For some time we have been planning on getting rabbits. The idea being that they eat grass (and clover and various other pasture growing things) and produce meat (in the form of babies).
After some research I decided we wanted
Fauve de Bourgogne, they are meant to taste good and they have pretty coloured fur - I want to try curing rabbit skin as well as the sheeps fleece.
We have bought 2 female Fauve and a male Lapin Lièvre Belge - the male was a bit of an impulse buy as the seller of the Fauve was offering him a bit cheap and he will be ready to breed at the same time. We may well replace him with a Fauve male however otherwise we won't get the pretty coloured fur. The females won't be ready to breed until July so we have some time to decide what to do.
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| The hutches |
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| One of the females |
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| The male |
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