personally i am not , i looked into it very very hard a few years back and it looked perfect for me, the rear garden is too small and the allotment has no security other then the chicken pen so its a no for me.
a friend of mine has recently moved back to the uk and has started a bit of a small holding. in the uk all small holdings only seam to do large animals pigs, sheep, goats and cows, all of the small holder websites seam to hold no information on small animals and no crop information at all,
this guy is like me, more of a market gardener, so he is into small high value crops, wheat, oats, etc and small animals rabbits and chickens, ducks no geese, bee's etc, things that he can value add before selling onwards.
as i said we tried the local adverts and the usual small holder stuff, but all the animals we have looked at were breed or focused for pets and because they were new zealand rabbits they were ok for meat if no one wanted them as a pet.
the last few times i have had dealing with rabbits i was able to find a rabbit farmer who when its done for meat only they have a better genetic stock, focused on meat production.
this friend wants to keep a trio to prove cost effectiveness of the resualts, before expanding to the planned 18 doe set up he wants,
the problem is that untill last week i never realised that the commercial rabbit breeders of the uk have no formal group organisation or support network, and i had not realised there was so many anti rabbit farm groups, you tube videos and news paper reports.
so i get the feeling everyone keeps there heads down just in case they get tartgeted by the anti's
as for the breed we were looking for, it was either new zealands or californians or a mixture. basically thats the idea behind finding a commercial breeder, he would have his or her own speciality cross and thats fine for what we want
