After cats and dogs, rabbits are the third most popular pets in the United States. They are cute, cuddly, and fun to play with! But they also need you to take good care of them. In Rabbits: Keeping and Caring for Your Pet, learn about different breeds, setting up the cage, feeding her a healthy diet, grooming and exercise needs, and helping your rabbit get along with other pets. Also read about training your rabbit and what her different behaviors mean. This book will help you keep your rabbit healthy and happy. Book jacket.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to keeping rabbits for pleasure and profit, including information on housing, selection and breeding, feeding, diseases and ailments, and much more. With simple directions and a wealth of handy tips, this timeless handbook is highly recommended for modern readers with an interest in keeping rabbits, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Housing and Selection of Stock Management”, “Feeding Breeding and Exhibiting”, “The Lop Rabbit”, “The Silver Varieties”, “The Dutch Rabbit”, “Angora and Himalayans”, “Tans Flemish Giant”, “Polish”, “Netherland Dwarf and Harlequin”, “The Fur”, “Varieties Diseases and Ailments”, “Breed Groups”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on cuniculture.

This antique book contains a complete treatise on producing meat from your garden, being a handy guide to table rabbit keeping. Written in clear, concise language and full of invaluable information on the breeding, diet and ailments of rabbits, this text is full of practical, easy-to-digest, information. The chapters include: 'Rabbit-Keeping Means Fewer Meatless Meals', 'Making Your Start', 'The Three Branches', 'Why we say Meat', 'When to Start', 'How Many Breeders to Start With?', 'Buying your Breeders', 'Breeds for Meat', 'The Importance of Buying Good Stock', etcetera. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly rare and costly, and it is with this mind that we are proudly republishing this book - now complete with a new introduction on cuniculture.

An accessible, practical resource for pasture-based rabbit production-complete with rabbit husbandry basics, enterprise budgets, and guidelines for growing, processing and selling rabbits commercially. In recent years, there has been talk in the food world that rabbits make more sense than chicken. In a country with a $41 billion broiler chicken industry, this might seem like a pretty bold statement, but it’s hardly unsubstantiated. And yet while media has been abuzz about the supposed super protein, very few farmers are stepping up to meet the rapidly increasing interest in sustainably raised rabbit meat. This is partly due to the lack of available resources in the field of rabbit husbandry. Raising Pastured Rabbits for Meat is the first book to address the growing trend of ecological rabbit husbandry for the beginning to market-scale farmer. Inspired by Daniel Salatin, who has long been considered the pioneer in integrated rabbit farming, Nichki Carangelo proves that a viable pasture-based rabbitry is not only possible and user-friendly, it’s also profitable. In Carangelo’s approach, happy, healthy rabbits are seasonally raised outside on pasture, using a pasture and wire hybrid system that promotes natural behaviors and a diverse diet, while effectively managing the associated risks. Raising Pastured Rabbits for Meat offers valuable information on how farmers can build their own rabbit enterprise from scratch and includes tips on breed selection, breeding techniques, nutrition guidelines, record keeping tools, slaughtering and butchering instructions, marketing advice, and enterprise guides to help farmers plan for profitability. This is an essential guide for anyone interested in integrating rabbits onto a diversified farm or homestead.