The aim of this research was to evaluate the possible usefulness of mirrors in improving rabbit behavior in a free-range breeding system. Three groups (each consisting of nine replicates of three ...

There are many factors involved in rabbit breeding that impact performance. In this evaluation of a Dutch Belted rabbit breeding colony, the environment, breeding techniques, and socialization all ...

Group housing is becoming the standard for many farm animal species, as it is seen as a more welfare friendly way of keeping gregarious animals. Aggression between female breeding rabbits currently ...

A breeding program at the Bronx Zoo allowed scientists to release 15 young cottontail rabbits, the only rabbit species native to New England, into three areas in Maine as part of an effort to prevent ...

Visitors to the Solano County Rabbit Breeder’s Association show might have found themselves hopping into a new hobby this weekend. Comparatively inexpensive to other forms of livestock raising, ...

Many a times, farmers who want to buy rabbits from us only tell me they want ‘a big rabbit’. Apparently, most Kenyan farmers are not cognizant of the breed of rabbits they keep on their farm. The main ...

LONDON, Feb. 1, 2007 — -- Not everything is as it seems in Carl Szmolinsky's backyard. Rabbits in hutches snack on kale, while others twitch their noses. Szmolinsky shuffles around, wearing dirty ...

One of the first projects I wanted when we moved to our place in the country was rabbits. I had read many times that they produced excellent tasting meat at little cost. My wife, Carolyn, however, was ...

Since we began raising rabbits on our homestead, the phrase “breeding like rabbits” has taken on a whole new meaning to us. I, like so many other rabbit breeders, had one heck of a time trying to ...