Thread: Rabbits for Meat

As the Doc said earlier Wild rabbit has more flavour although shooting em was not my way of getting em , I kept ferrets for over 40 years and many times could get a dozen rabbit in a couple of hours or so with not a bruise or mark on them ,here,s a little vid on how its done, although personally writing it appears to me that the ferrets are new at the game

^ did you keep your ferrets down your trousers like proper ferreters do?

Problem with ferrets was when one gat a rabbit cornered in a dead end.
Then you had to spend ages digging the bastard out.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

^ did you keep your ferrets down your trousers like proper ferreters do?

Good ferrets rarely if ever bite ,I used to handle mine from babys ,but quite frankly having said all that, no I never did risk having a lump taken out of "the crown jewels"

Originally Posted by Necron99

Here's a fun fact. If all you had to eat was wabbit meat, you would starve to death.

Eating just corn wont do you a lot of good either, isnt that what killed a lot of American indians, other than the white folk shooting the crap out of em for no reason. Eating wabbit would be good along with greens etc, a mixed diet.

Originally Posted by beazalbob69

Wife's family looked at me like I was a lunatic when i brought up raising rabbit's for food. "We don't eat rabbit's here they only for pets" but yet rats are a delicacy.

Tru dat! Rabbits are considered the most disgusting vermin on the planet yet BBQ rat is manna from heaven!

Originally Posted by Mozzbie47

Eating just corn wont do you a lot of good either, isnt that what killed a lot of American indians,

I don't suppose the side-order of smallpox helped much either.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by Mozzbie47

Eating just corn wont do you a lot of good either, isnt that what killed a lot of American indians,

I don't suppose the side-order of smallpox helped much either.

Good one mate, I forgat about that.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by Mozzbie47

Eating just corn wont do you a lot of good either, isnt that what killed a lot of American indians,

I don't suppose the side-order of smallpox helped much either.

Well stated QC ,the whitemen used to give blankets from some one who had died of small pox ,which often resulted in every member of the tribe becoming infected leading to total extinction ,of course the white men had many other subtle ways of killing the American red man of which is revealed in the book by Dee Brown "bury my heart at wounded knee" but in essence one cannot dwell on one of the greatest crimes IMHO against humanity, as no one alive today is responsible ,but this is somewhat going away from the OP about Rabbit keeping, never the less it's the awful truth of which many may not be aware of, and there is no accounting for what goes on in the human mind, as one thing leads to another , and I would suggest that the Mods take this into account at times

Myxomatosis was introduced to cut down on the numbers of rabbits in some countries. Think England was one of them. Made it too risky to have rabbit on the menu after that. Few decades ago now but most people still stay clear of eating rabbits as far as I know.

Myx was not introduced on purpose, so the official story goes

A rabbit escaped from a research centre

I don't think eating a Myx infected rabbit had any harmful effects

It was introduced into Australia in 1950 in an attempt to control the rabbit population

It reached the UK in 1953, being illegally imported onto an estate in West Sussex.

Resistance has been increasing slowly since the 1970s, and the disease now only kills about 50% of infected rabbits.

Source; Myxomatosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

oh, I was wrong, I just didn't believe anyone would do such a thing

my faith in humans.....

Did a quick village poll. Wabbits not for eating. All other creatures are. Especially them pesky rats.

I'm off to catch rats. Gonna save them all.

OK, just go along with the Thai culture.

Forget about selling meat, just sell lucky rabbit feet.
They must work because all Farangs are rich

my father used to say that those feet were not so lucky for the rabbit

Rabbit was one of our main sunday meals when we were kids way back in the early 70s, especialy when it was stewed, yummsss.

But then myxo took over,and we would just shot them & leave them to rot.

Myxo was a horrendeous thing, rabbits would have only one eye,or even no eyes at all, legs would be deformed and so on, it put us off eating wild bunnies, i just stick to the domestic family bunnies now, not so yummy,but ok

Originally Posted by colinc1

i just stick to the domestic family bunnies now, not so yummy,but ok

Maybe a new thread on bunny diets to make them taste better is in order. Just have to recreate the same conditions a wild bunny would have.

Feed it with weeds and half dead grass and scare the shit out of it with a cat everyday.

The endorphins produced from the sheer terror of daily life in the wild and the shitty food are what makes them taste better. Must be.

Originally Posted by keekwai

The endorphins produced from the sheer terror of daily life in the wild and the shitty food are what makes them taste better. Must be.

more probably it is the high variety of the diet combined with lots of exercise

Game is very low in fat, unlike the tame inbreds

I'm wondering ... if you took a flock of chickens and several roosters out to an isolated patch of jungle ... left them there for 5 years ... returned and hunted them ... would their descendants taste better than the frozen chook in the supermarket freezer?

Maybe they are already available. Dogs go feral, so do cats. Maybe there are a few feral chickens on the loose somewhere.

Chicken for eating only comes in packages in the super market. The birds you see running around the country side are not for eating. Hmmm.... Makes me wonder where the packages of dog and cat are in the super market?