Eating deceased Bugs Bunnies

[GeneMO]

So I am on this Facebook site called " My job depends on Ag", and some poster put on a comment about how healthy rabbit was, yadda yadda. And it gave me the hankering for some good fried rabbit. But they were promoting farm raised, tame rabbits. I like wild ones better.

Any stories, recipes, or comments?

I think the original poster was overseas, UK maybe, as there are some members there.

Gene

[Jim @ Jawa]

...good fried rabbit. ...tame rabbits. I like wild ones better.
Any stories, recipes, or comments?

Gene

When I was too young and too skinny for the army I raised rabbits for a couple of years before I went in the army. Started with one rabbit and a year and a half later I sold the whole business with over 150 rabbits eight different cages. They don't only helped feed the family I sold enough meat to pay for the rabbit food. Then the army fed me yardbirds.

[GeneMO]

My dad raised rabbits for about 6-8 years. Good eating.

[Bkeepr]

Our old plumber told me there were days when he was growing up that the only reason his family had meat on the table was because the previous owner of my farm let the plumber’s dad hunt rabbits on our farm whenever he wanted. They lived in Frederick city, and had no other opportunity to hunt.

Me, I have had rabbit a couple of times just to try it. I prefer pheasant.

[GeneMO]

My dad trapped wild rabbits, caught the school bus at the end of his trapline, then, put the gunny sack with the live rabbits on the bus, rode it to town, they dropped him off at the train depot and he shipped the live rabbits to St. Louis. He left his .22 rifle in the school bus, walked through town to school, and then set his traps after school and walked back home. Quite a thriving trade through the 1940's