Line Rabbit Breeding

Inbreeding can lead to a number of health problems for rabbits, as it allows recessive, but bad, genetic defects to show themselves. From the perspective of the breeder, it also leads to more uniformity in terms of the rabbits’ genetic traits. If this is desirable it is sometimes practiced by breeders, as, for example, it [...]

Line Breeding is not nearly as complicated as you might think, it is a concept that extends to all kinds of animals, from cats to horses, pigs to rabbits. The basic idea never changes. Line Breeding is the process of breeding “like with like”. That means that the rabbits the line breeder uses all come [...]