About

Morgan’s Mobile Rabbit Ranch is just one part of Morgan’s Micro Minnie Homestead. Rabbits, chickens, potatoes, and microgreens are the main focuses of our little rolling ranch. We cruise around the country in an RV (mostly out west up and down the Rockies, with some trips east to Appalachia and the Everglades) living off grid, producing our own electricity via solar, with the goals of being self-sufficient and happy.

Friend vs. Food Dilemma

As someone who has tried to go vegan and vegetarian multiple times for ethical and spiritual purposes, I am the *last* person in my social circles that anyone would expect to raise animals for meat.

So, why do I do it?

While it is true most people can thrive on a balanced vegan diet, turns out I have genes that make it very difficult for me to convert certain vitamins from plant sources to a bioavailable form (such as carotenoids being converted to vit A). I also produce only about a 30% of the various enzymes I should produce. This means that every time I’ve cut out animal products, I’ve become quite sick. Turn so that supplementing without the correct sources of vitamins, particularly B12 and folate, I get even sicker. Folic acid and many forms of B12 build up in my system to the point it seems I have more than enough on blood tests, but my body can’t use any of it. I ended up with crippling pain and was using a cane to walk before my lovely medical team figured out the issue. I have a homogenous variation of the MTHFR gene (affectionately known as the motherfucker gene by those affected by it), and while as many as about a third of the population carry this variation or a similar one, it doesn’t seem to cause negative effects…unless you are already cursed with other chronic illnesses, like I am. Add high cholesterol, A1 milk protein intolerance (took me so long to find out I’m not lactose intolerant It’s just the A1 protein so that’s actually a positive!), MCAS, POTS, gerd, irritable bowel syndrome, gluten intolerance, eczema, fibromyalgia, hyper mobility spectrum disorder, endometriosis, Menières diesease, sinus disease, and migraines with bizarre seizure-like symptoms, my diet is very limited. I don’t do well with most legumes, so while I love tofu, my body only accepts it in small doses. Dairy causes my sinus disease to worsen dramatically. Most meal replacement supplement style beverages use folic acid instead of a bioavailable form of folate and B12 I can’t tolerate. Meat needs to be part of my diet for me not to be even more sickly.

I’ve also lived in what is the chicken capital of the US. Semitrucks where the entire back trailer is just poultry cages stacked on top of each other with miserable, sickly looking birds, sometimes trapped in between the cages suffering or dead and dangling, drive through town all day long. I hate to support such suffering, but my body requires meat as part of my diet. So what’s the other options?

Eggs? I love eggs, but I can only eat so many, and having variety is important to my health, since my diet is limited in so many ways. Add the financial burden of how many eggs I would need to eat to feel satisfied while paying for the eggs from pasture-raised chickens and it’s tough. Being pescatarian may seem like a good middle of the road option, but I have a true aversion to fish. I have tried my damnedest to like it and make myself try a variety of different types and learn how to cook it really well, but I still gag.

Add in wanting to be self-sufficient and having large and small carnivores as part of my household (dogs and cats), raising animals for meat myself is the best solution I’ve come up with. I know these animals are treated well, not only ethically, but spoiled and very loved. If an animal is going to die for me to eat, it is only right I give them the absolute best life I can before that time. I use a slaughter method in which a gas very gently causes a loss of consciousness inside a box that they associate getting special treats in. My critters are slaughtered as humanely as possible – They quite literally die happy.

I would love for each and every one of these rabbits to go to a home that will love them in turn, whether it is as a household pet, a rabbit to breed meat rabbits, or to finish for harvest. Every single one of these rabbits are raised side-by-side in my home with my dogs and cats. They are quite literally part of my family and it has been a hard journey to get to this point and it will continue to be a very difficult journey because I love each of these buns dearly. I am often woken up in the morning by small bunnies binky-ing all over my bed if I sleep in a bit. They snuggle with me on chilly evenings. I feel overall it is the better choice than promoting cruelty to the factory raised chickens or the huge impact raising cows for beef causes. It is the best choice to reduce the financial burden and environmental footprint buying meat and dog and cat food from a store causes. It’s been a very hard decision, but it is one that I feel makes the best impact overall.

Meet Our Breeding Trio

No’Mellow is a Frosty TAMUK composite doe, carrying the chinchilla gene on smutty orange. She is a very down-to-business no-nonsense mother, but is dotingly affectionate to her kits once they are completely weaned. She is more serious than her sister (Kiss Kiss), but is also more sensible. It is her personal goal to mess with the dogs daily, and throw at least three things off of a table top or high surface of some kind. Bonus points if something s spilled. Despite her bossy nature she’s down for cuddles in the evening and will allow her sister’s extra kits to nurse on her as long as she’s bribed with oats. Oats are the meaning of life to her. She also really adores a very gentle back massage when she’s heavily pregnant and will quite literally grab my hand to demand more if I’ve stopped.

