Preparation for possible economic collapse (Updated rabbit and chickens)

[TheFunnnytimes]

Can you please tell me where you got your rabbit cages. It would mean the world to me.

[houndsman03]

@TheFunnnytimes Bought them off craislist, for $20.00 each

[TheFunnnytimes]

@houndsman03

Thank you so much.

[xPetsAreForLifex]

please will you stop eating these cute little babies

[cluckcluckhen]

have you heard of rabbit famine?

[houndsman03]

@cluckcluckhen Oh yeah... but rabbits are just part of my set up...

[cluckcluckhen]

@houndsman03 Well, as long as you have a little butter for your bunnies, you are set. :-)

[learnsomethingful]

Can you get sick from eating the eggs? I love that they can get outside if they want to.

[houndsman03]

@learnsomethingful We have been eating them for years and have never gotten sick, we do wash them off with soap and watter before they go into the frig. Thanks for watching

[AwohaliSagwu]

I keep my rabbits and guinea pigs in my garage they have their own frig for their greenies but I have 30 chickens so once my garage frig gets full of eggs I just dump all the cartons of eggs in a bucket and pour a bucket full out in the woods after that I stop feeding laying mash for a while till I use up the 6 or 8 cartons of eggs I keep. I hope to get an incubator this year so I can hatch out some and put them in the freezer, way too many eggs right now for just me & hubby,also got ducks pheas

[houndsman03]

@AwohaliSagwu 30 layers... holy smokes... you're in the egg biz....lol You can oil the outside of the egg with mineral oil and they will keep longer term with no frig... just in a cool dark spot. I give a lot of eggs to friends, or cook them and feed to my dogs.

[flemishgiantbreeder]

I raise the flemish giants for human food/my two pitbull's dog food and for pet quality they make great pets better then the smaller ones actually and i haven't seen anything difference on the meat problem they have more meat then bone i think. but the parents are all pets and the babie's are sold as pets and whatever don't sale goes for dog food or my meat. :) but that is a nice setup that you have.

[houndsman03]

@flemishgiantbreeder I could have kept litters going till now.. it has been a mild winter so far.. but it should be -15f now... today it was 30f... so I could have got another two litters out.. oh well... :)

[flemishgiantbreeder]

or i might just wait until the babie's are gone february 2 or 12th of next month depends on what the rabbits do. but the babie's should be okay to breed in the winter just give them alot of hay to keep there babie's in. I have never lost another litter to the cold weather I have 4 female's and 1 buck flemish giant 1 does is going to give birth on the 30th of this month. So i will have another litter of flemish giant babie's.

[flemishgiantbreeder]

I use dried kindlen aspen about 3 to 4 inches of it and lots of hay i try to buy oat hay but i buy the alfalfa/grass hay mix for there bedding the momma uses the bedding to make the nest she pulls alot of fur her whole stomach was raw of fur nothing but the exsposed nipples. I am going to rebreed her when the babie's turn 4 weeks old by that time the babie's will be gone and she will be ready for another litter of babie's.

[flemishgiantbreeder]

I breed my flemish giant's in the winter and a little in the summer but I have a litter of 8 babie's 2 1/2 weeks old right now and it gets below 20degree's here I lost my first litter of 4 1 stillborn and 3 live to her being a first time mother. but she had a litter of 9 and 1 died because it was a runt but the rest are doing great in this type of weather. I am going to have to get alot of waterbottles and freeze them for the rabbit's because it can get up to 80 to 90 degree's in are city.

[houndsman03]

@flemishgiantbreeder Yep... the hot will get them before the cold... sounds like you got a good setup...

[flemishgiantbreeder]

@houndsman03 thank you yeah i really don't have a good setup but i will have 22 stall rabbit hutches built within the next month or so for my flemish giant's. but I have just gotten started but eventually we will have about 11 adult breeders hanging around are home we are picking up 6 more flemish giant females. I have at least 480 dollars into just my 5 rabbits and the 8 babie's. I sell them for 35.00 dollars a pieace for young one's and 50 to 70 for adults.

[flemishgiantbreeder]

@houndsman03 so yeah i will have a better setup then i have now but it works I have stoped giving them well just one doe her carrots i think i gave to much veggie's to fast so i am going to cut her down to one half a carrot every other 2 days until she hardens her poop up.

I have never had that problem with her. but i guess i will have to watch her veggie intake. but thank you yeah you have a nice setup aswell. do you know any recipies for rabbit that are good. :)

[houndsman03]

@flemishgiantbreeder I like to boil them in a pot till the meat comes of the bone. Bone it out and store it till the next day in the frig. Then dice it up and make rabbit salad sandwiches or a fresh toss rabbit salad.

[flemishgiantbreeder]

@houndsman03 HMMM that sounds good I can't wait until my next litter arrives when they are 12 weeks old or later on i can't wait to make rabbit stew or the rabbit salad my dad said he will try a rabbit if i cook it right for him he has never really had a good rabbit before so i am just trying to get a good recipie for the rabbit so he wil enjoy the meal. :) Yeah it is a pretty mild winter here it just gets below freezing sometimes but i breed threw the winter and the spring time.

[flemishgiantbreeder]

@houndsman03 when it gets to summer i think i will still breed but if they get to hott and start to loose babie's i will wait until the summer sturs down a little or just make a cover over them and put lots of cold ice packs where they can lay on them or what i need to do..:) but yeah i might try that idea. I might make spaggettie out of a rabbit and not tell my father and he will eat it and find out he likes rabbit. lol. what time is it where you live.

