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wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1171 Location: Campile. Wexford

Good luck with your enterprise. As you live a bit nearer Phil perhaps you can supply him with breeding stock. We may have to wait untill the early new year for ours.

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tractorpunk · Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 37 Location: east Galway

sure, first kits should be due around end of march

phil · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:43 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a good plan,then in the future we could do a swap with wayland and bring new blood in.

wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1171 Location: Campile. Wexford

A rabbit Co-op. Laughing

Sounds good too me. I intend to do a fair bit of foraging and even strip graze my stock, but a few rabbit pellets would not go a miss me thinks. Anyone stock these in decent quantities?
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phil · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:15 pm Post subject:

If you want a good carcase in a fairly short time i think you would have to feed some form of concentrate.

tractorpunk · Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 37 Location: east Galway

all we've found is various pet food mixes, but i think that the high protein pellets are mostly alfalfa based, maybe a few hand fulls of dried "alpha A" would be as good
a rabbit co-op sounds good to me too

wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1171 Location: Campile. Wexford

I am almost getting excited Laughing

. I have a book, "Backyard Rabbit Farming" by Ann Williams. We got this book in 1978 and although now very tatty it is a mind of information. Lots of info on growing crops for rabbits as well as foraging etc. Recommend it I do.

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