Our Rabbits

The second animal we started raising was rabbits. We started with a male and 2 female silver fox rabbits. A trio of rabbits can produce a lot of kits in a year. Our 2 females averaged 5-6 kits per litter and we had 3 litters each last year. That's over 30 rabbits in a year. We saved 3 females as breeders and my goal is 4 litters per rabbit this year so we should easily double that number.

After 6 weeks, I start weaning the babies. They are moved into their own cage to finish growing. I have rabbit tractors that I use as grow out pens. We drag the tractor to a new spot each day so the rabbits can eat some grass and weeds. They have a wire bottoms to keep the rabbits from burrowing out and predators from digging in. I really like the tractors and plan to move all the rabbits in to them. I might make a post on how I built them later.