In Ghana, the wild native "rabbit" has always been highly prized by rural dwellers, though these days it is very difficult to find. Any backyard breed which managed to gnaw through its cage would soon find its way into a stewpot!
Rabbit food is readily available in Ghana. The animals will eat almost anything, including table scraps, leftovers from sugar cane harvests, various kinds of grass, and other local flora such as groundnut and sweet potato vines. Dried cassava provides good bulk for their diet, and brewer's mash, left as a residue from millet
beer and formerly discarded as useless, furnishes an excellent source of protein.While rabbits must have clean quiet quarters and special care in order to thrive, their upkeep is not difficult and requires no great amount of time. People who work during the day can easily tend to them in mornings and evenings. Raise some rabbits in your lots, yards, or pastures. Become closer to your food supply know what you eat! Hutches are simple to construct from locally available materials.
Below you will find a few reasons why you should consider adding rabbit meat to your diet.
1. It is one of the best white meats available on the market today.
2. The meat has a high percentage of easily digestible protein.
3. It contains the least amount of fat among all the other available meets.
4. Rabbit meat contains less calorie value than other meats.
5. Rabbit meat is almost cholesterol free and therefore heart patient friendly.
6. The sodium content of rabbit meat is comparatively less than other meats.
7. The calcium and phosphorus contents of this meat or more than any other meats.
8. The ratio of me to bone is high meaning there is more edible meat on the carcass than even a chicken.
9. Rabbit meat with the many health benefits does not have a strong flavor and is comparable to chicken but not identical.
10. Rabbits are one of the most productive domestic livestock animal there is. Rabbits can produce 6 pounds of meat on the same feed and water as the cow will produce 1 pound of meat on the same feed and water.
