For beginning homesteaders (or even those more established), raising meat rabbits it the perfect first step to take toward raising your own livestock. As natural herbivores, rabbits eat low on the ...

Learn about the best meat rabbit breeds, including how to raise meat rabbits quickly, nurture the kits, and what the right size will be. The primary characteristics of a good meat rabbit breed are ...

A successful rabbit venture is underpinned by three essentials: appropriate housing, quality feed and perhaps most importantly, picking the right breeders. Housing can be renovated whilst the ...

Many a times, farmers who want to buy rabbits from us only tell me they want ‘a big rabbit’. Apparently, most Kenyan farmers are not cognizant of the breed of rabbits they keep on their farm. The main ...

Over the years the overall focus of agricultural scientists at the National Animal Genetic Resources Centre (NAGRIC) and Data Bank has been on increasing utilisation of improved utilisation This is in ...

The Gates Foundation funds research on engineering new genetically modified-varieties of staple crops – including rice, sweet potatoes, and bananas – to contain higher amounts of vitamins and ...

The association’s vice-president Siphosethu Ncube-Moyo said an additional 6 000 breeders would be realised from the ongoing national rabbit pure breed roll-out programme, which is being bankrolled by ...

A kit will require about 50g of feed per day, with a 40kg pallet going for R243/kg. An estimation of 9.2kg is required for the life cycle of the rabbit (51 days to reach a marketable weight of 2.2kg).