Rabbit Fact Sheet (HopperHome)

Rabbit Fact Sheet (PDF or HTM)

REN Xuping - China Rabbit King: Rural Poverty Relief, Environmental Friendly Farming

Two-thirds of Chinese live in rural poor living conditions due to the migration of young Chinese to work in cities. They leave the elderly, women and children in rural areas resulting in social problems both in cities and rural areas.

Solutions:

• Encourage the young to return to rural areas
• Improve the living conditions of farmers
• Attract human resources and talents to rural areas
• Measures: micro-finance; introducing modern technology and; sending university student volunteers to work in rural areas among them.
• Social entrepreneurship must promote rural development with business activities that aim to alleviate poverty and improve the living standards of farmers.

A Farmers Tale - Rabbit Farming

A Farmers Tale-Rabbit Farming
Wilfred Allo tells the The Farmers Voice why the change from poultry to rabbit mini-livestock business.

The small-scale rabbit production model: Intermediate factors

The rabbit "industry" largely consists of limited-resource farmers who maintain small-scale operations to produce more meat. The Small-Scale Rabbit Production Model (SSRPM) consists of the three-tiered spheres of internal, intermediate, and external factors used as a planning tool to impact limited-resource farmer beneficiaries, predominately from lesser developed countries. The project planner/manager considers the fine detail and dynamics between and within factors. The SSRPM is flexible and can be customised to local conditions. This further develops and expands SSRPM intermediate factors that involve project development dimension (feasibility, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation).

A rabbit development programme is based on a well-defined goal and supporting objectives. Project feasibility determines whether or not the rabbit project should be started. If the decision is made to initiate the project, then a project design or blueprint needs to be developed. Afterwards, the project is ready to be implemented, which oftentimes begins with the selection of farmers for rabbit training. Once farmers engage in production, they will need to be carefully monitored to ensure that the programme objectives are being met. Lastly, once formally terminated (i.e., funding support is ceased), the project should be evaluated, which results in a report that reflects the lessons learned.

Adoption of the SSRPM can serve as a guide to the project planner and (or) manager to help ensure ultimate programme success.

Care of Rabbits

British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals provides excellent documentation on living with rabbits as pets, from welcoming them to, spaying and neutering, housing, food and water, handling grooming, exercise and medical conditions and concerns.

Biology of the Rabbit

Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association here covers comprehensively, the biology of the rabbit. They taxonomically differentiate the hare from the rabbit.They also cover origin, habitat, uses, handling, anatomy and physiology, nutrition and reproduction. They also briefly cover gerbil health.

The Rabbit - Husbandry, Health and Production

This is a comprehesive guide to rabbit health, production and husbandry. It covers aspects such as meat quality, nutrition and feeding, reproduction including anatomy and rates of production, genetics, disease including pathology and prevention, housing and equipment, management and skin and hair processing. Hard copies of this and other FAO publications are available.