7 WAYS TO EARN IN RABBIT FARMING

1) SELLING OF LIVE RABBITS: Selling live rabbits to varieties of customers such as new rabbit farmers who are just establishing their farms (They are many out there because more and more people are going into the business on daily basis); old farmers who want to either beef up or augment their stock to meet customers’ demands or individual rabbit meat lovers, restaurants, hotels, and so on.

2) BARBECUED RABBITS: Selling of barbecued ones to various consumers in homes; offices; market places; restaurants; hotels; events; and so on is a way of making more money and gaining loyalty of consumers who would naturally prefer to save themselves the time and energy they would have to spend in preparing it by themselves.

3) OPERATING A SLAUGHTERHOUSE FOR INCOME: One could decide to specialize on this aspect of the rabbit industry. That is, slaughtering and preparing rabbits for a fee for farmers and other customers as well. Some farmers may not have or be interested in slaughter facility. What such farmers need to do when they receive orders for prepared or barbecued rabbits is to move them to the third party slaughterhouse, pay the fee to get the stock prepared and deliver same to their customers.

4) SELLING RABBIT KITTENS: By specializing on selling fully weaned rabbit kittens to farmers or other people who may want to rear them as pets, you will have feeding cost reduced and profit maximized. You only have to feed the bucks and does which produce the kittens. It also affords you the opportunity of having more space available for the breeders.

5) SELLING RABBIT FEEDS AND MEDICATIONS: This is another money-spinning department in rabbit industry. Outlets which trade in rabbit and other animal feeds and supplements make good money on daily basis. There are even individuals without shops who supply hay to farmers on regular basis. They relieve the farmers of the task of going into the bush to fetch grasses and get paid for it by the farmers.

6) RABBIT FUR: It has also been discovered that rabbit pelts are used to make a number of items such as slippers, woolen garments, hats, and so on. It has been a big source of income to rabbit farmers or individuals who gather the fur in large quantity and sell to agents of manufacturers of the aforementioned items. Some breeds like the Angora and Rex rabbits are said to be mainly raised to get their high-quality fur.

7) RABBITS WASTE: Their feces, otherwise called rabbit manure, is also found to be very rich in nitrogen and phosphorus. It’s a highly recommended manure for crops planting. According to research, it’s one of the best manure because its application goes without any possibility of it burning the plants. It is being exported in large scale to countries which use it for plant farming.