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Breeding Rabbit
This project is for member’s ages 8-18 years old. This project is designed for the beginning rabbit member with little or no experience in raising rabbits. Members will accomplish the following learning experiences:
- Identify several breeds of rabbits
- Identify the parts of the animal
- Discuss sanitation methods needed to raise rabbits
- Describe good feeding and watering practices
- Keep good feed and financial records
- Demonstrate proper showmanship procedures
- Gain knowledge and skills in managing and caring for rabbits
- Learn to select quality rabbits and feed them balanced rations
- Maintain management records to base decisions regarding feed, production and breeding
- Participate and assume responsibility in the 4-H rabbit program
- Learn breeding, genetics, culling, determining pregnancy
- Learn to design a rabbitry
- Anatomy of rabbits
- Learn how to register a rabbit
- How to market rabbits
- Teaching others
Step 4:
The items listed below are your project requirements. Select each in turn to access a Word Document. Once you have your document, please save it to your hard drive or other media before entering information.
- Colorado 4-H Livestock Project Tip Sheet [ coming soon ]
- Livestock Horse E-Records
(For additional pages of the E-Record, click here to access the Master E-Record page and look at the "single pages".) - 4-H User Guide for Livestock/Horse e-Records
- Breeding Rabbit Record
:: IndBuckRecord.doc
:: IndDoeRecord.doc
:: IndLitterRecord.doc
Completion of Project:
- Completed Livestock/Horse E-Record
- Completed Meat Quality Assurance Requirements
Additional Information:
Coming Soon:
- Youth Livestock Website
- Colorado 4-H Livestock/Horse Judging Sheet
- Colorado 4-H Livestock/Horse Judging Fact Sheet
- Colorado 4-H Meat Quality Assurance Fact Sheet
- Colorado 4-H Livestock Primary Care Guidelines
