Eating or selling your rabbits

258. Dot not give your rabbits any food to eat the night before you are going to eat them or take them to the market.

259. It is not good to kill a rabbit or move a rabbit from place to place when its stomach is full. However, during this time be sure that it has water to drink.

260. Remember, you can kill rabbits one al a time when you need meat. The drawings on the next pages show you how to kill and clean a rabbit.

261. If you are going to sell rabbits at the market, you should move them when it is cool. If it is too hot, they may die before you get to the market.

262. Another way to sell rabbits is to put a few of them in boxes or in a pen by the side of the road near your house. That way people can come to look at them and to buy them.

Put a few rabbits in boxes or in a pen by the side of the road

How to kill a rabbit

1 you can kill a rabbit quickly and easily by hitting it on the back of the neck
2 you can also kill a rabbit by holding its back feet and pulling its head down and out (as shown) to break its neck
3 when the rabbit is dead, tie it up by the back feet, cut off its head and front feet and let the blood drip out

How to kill a rabbit

How to clean a rabbit

1 slit the skin around both back feet and make a cut from one leg to the other
2 pull off the skin from both back legs and cut off the tail
3 continue to pull the skin until it is completely off
4 cut the rabbit up the middle and take out everything except the kidneys, liver and heart (which are good to eat)

How to clean a rabbit

How to cut up a rabbit

1 back legs
2 rump
3 ribs
4 shoulders and front legs

How to cut up a rabbit