We have three large cages with various compartments. Feeders. Waterers. Nesting boxes. One heating pad. Then I got a water system and misters for summer. Two sets of breeding trios. Around 1000$ total.

Feed in the USA is around 15$ a bag.

We also give them alfalfa or other hay we may have but that’s maybe 1 flake every two weeks between each trio.

First bag of food gone. Nothing lived to butcher from first rabbit. Next breeding to two then a month and nothing. Two attempts on each. We just did breeding again. Unsure if we got bad/old does or what. The other trio are not old enough to breed yet. We have two different breeds.

We’ve already decided their feed is cheap enough to keep a trio always around.

I have a couple other misc cages I got free.

Still to build is poop catch and roof for next winter.

Overall startup cost for rabbits was nearly 2x pigs because pig fence was half price used and we got pigs free. But pigs with failed breeding cost much more to wait out for successful due to feed cost much much more than rabbits.