[P8riot]

How have you been nina? No we didn't. We are concentrating on chickens right now. There is a young couple in our church that is operating a kind of cottage/barter business with rabbits. They don't have room for birds like we do, but are taking advantage of the fact that they can raise rabbits inside, they are also selling the pelts. They also raise Portobello mushrooms (yummmm!). We've been swapping eggs and birds for bunnies and fungus. It's helping them out and we increased our flock size to compensate. It simplifies things quite a bit.

My meat cutter buddy came over Sunday afternoon and slaughtered my hog, got some hams and bacon smoking right now, and the wife and boy are making sausage. My 8 yr old shot his first wild turkey the day after Thanksgiving (18 pounder), and I got my 4th deer of the year in back of my barn Saturday morning. We've got plenty of meat to carry us through the winter. I bought another freezer back in September, and now all three are about full.

[nina0113]

Unfortunately my HOA sees chickens as livestock. My starter rabbits will be pets. Their offspring will NOT, but one rabbit looks pretty much like the next, so who’s gonna know?

[MrB]

Rabbits, other than the Easter Bunny, don’t lay eggs.
You probably have the right idea going with chickens instead of rabbits.

You can trade a couple dozen eggs for a rabbit if you get a hankerin’ later.