Rabbits for Meat

**geejayess** · 09-04-2013, 12:37 AM

Originally Posted by DrAndy

anyway, rabbit meat is good, I have always liked it

good value too

We used to eat rabbit a lot,but once I saw the state of them in the wild with miximatosis,it put me off them for life.

**MongersSyndicate** · 10-04-2013, 12:22 AM

Originally Posted by Yasojack

Possibly we bred ducks a few years back, and found as long as the huts were well wired the snakes never got in, the same plot of land last year we cut all the euca on it and then had a burn through, of the branches leaves etc and was amazed on how many snakes were burnt after we finished i was going to go in and rake it all first lucky i never.

I would rather catch and eat the snakes and rats, it's less work than raising rabbits. It's also low-fat, all protein.

**DrAndy** · 10-04-2013, 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by sranchito

Chicken for eating only comes in packages in the super market. The birds you see running around the country side are not for eating

well, people do eat them but BBQ is no good as they are too tough

**DrAndy** · 10-04-2013, 01:24 AM

I will pick up a couple of rabbits this weekend at a local farmers market

ones that have been shot; so I will need carefully to pick out the shot to make sure no-one breaks a tooth

**toddaniels** · 10-04-2013, 08:06 AM

The best meat rabbits are those Flemish Giants or the New Zealand Whites. You can find them if you look around as I've seen 'em for sale at Chatuchak (or really Jatujak as the Thai spelling uses J's: จตุจักร). I dunno how well they'd handle the heat as they're big rabbits and "run kinda hot", still you probably could do it.

I dunno why Thais don't breed and eat rabbits for meat; seeing as these people eat just about anything else which flies, crawls, hops or walks around the country with little or no reticence.

Having bought a few of those wild shot rabbits in the markets up country I can say they're pretty rough fare insofar as they aren't really handled in a way that would want me to buy 'em and eat 'em regularly.

Conversely, those rice rats (called หนูนา) are pretty good eating IF you get the bigger sized ones. Sadly they don't seem to be as good if they're cage raised. A friend caught a bunch out of the rice paddies and put 'em in a big cage in his back yard and raised 'em for a while. When he butchered 'em they were all fat and no meat. Then again he defeated the purpose by penning 'em up and feeding them table scraps instead of rice shoots like they really eat.

Here in Bangkok at my apartment we have a TON of huge trees which are filled to the brim with squirrels. One fell out of the tree and broke it's spine. The Thais (buddhist to the n-th degree) just let it flop around the yard. I came out a killed it with a swift knock on the head with my cane. The Thais standing around collectively gasped that some one would blatantly kill an animal. Funny enough the lady who sells somtam and grilled chicken had no problem picking it up, skinning/cleaning it and then grilling it. These are some funny people indeed.

In other news, the "thai-engrish" some posters mention their Thai significant others saying about eating rabbits is just too pathetic for words. If I had a Thai underfoot who spoke like that to me, I'd kill myself.

**DrAndy** · 10-04-2013, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by toddaniels

I dunno why Thais don't breed and eat rabbits for meat

because they have never done so before, although it has been suggested

Digestion in the rabbit –a new l

most farmers stick to what they know

**Mozzbie47** · 11-04-2013, 02:01 PM

People lived on rabbit and spuds in Australia during the great depression, they were healthy and didnt need vitamin supplements like they say we need now.

**DrAndy** · 11-04-2013, 06:50 PM

I think mass produced vitamin supplements are more recent than that

**Mozzbie47** · 12-04-2013, 04:40 AM

True Dr A, that is why I said ( like they say we need now )

**Dead Metal** · 12-04-2013, 05:14 AM

Originally Posted by expattaffy

I used to breed rabbits in the UK for food, out here where the Thais eat cats they look at you sick if you mention eating rabbits or sheep. they claim sheep smells, yet they eat pigs.

..... & Rats !!!!!!!

**Dead Metal** · 12-04-2013, 05:25 AM

Originally Posted by DrAndy

anyway, rabbit meat is good, I have always liked it good value too

..especially when my Italian in-laws cook it, mmm, yummy. Italian cooking best in the world.

**piwanoi** · 12-04-2013, 08:30 AM

Of course we all remember the classic movie "King rat", Corporal King and his mates made quite a nice piece of change out of that caper ,some of the rats I have seen here are huge ,and as Rat is widely consumed here and expensive too ,surely there must be an opening for a rat farm if there ain't any out there already!

**piwanoi** · 12-04-2013, 08:40 AM

interesting Video!

**DrAndy** · 12-04-2013, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by piwanoi

as Rat is widely consumed here and expensive too

The rats eaten here are Rice Rats from the field; caught by trapping, they are quite tasty and good to eat although a little small

a rat farm would be not much use as the rats would not get the same diet and exercise. I think someone posted that farmed rats are just fatty beasts

**piwanoi** · 12-04-2013, 04:02 PM

Just something which went through my mind Doc ,Corporal King (King Rat) and his mates did'nt seem to do bad of it in Changi Jail Eh

,I used to work with a guy when I was a kid who was a "guest" there ,I often think how our servicemen and their ally,s came out of it sane, maybe some did'nt, but Ernie had his marbles alright ,even though his younger brother lost his life on the railway of death in Kanchanaburi .

**hillbilly** · 12-04-2013, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by nedwalk

sheep do stink as goats do...don,t know if you had any 'hands' on work when it comes to butchering, but all animals stink when you get down and dirty

Growing up on a dairy farm that is so true. I learned just to get in there and do it.

**sranchito** · 15-04-2013, 10:45 PM

No offense taken. Don't worry, I've done my share of killing my own food. Have a freezer full of venison and a yard full of chickens.

And yes, yard birds taste way better. The taste of the chicken on the side of the road in Thailand is really more to my liking than the commercial crap that is raised in packages over here. Of course, that is comparing apples and beans.

Where did chickens come from? Ah yes, the jungle. Guess that is why we call them jungle fowl?

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