Yes always look for the best breeding Doe's, to start you breeding Program; because if you Purchase Rubbish, you will only Produce Rubbish, and never get back to where you need to be, to have good dressed out Meat Rabbits.
So my Advice to you would be to start with the Best Money can buy, and you will always know that you at least started the right way.
See bad rabbits eat just as much as Good rabbits, so it makes sense to me to start right and not go after bad producing rabbits, which brings us to which Rabbits are the best for meat breeding.
First look at the Climate where you live, is it a cold climate, like in Tasmania where I live, its cold at times but in general its a very nice climate, and not a lot of disease to cope with oh yes there is Mixomotoses, caused by Mosquitoes, you need to watch them that they don't get to be a problem, can use sprays lightly, what I use is a netting over my cages of a night, but most of my rabbits cages are built outside, and have not had the problem with Mosquitoes.
Then we have the man made disease, of Coleus virus, which is dropped by the CSIRO, to kill rabbits in the wild; but not had any problems with that either because you can Vaccinate against that, at a cost of about $5.00 each rabbit and you only need to do your Breeding Stock, either get a vet to do the Vaccinating or buy the Viles of stuff and get some needles from the chemist, and do it yourself, will talk about that later how to do and how much stuff to use on each rabbit.
Right now then the best Meat rabbits to breed for Meat is no doubt the New Zealand Whites, and you can cross them with Californians, and there are other breeds you can use, but you make up your own minds on that, mine are New Zealand Whites and I'm using a Silver New Zealand, across them whites, just to try out as they are all purebreds, anyway, New Zealand Rabbits come in 4 colours, Whites, Reds,Blacks, and Silvers.
So breeding with these to start with then I'm buying a pair of Californians to cross into my next breeding Litters; OK so then it will bring out the best dressed Rabbits for Commercial Processing, as you want your Rabbits to dress out at approximately
2 1/2 Kilo'es of great white Meat Delicious and very nutrition and in Particular for those who suffer from Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, as its High in Protein,and very low in Fat, speaking here from Experience, as had Heart Disease but since been on Rabbit, and Chicken, and Fish, heaps better in Health, why because I listen to my Body, and feed it right, and exercise, stop to smell the roses each day enjoy life every day while we have it.
Well thats the end of our Post today but will be back in a couple of days again to bring you more great stuff on the good Life of meat Rabbits.
So until then you keep looking out for each other, and drive safely on the winter Roads. cya soon.
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