leggy
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baby male meat rabbit,gloucestershire
ideal to start a line of meat rabbits.
9 week old french lop x dutch x roughly half size of a french lop.
£10 to ensure good home
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bodger
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It would make a lovely pet rabbit for someone but the start of a meat rabbit dynasty is stretching it a little bit. 
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leggy
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how so 
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bodger
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New Zealand White and Calafornian rabbits are recognised meat producing rabbits. Dutch rabbits are not, they are essentially pet or exhibition rabbits.
If you are going to rear meat rabbits, you need rabbits that produce lots of meat at an early age.
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lottie
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If you only want to raise rabbits for your own consumption some of the smaller breeds don't have a bad meat to bone ratio and you can feed them cheaply--- californians or newzealand white rabbits need concentrates to grow that quickly. When I was feeding seven of us newzealand whites were good---now I prefer smaller rabbits who will grow slower on forage and veg waste.
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bodger
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We kept meat rabbits for a number of years and its not just size, but as in chickens and other stock, its shape and how they convert food.
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Nick
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Taste, too?
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lottie
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Feed them herbs. 
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leggy
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its bones seem quite small at the moment.
it was born here
its mother was a dutch or dutch x im not sure and the father is a pure french lop
i hope to be moving in the forseeable future so am cutting down on animals.
i thought if someone local was struggling to source suitable rabbits it would be ideal if mated to a decent sized doe.
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bodger
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He'll make a smashing pet. I hope you manage to rehome him.
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leggy
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thread can be closed.
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