Gary Reeder
I enjoyed raising the rabbits and had several
Friday, January 30, 2026, 11:52

breeds of them. I would raise the bunnies until they got to about 2 lbs then sell the meat to a fellow that had hundreds of them in just about every breed there was. I enjoyed the Lops, with their long ears. Rather than get paid for the rabbits I sold him I would take it out in rabbits. I would usually keep 70 or 75 rabbits as breeding stock. I had Quonset huts with the rabbits in wire huts hanging about 4 feet off the ground.
I bought my breeding stock from the fellow that had hundreds and within no time I had about 70 females and 4 or 5 males. But they, like the chickens, went thru a 50 lb bag of food just about every day. I started out with 40 rabbits total and when I moved to Florida I had somewhere around 100. Rabbits would breed "like rabbits" and if I had 40 to start with and bred each female I would double that amount in just no time.

When the females came into heat I would put them in with all the males, one at a time and breed them with each male. This way we had big broods, never little broods of 3 or 4. Breeding rabbits in a real kick too. The males would jump on the female, wham bam about 5 or 6 seconds then he would scream and fall over sideways like he had a heart attack. Kase helped me and when we were breeding and the males would scream and fall over sideways, Kase was 5 or 6 and thought the rabbit had a heart attack and was dead.
I really enjoyed them but this was in 1977 to 1981 and
I was still in radio and the head man of the radio station there in Nashville wanted me to move down to Sarasota Florida and run a new radio station he had just bought down there. It was on a small island just off Sarasota. At first I said no but money talks so I sold all the rabbits and all the equipment to a bunch of Amish folks.
I really miss the rabbits and chickens. Might get back into them sometime. If anyone needs any info about breeding rabbits let me know. I am not an expert but know enough to get you started.