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How to Tell If a Rabbit Is Pregnant
Whether pet, meat, or wool rabbit, if you plan to breed, you must know mating and pregnancy detection. This article teaches how to tell if a rabbit is pregnant.
How to Lower the Cost of Raising Rabbits
Lowering raising costs and improving profitability matters greatly to commercial rabbit farms. Where should you start, and which costs are reasonable to cut? This article explains.
Winter Rabbit Care Tips
Winter is easier than summer but has its own rules — warmth, more feed, timed shearing, exercise, hygiene, and breeding prep. This guide covers the six points.
Occurrence Patterns of Rabbit Infectious Rhinitis
Infectious rhinitis in rabbits follows clear, predictable patterns. Incidence rises with higher stocking density, certain cage arrangements, the rearing method, the rabbit's breed and age, and seasonal temperature swings. Understanding these patterns helps breeders reduce outbreaks through better housing and management.
Causes of Rhinitis in Rabbits
Infectious rhinitis in rabbits is hard to cure and hard to prevent, with high rates on many farms. The main drivers are crowding, poor ventilation, sharp weather changes, breed susceptibility (angora and fur rabbits are worst), and low husbandry standards.
Things to Avoid When Raising Rabbits
Raising rabbits has several do-nots. Avoid these to keep your rabbit healthy and by your side longer: lack of companionship, impatience, violence, starving, teasing with food, too many vegetables or fruit, raw water, shaving the coat, and temperatures that are too high or too low.
How to Balance a Rabbit’s Diet Properly
Feed makes up a large share of rabbit-keeping costs. Many owners wonder how to keep a rabbit's diet both balanced and economical—which is quite doable, since rabbits are herbivores and plant-based food is inexpensive. Here are some dietary suggestions for rabbits.
Key Techniques for Raising Rabbits
Whether for meat, wool, or as a pet, rabbits need scientific care: a fiber-rich diet in small frequent meals, clean non-tap drinking water, a steady 20°C environment, and strict hygiene with 12–15 hours of light. Master these to keep rabbits healthy.
Why does my rabbit bite its companion’s fur?
May just be grooming—normal. To avoid swallowing too much fur (hairballs), give hairball paste. If over-chewing, consider vitamin deficiency → wool-eating disease (trichophagia); supplement vitamins. Also, during heat or before birth, does may pull their own/companion's fur.
Jersey Wooly
The Jersey Wooly is a pet rabbit breed created by crossing the Angora and the dwarf rabbit, recognized by the ARBA in 1988. Gentle and cute with long but tangle-resistant wool, it is well suited to children.
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