Rabbit

No rabbits around here, nor wombats either. The ground is too hard.




You know you own an old tractor when......You start planning your annual holidays with a copy of the "steam and gas guide" in your hand.

Rabbits saved the early Australian settles from starvation and during the great depression..  During WWII, the British were told to keep rabbits and started the domestication of rabbits, rehash of old wisdom.

I have seen many programs in south America to encourage people to keep rabbits and feed them on veg scraps, rotten fruit, grass etc... 
There have been cases of death by protein starvation as rabbit meat is very lean with no fats.  One needs carbs and fats to survive.  The smart preppers say that eating the organs, brain etc.. can give one minimum nutrition to survive. 

There is a bit of a rabbit comeback in Aus.  With road kills down post apocalypse number could increase.   Having a bunny buster rife or bow is a good prep, or breading rabbits.   

Chickens and rabbits for meat and eggs in WW2 back gardens
www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-livestock.htm

Why so many chickens and rabbits

One of the spearheads of the Government campaign to make Britain more self-sufficient for food was to encourage the public to keep rabbits and poultry for meat.
Consequently householders set up ways to keep livestock such as chickens and rabbits in back their gardens.
Our garden in one of the 1938 suburban houses was probably too small to keep livestock, and we never did although householders with the larger gardens of older or rural properties certainly did. As the excerpts in the following boxes show, it was an extremely worthwhile activity as so little meat was available on ration.
However, everyone I have later spoken to who kept chickens and rabbits had a man at home at the time, either because he was too old to be in the forces or because he was in what was called a reserved occupation. I suppose there must have been some exceptions, with women keeping chickens and rabbits.

You can eat myxo rabbit without fear of infection from what i have read. But i reckon it would test your survivalist mettle to a fair degree. I’m not sure about calici virus though. Probably can eat the rabbits with that too.