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ranegyr

How young is too young? Can you eat baby rabbits? If so, how; and is it even worth it?

Lets just call this morbid curiosity from overdosing on homesteader videos. Put simply, how soon can you eat a baby rabbit? Considering how quickly rabbits reproduce, it's certainly possible to be overrun with babies if you're not managing the population. Is it also possible to say deep fry baby rabbits (think rabbit nuggets.) Is there any nutritional value to the meat at a week, two, or a month? At what size/stage might a rabbit have nutritional value? Is it all fatty tissue or is there any protein? Are the bones hard yet or would deep frying render the bones edible? (think sardines.) Would pressure cooking help? Is hair too big of an obstacle at this stage?

The absolute ONLY information i can find is a french recipe and the author opted for pork because the idea was too much for them. https://becomingmadame.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/i-just-cant-eat-a-baby-rabbit-unforgettable-recipe/

Yeah, i get it; it's pretty far out there but cuisine can be really wild sometimes. The younger the animal, the less cost it involves to raise it. We already have meat rabbits so i just don't see it as too drastic a leap unless there are scientific reasons it is a useless endeavor.

So, judge away fellow homesteaders. What do you think?

Posted Nov 9, 2024, 7:11 PM UTC

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