{"id":1214,"date":"2022-09-15T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehomemadehomestead.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2022-09-17T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T16:06:37","slug":"free-downloadable-meat-rabbit-record-and-weight-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehomemadehomestead.com\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Free Downloadable Meat Rabbit Record and Weight Tracker\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Easily Track Weights and General Information for Each Litter on One Single Sheet<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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One thing that I\u2019ve struggled with as a fairly novice backyard meat rabbit keeper is understanding my targets for size and age. I\u2019m talking mostly about what age to process meat rabbits at, but this applies to rabbits being kept for breeding (or sold), too, since ultimately with meat rabbits the goal is to produce consistent, reliable stock.  

There are a lot of different opinions regarding the right harvest age and weight, in part because there are a lot of different breeds.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This made it difficult to find one simple answer to the questions of \u201cAt what weight should I harvest my meat rabbits?\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cWhat age do you process meat rabbits?\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boiling Down (and Remembering) All the Info <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hours online in forums, groups, and searching, as well as a link to one very helpful chart (which led me to finding one very helpful website and online rabbit raising and butchering course<\/strong><\/a>), gave me many answers. But finally, the dust started to settle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This setup gives me all the references and records I need in one place. It’s easy to scan the completed sheet into my phone, too, or it can come in to be filed or copied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had a bit of a hard time keeping all this information in my head. Even though I now had references, my wall calendar scratches and weight records just weren\u2019t cutting it anymore. That was fine for the first litter or two, but once I got up to three litters of grow-outs and a few I was eyeing as new breeding stock, things started to get hard to follow. When a couple of those litters started to get closer and closer in size, it got really<\/em> hard to keep track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, I pulled together the information I wanted, pieced in the information I wanted to remember, and created this downloadable Rabbit Weight Tracker PDF<\/a><\/strong>. I thought others might find it useful, too, so now I\u2019m sharing it with you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FREE! <\/strong>I\u2019m not even asking for your email \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s Included on the Free Downloadable Rabbit Record PDF <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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This at-a-glance rabbit records makes it much easier to get a good overview of the progress of each litter, and to see how individual rabbits are performing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In truth, it\u2019s a little more of a record than just a weight tracker and it gives me (just a simple backyard meat rabbit raiser raising meat mutts for my family and maybe a few local pets) the essential pieces of information that I want for each litter from birth through 20 to 24 weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PDF gives you a complete record of the litter from birth through 24 weeks. Record details such as:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n