Setting up your rabbitry can be as easy or as involved as you want. It can be a simple set up with a few cages, or as involved as setting up an entire colony raising situation where all your rabbits share the same area, and then have bins set up as dens and birthing areas. [...]
If you missed our previous posts, you can find them right here. Our story of Raising Rabbits (Beginning) Reasons to Raise Rabbits on the Homestead (Series Post one) Today I want to chat with you about what WE have found to be the very best Meat rabbit breed combo, and why we chose it [...]
One of the most common questions we get as 'Burbsteaders with a rabbitry is: "WHY would you want to raise rabbits for meat?" ...often followed by something having to do with their cuteness, smallness, or cuddliness. So. as a start to our awesome kid-friendly series on raising rabbits as an integral part of your homesteading [...]
Ah Spring. I am SO excited for SPRING to come and join us here on the cold prairies of Minnesota, how about you? We have had a string of warm days this week, and we have spent as much time as possible out in them, soaking up the warmth, peeking at the garden, and [...]
When I moved here to the MN prairies 12 years ago I thought it was so so strange that no one fenced their yard in. Coming from a place where everyone has fences, it seemed too open, too intrusive, not clear where the boundaries were. I fought against it. I begged my husband for a [...]
