Rabbit Questions

1. 
   What is the correct name for a female rabbit? 
   Doe
2. What is the correct name for a male rabbit?
   Buck
3. What is the correct name for a baby rabbit?
   Kitten
4. How many tose are on the hind foot of a rabbit?
   four
5. Rabbit are what Biological Order?
   Lagomorpha
6. Are rabbit Herbivores, Carnivores or Omnivores?
   Herbivores
7. Why do rabbit need wood available to chew on?
   They have ever-growing teeth
8. Rabbits are coprophagous which mean they eat what?
   Part of their feces called cecal pllets
9. Rabbits may have what number of teats of mammary glands?
   Eight
10. How often do rabbit come into hear?
    They have a continouous breeding season
11. What is the gestation period for a rabbit
    28-32 days
12. What is the usual number of kit's in a rabbits litter?
    Depending on the breed and weight limit of the rabbit anywhere from 6-10
13. What is the differenve in the newborn young of a rabbit and a hare?
    The rabbit young are hairless, blindand remain in the nest for at least 10 day; the hare young are furred with open eyes and able to leave the nest within a few house, Also, Different in ear lenght
14. A rabbit with an inflamed mammary gland has?
    Mastitis
15. How many breeds of rabbits are currently recognized by the ARBA?
    46
16. DO all Dose have dewlaps?
    No-is it s disqualification for some breeds to have a dewlap
17. Give an eample of a disualifaction?
    Smut, white toenail on a colored rabbit, colored toe on a white rabbits, broken or misssing teeth. buck teeth, trap teeth, an animal in the wrong class
18. A rabbits teeth grow 1/2 inch or more per month. True or false?
    True
19. what rabbit are raised for wool?
    Angora
20. What is smut?
    Dark coloration on the useble protion of the pelt. This is found on pointed white rabbits sucj as Himalayans and Californians
21. A group of kits are called?
    Litter
22. What is another name for buck teeth?
    Malocclusion
23. What is another name for trapteeth?
    Simple Maloccluison
24. What is flyback?
    The property of the fur that cause it to retuyrn gurickly to its normal position when stroked from the tail to the head of the rabbit
25. What is rollback?
    The property of the fur that causes it to roll back to its normal position when stroked from the tail to the head of the rabbits. This is slower than flyback
26. what is guard hair?
    The longer coarser hair of the coat, oddering protection to the undercoat and providing wearing quality and sheen to the coat
27. A domestic rabbit can be bred wit ha wild cottontail rabbits. True or False?
    Fales- they are different species
28. A domestic rabbit can be bred with a wild EUropean rabbit. True or False?
    True-Domestice rabbits are descended from the wild European rabbits
29. What breed has very short, plush fur?
    Rex and Mini Rex
30. HOw do you groom a normal furred rabbit?
    Brush off losse fur frrom head to tail.
31. Name a cause of sore hocks?
    Thin fur on pad, wet and dirty cage, rough wire flooring, nervous rabbits, long toenails and inherited.
32. What dose "palpate"  mean?
    Feeling the doe's abdomen to see if she's pregnant.
33. When should the nest boox be put in for a gregnant doe?
    lest a week before she is due. Cuase if she has the litter early!
34. Name two ways to contral disease in your rabbitry.
    Quarantine new rabbits, stirct sanitation, good ventilation, good nutrition and gresh water, stirck cullling, rodent and insect control.
35. What dose it mean to quarantine a rabbit?
    Keep it separate from the rest of the herd for lest a week to make sure it dosen't have any disease or bugs
36. When a doe gives birth?
    Kindle
37. When you breed rabbits, do you mate them in the buck or the dose cage?
    THe buck
38. What is the initail treatment for diarrhea?
    Remove pellets, feed hay and rolled oats.
39. Rabbits are classified as rodents. True or False?
    False (Lagomorphs)
40. What is the treatment for Ear Canker(ear mites)?
    Mineral or vegetable oil or eat mite medication for cats
41. What is the process of shedding dead fur called?
    Molting
42. Where are rabbits belived to have originally come from?
    Spain
43. A stain on the coat as a result of urine, manure or ruct from the cage is known as what?
    Hutch Stain or Burn
44. How do you check normal fur?
    Storke it from rump to neck.
45. Nave the 5 body types?
    Commerical, Compact, Full-Arch, Semi-Arch. and Cylindrical
46. Removal of undesirable rabbits from the herd is called?
    Culling
47. Name a common ccause of breeding problems?
    Overweight, heat, heredity, Vent Disease or not old enough to breed
48. THe mother of a rabbit is called?
    Dam
49. "Variety" is a term for what?
    Color
50. When do a baby rabbits eyes open?
    10-11 days