Comparison of Chicken and Rabbit at Three Month 
Comparison of Live, Dressed and Cooked Weights of Rabbits and Chickens 
In dressing a RABBIT loses approximately one-half of the live weight 
and the chicken somewhat less, the refuse weight of the RABBIT used 
in the experiments being 2 pounds 10 ounces, and the refuse weight of the 
chicken being 1 pound 9 ounces, including heart, liver, and gizzard (38 
ounces), not cooked with the meat. 
The weight of the RABBIT bones was only 6 ounces, as compared with 
9 ounces in the chicken and in addition 7 ounces weight of chicken skin. 
The RABBIT cooked in 1 hour and 15 minutes and the chicken in 2 hours 
and 30 minutes; but even then the meat of the chicken was not so tender 
as that of the RABBIT. 
Comparison Chart 
Rabbit Chicken 
Condition Lbs. Oz. Lbs. Oz. 
TAWE WEIN, .2)5)5e.12.ac0'd nsenenn nanan aye eae Vara es ares 5 8 5 8 
Dressed (skinned, drawn and ready to cook)...... 2 14 3 15 
Cooked weight (meat and bones) ...........---- iL 13 2 8 
TOSS) UN COON ES odes wress anun dae Son SEA ARES ELS a 1 1 7 
Weight of bones (and skin in chicken) .......... 0 6 iL 0 
Weight of meat ...... EN hai ee Bes EERE ROSES 1 7 1 8 
Rabbit vs. Chicken 
When you buy. chicken at a market you pay 25.5 per cent for waste, 
(head, feet etc.) before it is ready to cook, 8.5 per cent for bones ‘after it 
is cooked and 66 per cent for edible meat. 
When you buy rabbit at a market you pay nothing for waste before it 
is ready to cook, 8 per cent for bones after it is cooked and 92 per cent 
for edible meat. 
When you buy a rabbit you buy. 26 per cent more actual food than 
when you buy a chicken. 
You can pay as high as 25 per cent more for rabbit than chicken and 
still be to the good. 
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