A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...

Sebastien Bonneu knows he has a dirty job. Raising fowl and rabbits is one thing, but slaughtering and processing them for sale is another, more gruesome and intimate task. “It’s like any other line ...

March 28--A mobile processing unit is expected to be available this spring to help smallvolume growers prepare their animals for market. Another option will soon be available to small animal producers ...

The personal decision to start raising rabbits for meat was for the health of our children, and ourselves. Meat rabbits are becoming a popular addition to many homesteads due to the minimal space they ...

SEBEKA, Minn — Perry Cuperus learned as a pre-teen growing up in Michigan that you just don’t pull rabbits out of a hat. While on some ‘hare’ raising tours in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bosnia, and ...

With spring on the horizon, there is perhaps no better symbol of the season than the rabbit. The animal ambassadors of fertility, gentleness and new life, their likeness tends to pop up more and more ...

"Death and life are so connected. People forget that. A farmer sees that connection up close with a live animal in the morning and a cooling carcass at the end of the day," Arkansas Times Publisher ...

A new mobile processing unit is expected to be available this spring to help small-volume growers prepare their animals for market. To sell poultry or rabbits, farmers must process their animals at a ...