The Ndekero Rabbit Keeping Challenge

Africa Rural Connect reports on a mini-livestock endeavour:

Rabbit keeping in Sub-Sahara African countries is often a backyard activity and a hobby for children. Meat is for home consumption and sometimes sold. Young rabbits make an excellent gift to other children. So income generated is insignificant. The scale up of production at home is a major hurdle as it requires investments for building several cages. A female adult rabbit ("doe") will produce an average of 6 young once every two months and takes about 5-6 months before slaughtered. For each doe, about 3-4 more cages are needed for meat production. So keeping a few does means having 3-4 times the number of cages. There are a few small-sized commercial scale rabbit farms that have more than 50 breeding does.

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