Anyone know where I can buy some for a dog who is a picky eater. A friend gave me some which she loved but struggling to source locally

Here you go

http://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/dog/dog-food-and-treats/frozen-dog-food/natures-menu-rabbit-dinner-minced-meat-400gm-%28available-in-store-only%29

The natures menu rabbit dinner is only about 30% rabbit. If you're on Facebook there's a raw food supplier group. Another good one is to find a local pest control group, some people will shoot more than they can use. Manifold valley meats sell a game mix. Raw 2 Paw sell whole rabbits. Maybe also The Dog's Butcher. :)

Rabbits from the butchers around us is very expensive upto 3.99 for one

The Dogs Butcher is a raw pet food supplier in Devon :) She has a page on Facebook

If you can find a livestock market, they sometimes sell produce too. At melton market, shot/ferreted/lamped (?) rabbits are auctioned in pairs and usually go for about £3. Hares are sold separately and can go to £6/8 each. Bare in mind however, you will need to skin, behead and portion them yourself. The rabbits are gutted but hares aren't.

Last year we bought an entire chinese water deer carcass (head off and gutted), skinned it, kept a leg for ourselves and let the dogs go at it in the garden. £32 for 14.2kgs and 4 very happy shepherds.

>you will need to skin, behead

Always gave the lot to the dogs minus the guts.

Yeah you can feed with skin, freeze first to kill parasites.

Ah ok had a look and it looks like she has just started up ?

Would you give the back leg bones to a small breed ? I don't usually give chicken leg bones to my mini especially if it was a big chicken.

The only reason we skin is that one of my girls then coughs up wopping great fur balls so easier for to just skin the entire thing. The others usually grab rabbit skins and yank them off the carcass for me!

Our butcher charges £7 for a whole rabbit, £3.99's a bargain !.

That's ridiculous price even £3.99, especially for wildies which won't be more than 2lb in carcass weight..

Look for your nearest shooting club (air rifles) and ask some of their members if they shoot locally. I'm lucky with my other half he shoots so we have rabbit and pigeon quite regularly. They also might be able to poin you in the right direction of someone who would have rabbits. Hope that helps

Thanks all. Have now managed to find a local freezer center  that has them :-)