Request Information

Rabbit Production
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Edition:
- 10th
- Author:
- Lukefahr, Steven; McNitt, James I.; Cheeke, Peter Robert; Patton, Nephi
- Publisher:
- CAB International
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78-924980-4
-
Description
-
Details
-
Also Recommended
Description
This well-established book continues to provide an overview of domesticated rabbit production, covering topics such as breeding, management, feeding, and health.
Rabbits are versatile animals, farmed for their meat and fur, as laboratory and show animals, and also as pets. Now in its fully updated tenth edition, the book includes an expanded consideration of important issues such as animal behavior and welfare and sustainable methods of small-scale rabbit production. With chapters relating specifically to international and backyard family rabbit production, pet rabbits, rabbit shows, and angora wool production, this new edition:
Providing updates on worldwide production trends, breeds, and figures, as well as use of color photos throughout, this book is an essential resource for anyone involved in rabbit production - from novice to experienced breeders, trainers and managers of rabbit projects, veterinarians, and industry professionals.
Rabbits are versatile animals, farmed for their meat and fur, as laboratory and show animals, and also as pets. Now in its fully updated tenth edition, the book includes an expanded consideration of important issues such as animal behavior and welfare and sustainable methods of small-scale rabbit production. With chapters relating specifically to international and backyard family rabbit production, pet rabbits, rabbit shows, and angora wool production, this new edition:
- Includes new information on the latest methods of rabbit reproductive management, including applications of artificial insemination, estrous synchronization, embryo transfer, cloning, and molecular genetics
- Tackles globally prevalent health issues such as mucoid enteropathy (ME), epizootic rabbit enteropathy (ERE) and rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD)
- Reviews up-to-the-minute developments such as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on food production, opportunities of selling rabbits at farmers markets, organic rabbit meat, raising of pastured rabbits, as well as new projects addressing poverty alleviation and food security
Providing updates on worldwide production trends, breeds, and figures, as well as use of color photos throughout, this book is an essential resource for anyone involved in rabbit production - from novice to experienced breeders, trainers and managers of rabbit projects, veterinarians, and industry professionals.
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- CAB International
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Lukefahr, Steven; McNitt, James I.; Cheeke, Peter Robert; Patton, Nephi
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78-924980-4
- Specialty:
-
- Animal Production & Genetics
- Animal Sciences
- Veterinary Science
- Zoology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 10th
- Pages:
- 0
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Asking Animals: An Introduction to Animal Behaviour Testing
- Automation in Tree Fruit Production: Principles and Practice
- Basic Monitoring in Canine and Feline Emergency Patients
- Bioeconomy: Delivering Sustainable Green Growth, The
- Biosecurity in Animal Production and Veterinary Medicine: From Principles to Practice
- Cucurbits
- Differential Diagnosis in Small Animal Cytology: The Skin and Subcutis
- ECG Interpretation in Equine Practice
- Ecologically-based Integrated Pest Management
- Equine Endocrinology
- Fraser's The Behaviour and Welfare of the Horse
- Genetics of Cattle, The
- Greenhouse Technology and Management
- ICONDA
- JBI PACES
- JBI SUMARI
- Mental Health and Well-Being in Animals
- Microbiological Methods for Assessing Soil Quality
- Mycoplasmas in Swine
- Neurology Clinical Practice
- Nutrition of the Rabbit
- Onions and Other Vegetable Alliums
- Parasites of Cattle and Sheep: A Practical Guide to their Biology and Control
- Paratuberculosis: Organism, Disease, Control
- Plant Invasions: The Role of Biotic Interactions
- Poultry Feathers and Skin: The Poultry Integument in Health and Welfare
- Small Animal Veterinary Psychiatry
- Tomatoes
- Vegetable Brassicas and Related Crucifers
- Veterinary Ethics in Practice