Cuniculture is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domesticrabbits, usually for their meat, fur, or wool.
Some people, called rabbit fanciers, practice cuniculture predominantly for show or hobby.
The small size and relative ease of handling and caring for rabbits makes cuniculture one of the few practical forms of "livestock" agricuture that suburban or even urban hobbyists can attempt.
Rabbits are often raised for meat called cuniculture.
Rabbits have appeared in a host of works of film and literature, notably the White Rabbit in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; in the popular novel Watership Down; and as Rabbit feet are considered lucky, and fake rabbit feet are often sold as cheap trinkets.
In British slang a "rabbit" is an inexperienced and/or incompetent person; the phrase can be qualified by the area of incompetence, e.g.
Cuniculture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cuniculture is the (Surf for more about agricultural) agricultural practice of (The production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization) breeding and raising (Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food) rabbits.
They can produce between 3 and 18 offspring every 3 months.
The small size and relative ease of handling and caring for rabbits makes cuniculture one of the few practical forms of " (Not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit) livestock" agricuture that suburban or even urban (A person who pursues and activity in their spare time for pleasure) hobbyists can attempt.
6th World Rabbit Congress(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As decided by the council of the World Rabbit Science Association during the last World Rabbit Congress (Oregon, USA), the 6th World Rabbit Congress will be held in Toulouse (France) under responsibility of the French Branch of the WRSA, namely the "Association Scientifique Française de Cuniculture" (ASFC).
Postal address of the Congress General Secretary :
The whole rabbitbreeding capacity of the experimental units represents about 1800 breeding does and their progeny.
