Introduction

[SmokinJ]

My name is Jake and I live in Mid-Missouri. I have a 12 acre family farm in which I am implementing permaculture principles and have decide to get into rabbits. I am looking at heritage breeds and will be acquiring breeding stock by the end of the summer. I am looking at the American Blue, Silver Fox, and American Chinchilla. I am looking for a kid friendly bunnie with meat and fur characteristics. Any info you can share regarding these breeds, or another, please do so.

 

[Wabbitdad12]

Let me welcome you to Rabbits Online, my name is Dave and I am a moderator on the forum. So if I can be of any help please let me know. This is a terrific website for rabbits and their slaves, not only is it very active but also friendly. I am so glad you’re here and I know you will enjoy it.

Rabbitsonline ismore oriented to pet,breeding and showing rabbits, health issues then discussionson meat or fur use of rabbits. There is no problems with asking questions on how to raise rabbits, butdiscussions relating to meat or fur are not, as these discussions are not the purpose of the website.

Here are a couple of links that may help you:

http://www.essortment.com/all/raisingmeatrab_ripe.htm

http://www.raisingrabbitsformeat.com/

Many bunny's recommend their slaves to this site so we may learn of others methods to keeping our furry masters happy.

If you everhave a sick bunny, please post in The Infirmary and include your rabbit's age, breed and health history as well diet and output details leading up to the problem.

I have listed some links I thought you might find interesting:

*For reference the Library section

*To brag or tell everyone about the antics of your bunny or just to talk about your day here is where to start a Bunny Blog, you can also look back at it later and remember when you had a life before your bunny.

*Now all the bunny’s like talk to each other when we mere slaves aren’t around in the Bunny Chat is the spot to be.

*Rabbits Online also has regional forums , this a good way to find a vet in your area that has experience with rabbits and to find out from other nearby of good sources of rabbit supplies.

The Let Your Hare Down section is for anything non-bunny related.

Here is a link tothat will help you and your bunny to connect, How To Bond With Your Bunny.

Now every forum has rules and ours can be found with this link Rabbits Online Forum Rules. This gives guidelines on what is acceptable, what is not and how we hope everyone will treat each other.

Everyone on this forum loves to see pictures of each other’s bunnies. So if you would like to post a picture this link will help you do that, Upload Photo's to Photo Gallery. Then in the post, you click on the "G" in the tool bar to insert your photo. Many people also use Photobucket. You just copy the img file and paste it into the post.

I am glad you have joined rabbits online and I look forward to seeing you around.

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Hi there :wave:

Very cool to hear that you are looking into American heritage breeds - should be very challenging and rewarding!

As Wabbitdad mentioned, we're focused on the before-death part of rabbit lives here. We can help you with info pertaining to nutrition, housing, illness, behaviour and breeding - however, death processes and post-death usage aren't discussed on this forum

If you need help with that particular aspect, another good forum to go with those that Wabbitdad suggested above, is http://rabbittalk.com/

Looking forward to seeing pictures of your beautiful rabbits

 

[SmokinJ]

I was more interested in information regarding those breeds and any experience anyone had with them. I already have the knowledge regarding meat and fur. I apologize if I upset anyone, but where I am from we do not get upset over those topics and find it very educational to see what others have to say in all aspects of animal husbandry. I'll refrain from those topics here.