First categorical imperative: Where is your market? If it is to be simply your home freezer, then do the math. A good mommy will produce a litter (kindle) about four times each year. If she is a good mommy with good bloodlines and a medium size rabbit, that means eight per litter, X's four, ="s thirty-two. Or, thirty-two times two pounds--dressed weight at eight weeks-- equals 64 pounds of healthy, succulent meat per mommy, per annum. How many good mommies' do you need to fill your freezer?
Let's back up to the phrase "good mommy". Ah, there's the rub. Here are the characteristics of a good mommy rabbit. The ability to not only routinely give birth to a litter of from seven to ten, but the ability also to produce enough rich, high protein milk to support such a litter until they are weaned at eight weeks.If your market is not your home freezer, than it had better not be some pie in the sky illusion. Forget your Field of Dreams! You say: "If I breed them, the buyers will come." I say: "Ain't gonna happen!" Again, your first categorical imperative is simple: Have a firm commitment for your market. Not a maybe! Maybe I can sell them to a lab??? Or, I have a friend in the restaurant business??? Or, I can advertise breeding stock??? Or, the State won't mind if I run a commercial butcher shop in my backyard??? No maybes. 
