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HOW TO BUILD PVC RABBITS HUTCH

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Building rabbit cages, chicken coops, or any sort of PVC frame is simple, fast, and will last a long time. This rabbit hutch uses 1 1/2 SCH 40 pipe and is about 8′ x 6′ x 3′ deep. It can hold up to six rabbit cages. Why six and not four like most? If you get a sick rabbit or two or ever plan to breed your rabbits you’ll appreciate the extra cages. There are several PVC rabbit hutch plans online, but really, just go to your local hardware store and stare at the PVC connectors for a while. These rabbit hutches are so easy to build that you can very easily come up with a plan, especially if you’ve ever worked with PVC or are the DIY creative type. You’ll be inspired in no time. But, if you like instructions and planning before you start then here’s a cool design for you. This design is modular unlike most other PVC frame designs on the web, meaning you can continue building length·wise however long you want. Need 8 cages i...
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RABBITS INBREEDING by Ayoola Najeemdeen

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Can you inbreed rabbits? More so, should you? What is breeding?  What is line breeding? BREEDING Breeding, selective control of mating in animals to produce organisms that better serve human needs for food, work, sport, or aesthetics. Simple breeding methods have been employed throughout human history. From paintings on the walls of Egyptian tombs, archaeologists have determined that dogs were bred at least 4000 years ago, and perhaps as early as 10,000 years ago. Ancient civilizations also domesticated varieties of cattle, sheep, goats, and grains. The history of breeding can be divided into two periods: before and after the rediscovery in 1900 of Mendel's concepts of heredity. Before 1900, breeders worked primarily by selecting from each generation the animals or plants that displayed desired characteristics and then breeding these individuals to produce the next generation. Although this simple method, known as mass selection, produced some favorable resul...
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INBREEDING AND LINE BREEDING OF RABBITS

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Can you inbreed rabbits? What is line breeding? More importantly, why should you? Line breeding is the process of breeding closely related animals, usually father to daughter or mother to son, in an effort to improve individual traits. Inbreeding is the same as line breeding but the animals are much more closely related, typically brother and sister. Nearly all animals have been inbred or line bred at some point, and rabbits are no exception. In fact every breed of domesticated rabbit (or cow, dog, cat, and even fish) have been bred by humans into what they are now. Hundreds or sometimes thousands of years of breeding lines have created the cows, pigs, sheep, and other farm animals that we now have. Rabbits are no different. Line Breeding vs Inbreeding Before we begin it’s important to understand the difference between line breeding and inbreeding. Line breeding Line breeding is the act of breeding a father to a daughter, or a mother to...
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