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Interests => All Things Edible (and how to prepare them) => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on January 20, 2013, 07:25:38 PM
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Camden residents want local restaurants to stop serving rabbit for lunch, dinner
http://www.penbaypilot.com/article/camden-residents-want-local-restaurants-stop-serving-rabbit-lunch-dinner/8444
What is wrong with serving sodomite rabbits? I say let them serve it to keep the bunny population down.
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Check the dumpster, it may not be bunny! Could be road kill mystery meat.
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Could be rarebit, too. As in Welsh Rarebit.
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The only recipe for rabbits I want to see is how to exterminate them.
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well , then serve it for breakfast!
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Restaurant must be skipping step #3 in the recipe......pick the #4 shot out of the rabbit.
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People are such babies. You can't find a more prolific food source.
A female can reprodue as many as 800 children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren in a single breading season.
My mom used to cook them and tell me they were chicken. I didn't know the difference until I was older.
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I love rabbit!
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I love rabbit!
I love horses also but I would not eat one knowingly. DNA from horse meat found in ground beef in England, what an uproar. Meat was imported from Poland.
In the 60's a national dog food brand sold caned 100% horse meat, I bought it for my first dog.
The problem in Fla. with the pythons would be quickly solved if the Asians put the meat on the menu. Round up some of the old time Asian cooks that have been here for only 15 years, and offer Free shipping to their restaurants, Catch is they have to come and get the snakes themselves. They having done so in the old country would know how to find and spot them better then the rest of us.
I am surprised PETA is not protesting the wanton hunting and killing of these reptiles.
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#15 alone has me sold!! Never giving Rabbit to MY daughter though.
But maybe YOURS! LOLL Sorry, that's terrible. :banghead:
Rabbit Facts
1 Cholesterol level in rabbit meat is much lower than chicken, turkey, beef, pork. (Alabama A & M University 1989)
2 Rabbit is lower in % of fat than chicken, turkey, beef, and pork. (U S D A circular # 549)
3 Unsaturated fatty acids is 63% of total fatty acids. ( Dr Reo)
4 Rabbit is highest in protein%. (U S D A circular # 549)
5 The office of home economics, state relations of the U S Department of Agriculture has made extensive test and have stated that domestic rabbit meat is the most nutritious meat known to man.
6 Rabbit meat is seasonal any month of the year and is especially recommended during the hot summer months, as it does not contain the heating properties of most all other meats.
7 Rabbit meat has been used and is suitable for special diets, such as those for heart disease patients, diets for the aged, low sodium diets, weight reduction diets, ect. ( Rabbit production Cheek Patton Templeton) Of course this is between you and your doctor. We do not make any recommendations of this type because we are not qualified.
8 Rabbit has 795 calories per pound. Chicken 810, Veal 840, Turkey 1190, Lamb 1420, Beef 1440, Pork 2050. ( U S D A circular # 549 )
9 A doe rabbit that weighs 10 pounds can produce 320 pounds of meat in a year. !!! WOW !!!. This is more than a cow and it takes 2 acres of land to raise a cow.
10 Rabbits will produce 6 pounds of meat on the same feed and water as a cow will produce 1 pound of meat on the same feed and water.
11 Baby rabbits feed of mothers milk so rich that they can double their weight in 6 short days as compared to a pig at 14 days, calves 47 days, and humans 160 days.
13 Rabbits are raised up off the ground and is one of the cleanest meat.
14 Rabbits are among the most productive of domestic livestock.
15 It was decreed by law in the Roman Empire that all young maidens be fed rabbit meat because it would make them more beautiful and more willing.
16 The first recorded rabbitry husbandry was in early Roman times, Where rabbits were kept in walled rabbit gardens for food. This saved waste over bigger animals because the rabbit was all eaten. there was no refrigeration.
17 Sailing vessels distributed rabbits on islands in various sea lanes to be used as a source of food by sailors.
18 In 1859 a single pair of rabbits was released in Victoria, Australia, and in 30 years gave rise to an estimated 20 million rabbits.
