Common sense rabbit raising .. by Stahl Edward Herman

Author:Stahl, Edward Herman. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Rabbits
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo., Outdoor enterprise co.
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

mother doe raise more than six or eight at the outside. Unless you have a nurse doe provided, it is well to destroy all over six to eight. By doing this, those you will raise will more than make up for the ones you might have to kill.

Never breed a doe under 8 months old. Some may be willing to sell you stock under that age and advocate breeding under that age. Thiis is because they care very little whether you raise good stock or not. A rabbit is not fully developed until 8 months old and to breed her younger would be a great mistake.

When you wish to breed a doe, always take her to the buck's hutch. If she is willing she will accept service at once. If she is not desirous of accepting she will go into a corner and more than likely make a whining noise. In this case remove her and try her again the next day, and so on until she accepts service. Seldom do they go more than from three to five days without breeding, and mostly always you will succeed the first day.

Do not make the mistake so many do turning does and bucks together. Does may be kept together until bred, but then they should be put in a pen by themselves where they are to raise their family.

Six weeks after the young are born they are ready to be weaned and the doe may be bred again. In fact you can breed a doe five times a year. But four litters a year is right. You want to raise good stock and that is why we instruct you that way in the books that we supply when you order your stock. CARING FOR THE YOUNG

If it were possible for all of our customers to visit our farm and rabbitries, and see how we manage from the actual breeding of the does to the birth of the young and through their growth to maturity, you would certainly all of you learn something to your advantage. As you can not all do this we do the next best thing by writing the instructions in brief first, so you will be able to form an idea as to the successful breeding of rabbits, and we finish your education later with our larger books. AVOID INBREEDING

Some breeders, and especially beginners, go ahead in a haphazard way of breeding. They breed brother to sister, father to daughter, etc. This is wrong and should not be practiced as it tends to lower the vitality of the stock. So always get stock that is unrelated. We can supply this kind of stock. No matter if you ordered as many as ten rabbits we could give you each one of a separate strain. In filling our orders we always ship pairs or trios or more if you order them, of different strains so that there is no chance for inbreeding.

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