r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Infamous-Skin8969 • 18h ago
of a rabbit
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u/Bad-Banana-from-Mars 16h ago
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u/Haunting_Apricot_120 16h ago
That terrifying rabbit is getting all the trix. I don’t want any trouble
https://giphy.com/gifs/lrzjrZkrLn2YDTVnpD
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u/Wise_Ad_5810 17h ago edited 16h ago
Girl I know has a Flemish Giant... it demands to sit in your lap or be held at all times or it will bite you until you pick it up. Have to keep your shoes on a high shelf when you come in the house or the rabbit pees on them
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u/OkCoconut3270 17h ago
Wow.... I hope he has the holy hand grenade of Antioch otherwise he's in serious trouble
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u/denimbabe 16h ago
I was not expecting a Holy Grail reference today but here we are.
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u/guardianharper 4h ago
Reddit requires Holy Grail references at regular intervals to keep its hope alive!
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u/asparagusp26 17h ago
If normal rabbits have a kicking force to break a rib…this can clearly snap your spine 💀
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u/Specialist_Elk140 17h ago
Why does Portuguese sound like Spanish mixed with Dutch?
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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 16h ago
To me it sounds like a slav with dementia trying his absolutely best to speak arabic but forgetting the language
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u/OldAssistant4220 17h ago
yep. it was bred for maximizing meat production.
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u/DownvoteAreMyUpvote 12h ago
The moment i saw it from my feed i immediately imagined it as food, deep fried in all its glory.
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u/Hopestrosity 14h ago
Looks like the white rabbit from Wonderland hit the gym so he could hop faster and not be late! 😆
But seriously- cute bunny! That would be so sweet to cuddle! 🥰
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u/Boneridge 11h ago
This reminds me of a novel I read as a kid it was brancula? It was a vampire take on a white hair red eyed bunny kind of like goose bumps but not from the same universe.
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u/OnwardForScience 8h ago
This reminds me of the Skittles commercial. You know the one. Now look it up so it's in your head too.
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u/Breadmaker9999 17h ago
I've seen bigger. And smaller, and ones with the exact same mass but proportioned differently.
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u/Few_Ad_5281 17h ago
Not to be that guy, but why aren't rabbits more mainstream in the food industry. They are literally easier to raise than chickens and arguably reproduce and mature faster.
One of these big boys could be cheaper and just as filling.
Are the production costs that bad? Is butchering a chicken easier to automate because of the varying proportions?
Or do people can't bring themselves to eat Bugs Bunny?
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u/purple-vasabi 17h ago edited 17h ago
Both have their own benefits, they aren't easier to raise than chicken, they are just as cheap to feed as chicken. Personally, I prefer chicken meat to rabbit's meat when it comes to taste. + Generally we find rabbits to be kinda cute, so we don't butcher them as much as chicken.
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u/IceHawk1212 17h ago
They are very hard to process on scale, as a rodent their skeletons are fragile and prone to shattering. This means you can't pop them in an automated machine like chickens. Chickens are the only real comparable too as both pigs and cows are more robust in terms of food inputs. I would imagine that it doesn't help that rabbits when in high population density are very prone to diseases like hemorrhagic disease which carries a 70%-100% fatality rate.
Rabbit meat would easily cost 3-5 times what chickens cost at anything approaching supply chain of scale.
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u/redisdead__ 17h ago
r/askfoodhistorians will probably have a very good post on this already but as far as I know there used to be warrens all over England to farm them in the middle ages but the big problem was chickens can eat basically any kitchen scraps and be healthy but rabbits are harder to feed so chickens won out.
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u/Caosin36 17h ago
What about quails?
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u/redisdead__ 17h ago
I don't know but I'm going to guess they are better flyers so probably harder to keep and they don't have the chickens freakish non-stop egg laying ability.
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u/Unfair_Buddy5871 17h ago
Rabbits get stressed out by anything so I would assume their meat might be tougher? Chickens generally don't freak out as much and maintain more tender meat composition
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u/hankbbeckett 17h ago
Naw, domestic rabbits can be chiller then most chickens. They very quickly get used to dogs, loud building projects nearby, vehicles, wild animals eyeballing them(long as it's from the other side of the wire). They're considered "fryer" age at around 10 weeks, after that they get a little tougher.
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u/Unfair_Buddy5871 16h ago
Ohhh interesting. I haven't had rabbit before i might try it sometime if I get the chance
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u/insanekid66 16h ago
We had hens and rabbits for meat. The hens were decent, the rabbits were a fucking nightmare.
It was damn near impossible to butcher one without little pieces of bone getting everywhere. The meat was pretty gross too, the animals freak tf out over the smallest things, which made the meat all pissy and gross. We've had wild rabbit/hare that was better, but had 0 fat on it.
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u/hankbbeckett 16h ago edited 16h ago
On a large scale, breeding rabbits in a controlled manner takes a lot of individual cages, moving rabbits around for breeding, food/water/cleaning for each cage. Not prohibitive, but harder then just having a flock of chickens. They're also more sensitive to mold, dust, disease, and overheating.
You can pasture raise rabbits in a colony. Similar to chickens, one buck for several does. Slaughter or separate young rabbits at around 10 weeks so you don't have fighting bucks and pregnant teens. Some people don't like it because its hard to tell when kits are born(rabbits hide their nests really well!), how old they are, or which rabbit is even the mother(they only nurse once or twice per 24hrs, usually in the middle of the night). I like it because I don't have to have animals confined to tiny cages. They get a big pen to dig tunnels, knock things over, piss competitively, chase each other around, do whatever rabbit stuff they do all day. If I need to leave for a week, I can just leave them a lot of hay, a pile of greens, and pellets and water are in automatic systems. About once a month, a bunch of babies emerge from the tunnels.
I still think it's mostly cultural tho. Not a big market for rabbit meat. Lot of city people feel bad eating it, but are fine with chicken, so why take the risk instead of just raising more chickens.
On a small farm/homestead level, rabbits are perfect. Quiet, clean, better manure then chickens. Might be hard to keep thousands of rabbits cool and clean, but a few dozen are very very low maintenance. When it's time to butcher them, no plucking, very easy to dress out.
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u/inlandsquatch 17h ago