BREEDING AND CARE OP RABBITS 



each day and the milk should not be left standing in 

 the dishes very long at a time, as it sours quickly. 

 Never give the milk to them chilled. In the winter 

 all rabbits that are not nursing young can get along 

 without water, provided you give them plenty of nice 

 clean carrots with each meal. 



Winter feeding is harder than summer, for good 

 warm mashes should be given at times. One very fine 

 warm mash is made of barley meal shorts and a little 

 oil dust. Another can be made of potato parings 

 boiled and mixed with barley meal. Good whole oats 

 slightly warmed in the morning or noon is good, and 

 at night good pure clover hay or alfalfa with carrots 

 makes a good feed. Some fanciers give their rabbits 

 just a little water in the morning during the winter 

 months but never leave any standing in the dishes. 

 Bread and milk slightly warmed is also good for noon 

 feeding in winter. 



Have hay racks in your hutches and build 

 in places for the feed and drink dishes, so they cannot 

 upset them or get any dirt into them. A block of 

 wood one to two inches thick, with holes cut to hold 

 the dishes, placed in one end or side of the hutches 

 will keep the dirt out of them. If the fancier has not 

 time to devote to his stock, he might as well give them 

 up, for they will be a bill of expense, and an ever-in- 

 creasing burying ground will be the result. Try to 

 keep the youngsters from eating anything but bread 

 and milk until they are at least three weeks old, for 

 their stomachs are not strong enough to digest much 

 green food or oats and hay. It may be necessary at 

 times to feed the does in separate hutches from the 



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