things out of place, you know.

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    1. My wife just told me what all she puts in them, but I will get her to write it down and see that you get it. Does your email link on your blog work OK?

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  6. Wow! He's got quite a thing going there.

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    1. He has been at it for awhile, now. Started out slow with one pair and it grew from there.

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  7. We raised Dutch and Californias... but not for show.... sold them for meat. It probably sounds morbid, but I'd rather skin a rabbit than pluck a chicken any day. Hey... life on the farm was not for the faint-hearted. Your son's operation sounds like quite a business.... he's quite resourceful!

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    1. His hobby sure did grow fast. So far, it is just a hobby.

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