your reference. rabbits do well in most weather as long as you keep them out of the rain so this is not necessarily a spring project but certainly one that is easy to get started.
5-the chicken or the egg: you have meat covered with rabbits so you should definitely consider building a chicken coop and chicken run and keep about a dozen hens for eggs. with a dozen hens, you should be able to feed a family of four. we have several articles on chickens and ducks and i am leaning towards ducks right now and will probably keep both. the only difference with ducks is they continue to lay 