Anybody know about bunnies? Every year or two a small rabbit shows up in my back yard. A brush bunny, no white tail, small ears. Never see more than one. Never eats my garden. Very cute, my cats can't get near it, too fast for them. Question, is there such a thing as ONE rabbit? Hw long do they live? Also had a couple Bob Whites out there this morning, wish my cats could catch those.
RABBITS
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You want the cats to catch quail?
Do they share their catch?
I know nothing about rabbits. We only seem to have three kinds out here. Cottontail, Jacks and Snow shoe Hares, which I guess are not actually rabbits but hares. But they look like a rabbit to me.
Do they share their catch?
I know nothing about rabbits. We only seem to have three kinds out here. Cottontail, Jacks and Snow shoe Hares, which I guess are not actually rabbits but hares. But they look like a rabbit to me.
I happen to have a soft spot for rabbits. We have an outdoor cat that I wish didn’t bring in the juveniles every spring and summer. Bobwhites? Where are you at geographically? South Texas? There is never one bunny. Are you sure it’s a rabbit/hare/jack? You may only be seeing the young from a warren that is close by. While you think it’s one bunny, it’s probably only the least fortunate or most ignorant youth of a litter that’s turning up in your proximity from an established breeding pair or more.
Only thing I know they taste good with biscuits and gravy
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They are best hunted at Easter time when they are slowed by heavy loads of candy and lavishly decorated eggs. 
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There is a Pygmy rabbit in the Northwest.
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I CANNOT BELIEVE I'M THE FIRST TO POST THIS!!
You guys are slowing up!!
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4barrel
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People that haven't been around rabbits should get their kid a couple for a school FHA or FFA project.
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Jessie
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They’re mountain dwellers and like it up high. I just read that temps over 75 can/will kill them. Unless the OP is a mountain man it’s probably not a Pika. Unless it’s cold where you are most of the time.
You are right about that description. Small, shorter ears and tails.
It would be great to get a picture?
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joeintexas
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All I know about rabbits is they taste like.......well you know.
Now that's a rabbit!
Ian with Mr Butters.
Ian with Mr Butters.
A friend and I use to raise rabbits for food/meat. After a year and a half things changed, so we not only butchered the young, small "eating size" rabbits (about the size of a wild hare), we also slaughtered our boar and breeding sows. The amount of meat on a market sized rabbits just about equals a chicken, but the older breeding sows had more meat than your average Thanksgiving Turkey! The domestic rabbit meat is normally very white and rich, while wild hares are darker and maybe a little tougher and more like dark meat chicken. At the time our kids were 3 to 8 years old, and since we didn't do the Easter Bunny thing, they had no problems with Rabbit or Hare for dinner!!!
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DISTURBED A NEST?
It seems almost every year I uncover a nest while doing yard work & find 2-4 small bunnies. This year it was only 2, I SAW outside of the nest (late Feb here in central FL) I back off & leave them alone. Any idea when it should be safe to return & pull the rest of the weeds, their home?
It seems almost every year I uncover a nest while doing yard work & find 2-4 small bunnies. This year it was only 2, I SAW outside of the nest (late Feb here in central FL) I back off & leave them alone. Any idea when it should be safe to return & pull the rest of the weeds, their home?
(wife stews them)gman51
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I raised them for meat a long time ago. A snake got into the cage and killed them. I don't know why because the snake didn't eat them. I wondered why my baby rabbits were found dead in the far corner of the cage. Found out my little girl would take them out of the cage and play with them. When she put them back into the cage the momma rabbit killed them. I found out don't handle baby rabbits or this would happen.
Personally I don't think they taste like chicken either. Rabbits are sort of expensive to buy in the grocery store. They are easier to catch in the store though. LOL
Personally I don't think they taste like chicken either. Rabbits are sort of expensive to buy in the grocery store. They are easier to catch in the store though. LOL
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We've got hill billies and canecutters or swamp rabbits. The hillbillies are about half the size of the canecutters and prefer high drier ground while the canecutters prefer lower wetter areas. They both taste the same, one just bigger than the other. We raised a variey of tame rabbits and as stated above the meat is whiter and not quite as tough. I chicken fry mine in a seasoned batter and then simmer them in gravy in a crock pot or boiler until tender. I've got a little 23 acre farm and leave enough brushy areas for us to harvest what we want for all year. A couple of dozen will do for a year and leave enough seed rabbits for next year. Every now and then coyotes or bobcats will mess this up but they come back pretty fast.
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There used to be all kinds of rabbits around here. Hunted them with my Dad when I was young. Back when I first started working for the city, There was one remote piece of city property I had to go to once a week that was on the outskirts of town near the river bottom. Drive down that road early in the morning and it wasn't nothing to see a dozen bunnies or more.
Then about 20 years ago the coyotes crossed the Mississippi river into our area. Rabbits have all but disappeared. Haven't seen one in years.
Well except at the Barber shop. My barber is a lady and her pet rabbit, Gypsy, has the run of the shop. Sometimes while waiting she'll come over to you for a scratchin'. Cute critter.
Then about 20 years ago the coyotes crossed the Mississippi river into our area. Rabbits have all but disappeared. Haven't seen one in years.
Well except at the Barber shop. My barber is a lady and her pet rabbit, Gypsy, has the run of the shop. Sometimes while waiting she'll come over to you for a scratchin'. Cute critter.
I live in a town subdivision that is well developed. I frequently come home and find a couple rabbits in my front yard, chomping on the clover. They seem fairly used to me and don't run unless I get really close. I don't know where they live, because I don't see enough foliage around to provide cover.
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THEY HIDE WELL IN PLAIN SITE, SOMETIMES.
I found one "nest" in the middle of a flat lawn, just a small 3-4" tuft of dead grass to cover the hole.
I found one "nest" in the middle of a flat lawn, just a small 3-4" tuft of dead grass to cover the hole.
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FWIW, cottontail rabbit is my favorite game meat!
