Wonderful for the kids to experience this. Rabbits are great to grow for meat they grow fast pending on the breed 7 to 9 weeks to butcher. They are very easy to skin and clean and any sharp knife will do the trick. Do you plan to keep the fur? let me know and I can tell you how to skin them.
We had thought about rabbits instead of meat chickens for a bit. The rabbits we have now are just mutts from Rural King. If you don't have a Rural King take Walmart and merge it with Tractor Supply. They tend to take old K-mart stores and convert them, so they have a mix of everything but a lot cheaper then Tractor Supply.
I think the wife said we had about 14 eggs hatch and live. I guess that is not too bad from our home made incubator. About 50%, although we had a few hatch that didn't survive. Made a nice project for the kids. All but 4 or 5 are meat birds. I took the old meat bird run down. I took a corner out of the rabbit hutch, so I can move the ducks under them with a nice run. They now have a nice shelter as they didn't use the coop on their old run. And I turned the old duck coop/run into the meat bird area. I'm not as talented as Roy, especially using scraps from the old run to do the new area, so no pics.
On a side note, I found someone only an hour away selling Kenekune pigs. Now if I only had the money and the room. I thought about trying to raise them around the coops, but I think they would need more room. They are supposed to be a pretty tastey breed and good for small homesteads. Would be great to have some fresh pork.
My son also started Flag football. Last night was his first practice and tonight is his first game. He is on a team with all new people, and younger. Him and one other kid out of the 8 on his team have experience. But he is center, so he gets practice snapping, and gets to learn more about the game.
Otherwise things have been going steady here. Project after project. For all those up north, I thought I would say it is in the 80's this weekend. Low 80's but still in the 80's. Does not look like we will have a winter this year. But my Seminole pumpkins have taken over part of the yard and providing lots of pumpkins to eat.
Oops sorry. Wrong line up. From left to right is black cherry, black walnut, eastern red cedar and sassafras. Going to be fun project, and I know it's going to take months.
Personally, I like the red cedar, then it is a toss up between the black cherry or black walnut. But I bet any of them are going to turn out great.