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Chaudry rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus
A breed of Rabbit
Breed of rabbit.
- Family
- Leporidae
Keeping
How it is kept
For Rabbit generally
No keeping details are recorded for this breed yet, so these are the species’.
Kept for
- Meat
- Fibre
- Companionship
- Mature weight
- 1.5–5.5 kg
- Lifespan
- 8–12 years
- Gestation
- 31 days
- Temperament
- Social and easily frightened; gentle once used to handling
- Forage
- Need constant access to hay or grass, which should make up most of the diet. Add fresh greens and a small measured amount of pellets.
- Housing
- A large, secure hutch joined to a run, with room to hop, dig and stand up straight. Protect them from predators, heat and damp.
- Good to know
- Rabbits are happiest in neutered pairs or groups. Their teeth grow all their lives, so a high-fibre diet is essential. They hide illness well, so a rabbit that stops eating needs a vet promptly.
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- Name
- Chaudry rabbit
- Slug
- chaudry-rabbit
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Leporidae
- Genus
- Oryctolagus
- Species
- cuniculus
- Cultivar
- Chaudry rabbit
- Wikidata QID
- Q5088125
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 33