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Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 6:46 pm Post subject: Price of rabbit

Skinned but head-still-on bunny today, looked to my inexperienced eye (I'm a vegetarian, more through habit than principle) a reasonable length for a bunny. I would be surprised it it were very fresh though, looking at the eyes, not that I know much of course.

So how much?

ï¿½7.99

Admittedly it was in the "food hall" of a department store, but still, this is a touch extreme? No notes on display as to provenance.

I think people here pay between ï¿½2 and ï¿½4, unless of course they get it free. What does your local supplier sell it for?

steve.k

Joined: 05 Jan 2005
Posts: 21
Location: Kent

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 7:01 pm Post subject:
ï¿½7.99 sounds a bit on the steep side to me. I've got a local butcher who will clean all the rabbits i shoot i get what i need he keeps the rest, and charges between ï¿½4 and ï¿½5 pretty good deal for me as i am restricted for room when it comes to preparation. We have also bartered a bit his meat for my veg.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 7:04 pm Post subject:
Two quid thirty at our butchers.

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91ï¿½ N

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 7:36 pm Post subject:
ï¿½5 / pair at the farmers market and, despite there being vast numbers around here, they're surprisingly rare in the butchers. (oh, and the cost of a few pellets and some time if I use the air rifle)

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 7:41 pm Post subject:
I recently bought a rabbit in the market here, skinned and head and legs chopped off ï¿½1.50

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Price of rabbit

Bugs wrote:

(I'm a vegetarian, more through habit than principle)

you sound like you're on the turn?

(I was a veggie for about 10 years, and a vegan for 18months within that period)... but I've been eating meat and fish again for the last four years.

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 8:13 pm Post subject:
Roughly ï¿½2.50 per pound here. What weight was / is your specimen, Bugs?

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 9:00 pm Post subject:

Ele: yes, I think I am, or at least, I think I mentally already have. I have a lot more respect for many who eat meat (like many members here) but think about the source than I do for many vegetarians I know (who often prove to be "semi-vegetarian" or "oh I didn't know that was from animals"). But the actual leap to eating meat is a step I'm still thinking about, and of course, I care a lot about the source, now, which doubles the difficulty at least! But definitely thinking about it, and I think there are a fair few people here who have been vegetarian in the past and a number of meat eaters who would become vegetarian if they couldn't source meat the way they felt comfortable with.

Woodsman, I'm not daft enough to have bought a rabbit at that price! And not only was the information (beyond the word "rabbit") lacking, but there was no sign of anyone on the counter to offer information, and I wouldn't know enough to hazard a guess. The nearest I could say is a generous enough size compared to those I've seen in farmers markets or butchers, but not looking especially fat, I wondered if they were likely to have been farmed ones, being in such a place.

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 9:33 pm Post subject:
I believe that under the new gaming laws covering transfer of meat in the food chain, they have to be able to provide a chain of ownership from point of kill to point of sale, now.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 9:55 pm Post subject:
I'd reckon 'twas most likely farmed. (Farmed rabbit is quite expensive in France IIRC). Local bunnies are about two quid each here.

Mat S

Joined: 07 Nov 2004
Posts: 282
Location: Leicester

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 10:38 pm Post subject:

About ï¿½3.50 on the market last time I had one.

More exciting though - local butcher has pigeons, oven ready, for ï¿½1 each. Tea tonight was pigeon, puffballs and potatos with redcurrant and elderberry port sauce. All homemade / grown / foraged apart from the bird whose breasts were fried up with its liver and the puffballs (common). Its carcass is in the freezer and will end up as stock when I've done similar things with its 3 bretheren - also frozen.

Digression over..

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 05 10:48 pm Post subject:
sounds really scrummy. I envy you!...........Too tired to shoot or forage after work at the mo, due to being exhausted, but will resume normal activity shortly!

Will

Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 571
Location: Grenoside, Sheffield

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 05 8:03 am Post subject:
ï¿½1.50/kg in my local butcher. Two in the freezer.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 05 8:11 am Post subject:
Rabbits ï¿½4 large farmed at the market, ï¿½2.50 wild at farmers market and farm shop. Pidgeons ï¿½1.50. I always think they're a bit pricey given that pheasant is ï¿½3.

thos

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 1139
Location: Jauche, Duchy of Brabant (Bourgogne-ci) and Charolles, Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne-ï¿½a)

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 05 8:28 am Post subject:
A local farm https://www.lafermedelatour.com/fdtframes.htm has no rabbit but is selling chicken ï¿½7.00 /kg guinea-fowl ï¿½7.50/kg pigeon ï¿½19.00/kg quail ï¿½2.50 ea I can't comment on the quality, as I reckon they're too dear. Mind you, their speciality is foie gras at ï¿½60 to ï¿½105 per kg. They have a restaurant, so I may give that a go for my 50th birthday.

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