What's your type?
(Rabbit body types)
(Rabbit body types)
This type's profile rises from behind the ear base to the top of the hip and proceeds downward to the table. Generally large 8-12 lbs.
What is commercial?
Examples: American Chincilla, Californian, Cinnamon, French Lop, Harlequin, Hotot, Rex, Satin, Silver Fox, Satin Angora, Giant Angora, New Zealand
What male, female and baby rabbits are called.
What are bucks, does & kits?
Small insects that cause scabs or crust on the inner ear of a rabbit.
What are mites?
The number of teeth that a rabbit has.
What is 28?
The class of rabbits where you have Junior and Senior bucks and does.
What is 4 Class.
This type is small but have similar profiles to meat breeds. Generally 3-5 lbs.
What is compact?
Examples: Dutch, Lionhead, Netherland Dwarf, Polish, Dwarf Hotot, Jersey Wooly, Holland Lop, American Fuzzy Lop, all mini breeds
The time period that a female rabbit is pregnant.
What is her gestation?
An infection that causes excessive tear formation and dark fluid runs down the cheek. Eyes are crusty and gooey.
What is Conjunctivitis or and Eye infection?
The class of rabbits where you have Junior, Intermediate and Senior bucks and does.
What is 6 class?
How a rabbit regulates their temperature.
What is through bloodvessels in their ears?
This type is easily recognized by an arch with starts at the back of the neck to the base of the tail. They have long limbs and a long body. They have a racy appearance.
What is full arch?
Examples: English Spot, Tan, Checkered Giant, Belgian Hare, Rhinelander, Britannia Petite
A chart describing a rabbit's family tree.
What is a pedigree?
An infected area on the hind leg that will cause a rabbit to have scabs and bleeding on the bottom of their hind feet?
What is sore hocks?
The different colors and patterns of a rabbit's fur.
What is variety?
Thickness of the rabbit's coat.
What is density?
This type is long and narrow with no rise over the midsection. Similar to a paper towel roll or a snake.
What is cylindrical?
Example: Himalayan
A form of breeding that involves the mating of closely related individuals (like siblings, cousins, or parent-offspring). This kind of breeding increases genetic similarity and the likelihood of inheriting identical genes from a common ancestor.
What is inbreeding?
Early signs of this disease are a nasal discharge, watery eyes, head shaking, sneezing or rattling noise in breathing and loss of weight.
What is Pasteurellois "Snuffles"?
The heartrate of a rabbit.
What is 140-150 beats per minute.
An infected mammary gland caused by an injury from a nest box, cage or a bite from a nursing kit.
What is mastitis?
This is the newest type. It is characterized by parallel sidelines when viewed from above and a straight topline that is angled from the high shoulder to the hindquarter.
What is upright cylindrical?
Examplesk: Czech Frosty and Blue Holicer
A form of breeding that involves mating distantly related individuals with a common ancestor to concentrate desirable traits and fix them into a lineage.
What is linebreeding?
A highly contagious disease with a high mortality rate that causes internal hemorrhaging leading to bleeding from the nose and mouth.
What is Rabbit Hemorraghic Disease Virus Sero-type 2 "RHDV2"?
The kind of feces that a rabbit eats and that supplies them with vitamin B.
What is night feces
A narrow chest with a protruding "V" shaped breast bone - a general all breeds disqualification.
What is pigeon breasted.