Rabbit Breeds: The Pocket Guide to 49 Essential Breeds by Lynn M. Stone

Author:Lynn M. Stone [Stone, Lynn M.]
Language: ara
Format: epub
Tags: dwarf rabbits, rabbit encyclopedia, ARBA standard of perfection, easter basket book, ARBA, angora rabbits, lop rabbits, easter basket stuffers, domesticated rabbit, types of bunnies, types of rabbits, purebred rabbits, species of rabbits, rabbit showing book, standards of perfection rabbit, rabbit characteristics
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-08-22T21:00:00+00:00

Florida White

The Florida White is one of a handful of breeds that come in a single color.

Country of Origin: United States

Year recognized: 1967

Uses: Show, meat

Weight: 6 pounds (2.7 kg) max., senior bucks and does

Body type: Compact

Fur type: Flyback; ARBA Commercial Normal Fur Standard

Color

White with pink eyes

not threatened

Orville Milliken, a rabbit show judge in Florida, developed the Florida White in 1960. Milliken wanted an all-white, compact meat and laboratory rabbit. Milliken used white Polish, white New Zealands, and albino Dutch in his breeding program. The breed was further advanced in the 1970s by Eabert (Fibber) McGhee of Oklahoma, who reintroduced Polish and New Zealand genetics and “fixed” the Florida White breed.

Florida Whites fell somewhat short of broad appeal as meat rabbits because of their small size, and labs typically preferred well-established breeds whose genetic makeups were better known. But this showy breed was hardly a failure. It does have some application as a lab animal, and its fine bone structure yields a high percentage of meat, so it has maintained a good reputation in the small meat-rabbit niche.

Like the larger New Zealand Whites, the Florida breed is a classic white rabbit, complete with pink eyes. At its 6-pound (2.7 kg) maximum, the Florida White is just half the size of an adult New Zealand, making adults of the two breeds easy to tell apart.

Breeders who show Florida Whites can concentrate on maintaining breed conformation and fur quality because, unlike many other breeds, this one comes only in its namesake color.

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