Summary
The importance of the domestic rabbit as a supplier of meat for human consumption is widely recognised throughout the world. In Europe and the United States large scale commercial rabbit farming has been practised for many years and standards of husbandry raised.
There are also successful rabbit farms in the tropics and sub-tropics. The size of these varies from the large commercial rabbitries to small backyard rabbitries. Apart from being a good source of meat, rabbits provide useful skins, manure and, with some breeds wool.
The document "Rabbit Technology for Warm Climates" includes sections that consider the following topics:
a) The reasons why people keep rabbits
b) The disadvantages of keeping rabbits
c) The different ways in which rabbits are kept.
d) The development of rabbit keeping.
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