Meat rabbits are on my list of things to raise once I move onto my farm.
I’d love to test out different diets and see which one results in the best flavor. There were a couple of times I caught a rabbit in my parents’ backyard, and the meat had this natural sweet flavor, like there was a ton of sugar in the marinade, even though there wasn’t any marinading involved. I would love to know what made that taste, so I can replicate it. I know it wasn’t the rabbit itself, because rabbit meat from the store didn’t have that.
I have a bunch of animal nutrition textbooks to help with the diet plans.
Ever see “Night of the Lepus”?
I don’t know much about livestock diet; but I wonder if it could have to do with the time of year you caught the wild ones and what they’d been feeding on.