Should rabbits in Connecticut be raised only as house pets, or possibly also for stews and other meals? A proposal to allow harvesting rabbits for food, an idea loved by farmers but hated by animal ...

Aug. 10—Big Puff's days as a show rabbit, Chase Myatt and his younger brother Tyler agree, are over. In a small shed on the Myatts' property in Baker County, surrounded by 35 other rabbits, Big Puff ...

SALEM — A bill meant to reduce barriers for small-scale rabbit meat production has also sparked a proposal to expand Oregon’s humane slaughter law. On-farm slaughter of 1,000 rabbits a year would be ...

Daniela Larese is a farmer in Ashford. With her partner Nick Weinstock, their 41-acre BOTL Farm raises and sells pasture-raised pork, lamb, chicken and goat meat, as well as eggs, raw honey, ...

In the spring of 2020, we decided to venture into meat rabbits and stop raising meat chickens. One of the reasons being rabbits are much more sustainable: you don’t need to order meat breeds from a ...

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 ...

Some readers wrinkled their nose at FOODday's look at the rise of rabbit meat popularity, especially at local restaurants. FOODday editors report that messages about the story seem to fall into two ...