POLL: I'M CONSIDERING RAISING RABBITS FOR MEAT. ANY IDEAS or ADVICE? DOES IT BOTHER YOU TO CHOP OFF THEIR HEADS AT SLAUGHTER TIME?

My dad bought a place (before my time) that had rabbits. He continued to raise/butcher for a while but I guess the squealing is pretty hard to take (silence of the lambs anyone?) when it comes to slaughter. I think the technique was to club them but not sure.

I have a ton of wild ones around my house (wash st.) but not sure if I can trust the meat. I've heard rabbit meat carries some kind of disease but I don't know if that true and if so, if it is seasonal or a regional type thing or something else.

cant turn chickens into gloves tho

but i guess you cant turn rabbits in to pillows either.

Chickens need grain whereas rabbits dont. Grain is highly petroleum dependant and dramatically increases feed costs if you can get it at all in a grid down scenario. Rabbits can eat hay and grass which is readily available. Try using your Brian, moran

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Why do you torment them so?

the reason it bothers me is that you should slice their throats to keep their hearts beating to drain the blood.

chopping the head off stops the heart.

Do chickens instead for the eggs. I never feel guilty cracking and egg in the pan. Chicken for laying are not chickens for eating thought. All the energy goes into the eggs so little meat on a laying chicken.

is that how Muslims do it?

Rabbits are absolutely a good source of meat. They grow fast. They reproduce a lot.

They are easy to tend as well. You get free fertilizer for the garden and if your resourceful your can tan the hide to make Textile stuff.

As for killing them don't name them, and don't get attached to the rabbits they are food not pets.


We grew up eating rabbit and it's a good meat, taste good.

Goats are another good animal to raise for meat.

Slicing the through the neck and not cutting the head off is how we have done all animals it really does help getting the blood out.

Last Edited by Mr. Smokey on 05/24/2022 05:18 PM

Raising rabbits for food is a very good idea. I say keep the main breeders as your "pets" and take very good care of them.

As far as the chopping off heads part, there is a less gruesome way to kill the rabbits.
Look on youtube, they show how a rabbit can be laid down, then the long handle of a shovel be placed at the base of the back of the rabbits skull, and then a quick tug on the rabbit.

This should easily kill the rabbit, as somehow the technique separates spinal cord from base of brain.

Hope this helps.

One major downside of raising food rabbits is the very strong smell of their urine. Must keep their pen areas clean, but their pellets can be useful in the garden.

There are some huge breeds of rabbits out there. I think oneis called Fryer rabbit, but there was another breed I was going to consider if I were to raise food rabbits.

Rabbit starvation is from the rabbit meat being super lean. You would need to supplement it with a more fatty meat.

Super easy to take care of them from what I saw.

It's a no brainer addition to some chickens and maybe a goat or 2 for milk.

Just rabbits in the beginning is a good start toward a bit of self suffiency.

But no chopping of heads is necessary not to mention messy and brutal.

Just get their head under a foot and pull up with their back feet to snap their spine.

No screaming as others mentioned just a minute or two of flopping on the ground.

Yep, if it doesn't bother me to eat hamburgers and chicken sandwiches, then it shouldn't bother me to raise and slaughter rabbits.

Just try.to be mean to them

Rabbit shit makes great fertilizer along with all the other benefits.

Just saw what the poster above said in regards to snapping the rabbits neck. Very good advise. Has anyone made rabbit jerky, or rabbit pemmican?

Friend of mine did it successfully. Said the killin’ part starts get’n to ya. If you’re out of town just head-shot them. In town it’s not so easy.

Source of meat but not enough fat to sustain , called rabbit fever and a few other names

We still have guillotines in France for stupid MF like you OP. GO IN HELL.

Yeah, it would be annoying probably.

I have killed alot of roosters in that way (don't want bloody/coagulated meat), and I am not muslim

Maybe after you snap the neck of a rabbit, slice its throat and hang it upside down to help drain some of the blood

If it means a long horrible death for the animal, I wouldn't do it. Has to be fast.

That makes more sense.

Any use for the blood?

Look up "rabbit dispatcher tool".

Slide them in, yank down quickly.

They don't feel a thing, because they can't.

They come in bar and cone shapes.

They have no fat.
Google rabbit starvation.

Better off raising chickens and pigs.

Chickens would be better

The English have a recipe for "Blood pudding". I spoke to a English lady once and she said she loved blood pudding. I do not know if it really has blood in it, or if so, what blood of which animal.

and yes, I know what you mean by making the death quick and painless as possible.

I have raised alot of chickens, and chickens not only provide meat (on occasion), they provide plenty of eggs, are EXCELLENT at bug control as well as clearing the ground of weeds/grass.