How to Build a Commercial Grade Rabbit Hutch Cheap!

Post by **dcrane** » Tue. May. 14, 2013 7:17 am

Homemade, Inexpensive Rabbit Hutch for Self Watering and Easy Cleaning.

I don't eat Rabbits but this lil' project produces year round rabbit meat for its owner and cost next to nothing to build & maintain.
Put together with simple galv. wire, finger pulls, recycled lumber, 5 gallon bucket, plastic hose and some cheap home heating louvers.

Some of these new subjects will hopefully someday bring us some new likeminded friends & members to the forums here!

Note: the last photo showing the additional benifits gained from these Rabbits

Credits to my friend Wade

Post by **Rwalker** » Tue. May. 14, 2013 6:48 pm

Just caught this. I do raise rabbits for meat, so this is very interesting.

Anyway I can get a basic plans or layout? The pics are good, but not enough for me to really see how it is all put together.

Thanks!

Post by **dcrane** » Tue. May. 14, 2013 9:16 pm

Rwalker wrote:Just caught this. I do raise rabbits for meat, so this is very interesting.

Anyway I can get a basic plans or layout? The pics are good, but not enough for me to really see how it is all put together.

Thanks!

I will get more detail for you. out of curiosity wtf does rabbit taste like

Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. May. 14, 2013 9:19 pm

Chicken.

Post by **Rwalker** » Wed. May. 15, 2013 6:45 am

It is actually quite good. I have read that many restaurants use it as a substitute for chicken in some dishes, whether that is true or not I don't know. If you butcher them at 8-12 weeks, they are nice and tender and you quite a bit of meat. We can ours, so after the canning process the meat is even better.

Cheap and provides a continuous supply of high quality protein. They are low in fat, and the fat tastes bad, so you would probably get sick after prolonged consumption, but we also eat chicken, fish, and beef so no worries.

Post by **dcrane** » Wed. May. 15, 2013 7:21 am

Rwalker wrote:It is actually quite good. I have read that many restaurants use it as a substitute for chicken in some dishes, whether that is true or not I don't know. If you butcher them at 8-12 weeks, they are nice and tender and you quite a bit of meat. We can ours, so after the canning process the meat is even better.

Cheap and provides a continuous supply of high quality protein. They are low in fat, and the fat tastes bad, so you would probably get sick after prolonged consumption, but we also eat chicken, fish, and beef so no worries.

Indeed they have been adding Rabbit to high end resturaunts around Boston recently

Its very expensive and like everything else including frog leggs it prolly tastes like chicken as Smit says

Wade's Rabbits are Giants, im not sure what variaty they are but they look more like big fat dogs to me

He also does the Chicken thing and I should have snapped some photo's of those (It seriously looks like a luxury resort for chickens) and he gave me a dozen eggs (I've recieved fresh eggs from other friends over the years but these things were like friggin' bowling balls and the best I've ever had

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Post by **michaelanthony** » Thu. May. 16, 2013 12:19 pm

Hey dc.. those rabbits gut cable tv? watchin bugs bunny.....

never mind, those are water lines....I put my glasses on.

Post by **NJJoe** » Tue. May. 28, 2013 9:54 am

dcrane wrote:
Rwalker wrote:Just caught this. I do raise rabbits for meat, so this is very interesting.

Anyway I can get a basic plans or layout? The pics are good, but not enough for me to really see how it is all put together.

Thanks!
I will get more detail for you. out of curiosity wtf does rabbit taste like

My dad and I used to raise rabbits for meat, our own consumption. We used to regularly eat rabbit and despite the well known cliche, it really does taste like chicken. Its white meat and cooks the same as chicken. It doesn't look like chicken, obviously there are no wings and the legs don't resemble poultry legs. Someone inattentive to this would eat rabbit and think they were eating chicken.

Would you mind posting the plans for that hutch? it does look well made. Rabbit droppings make for good compost too.