For Shire Farms in Windsor, rabbits didn’t start out as a commercial livestock possibility, but the animal quickly turned into a runaway – or in this case – a hop-away success. As Grace Asbenson tells ...

The next big thing in pastured livestock may be rabbit. According to the USDA, rabbits convert feed to meat more efficiently than cattle and can be raised commercially for meat, as pets, or for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OHIO — Goats, chickens, rabbits and more ...

While some people may still consider rabbit farming as a hobby only done by small boys today it is turning into a cash cow for farmers who are practicing it. This could be shown by proof of Rabbit ...

(WHTM)– Visiting the Pennsylvania Farm Show can mean standing in a lot of lines. Lines for food, lines to buy things, lines to get into a presentation, and sometimes, lines for a dose of cute and ...

A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...

Should rabbits in Connecticut be raised only as house pets, or possibly also for stews and other meals? A proposal to allow harvesting rabbits for food, an idea loved by farmers but hated by animal ...

One of the goals on our urban farm, the Bossy Hen Homestead, is to create a cycle of sustainability. This is certainly not to say that with a property as small as ours that we do not have to ...

I have decided to become a rabbit farmer. Rabbit wrangling does not get a lot of respect, I have discovered. As I explained my plans to a good friend the other day, he could not take his eyes off an ...

Alexys and Sean Carlton of Carlton Hill Farm on Valley Mills Road. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — A new small-scale sustainable farm in Wood County has been the dream of a couple once involved in the ...

Some of the Bay Area's best restaurants turn to a Sebastopol farm for their rabbit meat, an increasingly popular dish on local menus. On a quiet, overgrown Sebastopol farm once owned by R&B legend ...