[houndsman03]

bought them second hand off a guy on craigs list

[rabbitguy2222]

where did you get your cages

[tropicdoc789]

Good basic setup for both chickens and rabbits. Nice video. Thanks for the discussion about light for 12 hours per day affecting egg production.

[houndsman03]

@tropicdoc789 Thanks for watching

[survivorapocalypse]

what is the size of the cage ?

[houndsman03]

@survivorapocalypse 30" long/wide x 18 " high. Thanks for watching

[cbarsonfire]

Wrabbit cooked over an open fire is yummie.

[houndsman03]

Midwest at time of posting, it is up to $11.00 now... :(

[cubaniton74]

Hello, please tell me where do you buy the 50 lbs bags of rabbit food for $10.00 Thanks.

[survivorapocalypse]

what is the size of the bow ?

[survivorapocalypse]

@survivorapocalypse box sorry

[houndsman03]

@survivorapocalypse The nest box is 18" long x 10' wide x 10" high, slightly lower in the front to 7"high so the doe can jump in and out easier, run a 7" roof from the back so the babies think they are in a den. This is for meat rabbits. Smaller rabbits can use a smaller nest box. If the box is to big they will try to live in them and will crap in them. Being the bottom of the food chain they like small spaces that they feel they can hide in. Thanks for watching

[elvieken]

if you put you a worm bin under the cages you will have great compost and cut your work in half.

[houndsman03]

@elvieken I thought about that, but its frozen up here for about 5 months out of the year, didn't think it would work. ?

[Rocky1765]

Great setups you have there, thanks for sharing...

[houndsman03]

@Rocky1765 Thanks

[AngelikavonDeutschla]

Like the saying goes :"Every thing I know I have learned in kindergarten?" Well, everything about self reliance, I have learned by using the internet, researching and gaining a library of books. Everything from canning, making receipes etc. You can learn everything. I do not like guns so I do not know how to shot. But that is my partners expertise. She is a Navy brad and has the highest shoting rank from the Navy. I would not mess with her!

[houndsman03]

@AngelikavonDeutschla Youtube is a good resource for sure. Sounds like you're well on your way to being more self reliant. Thanks for watching.

[huntingsurvival]

lol i have 6 dominque chickens and i hear that 1 chicken can produce 230 eggs per year and their dual purpose! Give eggs and great stew meat :). great setup. you thinking of getting a rooster?

[houndsman03]

@huntingsurvival Got two rosters, still little guys, with the last batch.. Thanks for watching

[Goldenchild795]

This guy is amazing, He`s so self sufficient, He knows how to do everything, Farming, Gardening, Hunting, Gun repair, Food preparations, I even seen him make his own soap in one video.. Talk about the Jack of all trades. I wish I had 10 percent of his abilities

[houndsman03]

@Goldenchild795 Jack of all trades, but master of none...just trying to learn as much as I can, while I can. Thanks for the kind comment. Made me blush.....

[flamedrag18]

for the sunlight for the chickens, why not simply put in a window facing south? or if a corner is on the south side, two small windows facing southeast and southwest, putting insulation in the barn will reduce heat loss, it'll actually be toasty in there due to the greenhouse effect this set up makes, I have a friend who has it this way and it works beautifully, in freezing temps, it almost hotter then in the house.

[houndsman03]

@flamedrag18 I do need to Insulate that barn, on my list of thing to do. They can go outside if they need sun light, but when we get -20f, they won't. Try to keep the window thing to min., for security. I store tools and equipment in the barn. Thanks for watching

[seahorsecowboys]

thank you for all the great info !....how many lbs of meat does a breeding pair of the new zeland rabbits produce a year on avg ?....thank you again and god bless

[houndsman03]

@seahorsecowboys If you want to be at max, you can have the doe bred every 50-55 days, she’ll have 7-10 young, hopefully all will make it. At eight to nine weeks should weight 6 lbs.

[seahorsecowboys]

@houndsman03 ...thank you , i appreciate all your help ...great channel ..... learning to can meat and raising rabbits is my new homework !....thanks again and god bless

[piper724000]

Have you had any problems with Coyotes?

[houndsman03]

@piper724000 Yep, check out my Solar rabbit video.

[farmjohnny]

We have been picking up free Craig's List rabbit cages when I see them for just such a sojourn into the dark side. When I was a youngster one of my friends raised rabbits so I participated in many harvesting sessions. It was a good primer.

We are working on our aquaponics and greenhouse set up (800 gal) this season with hopes of having our first crop by the end of this year. We also have a pretty good vermiculture setup going.

PS I just watched your pantry vid. You remind me of me!

[houndsman03]

@farmjohnny I hope when you get it up in running you post a video on your aquaponics operation. I would be interested in how it works during the colder months. whoo... Vermiculture and aquaponics that's thinking out of the box, sounds great.

[houndsman03]

Farmjohnny; Thanks, If you have chickens you might as well come over to the dark side and get some rabbits. They sure are tasty. A great starting point if you haven't had them before is do a search " Raising Rabbits helpful suggestions for beginners" its put out by the 4H. I think you get a lot of bang for the buck out of rabbits. Low maintanance, don't make noise, eat cheap food, don't require much room. Most citys look at them as pets so you can have them if you life in town. Good luck

[farmjohnny]

Good vid! I've been giving some thought to some rabbits, we have 20+ chickens now. Looks like you are getting the same winter as us. We are in western WI.