FAQ

Live rabbits are mostly sold through OLX.uz, birbir.uz, Telegram groups and local livestock markets; selling live breeding stock is much simpler than selling meat, but ask the district veterinary station whether you need veterinary papers. Groups have far more sellers than buyers, so make listings specific: breed, age, sex, weight, vaccination status, photos of the parents and location. Healthy, well-grown and honestly described rabbits sell faster and bring buyers back. Do not sell rabbits from a farm with an ongoing disease outbreak, because that spreads it to other areas.

If possible, pay only after you have seen the rabbit yourself and held it. When buying from far away, ask for a video with a note showing today’s date, and do not send a stranger the full amount in advance. Claims such as pure bloodline or champion are hard to verify, so ask for photos and video of the parents and of kits sold earlier. Ask people you know in the groups about the seller, and be careful when the price is suspiciously low.

Demand for rabbit meat in Uzbekistan is still small and mostly in big cities: families with babies or allergies, people on diets, and some restaurants and delivery kitchens. Supermarkets usually do not buy the small, irregular volumes a small farm produces. Before building a big farm, test demand by trying to sell 10–15 rabbits to people you know and through Telegram. Count on a large company buying from you only with a written contract, not a verbal promise.

It depends mainly on how you sell and on how many kits per doe survive to sale. Feed is the main cost: when meat rabbits are sold live at low prices, feed can eat up most of the income. The biggest gains come from a balanced home feed mix instead of expensive bought pellets, fewer kit deaths, and recording every cost and sale. Do not trust ads promising easy, cheap, high profits; start small and work out the numbers yourself.