Farms: Business Foresight: Rabbit farming

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1. woow that's good
   am looking forward to start this
2. milk from rabbits ?.......how ?..zawadi umetudanganya hehehe.......i love this video so informative
3. Am interested on rabbit farming. Can you please advise me on how to start. Am a Tanzanian mother living in Dodoma. Please Mr Kibanya I need your contact.
4. I did this and did very well. I had 1buck (male) to every three does (females). I had New Zealand Whites, New Zealand Reds, what I was told was a New Zealand Black but after further research have decided was actually a Silverfox. I also had a Californian cross doe. My main meat rabbit sire was 1/2 New Zealand White and 1/2 Checkered Giant. When bred to the New Zealands, and the Silverfox produced a three way cross kit that grew out faster, larger with more meat without better food to meat ratios, and none of the heavier bones that you get with the "giant" breeds like purebred Checkered Giants or purebred Flemish Giants. I bred and raised my own replacement does from my best producing females. When I needed fresh blood in my herd, I would buy an UNRELATED buck. It is much easier to replace a bad producing buck than it is to replace a dozen or more bad & nasty tempered does. Keep very detailed records and pedigrees (with ear tattoos and/or names) and EVERY SINGLE RABBIT has a hutch card that slides into the flaps of their hopper feeder. I always offered to show each one of my customers my record/pedigree binder and encouraged them to read the hutch cards, explain what it all meant. Some people were interested, most weren't, but make the offer, and CULL HARD! Don't keep ANYTHING that isn't producing or has an aggressive nasty temperment. This way works. It's how I did my herd and in a couple years i most of my breeding does were the three way crossbred does that I bred and raised myself. They were very fertile, produced and raised large, fast growing, fat litters, maintained their weight while nursing litters of 9, 10, 11 kits. i had one of my homebred replacement does deliver AND RAISED 13 kits!! I was SHOCKED!!! I had a very low mortality rate too. I sold enough rabbits that they paid for themselves, fed our family of six and I would even take my mother and her husband all they wanted to eat. I learned how to build all wire mesh cages and sold them. the money for all that came from selling live, fryers, broilers and extra breeding stock. Tou van save the feed bags, fill them with manure and sell that. you can build raised beds under the cages and raise and sell fishing worms. When you butcher, save the feet, and if you know how, dye them different colors and turn them into lucky rabbit feet keychains. Sell the pelts , or keep them for your own use or raise purebred registered show rabbits, do rabbit shows, make and sell nesting boxes. I even made smaller nwood nestboxes and took 1"x1/2" floor mesh and made hanging boxes that the wooden boxes fit inside of then i would open the cage door and the wire nestbox I made would hang on the outside of the cage door opening and the door would have a spring latch that would close on the side of the wire box. I learned how to make the latches out of wire coat hangers. Once the nestbox was on the cage, it was strong. I made a small door on the back of the wire nestbox so I could add straw, check the kits and remove any dead ones. The Mini Lops and Dutch does LOVED these and they didn't lose any floor space. Even in the summer, remove the wooden box, place something flat & solid in the bottom of the hanging wire nestbox, give her some straw and once she builds her nest, her kits get enough air circulation that they don't smother and die from the heat. I don't know if there is anything that you can't do with a rabbit. I'm sorry this is so lengthy. IF you have read this far, it's pretty obvious I love rabbits
5. ati rabbits provide milk, acha jokes
6. meat eaters esp of rabbits are highly self hating
   
   
   the perversity of religion is to teach that sin can be wiped out by killing an animal
   
   
   our sins have to be conquered by ourselves
7. Rabbit farming despite having so much potential is ran by people like this Kibanya fella from Alcare who exploit people. 
   He talks of 45,000 to start but it's a whole lot more. from their website, the lowest "starter stock" will cost you over 210,000. they want to sell you everything from the hutches to the feeds and feeders (something you can have made for way cheaper) 
   Automatic cages will cost you about 96,000. You pay for their so call "farm inspections" they may come for your rabbits when mature, which seems like a good thing until you learn that you have to pay for their transport.
   Their so called Dorwan Rabbits are non-existent. Search anywhere on the web and you won't find it. You pay 1000 for insurance of every rabbit, you pay for the contract etc. technically for you to be in business with them will have you part ways with almost a quarter of a million. They also have a right to revoke your contact. These are a bunch of cons
8. what did he say was the 5 income from rabbits?
9. I started rabbit farming recently and within the space of 6 months , i have close to 30 rabbits.please any expert should contact me on +233249037464 on whatsapp...i need your advice, Thanks
10. I'm in the initial stages of rabbit farming, I would love to meet an experienced farmer is it possible to get the contacts of the one featured in this video
11. Hi, this is encouraging. An new in rabbit farming, is it possible to get connected to farmers who are more experienced? My number is 0723559916. Thanks
12. Lets eat more rabbit meat. It is healthier and tastier. 
13. Very educational and motivating; well done. This is what we need in Kenya, people who are willing to get their hands dirty and make money.
14. Good job Sir. I think i will quit journalism as well