[Titan Magroyne]

Thank you for your feedback. You’re right, I’d never heard of slaughtering all in the fall instead of maintaining a henhouse thru winter. Sure simplifies things, doesn’t it?

My best friend & I have watched shows on rabbit butchering, which is actually pretty easy. He’s put it into practice several times to halt predation in his garden. Tho wild rabbits hardly have enough meat to bother with, investment in meat rabbits would indeed mean overwintering the breeders.

[greeneyes]

Glad to be of help. I actually remember reading about a certain synergy between chickens and rabbits though I can't remember exactly what it was.

I think it had to do with the chickens cleaning up under the Rabbit cages- but there was more to it, I just can't remember it all.

You can actually grow a lot of the stuff that both of them eat and help keep the costs down. Some of the stuff like alfalfa will help improve your soil for the next round of garden planting of veggies to eat with your meat.LOL

The old fashioned farm had a lot synergy that way.