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By Teresa Pilegaard, Lone Rose Homestead We fell into rabbits and didn’t expect to end up as farmers. Honestly, if we hadn’t added sheep soon after purchasing rabbits I would have given up on farming and chalked it up to a bad idea. The sheep distracted us from the difficulty of rabbits and gave […]
By Teresa Pilegaard, Lone Rose Homestead We had to cull twenty young rabbits last week. Both my husband and I were heartbroken. I coped by sitting in the car eating chocolate sunflower butter cups writing this while my husband mowed the grass where the rabbit tractors used to be. Unfortunately, for many of us who […]
By Teresa Pilegaard, Lone Rose Homestead We went to a farmers market. The farm had a rabbit and that was it, my one year old was in love. We thought she’d grow out of it, but we’d visit that rabbit almost weekly. When the farm gave the rabbit away to a pet home she was so […]
So you want to start your homestead rabbit journey, and you’re not sure where to begin. What do they eat? How much do they eat? What happens if they get sick? How do they live? While these things can all be elaborated on extensively, we’ll try to sum it up for you in a condensed […]