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15 It was decreed by law in
Roman Empire that all young maidens be fed rabbit meat because it would make them more beautiful and more willing.
16 The first recorded rabbitry husbandry was in early Roman times, Where rabbits were kept in walled rabbit gardens for food. This saved waste over bigger animals because
rabbit was all eaten. there was no refrigeration.
17 Sailing vessels distributed rabbits on islands in various sea lanes to be used as a source of food by sailors.
18 In 1859 a single pair of rabbits was released in Victoria, Australia, and in 30 years gave rise to an estimated 20 million rabbits.
19 As
worlds human population grows there will be less land to raise food. The rabbit will play a more increasing role in this supply.
20 Rabbits lend themselves to both small and large scale production.
21 France is
world's largest producer and consumer of rabbit meat. In Hungary there are rabbitries with over 10,000 does producing rabbits for export to Italy.
22 Rabbit meat is all white meat.
23 Rabbit was
number 1 Export item of Red China.
24 Rabbit meat compares very favorably to veal at half
price.
25 Our rabbits are not just a rabbit. They are a special breed developed over 15 years of selective breeding by computer. They have more meat and less bone.
26 The combination of
best sanitation and special hand processing technics gives us a much longer fresh shelf life than our competition.
27 Rabbits are known to be used for meat as far back as 1500BC
28.Some people use
heat from
rabbit's ears to heat green houses
29. Taken from
Domestic Rabbit magazine from
early 1990's rabbit manure
has
following percentages of dry material.
2.20% Nitrogen
.87% Phosphorus
2.30% Potassium
.36% Sulfur 1.26% Calcim .40% Magnesium

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