How to Raise Rabbits by Samantha Johnson

Author:Samantha Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2019-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

6 RABBITS FOR MEAT, FUR, OR FANCY

Historically, rabbits were raised mainly for meat purposes, but today the majority of rabbit breeders are raising show rabbits or breeding stock.

IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, YOU PROBABLY AREN’T LOOKING TO START UP A LARGE COMMERCIAL RABBITRY, BUT RATHER ARE SEEKING TO DEVELOP A QUALITY SMALL-SCALE BREEDING PROGRAM FOR MEAT, FUR, OR FANCY PURPOSES.

Commercial rabbitries sometimes have more than one thousand breeding does in their program, which makes the majority of rabbit breeding operations look like small potatoes in comparison. We assume that most of our readers are seeking to begin breeding rabbits on a significantly smaller scale than that example. However, some of the management techniques utilized by commercial breeding programs may also prove useful for the small-scale breeder, so let’s take a quick look at some of the basics behind commercial rabbit production.

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