She bought a few rabbits and began rearing them at home. The interest would soon fade away while in high school, only to resurface several decades later. "In 2006, I began keeping rabbits again, this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. ” The only surviving pair of endangered pygmy rabbits released as part of a program to increase their numbers in the wild have dodged coyotes, badgers, hawks and owls to find time for ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...