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Post by SA Hunter on Mar 5, 2024 22:30:12 GMT 10
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malewithatail
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Post by malewithatail on Mar 6, 2024 7:35:34 GMT 10
No, but we can/water bath bottle chicken with excellent results.
Ig: An Eskimo house without a loo.
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Post by Stealth on Mar 6, 2024 12:30:50 GMT 10
I haven't tried it, but a few homesteaders that I watch on the tube do it pretty often. Seems like a very similar process to canning any other meats. I have been considering breeding meat rabbits when we hit our forever home though so it might be in my future!
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Post by frostbite on Mar 6, 2024 13:12:32 GMT 10
If you kill 1 rabbit and can it for 12 months you still only have 1 rabbit. If you preserve 1 rabbit for the same 12 months by keeping it alive you will have 1425678 rabbits in 12 months. Canning rabbit is a very stupid idea.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 6, 2024 14:17:54 GMT 10
If you kill 1 rabbit and can it for 12 months you still only have 1 rabbit. If you preserve 1 rabbit for the same 12 months by keeping it alive you will have 1425678 rabbits in 12 months. Canning rabbit is a very stupid idea. Well ... not so much if your 1 live rabbit is a buck ...
But ... yeah. Totally agree its very productive keeping them alive.
Me and my Dad raised meat rabbits for years when I was growing up. We bred and ate quite a few hundred.
And we never had trouble with Myxo getting into them. Maybe because nearest wild population was many miles away. And no one else in the district kept them as pets or food.
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malewithatail
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Post by malewithatail on Mar 6, 2024 15:12:44 GMT 10
One daughter has some pet rabbits and mixo doesn't affect them, probably 'cause they have evolved to be somewhat resistant to it.
But chooks give eggs as well as meat, and ducks even better, I love scrambled duck eggs with a cheese.
At present, she who must be obeyed, buys the cheapest chook frames from the deli in town. A large box, 20 Kg or so is $20, we boil it down for stock, which is canned, and the meat that's left is put into pizza or stir fry and canned.
After TSHTF, chook will be our basic meat, added to the odd cow that stumbles onto the property !!
Memory diffuses facts.
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Tim Horton
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Post by Tim Horton on Mar 7, 2024 7:14:32 GMT 10
Yes... I have participated in raising, harvesting, home canning many meat rabbits.. We had mostly New Zealand Red, and Chinchilla breeds.. We would harvest and roast the whole carcass.. Some I would cook in the smoker.. Debone and pressure can the meat.. Cook the ..frames.. with onion peels, carrot ends and peels, celery ends, strain and can the broth.. A very versatile meat in recipes..
The trick seemed if you could grow as much of there feed as possible with out having to buy every bite they ate it made it much more affordable..
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