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BY HERBERT C. JORDAN
Penn State
Poultry Specialist
UNIVERSITY PARK -
One $2O breeding doe eight
months old can produce 100
marketable offspring during
her three year productive
life.
These young, nine-week
old rabbits at five pounds
each can sell for $lO when
/used for laboratory purposes
or $2.50 live, wholesale for
meat purposes or $4 each for
sc three-pound dressed fryer
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THE "RIGHT FROM THE START" DIESEL ENGINE LINE 1500
FOR FAULTLESS PERFORMANCE
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figure cash flow on
rabbit retail to the con-* Expeases subtracted from
sumer. this revenue would include a
So, the gross capital flow
or revenue or income
generated by one breeding
doe in three years can be
$lOOO selling all bunnies to
laboratories; $250 selling
live as live wholesale at 50
cents per pounds on the hoof;
whereas retail sales of all 100
young rabbits at $4 each for
meat would generate $4OO
total income or revenue.
This budget requires a
working manager.
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• Integrally cast cylinders with inserted and removable
wet type cylinder liners
• Light hypereutectic alloy pistons
• Extra-resistant steel connecting rods alloyed with special
alloy head bearings
• Surface hardened steel crankshaft
• Drop-forged, casehardened and tempered steel
camshaft
• Anti-friction cast-iron tappets alloyed
• Cast-iron tunnel type crankcase
• Rotatory injection pump with mechanical governor
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Box 67, Intercourse, PA 17534
Phone: John D. Weaver - 717-768-9006 or 768-7111
or Answering Service - 717-354-4374
charge of $lO for housing, $5 1
interest on equity, $lO
miscellaneous charges, $3O
charge -for parent breeding
stock, $lO for equipment
cost, $2O labor cost and $l7O
feed cost.
Adding all these together
give expenses of $255
producing all 100 young from
one breeding doe over a
three year period.
We further see that selling
all rabbits wholesale for
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132 SAE HP
120 DIN HP
2800 R.P.M.
22SAEHP
20 DIN HP
All New HR Series
General Features:
rabbits
meat would not be
profitable; however, selling
for laboratory purposes
could turn a seven hundred
forty-five dollar profit m
three years.
This, however, would
require selling disease-free
stock which takes knowhow
and superb management to
accomplish. Only a few do
well in lab rabbits.
If we add a processing and
marketing expense of $1 per
rabbit to the $2.55 production
cost per rabbit we then total
2800 R.P.M.
44 SAE HP
40 DIN HP
AIR COOLED
• Force-feed lubrication with built-in circuit and lobe
type pump
• Diaphragm pump feed
• Oil and fuel filters with integral type element.
Special structure and patented engine with consequent
increases in performance and easier operation with low
weight/output ratio low smoke emissions.
Engine based on a design “modulus" formula which
allows a maximum parts standardization and inter
changeability
2800 R.P.M.
66SAE HP
60 DIN HP
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production, processing and and can only take place if the
marketing cost of $3.55 per rabbit producer has a
dressed oven-ready rabbit. satisfactory market for
rabbits all year round.
The 100 young rabbits then
have a total PPM
(production, processing,
marketing) cost of $335 and
an income of $4OO or a profit
per doe of $45 over a three
year period. Some ex-
perienced rabbit growers’
production costs are lower
and profits higher.
All of the above
calculations are estimates
2800 R.P.M.
88 SAE HP
80 DIN HP
WATER COQ
USED DIESELS
To profit from rabbits the
grower must be a
professional who has con
siderable experience and 30
to SCO breeding does.
Some rabbit growers do
quite well financially with
rabbits while many lose
money. The financial
variability in the rabbit
business is still quite wide.
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