Reddit reviews Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits, 4th Edition
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Since you don't eat meat, unless these are Angora rabbits they'd just be pets.
If they're not useful, you should probably find somewhere else for them to live. While their poop is nutrient rich, so is hen poop.
Do you eat eggs?
Highly recommend you get this book if you're going to keep them. Best time to read up on livestock is before you get any, but we have to deal with the situation at hand.
But first - do you want two pet rabbits?
Do you have housing for them? Will it protect them from the elements and predators? Can you keep them separated? (they usually don't do well sharing one hutch) What are their genders?
Also, why would someone just give up two rabbits? Were they Easter Presents or what?
I highly recommend reading Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits by Bob Bennett
While it may seem like a "natural" way to go, the health risks are simply not worth it especially if you're breeding for meat. The current breeding generations are so far removed from their "free range" ancestry that they don't care about the freedom and don't have any instincts to survive outside of confinement. All you have to give them is proper individual space for their breed. Provide adequate ventilation, isolate the bucks from the rest of your stock, and give the does a break between breedings (especially during the summer) and they'll live longer. Bucks will fight each other to the point of castration, so they should absolutely be separated.
A great book is Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits
https://www.amazon.com/Storeys-Guide-Raising-Rabbits-4th/dp/1603424563
Full disclosure, my wife is the rabbit boss. She started some years back with fancy breeds (like English lops, Mini Lops, English Angora...) but gradually moved away from that. She now raises a commercial breed exclusively; I'm just the hired help. I don't have much experience with raising chickens so I can't compare them for you, but rabbits are pretty easy (and they taste delicious). Jokes aside, they taste remarkably like chicken, but are a bit more versatile I think.
I asked her about online resources and she suggested a couple of these extension sites for some basic starter info:
Penn State Extension
and
MSU Rabbit Production
The Rabbit Talk forum is a decent place to learn and ask questions, she said.
The rabbit raising bible, however, is Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits. It's an excellent book, though maybe only if you've already made the decision to start.
Being able to use the pelts for blankets and clothes is an added bonus.
Definitely handle the breeders. Treat them like pets. Otherwise getting them in and our of the cages is very difficult. An adult feral rabbit is fierce. We got one as an adult, and she was so violent that we couldn't even reach in and get her nest set up without her attacking our hands. Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits was a big help when we started out.