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Pyrabbit Schemes? Caveat Emptor?
Njung'e
#21 Posted : Friday, January 14, 2011 3:03:06 PM
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Djinn wrote:


OK - someone please check at Tusky's and let us know... If you do get Rabbit meat, please take a picture and send it to forest.djinn@gmail.com and I will Zap you enough to buy a 5ltr Cellar Cask (white, no less, to go with your rabbit)


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#22 Posted : Friday, January 14, 2011 5:48:07 PM
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Djinn wrote:
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OK - someone please check at Tusky's and let us know... If you do get Rabbit meat, please take a picture and send it to forest.djinn@gmail.com and I will Zap you enough to buy a 5ltr Cellar Cask (white, no less, to go with your rabbit)

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#23 Posted : Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:51:39 PM
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Seven months later, nearly 150k spent (capex/opex) and climbing, from 7 rabbits...to abt 70 rabbits (less a few that did not thrive or have been slaughtered just for the heck of it)...NO MARKET for my friend.

Initial costs were abt 1500per month in the first three months and now almost tenfold as the rabbits are more and eat like locusts as they multiply. Sexing them is tricky so isolating the males is hard - so they continue to make landings and the airports issue forth small Cessnas in 8s 10s or 12ss...

No market at the hilton nor the regency....even on along Thika Road where dogs are supposedly eaten. Hell, even our dog pays no interest....

Beware the Pyrabbit scheme...Shame on you

Your money is best put under the mattress or gambled in a casino...or spent on Tusker...
fantony
#24 Posted : Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:08:54 PM
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@ djinn -

I will say i have had rabbit meat... i used to rear and eat my own rabbits out there on the farm on the slopes of mount kenya.

if i found rabbit on the menu today.. i think i will eat it...

I think the key now is to find a restaurateur selling rabbit
Elder
#25 Posted : Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:10:14 PM
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Djinn wrote:
Seven months later, nearly 150k spent (capex/opex) and climbing, from 7 rabbits...to abt 70 rabbits (less a few that did not thrive or have been slaughtered just for the heck of it)...NO MARKET for my friend.

Initial costs were abt 1500per month in the first three months and now almost tenfold as the rabbits are more and eat like locusts as they multiply. Sexing them is tricky so isolating the males is hard - so they continue to make landings and the airports issue forth small Cessnas in 8s 10s or 12ss...

No market at the hilton nor the regency....even on along Thika Road where dogs are supposedly eaten. Hell, even our dog pays no interest....

Beware the Pyrabbit scheme...Shame on you

Your money is best put under the mattress or gambled in a casino...or spent on Tusker...


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#26 Posted : Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:11:24 PM
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I agree with you djinn. I havent seen rabbit meat being sold in a supermarket or in a hotel.
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#27 Posted : Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:49:15 AM
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This guy begs to differ on the demand and remains highly optimistic..

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#28 Posted : Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:15:03 AM
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You may have been onto something with the pyrabbit schemes. Lucky breeders who started a long time ago. They made the oney. However I found rabbit on the Menu;s in Rwanda. Could this be an option?
nyangao
#29 Posted : Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:31:38 AM
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action! wrote:
You may have been onto something with the pyrabbit schemes. Lucky breeders who started a long time ago. They made the oney. However I found rabbit on the Menu;s in Rwanda. Could this be an option?


In rwanda rabbit meat is very common! and a well fried rabbit goes for Rwf 2500, equivalent of 350 Kshs!

First tasted rabbit meat there and i can tell you it was sweet! rearing rabbit in rwanda is like subsistence farming in kenya so if you are thinking of "exporting "there you may get major compe from locals considering that our rabbits are commercially bred.
Djinn
#30 Posted : Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:56:54 AM
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story teller wrote:
This guy begs to differ on the demand and remains highly optimistic..

breeding rabbits


Thanks @story teller - see at 3.35 he starts talking about selling 200 rabbits per month and (drum roll) fetches Kshs 20,000 which amounts to Kshs 100 - of course that could just be to throw off interest from robbers/competition and I think Cynthia Nyamai SHOULD have computed that and asked a follow up. if you are selling a 3 month old rrabbit for Kshs 100, what has it cost you in terms of labour and food to rear it for three months? And then supposedly rabbit farmers want to set up a 1.2 billion processing plant? Hype and more hype Shame on you to perpetrate the pyrabbit scheme?

Whoever has Cynthia Nyamai's email address or contact should encourage her to do a follow up on that story and ask the one question I have been asking here:

Who buys rabbits for food? Are there such numbers to make it commercially viable? I know people eat white ants and there is a market. In Uganda there is a market for grass hoppers (nsenene) and these two I have seen and eaten. Even when I was a kid we'd trap grasshoppers under a street light.

But rabbits?
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