Thread: How do you prep your bunnies for dog tucker?

Me thinks someone with good video skills needs to do an updated video of rabbit prep, the ones on line are getting dated.

gut it, skin it, chop feet off (those claws are sharp) usually freeze them for 2-3 weeks to kill any nasties like worms. thaw and give them to dog.
having said that until the arthritis kicked in a few months ago Bo would just kill and eat his own ..............oh hell the farts were killers !!!

A farm that I used to work on used to skin them and throw them into an old copper and have a big cook up. After about 12 hours cooking it was all broken down, and let it cool off. Scoop out a shovel load, feed to dogs. They cant get enough of it.

We often used to get over 100 bunnies a night spot lighting.

Dont be down-wind while its cooking and its fine.

I do push gutting on the spot not long after shooting.
Lay bunnies on side and pull front legs together and back legs together and a slight pull to elongate the body.
After cooling and the get a little firmer you meat cleaver off the rear feet the head and front feet in 3 swings.
To skin just grab the back skin and tear it open and jobs done

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Hares, rabbits, possums all thrown to the dogs whole, fully intact. If we had a good shoot and had spares we'd freeze them. Often we had one freezer full with animals we night shot, the other with old sheep/cattle/horse.
Growing up we never had less than 12 dogs on the farm, and as many as 20. Now at the farm there's about 8 or 9. And we have 6 here. Never ever had a problem with feeding whole rabbits or hares or possums to dogs, and they always do very well off them.

I had a staffy who learnt to run in the direction the band stick was pointing after it went bang. She learnt that there was something yummy to eat and if she got there quick enough she could down the whole rabbit before I got to it.

I have shot a rabbit and thought id take a leg back to my dog to see what she did with the leg , first time she buried it and it went all maggoty and shit, so I threw It out when I saw it on the lawn after she redug it up , Second time she turned her nose up at some fresh rabbit meat cut off the back legs into chunks. I don't think she knew what to do with it.
Any suggestions to get her to like it or is it more of a 'get used to the smell' ect….

Dog is a maltease , shitzu cross/handbag dog who thinks she is a farm dog lol....

@Frodo was at my place the other night and he shot a bunny so we made an impromptu rabbit stew.... it was bloody good! Bugger the dog, bunnies are for me to eat now!

Don't know if it was the bunny or the 1/2 bottle of wine which made that stew taste so good...lol.

The only prep is loading the firearm!