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Rabbit considered as an ideal meat-producing animal, has a short life cycle, short gestation period and prolific.The capacity of feed conversion is high. Due to digestive physiology, can convert about 20% of feed protein into edible meat. Furthermore, this meat considered very healthy, have a rich of protein, low in fat, and cholesterol. However, the consumption of this meat found very low due to small production by the farmer. There is a farmer group focused on the production of rabbit meat in Malang, namely “KelompokKelinci Malang (KKM)”.However, the production rate was still low due to inability to manage feed efficiency. Therefore in this community engagement program, easy and feasible feed management was introduced by this group. The training program was conducted an on-site demonstration. Prior to the training, focus group discussion was held to investigate the actual problem and expectation was fully discussed. The results indicated that the practice had given a new sight of all the target participant,especially in feed management and breed selection of the rabbit farming. Feed management affected the body and sex maturity so that maximum reproduction can be achieved. Performance of the breed can be measured using letter size, mothering ability, and low mortality. Effective feed management may increase the meat production. Finally, the feed management and breed selection are very important to find out the best performance.