Can anyone recommend a way of getting rid of the smell of rabbit from ones hands? I gutted/skinned/jointed three this morning. Since then I have washed my hands twice in Fairy, twice with strawberry soap, plus washed the landy in car shampoo with bare hands which I thought would help....but still they stink of rabbit! I was told to try lemon juice but as I have 3 or 4 blisters from pitch forking, I think that could be a bit painful! Any ideas?

Tomato Juice takes the stink of Scunks off dogs' coats.... might help and much less painful than Lemons
good luck Sam.

Hi Sam
Don't know if it will work for a rabbit smell, but, salt is what I use to get rid of the smell of garlic from my hands after chopping it. Just rub some grains of salt into the affected area, worth a try, might even help heal your poor blistered hands. :D
Nicky

Owww, Nicky... rubbing salt on old wounds????? Sounds painful to me. Isn't there some type of idiom which warns against that?

Don't know about that, but it's really nice to have a salt bath after having a baby!
Nicky

Oh lordy yes I remember that well:)

With 8 stitches inside and out with the first and just pure grazing with the second:o Yes I remember the warm salty baths too;) Helped a treat with the second one;)

Stacey x x x

Owwwwwwwwwww, Jesus. And I wonder why I've avoided this rubbish

One small Mock is enough Ta

Beth xxxxxxxxxxxx

You lot make me die ... you start out talking about skinning rabbits and end up on breeding like rabbits ... lol

Sam, did you find a *cure*?

Sam, I'm sure if you rub a raw potato on your hands (or it might be a raw onion) it's supposed to get rid of the smell. Sorry but could never bring myself to eat rabbit, just keep seeing them playing in fields !!!!

Lorraine

No I can't stand to eat rabbit......once smelled, never eaten! I feed it to the hawks!
I found a good way to get rid of the smell.......vinegar....stung like hell but smells a whole heap better! Thanks for everyone's ideas.

Oh I love Rbbit, tame and wild.

Used to breed and show them, and the mismarks went in the pot!

Hey Sam, know what you mean about the smell, but also my Ferrets will not eat a commercially prepared Rabbit (had to do last year, no shooting by us F+M) but a wild one that stinks, they love it !!
I can't bare to eat one myself, the smell is enough to wake the dead!!
Dawn.

Didn't know there was such a thing as a commercially prepared rabbit!!!!!! Why on earth would any one want to farm the things when there are a limitless supply out in my bloody field!

I saw them on a programme once. Must have been a cookery programme. The majority of them come from France!!!

BTW, I love the taste of rabbit.

Helen

Farmed rabbit have white fur, or the ones my butcher gets have.

Rabbit pie ...my idea of Heaven *slurp*

:D

Melody - Carnivores of the World Unite

The breeds most often used for meet farming are the New Zealand white (weighs about 12 pounds as an adult0 and the Californian which is 8 to 10 pounds in weight.

the New Zealand White is an Albino and has a classic rabbit shape, with narrower shoulders than rump. A good Californian has broad shoulders so is meatier right the way through. The cali has dark Points like a Siamese cat.

The meat Rabbits are usually a cross between both of these for Hybrid vigor and quick growht to killing weight (about 4 pounds which is reached at 10 weeks).

For breeding the two breeds are kept pure. Breeding stock is chosen on the basis of food conversion and good litter size. Females will be retained that produce the most meat for the least food eaten over the 10 week period that the babies are reared.

There are other breeds used for meat, usually one of the fur breeds.

Pedigree rabbits are divided into Two main groups, Fancy and Fur. fur is also divided into Fur and Rex. With the fur breds the highedt points in the points standards are awarded for the Quality of the coat, and Rex feels like velvet. Rex is the result of the guard hairs being shortened and reduced in number so that only the undercoat is visible. Over generations the coats have been bred to be thicker and thicker, and the colours are quite intense, and they feel like plush. The fancy grouping contain all those breeds that are bred for their shape or markings. for example French, Dwarf and English Lop, or my favourite English, and the well known Dutch.

Oh yes, beautifully packed, look more like chicken !!! and NO SMELL!!
Dawn.

.... extortionate price and noooooooo taste

The price isn't bad. The commissary stocks French commercial Rabbits.... we can get one completely cut up (plain or seasoned) for about $2. Even on the German economy, it's much cheaper than chicken. I like just buying the legs. Hubby likes to cook them up since they're less greasy than chicken.

Three years ago was the first time I've ever had rabbit. It's no longer part of the diet in most of the US. I'm sure that wild is better tasting, but hunting for rabbit is a definite no-no here. Not that I really want to go through the mess of gutting and skinning my dinner!!!

I couldnt eat a Bunny ever sad arent I ?????

Me neither Mattie, but I wouldn't stop others from doing so if they wished

No me neither

They are very tasty and nutricious, being low in cholestorol and easily digested!

When I got married we did the catering ourselves (ex in the catering trade). I had a couple of bunnies in the freezer (domestic) and we did them the same as the chicken pieces, and no one new any different!

He was a swine and made a point of giving a rabbit leg to a lady who had said she could never eat a bunny, as they are supposed to be pets.

The ones I made pets of I couldn't have eaten, but the ones destined for the freezer I had no problems with, as long as I didn't have to eat them same day! No different to Chiockens, some people keep those as Pets.

nope - I'm with you Glenys - my little Wizzy would be sooooooo upset(that's my little fluffy bunny)

Pam n the boys

When my daughter was little I bought a whole (well almost whole) skinned rabbit. Stuck it in a big pot to boil and when I took the lid off my daughter screamed cos she thought I had boiled one of her dolls and me and my husband thought it looked human-like so that was the end of that cos none of us would touch it. Mind you I wasnt a wonderful cook when I was first married and one day tried to cook toad in the hole and it went all gungy and sticky and as I had nothing else in I had to wash the sausages under the tap and re-fry them again :D

Gina x

Hi Mattie
I couldn't eat rabbit either, or horse.
Nicky

I have eaten and liked both. My favourite is young wild pig and venison.

i LOVE eating rabbit...but ive been put off for life now....i always eat it when i visit my sister in Malta (for those of oyu unfamiliar its a tiny island below sicily) because its a local delicacy there....normaly its lovely....but i just went there last week and one of the restaurants left the ears on (plus it was tastless)!!! urgh i was nearly sick i dont think ill ever be able to eat it again =(

My father-in-law was born in Malta

Fiona
x x x

Snap!!!! So was my bother in law
Christine2

So was my sister Biggest baby born in the hospital apparently and the ugliest according to my father :D (She got prettier )

I love rabbit. Yum :p

I agree about the smell though. Wait until one of the dogs eats one, punctures the rabbit intestine and then sicks the whole lot back up on your dining room carpet.

very nice 9th LOL ......glad you waited till lunchtime to tell us that
good for the diet

however bad you imagine it to be, it was a lot lot worse

yuk

Although IMO theres no smell worse i the world than babies puke