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Feeding and breeding of laboratory animals

IV. Breeding of rabbits without fresh green food

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

H. M. Bruce
H. M. Bruce
Affiliation:
National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead, N.W. 3
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1. Breeding records are given of fourteen female Dutch rabbits reared and maintained without green food, and of twelve of their female offspring.

2. Fertility, average litter size at birth, and the percentage of young weaned, were good for the breed.

3. No difference in growth rate was found between the first and second generations of young.

4. With the dry pelleted diet, supplemented by drinking water, fresh green food is unnecessary for breeding rabbits, as it has already been shown to be unnecessary for growing animals (Bruce & Parkes, 1946).

I should like to thank Dr A. S. Parkes, F.R.S., for his help in the preparation of the manuscript.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , May 1947 , pp. 169 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1947

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