How to make rabbit stock from rabbit bones?
Rabbit stock is so easy to make! Place your skinned and cleaned rabbit into a crock pot or large stock pot. Add vegetables or herbs you have on hand. Cover all ingredients with water Simmer until all meat is cooked. Remove the meat from the bones and pour the rabbit broth into jars. Return the cleaned bones back to the pot.
What to do with a skinned rabbit?
Place your skinned and cleaned rabbit into a crock pot or large stock pot. Add vegetables or herbs you have on hand. This is totally optional; it will still be good without anything extra!
How to make money with rabbits?
Larger breeds might be the same or for filling a freezer and selling tanned furs. Compost the manure sift it and bag it up to sell to gardeners. Raise worms in the manure and sell fishing worms or sell the red worms for vermicomposting. By using all the sources of products a rabbit produces will help you make your first dollar!
Are there any backyard meat rabbit breeders who get rich quickly?
No backyard meat rabbit breeder should start the hobby/business with the idea of getting rich quickly. There are many scams such as offers to buy back fryers from stock purchased from the swindler and there are lots of them! Sometimes he refuses to buy the fryers.
What can I use rabbit stock for?
You can also increase the nutritional value of the foods you prepare with the rabbit stock. We like to use it to cook rice and sauces, as well as the more typical soups. Rabbit makes a great meat stock or bone broth depending on what your final plans for the meat are.
Can you use rabbit bones for stock?
Stock from rabbit bones yields a silken, full-bodied broth. This recipe, an adaptation of one in The All-New, All-Purpose Joy of Cooking (Scribner, 1997), is tasty enough to sip on its own. Stock from rabbit bones yields a silken, full-bodied broth.
What do you do with bones after stock?
After straining your first broth, add fresh water and more aromatics to the pot. Boil for a few more hours, and then blitz it with an immersion blender. Strain, yielding a thick creamy broth that makes a delicious bowl of ramen. (Most of the actual bone meal will be strained out and can be added to your compost heap.)
What do you do with a rabbit's head?
The head can be crushed and fed to the chickens, the blood, bones, and meat is considered good for the laying hen, and blood mixed in the mash can be used for the same purpose. In Europe rabbits are sold with the head on, this is cooked or used for soup stock. The brains can also be used for brain tanning the pelt.
What is broth bone?
Bone broth, sometimes called stock, is liquid made from boiling animal bones and connective tissue. Chefs use stock as a base for soups, sauces, and gravies. Some people drink it on its own. People have been making bone broth since the beginning of humankind.
What can I make with meat stock?
You can reuse broth meat in any dish that requires small quantities of meat, or where meat is not the predominant flavour. Try mixing your broth meat mince with egg yolks and Parmesan and rolling it into meatballs, or using it to stuff homemade ravioli or cabbage leaves.
How many times can you use bones for stock?
Because a standard kitchen extraction of eight hours releases only about 20% of the gelatin in beef bones, the bones may be extracted for a second time, for a total of up to 24 hours. The resulting liquid can then be used to start the next fresh extraction of meat and bones.
Should you skim the fat from bone broth?
Quick tip: even if the cold method is very effective, we advise you to skim the broth while cooking to ensure maximum purity.
Ingredients
leftover bones and meat from 1 rabbit (loins, legs, and flap meat used for other recipes)
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 190C/375F (forced air). Roughly chop the rabbit and vegetables. Put all in an oven proof dish, and toss with some olive oil until lighted coated on all sides. The layer of oil is important to get some good browning.
Questions to ask before you make a trip
You’ll want to avoid buying rabbits before they are 8 weeks old, which is typically when they should be weaned. Rabbits that are weaned early often develop enteritis, a digestive disease, and sometimes die. Despite an increased risk of enteritis kits that are destined for the freezer – often called “grow outs” -are sometimes weaned early.
Housing
Rabbits kept in wire cages develop sore hocks more often. This has to do with the fact that most cages have flooring that is not right for rabbits, alas that is a topic for another day on my blog.
Looking at a Rabbits General health
A healthy rabbit should have a clean smooth coat and clean nose, eyes and ears. They should be interested in people opening their cage and move around when pestered. You should just barely be able to feel their back bone but a rabbits body should feel solid not bony.
Why rabbit?
For the health conscious, rabbit meat contains very little fat and cholesterol. It contains the highest value of protein per calorie of meat.
A rabbit primer
All breeds of domestic rabbit are descended from the European wild rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus. We owe the first truly domesticated breeds to French Catholic monks, who, because of their secluded lifestyle, needed a relatively handy source of meat.
Selecting stock
When selecting stock, choose the best quality animals available. Get a copy of the breed standard and familiarize yourself with what your breed ideal should be. Look for bright, clear eyes, proper tooth alignment, and rabbits that seem alert and active, with good coats.
Housing
Rabbit housing can be as simple as a row of cages under a shed, or as elaborate as a barn with concrete floors, automatic waterers and high-tech ventilation systems. No matter what setup you choose, your rabbits will need protection from both the environment and predators.
Breeding
Rabbits are able to breed at 4 to 9 months old, depending on the breed; small breeds tend to mature quicker, larger breeds much slower. Most of the heritage meat breeds such as the American and American Chinchilla are ready to breed at about 6 months of age, or around 7 to 8 pounds.
Kindling
At kindling, the doe should make a nest in the box out of her own fur and whatever bedding you choose. Straw is cheap and usually readily available, but can harbor mites and retain dampness. Pine shavings are a good choice, but sawdust can irritate kits’ eyes and cause respiratory problems.
Enjoying the bounty
After successfully raising a litter, the question becomes what to do with the offspring. Hopefully you have planned for this situation before making your first mating. Not every rabbit produced is breeding or show-stock quality, and those markets are finite, even though heritage breeds are widely sought.
