calculating cost of raising meat rabbits

on sharing... yes, however...

let me just ask... how big an Excel nerd are you?


right now it's an engineering project and I need to clean up some of my development mess and exploration.

so let me ask this, those of you who would like a copy... what do you want to calculate / track? 'cause right now it's got everything from soup to kitchen sink...
and it would be pretty easy to break it.

if I know what all y'all want, I can make those areas a little more robust and easy to use, and that'll benefit me too.

so what do you want to track?

oh, and on litter size, I calculated 6 kits, 0% mortality per litter. I didn't try to figure, say, 11 kits, 20% mortality and differences in feed used, just went with a flat number for feed and meat production calculations.

it does, however, track kit mortality so I can follow the does' performance in that area, with an eye to identifying changes needed in management practice, or culling factors.

I generally track everything and figure out later what I do and don't want to analyze. I'm a big enough excel nerd to get through whatever you have built and customize it to my needs.

If you don't mind, please send me a copy to sawfish99 "at" gmail.com

Thanks

this is a copy of the hutch cards i used to use. Gives you a good idea how a doe is doing for you.

Maybe someone can make that show up a little better. I'm a computer dummy.

Hi

I'm planning on starting a rabbitry.
Busy researching running a rabbitry.
I'm looking for a such an excel type document that has functionality such as described by zzGypsy.
Can anybody help me with such document please?

Greetings and welcome to BYH! We have quite a few active Rabbiteers here (sorry, I'm not one of them) and maybe one will be able to help you. In the mean time, since you're still in the planning stages, there's a wealth of information in the rabbit section on everything from cages to rearing and raising, feeding, even cleaning and cooking rabbits. Please make yourself at home and browse around a bit. You might even find answers to questions you hadn't even thought to ask... Anyway, Glad you joined up! Maybe you can take a moment and stop by the social section and do a short intro so folks can welcome you properly. Oh, and it is really helpful if you put your (general) location in your profile since so much about animals and their care depends on location.