In a meat-rabbit program, you don't need many bucks. Keeping every male you raise just to feel kind isn't actually kindness — it's a slow drain on space, feed, and the quality of your herd. The cleaner, more respectful path is to decide early: cull the surplus bucks young, keep the doe kits to grow out and evaluate for breeding, and use what you cull to feed the working animals that earn their keep. Around here, that's the dogs. We opt to use a system called the Buck Bop.

On a homestead scale, responsible stewardship of your dairy goats (and staying within the carrying capacity of your land), looks like butchering some of the offspring, raised well on milk and pasture. It's an important cycle and I was honored (and initially super nervous), to teach on the topic today.