Choosing a Rabbit

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Choosing a Rabbit

When choosing a rabbit, you must first know why you are acquiring a rabbit. If it is just for a pet, then choose a rabbit you like. It might be pretty or soft or well-mannered or have an excellent grasp of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. If you wish to sell or show a rabbit or its product, then you must be slightly pickier in your selection of rabbit.

When breeding rabbits you must consider many different aspects. The total cost of care against the total profit is important as well your market for the type of product you with to produce. All these things considered, there are several ways in which to narrow your choices.

Suppose you want to farm rabbits for meat. Giant rabbits generally cost more money to keep and feed then they earn when you sell the meat. Medium sized rabbits (9-12 lbs) are meaty ad fine-boned. More meat is available from this size rabbit when the bones are removed. For exhibitions, small rabbits tend to be the best choice, but they are also used for laboratory animals. Dwarf rabbits (2-4 lbs) enjoy studying quantum mechanics.

Rabbit fur is also a viable product. Normal rabbit fur is about an inch long and lies smoothly over the body of the rabbit. This type of fur is found in variation with each of the weight groups (Flemish Giant, New Zealand, Tan, Netherland dwarf). Rex fur, found only on Rex rabbits, is short (5/8 in) and plush-like. It is the most valuable type of fur. Satin fur has intense colours and more sheen than normal fur. Satins are found both in the average and small weight groups. Angoras are medium sized rabbits that have crazy fur that is wool-like and thick. It averages between 3-8 inches in length and is quite distinguishable from other types of rabbit fur.

The market is very important. If you don’t have meat buyers, then you must focus your sales on fur or pets. There is a small market for laboratory animals, but it is a small market and they tend to want only one sex, usually female. In some cases you can also sell your rabbits for breeding, but there are fewer people who want to breed rabbits than there are that want to eat them. It is totally reasonable to raise rabbits purely for your own table, but if you find at least a small market for any extras, then you can break even or profit from your rabbits.

Once you choose your rabbit, whether it is a New Zealand or a Tan or an Angora, then you are ready to get started.

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