2006-09-03 20:33:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
The dwarf would not be meaty enough....but the Lops would get big enough to be used.......I used to raise rabbits also
2006-09-03 20:45:32 · answer #1 · answered by Auntiem115 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Zelands are bred for meat. French Lops and dwarfs aren't.
The Lops are big enough, but they're also bony, and bone costs money (feed) to grow and eventually goes to waste. Dwarf rabbits aren't even Cornish game-hen size. You certainly could raise them for meat, and they might have more efficient meat gains than the Lops, but they'd be a different-looking dish. Personal Pan bunny?
The dwarf rabbits could be good meat animals if you raise the big ones of the litter. Dwarf litters come in three genotypes: dwarf-dwarf (produces peanuts, little babies that can't make it), dwarf-normal (the typical show dwarf type), and normal-normal (the kind that injures the mother as she tries to get them out.) If you get any big babies that survive the birth, raise them, and if they turn out to be female, use them to breed your meat stock. If you use a dwarf male with your normal female, half the kittens will be dwarfs, suitable for showing, and the other half will be normal, suitable for meat (still a bit small, I'd imagine, but that just means you need more of them). Of course, it won't work as well to breed a normal male to a dwarf female.
In sum: Lops would be bony and slow-growing. Dwarfs would need for you to wait a generation (not long in rabbit time) for you to breed yourself some suitable does.
2006-09-07 15:51:40 · answer #2 · answered by Rachel R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are able to be raised interior the tractors as a colony as meat rabbits are often butchered at 10 weeks. you additionally can evaluate flooring the tractor with rabbit floor cord, that way they are going to be off the floor and not ingesting the grass the place they are able to p.c.. up inner parasites. in case you do plan on worming them in the previous butchering you may desire to remember there's a with drawl time. which potential they might desire to be left drug loose for a definite quantity of time in the previous butchering so there is not any drugs of their equipment and hence their meat. To each and all of the folk who responded it rather is merciless, etc. Rabbits have been first domesticated to feed human beings. There are breeds that are for meat production basically, those breeds do not make stable pets. I boost the two tutor/puppy rabbits and meat rabbits. Rabbit is particularly stable meat and is extra suited for you than different varieties of meat (pork, beef, fowl). I in simple terms had 5 butchered this weekend and we had rabbit in curry sauce over rice for dinner the former day. in no way choose somebody else until you have walked a mile of their shoes and do a splash diagnosis additionally.
2016-11-24 20:47:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
French lops can be raised for meat
2006-09-04 01:40:16 · answer #4 · answered by evening_dewpoint 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No animal should die for someone who is greedy and selfish and wants the animal to die so they have food. Or clothes or whatever might be. Animals should be able to live the same as people. I believe that everyone who eats meat should be able to go hunting for people and eat them to without saying EWW. Cause truth is no matter how you slice it its still an animal that could have been still living if it werent for people like you.
2006-09-04 03:26:45 · answer #5 · answered by rainbow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My father said to me once that all rabbits can be eaten. So that's my answer, but the cuter ones are harder to kill.
2006-09-03 22:05:19 · answer #6 · answered by carmen d 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ran out of cats and dogs already? *rolls eyes*
2006-09-03 23:57:01 · answer #7 · answered by Yvonne D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You look tasty how about i munch on you?
2006-09-03 20:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by fluffypieceoffluff 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