Shire Farms isn’t alone in its success, either. Rabbits are again becoming a significant revenue source for small-scale farmers in Virginia and the United States. Rabbits were once a popular ...

Additionally, Connecticut currently allows small farmers to slaughter up to 20,000 chickens on their farms under this common exemption. Rabbits, of course, aren't chickens.

“We have rabbits as small as two and a half pounds all the way up to the French lops and the Flemish giants. And they can be in excess of 20 pounds.” Thinking of raising rabbits of your own?

Rabbit farming is not only profitable but also enjoyable. One can raise a rabbit as a pet and keep rabbits on a small land without much investment. Rabbits have been reared in our country for a ...

Should Connecticut rabbits be raised only as house pets, or possibly also for stews and other meals? A proposal would allow harvesting rabbits for food in Connecticut.

We all know the saying. And yep, rabbits really do go at it like, well, rabbits – breeding rapidly enough to horrify any parent whose child brings home a pair as pets. View the math through an ...

On a quiet, overgrown Sebastopol farm once owned by R&B legend Johnny Otis, Eric Shevchenko walks through a small rabbit enclosure with about 40 mostly female breeder rabbits. Resting or chewing ...

In Kenya, most people start rabbit farming on a past time basis or as a hobby. But it is possible to run a successful commercial rabbit agribusiness. A good number have embraced commercial farming ...