breeding rabbits

[mainbutter]

A great suggestion:

Don't ask snake people about breeding rabbits.

Ask rabbit people.

That said, I have a few comments that may steer you somewhere productive. Just so you go into this with your eyes open, breeding rabbits is not easy or cheap.. in fact I would go so far as to say it is pretty work-intensive, messy, and expensive. However, the same goes with keeping large constrictors, so it's to be expected. You'll also want to give serious consideration to the space requirement. Compared to rats, rabbits need ridiculous amounts of space to thrive. If you ever look into people who are serious about pet rabbits, they're going to start rattling off all the zillion reasons that rabbits make bad pets. This isn't to scare you away, but it's because rabbits are more than a handful for plenty of reasons, and the reasons why pet rabbits are difficult can apply equally to difficulties you will encounter while raising rabbits as snake food.

Handling water, food, and poop issues alone on a daily basis can be extremely taxing on a person's time and energy while keeping a lone rabbit, personally I can't imagine trying to breed a small group of rabbits AND keeping two large snakes AND having a 40-hour-a-week-job AND getting 8 hours of sleep a night AND staying sane.

If you're serious about it, do some looking into how rabbits are raise for commercial purposes, and also how rabbits are raised and kept for recreation. You'll probably want to find a balance of the two, I know I would as I personally can't stand typical commercial caging practices. Small cages, wire floors, and poor air circulation is a bad combination for rabbits. If I was going to raise rabbits for meat (human consumption OR snake consumption), I'd think of them more as 5lb cows and less like 5lb rats. Field-grazing farmland is about as ideal as you can get.

Don't forget, keeping mammals (particularly a large number of mammals being bred) is an every-day thing. There is no way I could take a weekend and go hunting or fishing, go to a wedding in another state, or travel for work if I was breeding rabbits.