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RE: Determinants of Autism, McCullough Foundation Paper

in #life3 days ago

Oddly, where I grew up there were no rabbits. There are rabbit here, but they are pygmy rabbits, and were protected, so I have never hunted rabbit. I raised some and ate them though, and they are very easy to raise, keep, and good to eat. I mostly sold the kits at ~8 weeks to PetsMart, which paid very good money for them just before Easter, when they're popular gifts for children. If I didn't sell them I ate them, but with two does having litters I literally couldn't keep up and eat as many as they produced. Rabbits are very prolific with ~ a dozen young in each batch and up to 4 batches a year. They literally eat lawn, so feed costs almost nothing if you have a lawn, or just some weeds.

If shit hits the fan, two does and a buck will keep you fat and happy with very little hard work or expense. If they laid eggs I'd never bother with chickens or ducks. Too bad you can't milk them, or I wouldn't bother with cattle either. They do make milk, just in tiny titties. I wonder what rabbit milk tastes like. Hmmm...

While I have never done any farrier work, nor ever seen one work up close, I use the nippers often in my work, because they are ideal for pulling headless nails, staples, and can do so without marking nice wood (with appropriate care).

That milk tea looks pretty good. I use half and half in my coffee, which is less sweet than the condensed milk it looked like they were using in the tea, but I bet condensed milk would be great in coffee too.