🐇 Rabit

Types, Utility, Nomenclature, Important terms

Which of the following statement is/are incorrect?

Types

  • Both belongs to Family: Leporiae

Utility

  • For meat. Rabits grow very fast. (2kg in just 12 weeks)
  • For Fur/wool.
  • Angora breed of rabbits are white, small, weighing from 2.5-3 kg reared exclusively for their excellent wool, quality and quantity.

Nomenclauture

  • Doe: Mature female.
  • Buck: Mature male.
  • Kit: Young rabbit whose eyes are not yet opened.
  • Bunny: Young rabbit of below 20 week age.
  • Kindling: Process of parturation in rabits.

Caecotropes

  • When the soft pellets reaches at the anus, a neutral response in rabbit which results in licking the anal area.

Coprophagy

  • Greek copros means excrement and phagein means to eat.
  • The re-ingestion of soft faces is known as Coprophagy.
  • It is common in rodents including rabbits and hares which are of great nutritional importance.
References 
- G.C. Banerjee: A Textbook of Animal Husbandry
- https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/
- https://www.breedslist.com/
- https://nbagr.icar.gov.in/
- Wikipedia

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