BREEDING AND CARE OP RABBITS 



ues are suggestive and correspond with the feeding 

 schedule and feed cost prices, pertaining to the exam- 

 ple presented. Students applying the following meth- 

 ods of estimating will experience little difficulty in 

 defining the values corresponding to their feeding 

 practice. The values of several performances by a cer- 

 tain doe should enable one to establish her relative 

 productiveness when compared with similar records of 

 other does. A consistent development of the best and 

 elimination of the poorest producers should result if 

 the evidence afforded by Litter Record and Weight 

 Chart govern one's procedure. It is hoped for Rabbit- 

 craft that strains of stock will appear in response to 

 these methods to dominate the industry by virtue of 

 the fact that their highest credential is useful accom- 

 plishment. 



The Selection and Application of Feeds. 



The practice of pasturing herds of domestic rabbits 

 in large enclosures has not become common, and such 

 practice is not anticipated at the present time. The 

 use of green feeds, other than readily obtained wild 

 plants and garden wastes, requires that special industry 

 be applied to their cultivation, and this time factor 

 added to the other expenses of maintenance. Only in 

 rare cases of studied maintenance methods do we ob- 

 serve such procedure, which is beyond all question 

 wise and practical. 



The writer has determined that nearly all garden 

 wastes that have not been sprayed or powdered with 

 poisonous insecticides may be profitably fed to rabbits 

 and greatly appreciated by them. A good lawn of 

 carefully graded blue grass and white clover is worth 

 a great deal toward maintaining a herd of rabbits, if 

 the clippings are fed in proper condition and quality. 



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