11/04/2026
Often times when I tell other livestock breeders that I breed “rabbits”
I generally get… oh that’s cute, they seem so easy. I mean they breed like “rabbits”
You get to make more every couple months. So easy!
Yeah… nope!
Just so you know!!!!
I’ll start with our commercial lines first!
1. Breed 3 rabbits….3 litters of (ideally 6) If they took. Okay so 2 took…. 12 ? Yeah - nope they both had 4. Okay so 8? That’s a good number to chose from. You would think, but mom over grooms and one is missing parts of an ear and one is missing a toe. Well okay 6? Not bad odds. Wait there is more at least 2 become FTT.
Well that’s still 4?
Well then ….: 1 is pinched, one rises to far forward, one isn’t gaining weight as well.
Out of the potential of 16 in 5 months. There is just one, that might be the one.
Keep on mind we have feed them and raised all of them. But it’s just one!
I don’t even want to talk about marked breeds