Marking my rabbit as mine?
My grandpa raises meat rabbits, and I'm planning on picking a kitten from his upcoming litters to keep as a pet. It'll be kept with the rest of the rabbits and will look similar however I plan on taming and training it when I have time. My only concern is, when people come by to pick which rabbits they'd like to buy (furs & meat), I need to have my rabbit somehow marked so my grandpa knows it's mine right off the bat.
Is keeping a collar/harness on the rabbit dangerous? Is there some sort of spray color I could use, or something to mark his ear?
Thanks!
(By the way, please don't post about how you feel so bad for the bunnies that get eaten. They are raised for meat just like cows and pigs, etc. I'm a vegetarian myself.)
These rabbits receive excellent vet care, have spacious pens and many of them are kept into adulthood, such as the bucks and breeding does. Just because they are meat/fur rabbits doesn't mean they aren't cared for well. They have a well balanced diet to ensure that they are healthy, and they enjoy playing with the sticks they get for chewing and have fresh greens and hay, along with their pellets and grains, everyday.
I am in no way surprised that you have had rabbits inside, my grandmother had two lovely rabbits that had a hutch in her house and they were trained on a harness and leash. All in all, I don't see why it should be kept alone and separate instead of in a pen with a few other healthy does that are kept for breeding.
They have no wire, they have pens with hay racks and bedding.
Could somebody answer my question instead of assuming that our rabbits aren't well cared for?