Choose a decorative rabbit
If you are not going to breedrabbits professionally, do not try to acquire expensive thoroughbred animals. Otherwise, it is likely that you will have to participate in exhibitions, frantically look for a suitable pair of your favorite and have a bunch of other troubles.
So choose the breed "simpler". Fortunately, they are enough. These are dwarf ermines, dwarf rexes with short soft wool, dwarfs of various colors (white, black, black with red or light tans, calico), "chinchillas", tortoiseshell, long-haired dwarf rabbits with long fluffy hair, rabbits with hanging ears .
Decorative rabbits can be purchased in nurseries or from breeders who professionally breed and breed. Then, along with the documents, you have a guaranteethe fact that you get what you want - and the breed, and age, and the level of health. In the bird markets and in pet stores, you can buy a rabbit without documents, so there may be difficulties with finding out the breed and age.
The fact is that very often for decorative dwarf rabbits are given to babies of ordinary small rabbits. A reliable sign, by which you canidentify and choose a purebred rabbit, are especially short ears. Their length is in adults dwarf rabbits from 4.5 to 5.5 cm and never exceeds 7 cm - remember this. The weight of an adult rabbit can be from 600 to 1500 g. Ideally, if it weighs 1100 - 1250 g. Adult dwarf rabbits with a mass of less than 700 - 800 grams. often little adapted to life.
Young rabbits should not go on sale at the age of less than 6 weeks. Unfortunately, they often sell non-thoroughbredssmall age rabbits, when they have short ears and small body size. Especially popular rabbits of the breed "sheep". At these simpatyazhek in the childhood the ears stand straight, and later - they go down. It often happens that a rabbit "ram" for a while one ear can be standing up, and the other hanging.
Buying an animal on a breeding farm from the breeders, you can see special tattoos on the ears of rabbits. On the right ear, as a rule, there is information aboutnursery, and on the left - about the age of the animal. Before you buy a rabbit, watch them for some time. Pay attention not only to the prettiest face, but also to behavior - the quietest will be just right.
It is important that the rabbit look healthy - it should have clear, live eyes, cleana shiny coat without bald spots, a clean nose and a lack of secretion around it, the ears are clean inside, without black dots and crusts. Animals should not have a discharge from the eyes and their adhesion. If there is a lesion of only one eye, the reason for this may be the ingress of dust or specks, a draft. If the eyes are watery from both sides, then this may be a sign of an infectious disease.
As a rule, healthy rabbits jump around the cage, show an interest in the surrounding environment and always eat. Of course, from time to time they sit on the ground orstretch and lie on their sides. If the rabbit sits in the corner of the cage, and the coat is ruffled, this is often a sign of the disease. Determine the sex of adult rabbits is not difficult, but in rabbits it can only install an experienced specialist. But sellers in the pet store must know what gender belongs to their "goods".
Remember that in no case can not carry rabbit and adult rabbit for ears. It should be carefully raised for wool onback, there she freely lags behind the body, and this does not cause a rabbit pain. A hand-made rabbit can be simply taken in hand, as a cat is taken, supporting the hand from below.
