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Post by goingpostal on Jan 15, 2012 20:18:37 GMT -5
I've really been searching high and low for a better place to get rabbit than hare today, everywhere is like $4-$5 a pound and then shipping. I found a rabbit farm in my state on some random list of pet food supplier, but no website so I found them on facebook and sent them a message like a month ago. They finally responded and are selling whole rabbit for $1.25/pound and skinned for $1.75, heads and pinks are $2 a pound. Rabbit is the only thing other than mice that my cat eats that isn't poultry and I'm going to add it to my dogs raw too.
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Post by Sherry on Jan 15, 2012 21:00:59 GMT -5
BONUS!!!! Congrats on the find, that's excellent  |
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Post by goingpostal on Jan 15, 2012 21:05:33 GMT -5
I know, I'm so excited! I was going to order 12 pounds through hare today, getting 30+ through these people.
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Post by Sherry on Jan 15, 2012 22:27:11 GMT -5
When I actually had to buy rabbit(the very odd time) from a grocer's in a nearby town, I had to pay $25 a kilo  Wound up getting it from a farm on an average of 10lb rabbits for $15! Mind you, they came intact, whereas the grocer's was fully dressed. |
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Post by goingpostal on Jan 15, 2012 22:36:15 GMT -5
The skinned from these people are gutted, no heads or feet, I got that for the ferrets and cat, cat won't eat fur and the ferrets just eat around it, but I got whole for the dog. I'll still have to chop it up a bit into meal size hunks but I'm hoping she'll eat it, she's never had rabbit or anything with fur, if not I guess I'll chop it up, done it before but man fur flies everywhere and it's a bloody mess. My coworker said I need a hatchet and just do it in my garage when they are frozen, I might try that instead.
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Post by Sherry on Jan 15, 2012 22:39:11 GMT -5
That would definitely work better. Mine are spoiled- they prefer playing with the fully intact carcass for a while ;D It actually got a few interested in eating rabbit, where they hadn't been previously!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2012 9:53:41 GMT -5
Wow, great find! I just purchased two dressed rabbits at a local butcher. they were a little over 2 lbs and almost $12 each. The brats wanted nothing to do with rabbit yesterday  |
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Post by goingpostal on Jan 16, 2012 13:33:48 GMT -5
I know, and they said that was a starting point and they would work with me on price. I was like, prices are good, here's what I want. I think I'm going to have to start up my other freezer again though, mine is fairly full, adding 35 pounds of rabbit, plus whatever I get from hare today is not going to fit. |
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Post by goingpostal on Feb 7, 2012 16:03:49 GMT -5
Yay! Got my rabbit today. James said he didn't know he would spend the day butchering animals lol. They threw in a bunch of extra meat for hooking up another raw feeder with them. I got three huge whole rabbits, 4+skinned, 2 pounds of pinks and 3 of heads. My carnivores will be eating well. What's a good way to store whole rabbits? I don't have any bags big enough but figured they would stay better whole so I'll just chop one today.
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Post by rebel135 on Feb 7, 2012 17:33:23 GMT -5
I just 1/4 mine put in bags they don't last long at my house ,now a little longer that the dog is gone but between two fuzz and the cat still doesn't last long .But I buy the alive from a reptile guy here just outside ottawa.
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