🐇 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.
Angorabreed 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
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.
Angorabreed 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 …
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