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BREEDER - One who breeds or rears a special varietry of rabbits in conformity with accepted standards of perfection or for the purpose of improving their commercial value.
BREEDING - Mating the doe with the buck.
BUCK - A male rabbit.
BUFFING OR KNEADING - The last stage in tanning when the skins are stretched by hand to soften the pelt.
BUNNY - A baby rabbit.
CAGE - A compartment generally 2' x 4' x 2' used for housing one adult rabbit.
CONCENTRATES - Commercial or home-mixed feeds which provides 16-18% protein necessary in the rabbit 's diet.
CONFORMATION - Structural features such as size, shape, etc.
COPROPHAGY - Reingesting of soft night dropping by the rabbit. It is usually a sign of nutritional deficiency.
CROSS BREEDING - Mating two different breeds of rabbits such as a California and Chinchilla.
CULL - To remove all undesirable rabbits from the herd.
DOE - A female rabbit.
DROPPINGS - Rabbit manure.
DRY DOE - The period of time from weaning the young to the next breeding period tot the doe.
FORAGE - Any green roughage fed to cows, horses, pigs, and rabbits.
FOSTER MOTHER - A doe which nurses the bunnies of another mother in addition to her own bunnies. Fostering is usually done to even up the number of bunnies from other does that have mot-e than they can physically nurse.
FRYER - A bunny aged from 2-4 months old when its meat is prime, weighing about 9 kilos to 1.5 kilos.
FUR BLOCK - The stomach is filled with undigested fur, blocking the passage to the intestinal tract.
GESTATION - Duration of doe's pregnancy from mating to kindling. Can be anywhere from 28 days to 32 days or- an average of 30 days.
HOCK - The middle joint or section of the hind leg, between the foot and the hip.
HUTCH - A string or line of cages. Can be any length.
HUTCH CARD - Recording system where breeding and production are recorded for managerial evaluation. Usually a card is attached to each cage.
IN-BREEDING - Mating closely related rabbits of any breed.
KINDLING - Giving birth to young rabbits.
LACTATION - Nursing period from kindling to 8 weeks.
LEGUME - Any plant of the pea family with seeds growing in pods for instance peas, beans, and other leafy plants such as centrocema, Ipil-ipil (Peruvian type), Townsville stillo, leucerne (alfalfa), and a green leafy desmodium.
LITTER - A set of bunnies per one birth.
MOLTING - The act or process of shedding or changing the fur, usually three times a year. The baby or nest fur is molted at 2 months old, and the first natural coat of fur- is fully developed at 4 months to six months. For a doe it is nature's way of resting her from motherhood, and she is in no condition to be bred.
NEST BOX - A box measuring 22" long, 11" wide, 9" tall at the rear, 6" tall at the front, 6" x 11" top cover. Used for the doe to kindle her bunnies in.
NURSING - Period when the young draw milk from the teats of the doe. Lasts from one day to 60 clays.
OILING - The second to the last process of tanning to soften and prolog the life of the pelt.
OUT - BREEDING - Mating unrelated rabbits of any breed to improve the stock.
PALPATING - A met hot of determining the accuracy of the doe's pregnancy on the 12th - 14th day after mating.
PEDIGREE - A correctly written chart recording the male and female ancestors of a rabbit, also showing the date of birth; ownership of clam and the parents, grandparents, and great grand parents of the specimen in question. In short, the history of the animal.
RABBIT - A domesticated rodent of the genus ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS. An animal with four legs, about the size of a large cat, medium or long ears.
REPRODUCTION - The art of reproducing or multiplying of its own kind.
RUMP - The hind portion of the hack and backbone.
SANITATION - The art of maintaining cleanliness in the rabbitry which is the most important part of management.
TANNING - Is a process of curing or preserving the skin or pelt of the rabbit by use of chemicals.
WEANING - Time when bunnies are separated from their mother...usually at 2 months.
GPO 893-631
Since 1961 when the Peace Corps was created, more than 80,000 U.S. citizens have served as Volunteers in developing countries, living and working among the people of the Third World as colleagues and co-workers, Today 6000 PCVs are involved in programs designed to help strengthen local capacity to address such fundamental concerns as food production, water supply, energy development, nutrition and health education and reforestation.
Loret Miller Ruppe, Director
Edward Curran, Deputy Director
Designate
Richard B. Abell, Director, Office of Program Development
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