Kiss Kiss is a Smutty Orange TAMUK composite doe, and kindles a large variety of colors (our two does are littermates). She is a very loving mother with an eye always on her nest. She gulps water ridiculously loud, is determined to build a nest in the cat litter box every time she kindles (Luckily, I’ve been able to convince her otherwise, though that usually ends up meaning a lot of laundry because she chooses my clothes storage), and loves to get into trouble with all the youngsters and run away just in time to avoid the consequences (a stern “little bunny, no!” and redirect to an acceptable location and activity). She comes for cuddles throughout the day.

Graham is a black and white English Spotted TAMUK/Rex composite, with a dense, lush coat. From my understanding, he’s 1/4 Rex. Please bear in mind that his offspring may carry the English spotted gene since the homogenous version is associated with megacolon. This dude is a clown. I never know where I’m going to find him, and once I do, I often have a heart attack because it looks like he’s keeled over dead. He literally just flops onto his side or back with legs and ears a skew and sleeps with his eyes open. Often he is using a collection of his youngsters as a bed. Turns out the freaky sleeping is genetic and several of his youngsters also do the flop eyes wide open freak sleep. He believes the house should be arranged just so and will angrily throw stuff at me if that stuff is not where it should go. He becomes very happy and binkies if I throw the stuff with him, that’s how we’ve bonded. He climbs like a cat, and steal shoes.

Raising Rabbits in a Camper? Seems sus…but no, I’m just weird and a bit crunchy.

I’m that person who’s been obsessed with tiny living since before it was a thing, and loves the great outdoors. One of the projects we had to do as a senior for economics in high school was draw spouses, # of children, and yearly income out of a hat, and do all the research to make a plan to live based on that income and family you were assigned. I got single parent below the poverty line, and came up with an elaborate plan involving living at campgrounds in state and national forests using a mini horse as a babysitter. I was quite proud of my thriftiness and resourcefulness. If only that teacher could see me now.

My bunnies are potty trained from the time they leave the nest, and while I do need to sweep a few times a day and mop every other day, honestly, half of that is the dirt the standard poodles drag in. I have a litter box system that controls the rabbit urine smell (a combo of the world’s best cat litter And Sweet PDZ with a raised grated surface so urine and feces can pass through, but they cannot eat to corn-based cat litter they so desire). Rabbits urinate and defecate while they eat, so having food sanitarily hung where they have to sit in a litter box while eating means they go in the litter box. Domesticated rabbits are descended from European rabbits that use latrines (designated potty spots) in their elaborate social warrens under the ground.

That brings me to enrichment – digging, chewing, and running are a natural part of their lives that they should be able to replicate in captivity to feel happy and healthy. While I personally prefer colony style, I do understand the purposes and merits of a cage set up, and as long as the rabbit is properly enriched, these are breeds that have been raised often in isolation in cages as adults for generations, so most of them take to it without issues. Rest assured, if you want colony style or free range house pets, I can help you choose who is best suited for that, and it is how they are already raised with us, and if you need a bun that would do best alone, we will match you to the best fit. I have to be creative since I want to minimize risk of illness, and maximize enrichment, in a limited space. I have dog free areas for them to relax if they want, an area in which they can enjoy the outside weather behind mosquito netting and off the ground at will, use a Lazy Susan (I also feel great joy at watching them fling their siblings off the Lazy Susan), bins, and reusable grocery bags for digging/tunneling enrichment; all the aspen twigs, sticks, and small logs they could possibly wish to chew on; cardboard to shred, puzzles to solve, and mazes galore! (The mazes are mostly accidental and involve elaborate methods of keeping rabbits out of things and determined rabbits proving I’m just a dumb human). My desk is out of bounds (not that they care) but they have access to seating, the bed, the entire floor, three different storage areas inside the cabin and access to the pass-through storage underneath. The buns get to go out in a playpen to enjoy the breeze as well when I am doing a deep cleaning.

So not a hoarder, or some type of scammer, or someone trying to make a quick buck. Just someone trying to have a small footprint on the environment and enjoy our beautiful public lands, while also homesteading for financial, ethical, and spiritual reasons.

