rockefeller66 Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 How do you guys go about cleaning rabbits for eating, my brother and I are seeing a TON around the local groves and wouldn't mind taking some for eating, just need to know how to clean them, can't be any harder then a deer or pheasant right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie65 Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? I grab a back leg,just below the back foot start pulling the fur down. It will pull off easy. Get all fur off down to front feet. slice belly open & remove the innards. If you have another person they can hold the rabbit by its back feet while you do everything. When that is all done I cut the feet off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyman Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? [ QUOTE ] I grab a back leg,just below the back foot start pulling the fur down. It will pull off easy. Get all fur off down to front feet. slice belly open & remove the innards. If you have another person they can hold the rabbit by its back feet while you do everything. When that is all done I cut the feet off. [/ QUOTE ] This is exactly how i do it. With practice, you can dress a Rabbit in about 3 minutes! I wish Squirrels were as easy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
need2hunt Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? [ QUOTE ] I grab a back leg,just below the back foot start pulling the fur down. It will pull off easy. Get all fur off down to front feet. slice belly open & remove the innards. If you have another person they can hold the rabbit by its back feet while you do everything. When that is all done I cut the feet off. [/ QUOTE ] Only thing I wold add is I use some wire cutters to cut the leg joints and pop the head off. And if you don't have someone to help, you can either nail it's back leg to a post or use a ratchet strap to keep them in place while you skin 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? I find the sternum, pull a patch of fur off, take the knife from sternum to the pelvis, turn the rabbit over, grab it by the scruff of the neck, and tail, pick it up, shake our the guts, then give it a good fling. (we actually have contests to see who can get their gut piles hung up in the brambles, we have awards for "highest hang" and "most stylish gut fling.") Once it's gutted, I take a pair of rose or tree pruners, and lop off the head, and legs at the knee and elbow joints, then back up to the neck and split the fur right down the spine. Peels just like a banana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggs Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? [ QUOTE ] I find the sternum, pull a patch of fur off, take the knife from sternum to the pelvis, turn the rabbit over, grab it by the scruff of the neck, and tail, pick it up, shake our the guts, then give it a good fling. (we actually have contests to see who can get their gut piles hung up in the brambles, we have awards for "highest hang" and "most stylish gut fling.") Once it's gutted, I take a pair of rose or tree pruners, and lop off the head, and legs at the knee and elbow joints, then back up to the neck and split the fur right down the spine. Peels just like a banana. [/ QUOTE ] you're making me hungry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie65 Posted December 31, 2005 Report Share Posted December 31, 2005 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? I forgot to say anything about the head. As soon as we kill a rabbit we put the rabbits head under a foot & pull it off. Then when the dogs get there they find it. Then they know it is time to go get another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fourtrax_300 Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I grab a back leg,just below the back foot start pulling the fur down. It will pull off easy. Get all fur off down to front feet. slice belly open & remove the innards. If you have another person they can hold the rabbit by its back feet while you do everything. When that is all done I cut the feet off. [/ QUOTE ] This is exactly how i do it. With practice, you can dress a Rabbit in about 3 minutes! I wish Squirrels were as easy! [/ QUOTE ] squirrels are easier than rabbits when you know how to clean them ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest littlered Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? i recently learned a cool trick for gutting rabbits. Make a small cut by the anus, then start squeezing from the rib cage until you get everything to the bottom of the rabbit, then grasping the rabbit with both hands you swing your arms donw between your leggs and push down with you hands. becarefull if you do this that nothing is behond you because it will shoot the guts about 7 feet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fourtrax_300 Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? i cant explain very easy but i'll try. what you do is take the squirrel and hold it upside down but its tail. then up by is but and the tail you pick the hair away from the tail, just alittle spot. then pluck the hiar stright down the legs from the spot. you shoul have a hairless U the take your knife and cut a slit in the hirless sopt on the tail and cut threw the cone and all the little white legiments. then put your thub in the hole and pull the hide away fromt he body. after that take your knife and put it under the hide on one side of your"U" then cut it open, do the other side the same. pull alitlle more hise away. now put the the squirrel on the ground and step on the tail/ hide and grab the back lesgs and pull up and they hidw ill slip all the way down to the head. pull the arms out and clip the feet off, then take a knife and cut the head off which will reove the head/hide and tail. throw that away unless you save tails then cut the tail off. now you will still have hide ont he lower back and legs. grab the hide with pliers and pull it all the way down to the feet. then clip the feet off and that will remove the hide. now gut the squirrel and your done ! sound like alot but i can do them in about 2 mins. this may be easier to understand http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_014.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Re: Cleaning rabbits??? [ QUOTE ] I find the sternum, pull a patch of fur off, take the knife from sternum to the pelvis, turn the rabbit over, grab it by the scruff of the neck, and tail, pick it up, shake our the guts, then give it a good fling. [/ QUOTE ] This is what I do as well! I fling it! scape out whatever is left, remove the legs and head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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