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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 vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to breeding rabbits for profit, with information on selection, housing, feeding, marketing, and more. Highly-accessible and full of useful information, this timeless book will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in rabbit breeding, and would make for a valuable addition to collections of related literature. Contents Include: “Commercial Possibilities”, “The Different Breeds”, “Rabbitry”, “Construction Foods and Feeding”, “Breeding”, “Keeping Records”, “Diseases and Ailments”, “Marketing the Products”, “Killing and Dressing”, “Preparing and Cooking”, 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 breeding rabbits. This book was originally published in 1927.

From Benjamin Bunny to Peter Cottontail, the Velveteen Rabbit to the Flopsy Bunnies, the Rabbit of Caerbannog to Bugs Bunny and Roger Rabbit, the winsome long-eared animal is a permanent fixture of our childhoods. We know rabbits for their place in our stories, myths, and legends, and also for how they helped us learn to tie our shoes. In this richly illustrated book, Victoria Dickenson explores the natural and cultural history of the most familiar of the lagomorphs. Tracing the history of the species, Dickenson brings to life the giant extinct rabbits of Minorca and the tiny endangered Volcano rabbits of Mexico while focusing on the European rabbit. She explains how humans became this particular rabbit’s greatest predator, coveting its fur and flesh, and how they distributed rabbits to such far-flung places as New Zealand and Australia to provide food and sport for settlers. Dickenson also examines the paradox of the rabbit as prey and trickster who outwits all rivals, as cuddly companion for children and symbol of unbridled animal passion. She looks at the use of the rabbit’s foot to charm away evil, celebrates the Year of the Rabbit, and discovers the Jade Moon Rabbit, who lives on the moon. Hopping from B’rer Rabbit to the Energizer Bunny, Rabbit is the perfect gift for anyone who loves these intelligent, adorable creatures.