Need to Knows

RVHD-2 RISK: I do travel around the country, so while I keep the rabbits safe by keeping the up off the ground and behind mosquito netting, they are in contact daily with dogs, cats, chickens, and humans that could potential come in contact with the virus on an outdoor object and carry it home. If you are bringing rabbits from me home to other rabbits, be sure to quarantine. While the risk is small, transparency is important as I don’t want to put anyone’s rabbits at risk.

SPAYING/NEUTERING: if you are bringing home or bun as companions, I expect you have the bun spayed or neutered by an experienced exotic vet for both behavioral and health reasons. While these rabbits have been bred for their lovely temperament, they have also been bred to be great breeders, meaning certain hormonally driven behaviors, such as bucks spraying urine 3ft up your wall (or at you) or a doe obsessively nesting, are likely to occur. Spaying and neutering helps set them up for success as a household member. It can also minimize the risk of certain cancers and illnesses that can greatly reduce the lifespan and quality of life of your companion, and be costly to try to treat. This makes it more likely the bun is a lifelong family member, and isn’t rehomed, abandoned, or neglected.

ANTIBIOTICS/VACCINATIONS: since our rabbits are potentially a food source, I do not vaccinate them for anything. As a general rule, I do not administer antibiotics, but if I feel the rabbit is a great candidate for a pet, I will provide antibiotics, but will be transparent about any rabbit that has been administered them.

RETURNING/REHOMING/REFUNDS: as an animal breeder, I feel it is my responsibility to take back any animals that would otherwise no longer be kept with the purchaser, as I would not want any of my animals to end up in a situation of neglect or abandonment. However, I do travel around the country so that is not a luxury I can guarantee. I would expect you to reach out to me and for us to come up with the best solution together. All deposits and purchases are nonrefundable, with the exception of health issues or death (not caused by mishandling or neglect) during the quarantine period of 2 weeks. Deposits can be moved to a different litter if your timeline changes.

YES, OR RABBITS LIVE IN THE SAME SPACE AS LARGE DOGS, CATS, AND CHICKENS! Some rabbit keepers consider this unethical, however I have always kept multi species households, and generations of critters have been raised this way by me. While our buns are not afraid of dogs, cats, and so on, THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOUR DOG(S), CAT(S), AND SO ON, ARE SF TO HAVE AROUND RABBITS. This is something you must consider or prepare for, and may need to make the decision that rats are not a good fit in your household.

NO, THEY ARE NOT A PUREBRED RABBIT: both of my does come from a breeder who carried on breeding the TAMUK composite lines with the original goals in mind. This is a composite breed, a.k.a. meat mutts. It is a mix of 7 different breeds with the goals of heat resistant rabbits that grow fast, mother extremely well with large litters, and have wonderful temperaments, that can breed throughout the Texas summer.

Our buck’s father was a TAMUK Rex cross, with the intention of his breeder to bring in new blood lines.

These rabbits are bred for the purposes of either companionship or meat, not to show.

Purchasing Process

PRICE: each rabbit is $50, regardless of color, purpose, size, sex, etc. A $10 deposit per rabbit is required mostly due to be cost of gas to meet for a purchase. I have had enough people agree to a place to meet and never show to make this deposit a requirement.

CONTACT AND MEET UP: please use the contact form to reach out to me, and then I will email/call you. The calendar will have the general region I am in, and where I plan to be, but due to gas prices, weather changes, and whimsy, it may change. If there are any particular rabbits you were interested in please let me know on the contact form. My two breeding does are littermates, which means if you are getting rabbits for me to start a breeding program, I will only sell one sex to you, and you will need to source the other sex elsewhere.

Once we discuss your plans (I reserve the right to choose NOT to sell an animal to anyone, for any reason), we will decide on a meet up space in public. At this point you will need to pay a $10 deposit per rabbit via Venmo, Cash App, or PayPal. You will have my phone number at that point in time to make sure we can keep in contact.

If you want to view my rabbitry as part of your process for buying from an ethical breeder, we can discuss how to make that happen, but it may mean a slightly different timeline (as it would need to happen when I am either leaving or arriving at your general location, due to the fact there are a lot of weirdos out there and I will not invite people to my camp, and I will not just tear down camp and tow my RV just to meet up – it’s a crazy amount of work and gas) or doing it virtually. Yet again, I will say transparency is important to me, so I have pictures and videos available on The Fluffle page, so you can see how these bunnies are raised.

HEALTH GUARANTEE: I guarantee the health of our rabbits for two weeks. If the guidelines for setting up your rabbit for success and quarantining are followed, and the rabbit becomes ill or passes away (not due to mishandling or neglect) I will refund your money or replace the rabbit if that is your choice.

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