Fargo Rabbitry

03/12/2021

Sold as a going concern
We have a package of 10 NZW does which are 3 months old. If taking the entire package R2500 plus 2 males (for free unrelated, 3 months old).

Otherwise R250 each when sold loose.

We are outside White River and Hazyview, Egame. Delivery can be organized to White River or Hazyview if buying the whole package.

Kindly reach out to us on our inbox here on Facebook or Whatsapp 0631760445 if interested.

03/12/2021

1. It is one of the best white meats available on the market today.

2. The meat has a high percentage of easily digestible protein.

3. It contains the least amount of fat among all the other available meats.

4. Rabbit meat contains less calorie value than other meats.

5. Rabbit meat is almost cholesterol free and therefore heart patient friendly.

6. The sodium content of rabbit meat is comparatively less than other meats.

7. The calcium and phosphorus contents of this meat or more than any other meats.

8. The ratio of meat to bone is high meaning there is more edible meat on the carcass than even a chicken.

9. Rabbit meat with the many health benefits does not have a strong flavor and is comparable to chicken but not identical.

10. Rabbits are one of the most productive domestic livestock animal.

source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/riseandshinerabbitry.com/2012/04/06/10-reasons-why-you-should-eat-rabbit-meat/amp/

10/11/2021

We 6 bucks available immediately. They're all between 10-11 weeks old.

If you are looking for females we will have a few available in a bout 2-3 weeks time.

If interested please contact us via inbox or through WhatsApp.

06/10/2021

To aspiring rabbit farmers please note that not every white rabbit with red eyes is a New Zealand White, we have interacted with quite a few people that have been sold mixed bred or cross breed rabbits as pure breeds, the reason for this in most cases is that people don't want to pay the money for pure bred rabbits from reliable breeders and they go look for something cheaper which in most cases those mixed bred rabbits.

To avoid this if you are able to, please go to the breeder yourself so you can verify everything and also see the parents of the rabbits you are buying, if you cannot go there in person ask for pictures and maybe weights also but that's still not enough to protect you from being sold mixed bred rabbits because one cannot simply tell if a rabbit carries a recessive gene from a different breed with just looking at a rabbit, sometimes test breeding's are very helpful to determine if whether a rabbit is pure bred or not, because test breeding's reflect all phenotype genes carried by that particular rabbit so if the parent are all white but have a hidden gene of black one or few of the kits will show that gene.

But otherwise buy from a reliable source, someone you can be able to hold to account if the rabbits you bought from them is turns out to be mixed bred.

26/09/2021

And we have a new record for litter size in our rabbitry 🎉🐰🐇, Doe 3 gave birth to 12 kits, unfortunately we lost 4 of them but still we're are very pleased that she gave birth to such a litter. Previously our record litter was 10 from her and other females but none of them had given us more than 10 before, we will be keeping some of this kits and hopefully Doe 3 and her kits and all our other stock will be giving us such litters and raising them successfully until weaning age.

Note this is not a complete record of this female reproductivity, we keep our records on this book, spreadsheet and on Kintracks(desktop version).

26/09/2021

Q: If I have a closed gene pool herd of rabbits, when should I introduce new bloodlines? When should I change my bucks and does

A: In a closed gene pool herd, you introduce new bloodlines when production is declining or looking for a trait that you don't have in your closed herd, say maybe you desire large litters and you don't have that trait in your closed herd, you outsource rabbits with such traits from another rabbitry.

When you replace your rabbits it's also dependent on how intense you breed your rabbits, but typically a doe with 6-8 litters per 12 months cycle should be still productive for 24 months, but replace your females when production starts to decline if it starts to decline at 14 months into production replace that doe.

Bucks typically stay productive for about 3-5 years but also it's dependent on how often you breed them so you should also replace them when production stats to suffer. If it suffers at 2 years old replace it, if it is still productive at 5+ yrs, keep it.

24/09/2021

Part of the reason our mission is to get rabbit meat to low income households, which often eating healthy for them is a luxury.

Rabbit meat that isn't brine injected.

You should know this

20/09/2021

They are 21 days old/3 weeks today, we remove the nest box at exactly 21 days because when they are around 13-15 days old you get those that come out of nest to explore outside and they stumble upon pellets, they start to feed. Then you get those that still thinks life is about sleeping and waiting for Mom into the nest box to suckle them, this results in varying weight's between the kits if you leave the nest box longer than 3 weeks.

By removing the nest box at 21 days everyone will start to feed on pellets soon as the mother might be weaning them from 4 weeks old. Around 13 days or so they nibble on hay inside the nest box.

19/09/2021

Rabbit meat is one of the healthiest meat known to man, that's why our mission is to make rabbit meat affordable to all economic classes especially low income households because eating healthy for them is often a luxury.

15/09/2021

The weather temp today was at 34°C, some of our rabbits had their front feet inside their water bowls to cool, but this little guy decided to lie next to the water bowl, so he could get some cooling.

Besides being escape artists, they are very cute when they're this age.