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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Floppy-eared rabbits, also known as lop rabbits, are more susceptible to serious ear and tooth disorders than upright-eared domesticated rabbits, according to new research. The findings are raising ...

The pygmy rabbit is the smallest North American rabbit and the only one to dig its own burrow. It resembles the larger cottontail rabbit, although it does not have the white cotton-ball-like tail that ...

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 ...