Nutrition of Domestic Rabbits

Nutrition of farmed rabbits.

Current status of rabbit production worldwide The rabbit is now recognized as one of the world’s major livestock species, with an estimated global yield of one million tonnedyear of rabbit carcass (Lebas et al. 1986). Europe remains the centre of world meat-rabbit production with the USSR, France, Italy and Spain supplying approximately two-thirds of this estimated world production. In the UK t...

Domestic Rabbits: Diseases and Parasites

The genetic structure of domestic rabbits.

Understanding the genetic structure of domestic species provides a window into the process of domestication and motivates the design of studies aimed at making links between genotype and phenotype. Rabbits exhibit exceptional phenotypic diversity, are of great commercial value, and serve as important animal models in biomedical research. Here, we provide the first comprehensive survey of nucleo...

Improving agricultural production of domestic rabbits in Serbia by follow-up study of their parasitic infections

A study was made on the prevalence of some parasitic infections appearing in domestic rabbits obtained from individual breeders in Serbia in order to improve the agricultural production of these animals. Aside from economic reasons (meat production and reproduction) rabbits are bred for the research purposes, and races are kept as household pets. For these reasons, among others, it is imp...

Domestic violence and child nutrition in Liberia.

Domestic violence against women is endemic globally and is an important social problem in its own right. A compounding concern is the impact of domestic violence against mothers on the nutritional status of their children. Liberia is an apt setting to examine this understudied topic, given the poor nutritional status of young children, high rate of domestic violence against women, and prolonged...