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    Rabbits for Flesh and Fur - With Information on Breeding, Varieties, Housing and Other Aspects of Rabbit Farming on a Smallholding
    Rabbits for Flesh and Fur - With Information on Breeding, Varieties, Housing and Other Aspects of Rabbit Farming on a Smallholding
    Rabbits for Flesh and Fur - With Information on Breeding, Varieties, Housing and Other Aspects of Rabbit Farming on a Smallholding
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    Rabbits for Flesh and Fur - With Information on Breeding, Varieties, Housing and Other Aspects of Rabbit Farming on a Smallholding

    By J. O. Baker

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    “Rabbits for Flesh and Fur” is a classic guide to cuniculture, the farming of rabbits for pleasure or profit. It deals with every aspect from selection and breeding to care, housing, and beyond. With simple explanations and step-by-step instructions, this illustrated guide is ideal for those with breeding and maintaining rabbits for whatever reason. Contents include: “Few Factors Favouring Rabbit Breeding”, “Varieties to Breed”, “Recommended Varieties and Breeds”, “Fur and Meat”, “Meat only Housing”, “The Care and Feeding of Rabbits”, “Breeding and Rearing”, “Costs and Returns”, “Establishment Costs”, “The Keeping of Records”, “Working to a Time-table”, and “Conclusion”. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on cuniculture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateDec 1, 2012
    ISBN9781447481522
    Rabbits for Flesh and Fur - With Information on Breeding, Varieties, Housing and Other Aspects of Rabbit Farming on a Smallholding

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      Rabbits for Flesh and Fur - With Information on Breeding, Varieties, Housing and Other Aspects of Rabbit Farming on a Smallholding - J. O. Baker

      Rabbits for Flesh and Fur

      Two acres would not be sufficient on which to successfully operate a rabbit farm with a stock sufficient to bring in a reasonable living. There are, however, so many who cannot muster any enthusiasm for the growing of vegetables, fruits and flowers, but who are extremely keen on livestock, that it has been decided to include this chapter dealing with rabbits, despite the fact that 20 to 40 acres is the area which will be required to successfully and profitably run such a concern.

      Quite a small area will suffice for housing the stock, but a large area will be required from which to produce the foodstuffs and bedding for the stock. Not growing foodstuffs and bedding, it would have to be purchased, a practice which is to be deprecated on at least two counts:

      (a) Dependence upon a third party for essential supplies.

      (b) Expense. This would be such as to swallow up the major portion of any possible profit.

      It having been made quite clear that a comparatively large acreage will be required for the breeding of rabbits, and the reason for this need stated, the subject will be left for the moment, but will be dealt with at some length at a later stage.

      A Few Factors Favouring Rabbit Breeding

      Wild rabbits are already somewhat of a rarity, and the

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