OK, I glommed onto your posts about rabbits because I’d been considering rabbits as preferable to chickens to raise. That is, easier & a better investment of my efforts as I can just take or leave eggs.
Your thoughts as to why I might wish to change my mind, if you have the time? The benefit of others’ experience is a blessing.
I have been doing some reading on this. It kinda depends on your zoning laws, food preferences, and lots of other stuff.
One thing though, I have eaten both chicken and rabbits. I prefer the taste of chicken. While it is good to have chickens for eggs, I was recently reading a book about backyard poultry raising.
By purchasing a few chicks in March or April, you can have chickens for slaughter in September. You don’t have to skin them, and they have gizmos to make plucking the feathers pretty easy. I would be more able to handle this than skinning the rabbit I think.
If you are also gardening, the chickens will clean up your garden for you and help control insects. Plus, you can make some decent money selling them locally for just a small investment of time during the 8 months, if you raise a few extra to sell. We have a big market for that here - not so much for rabbits.
Both rabbits and chickens provide good manure for the garden which can also be sold for a profit, if you have no use for it.
I like the idea of being able to process all the chickens and freeze them or can them, and be done with it during the cold winter months. With Rabbits people usually tend them year round, and they reproduce continually.
A book I am reading is Pastured Poultry Profits by Joel Salatin.
Since you do not require eggs in your diet, you would prefer rabbits.
You can trade those eggs for whatever you might need at the time with someone else; or you might raise chickens for trade with others.
Just my thoughts on the matter. Have a nice day!