You can shorten the interval between kindling and breeding as you gain experience. A 35-day breed-back schedule is recommended. Many commercial rabbit producers will breed does back 14 to 21 days after kindling. Rabbit breeding schedules are usually based on 7-day intervals for ease in recordkeeping. If you’re mostly interested in showing rabbits, you may want to have only a few litters each year and time them to provide stock of the proper age for showing.
If you’re raising rabbits for meat, you may want to produce as many fryers as possible. When setting up a breeding system for your rabbitry, your first consideration should be your purpose for raising rabbits. Such intensive breeding is not recommended, however, for the beginner and is seldom used in commercial production. With an intensive breeding program, a doe can be expected to have 60 weaned young a year. They produce large litters and are unique in that they can be rebred immediately after kindling (giving birth). They become sexually mature within a few months of birth and have relatively short pregnancies.
Rabbits have a high reproductive rate compared to other livestock.
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