Product Description

Practical advice for children who want to raise their own rabbits for pets, profit, or show. Includes information on housing, feeding, grooming, breeding, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #389341 in Books
• Published on: 1992-01-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

From School Library Journal

Gr 5 Up-- A definitive guide for young readers, this is so thorough that even those experienced in raising rabbits would find it helpful. Like Simmons's Your Sheep (Garden Way, 1992), the main text covers the inner two-thirds of each page. A vertical line separates that from the outer remaining space; there, terms are defined, additional information appears, and important facts are repeated. Some of the black-and-white illustrations also appear here. The smoothly flowing, second-person narration covers such topics as selecting the breed, choosing the first rabbit, handling, housing, feeding, health, breeding, care of newborns, marketing, and management. Drawings, charts, and barely average black-and-white photos appear throughout. A ``helpful sources'' section offers several mail-order rabbitry suppliers and a complete listing of each state's Cooperative Extension Service. The volume concludes with an extensive glossary and index. FFA members, 4-Hers, and pet owners will be pleased to find this title on the shelf.

Eldon Younce, Harper Elementary School, KS

Copyright 1993 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Card catalog description
A handbook for raising rabbits for pets, for profit, or to show.

From the Back Cover
Whether you have never owned a rabbit or you are experienced with rabbits and would like to learn how to breed or show them, Nancy Searle's friendly advice will help you to do the very best job possible. You will learn the answers to such questions as:

* What kind of rabbit should I get?
* How should I pick up and hold my rabbit?
* What kind of shelter should I prepare for my rabbit?
* What will my rabbit want to eat?
* How can I help my rabbit stay healthy?

Customer Reviews

Great book and company
We love this book. Such a well written, informative book. Great for children and adults alike.
Condition was as stated by seller and great for the price.
Even full price this book is completely worth every cent that you pay.
Wonderful for 4H projects or just further learning about rabbits.

Out of Touch with Reality
This books, FFA, 4-H, and all breeders are out of touch with the reality of rabbit populations. One female rabbit can in the right conditions give birth to 200 baby bunnies a year!

The amount of buns in shelters is staggering and overwelming. In this day of age breeding not a hobby, it is abuse.

If you want to raise a bunny go to your local shelter or House Rabbit Society and adopt one. Let is live freely in a bunnyproofed house and NOT IN A HUTCH OUTSIDE or a cage!

LOTS of research and preparation must be done before adopting a bunny, they are wonderful creatures but are not as resilient as cats and dogs and need proper care (especially PROPER DIET) for survival, otherwise you are abusing the bunny.

I could go on but stop the breeding people.

Excellent
I breed rabbits and I continually come back to this book for reference. It is a great book and well worth it, whether you are going to breed, show, or just own a rabbit as a pet. I recomend it to everyone.