Rabbit prices

[karlbird]

Strange as I couldn't get enough to keep up with demand when I had big rabbit permissions. One dealer had a standing order for around 500 a week for animal feed, plus all those for the human food chain. To be honest, £1.50 each dressed is not that bad for a few minutes work.

 

[Greymaster]

I pay £1 but if they are paunched/skinned and with the lungs heart liver removed I then pay £2 so I think it might be worth the 2 mins work.

Martin

Presumably with the shot damaged head removed?

 

[Spix]

To be honest, £1.50 each dressed is not that bad for a few minutes work.

You are seriously undervaluing your time. I charge for shooting them so selling them is almost irrelevant, shame to waste them though and a pity that they have no realistic commercial value. If the landowner didn't want them cleared I'd just leave them out for the buzzards and kites as I do elsewhere, when it comes to rabbits you can never have too many buzzards !

 

[bewsher500]

You are seriously undervaluing your time. I charge for shooting them so selling them is almost irrelevant, shame to waste them though and a pity that they have no realistic commercial value.

Well I am sure the prices round here have gone way up
if I dress them I could sell them for £3-3.50 a pop to a butcher who has been chomping at the bit for more!!! lb for lb more value than venison!
I actually find it easier and just as quick to split the skin at the mid spine and deglove them in both direction removing paunch with skin, three chops for legs and head. done!

 

[bruce w]

I can remember when you could get a terrier pup for that !

i have bought a horse for 40 gns and carted muck out with it the same day ,a useful horse ,though the Rex fur rabbits were never cheap ,but 45 notes for a white bunny i would want it to be able to wait on tables for that money.

 

[karlbird]

If you don't have the pleasure of charging for the shooting, it's the only way of making some ammo cash back, and I still reckon i can do them quick enough to not under value my time!

 

[.243 t3]

What ever I shoot and can't get rid off goes in baiting stations 300 mm x 300 mm pipe sunk into ground on my permission good little way of getting Charlie where you want him works great .

 

[bogtrotter]

Changed days when I was killing rabbits you could hardly sell shot rabbits and if you could you only got pennies for them, had to be snared to get a decent price.

 

[Dragunov]

i have bought a horse for 40 gns and carted muck out with it the same day ,a useful horse ,though the Rex fur rabbits were never cheap ,but 45 notes for a white bunny i would want it to be able to wait on tables for that money.

Bunny Girls???

 

[sauer]

I really hate wasting them but not been huge numbers up here for wee while but showing signs of coming back.

30 odd rabbits .... Gutted , skin cut thru spine just at lower rib , keep back section ... Front & head goes to midden.
Soak over night in my chiller in a fish box cold water with either handful,of salt or bag of lemons cut in half & squeezed.
Next day debone & mince ..... Go to supermarket buy few packs of mis shape bacon packs or smoked ham soup packs sometimes called .
Mince that .... Add some grated cheese chopped chillies, chopped onions & a drop of smoky bbw sauce and rusk & burger them ....
Bl00dy ace! & a fine change from venison

Paul

 

[bogtrotter]

I really hate wasting them but not been huge numbers up here for wee while but showing signs of coming back.

30 odd rabbits .... Gutted , skin cut thru spine just at lower rib , keep back section ... Front & head goes to midden.
Soak over night in my chiller in a fish box cold water with either handful,of salt or bag of lemons cut in half & squeezed.
Next day debone & mince ..... Go to supermarket buy few packs of mis shape bacon packs or smoked ham soup packs sometimes called .
Mince that .... Add some grated cheese chopped chillies, chopped onions & a drop of smoky bbw sauce and rusk & burger them ....
Bl00dy ace! & a fine change from venison

Paul

Sounds good but leave out the bl@@dy rabbit, can 't bare to eat them, brought up on them as a kid , sickened for life.

 

[THE STALKER]

It seems like some one is cloning my post as i have not written this post about white rabbits!!! OR THE POST ABOUT RUSSEL PUPS,

 

[exmarksman9870]

I get 5 pound a rabbit cleaned not skinned.....used to get 1 pint for 3 rabbits at a local country pub...in fact he still owes me for 30 rabbits haha...

 

[andybrock]

This is my web site I made for selling rabbitWild Rabbit meat if any of you have plenty of rabbits it's worth considering doing one yourself, I get people from all over the country after them. I only sell collection and local delivery but if your prepared to sell them frozen and post via courier then you can make a few quid! Some butchers are charging up to £10 for rabbits!!

 

[FrenchieBoy]

I don't get many nowadays around "my neck of the woods" to think about selling them or making any money out of them, but those that I do get are never wasted. Some I eat myself and the rest i just give away to our elderly neighbours (Who appreciate a free oven ready and wholesome/healthy meal). I used to be able to get £1.00 a piece (Rifle/head-shot and in the skin) but with the amount I get it wasn't worth the price of fuel for delivering them.
Any that are gut shot are used as fox bait/ferret food so none are wasted and everyone is happy!

 

[JockStalk]

Talking with a local keeper last night. He's had just over 800 so far this year. Leaves them where they fall. At 81 they'd have to be worth their weight in gold to be worth carrying back to the car!

 

[nicowilson]

Resurrection of an old post.
I've just been granted permission to shoot on a farm with a massive rabbit problem and will be able to shoot far more than I can use myself or give away to friends. In order to sell to a game dealer or butcher is it necessary to have a small game hygeine ticket or something similar? I do have a DSC1 but that probably counts for very little here.
Thanks.

Yes you need a game hygiene certificate to sell rabbits to a butcher or game dealer.

A DSC1 won't help as it only covers large game, and (forgive me for stating the obvious) rabbits are small game. I wanted to make sure that our shoot is acting legitimately when we give birds to the pub where we have breakfast and for this I needed a Small Game Hygiene certificate.

Only organisation that I could find that offers Small Game Hygiene is the NGO. I spent a Saturday on an excellent course that also covers large game.

The NGO course is apparently to a higher standard than the DSC1 as it is Food Standards Agency approved whereas the hygiene elements of DSC1 are LANTRA approved.

 

[Tim.243]

Yes you need a game hygiene certificate to sell rabbits to a butcher or game dealer.

A DSC1 won't help as it only covers large game, and (forgive me for stating the obvious) rabbits are small game. I wanted to make sure that our shoot is acting legitimately when we give birds to the pub where we have breakfast and for this I needed a Small Game Hygiene certificate.

Only organisation that I could find that offers Small Game Hygiene is the NGO. I spent a Saturday on an excellent course that also covers large game.

The NGO course is apparently to a higher standard than the DSC1 as it is Food Standards Agency approved whereas the hygiene elements of DSC1 are LANTRA approved.

Does this apply to pigeons?

As then every pigeon shooter in the country taking birds to a game dealer will have a hole in there pocket for the cost of the £100.00 course!

Tim.243

 

[salopsniper]

Tim I dont belive it applies to pigeons or rabbits until you gut them!
Its down to the insides being inspected or available to be inspected by a trained / quallified person.
But I could be wrong on this !

ATB

Matt

 

[Tim.243]

Tim I dont belive it applies to pigeons or rabbits until you gut them!
Its down to the insides being inspected or available to be inspected by a trained / quallified person.
But I could be wrong on this !

ATB

Matt

My thoughts exactly.....however there are more people waving bits of paper around than people shooting...
and the other half are saying you need a bit of paper....

Tim.243