There are three major issues to consider when one wants to rear rabbits for commercial purposes. These include building appropriate cages where they live, feeding them well, and breeding. However, according to Alex Maina, an Embu County rabbit farmer and breeder, breeding is key to the animals and if not done well a farmer can […]
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The rise in commercial rabbit farming has driven prices for rabbit feed,up from Sh1,800 per 50kg five years ago to now Sh2,500, setting farmers on a search for alternative, lower-cost feeds for their rabbits. Without such savings, the food price rises have resulted in a higher overall cost in rabbit rearing that is reducing farmers’
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A Kiambu County based firm is looking for more than 1,000 rabbits per week from farmers to meet its growing demand from the suppliers as festive season meat orders starts gaining momentum. Supermarkets and other small meat outlets have placed orders at the Thika-based company, Rabbak, to deliver meat and life rabbits. The firm, which
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One of the California white doe rabbit at Felix Maina’s Forest Lane Rabbit Breeders’s farm In Embu County. He keeps the breed for breeding purposes. Photo, Zablon Oyugi. There are three major issues to consider when one wants to rear rabbits for commercial purposes. These include building them nice cages where they live, feeding them well
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The Rabbit Breeders Association of Kenya (RABAK) is looking for farmers to rear rabbits and in turn would provide market by buying the animals from contracted farmers. “At the moment we supply Uchumi supermarket with at least two tonnes of rabbit meat but we are facing a shortage and that’s why we are training and
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