19 As the worlds human population grows there will be less land and water to raise food. The rabbit will play a more increasing role in this supply. Rabbits can and do grow well on food items tha do not compete with food items.grown for human food.
20 Rabbits lend themselves to both small and large scale production.
21 France is the world's largest producer and consumer of rabbit meat. In Hungary there are rabbitries with over 10,000 does producing rabbits for export to Italy.
22 Rabbit meat is all white meat.
23 Rabbit was the number 1 Export item of Red China.
24 Rabbit meat compares very favorably to veal at half the price.
25 Our rabbits are not just a rabbit. They are a special breed developed over 28 years of selective breeding by computer. They have more meat and less bone.
26 The combination of the best sanitation and special hand processing technics gives us a much longer fresh shelf life than our competition.
27 Rabbits are known to be used for meat as far back as 1500BC
28.Some people use the heat from the rabbit's ears to heat green houses
29. Taken from the Domestic Rabbit magazine from the early 1990's rabbit manur
has the following percentages of dry material.
2.20% Nitrogen
.87% Phosphorus
2.30% Potassium
.36% Sulfur
1.26% Calcium
.40% Magnesium
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Now you got my curiosity up. You are speaking of food but the pelt is valuable as are the paws for jewelery and charms.
EX MIL had a rabbit in the barn she said she was raising for a neighbor that ate rabbit, poor thing all alone in a small cage.
The bones also may be worth something for fertilizer when ground up. I wonder what the poop and urine have to give to growing crops ????
Sounds to me that the rabbit is the perfect survival food and source of clothing for man kind. Some kind of super animal put on earth to serve Mankind.
Rabbits are taboo in some cultures as some have restrictions on eating an animal with paws. As in Lions, Tigers and Bears.---Oh My.
Now is the taste of the meat gamy, does one have to brine the meat to drain the blood ????
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Never had rabbit and doubt that I ever will. My wife is highly allergic to rabbits; most likely the fur, but why take any chances.
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I raise rabbits for food. I have 3 does and 1 buck. Each doe will produce 8-9 bunnies per litter and in 4 months they will be 7-8 lbs and ready for slaughter. But let me tell ya when you have that many fulls size rabbits at one time they are eating a LOT of food! I feed hay, pellets and greens that the local organic food stores trim from their produce. They also produce a lot of organic fertilizer! I just compost it with everything else in the bin and it works great. Now in the winter I just throw it on top of the snow in the garden. They are a PIA in the summer when it gets hot. I have to shade them and keep blocks of ice in their hutch or they will die! Cold is no problem for them.
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Have you thought about setting up a swamp cooler?
The junkyard I go to set some up during the summer. I guess they don't want their customers to die... it's bad for business.
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Have you thought about setting up a swamp cooler?
The junkyard I go to set some up during the summer. I guess they don't want their customers to die... it's bad for business.
Not sure about that? They a susceptible to respiratory problems. I will look into it.
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Hey. If they can pay, I say serve anybody!
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I raise rabbits for food. I have 3 does and 1 buck. Each doe will produce 8-9 bunnies per litter and in 4 months they will be 7-8 lbs and ready for slaughter. But let me tell ya when you have that many fulls size rabbits at one time they are eating a LOT of food! I feed hay, pellets and greens that the local organic food stores trim from their produce. They also produce a lot of organic fertilizer! I just compost it with everything else in the bin and it works great. Now in the winter I just throw it on top of the snow in the garden. They are a PIA in the summer when it gets hot. I have to shade them and keep blocks of ice in their hutch or they will die! Cold is no problem for them.
When EX MIL went on vacation she left me with a list of do and don't for the live stock. The don't for the rabbit was to not feed her lettuce. Wondering if this was a southern myth, or has a fact in the breed of the rabbit ????
Reading the Fox Fire series I came upon a guide to raising rabbits and when it came time to slaughter them a section on how to kill them fast. Break their neck was advised.
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You can't feed them a lot of greens. Just a little bit and lots of hay! Breaking their neck if for folks that don't have a Sheridan 22 cal pump pellet rifle!