Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is a small livestock species raised in wire cages for meat, valued for a short generation interval and a high feed-to-meat efficiency.1
Inputs
Outputs
- Human food1
- Meat: young “fryers” marketed at about 1.8 kg live weight by 8 weeks of age.1
- Manure: fifteen does, two bucks, and their litters produce about 0.9 tonnes of manure a year; drier than poultry manure and analyzing roughly 1.3% Nitrogen, 0.9% Phosphorus, 1.0% Potassium.1