LITTERS AND THEIR SIZE 
WE HAVE already had something to say 
elsewhere about the size of litters, but this is 
a matter which cannot be too strongly over- 
emphasized. 
The size and the frequency of the litters 
has everything to do with success in raising 
rabbits. People often do not stop to take 
this into consideration. 
The rabbit isnaturally a very prolific animal. 
Nature seems to try to compensate for the 
natural losses due to enemies and other con- 
ditions which combine to destroy litters in the 
natural state by sending a large number of 
youngsters to the mother doe. 
The average litter of the good breeding doe 
will run all the way from five to thirteen and 
I have heard of does having as many as fifteen 
and seventeen at one time. It is nothing out 
of the way for a doe to have nine at a time. 
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