. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. .^ DuK II R.\ ( ) or precepts for bringing young rabbits safelyto a certain age, we shall indicate a few of theprobable causes of their mortality. One of theprincipal ones is convulsions, that is to say, in-sufficient vitality. This is hereditary ; a sicklymother may have a progeny without sufficientvitality to bear the little ailments of early may also be that the mother has to suckleloo many young ; we could give instances of atingle mother suckling twelve or fourteen. Itis easy to see that nothing g
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. .^ DuK II R.\ ( ) or precepts for bringing young rabbits safelyto a certain age, we shall indicate a few of theprobable causes of their mortality. One of theprincipal ones is convulsions, that is to say, in-sufficient vitality. This is hereditary ; a sicklymother may have a progeny without sufficientvitality to bear the little ailments of early may also be that the mother has to suckleloo many young ; we could give instances of atingle mother suckling twelve or fourteen. Itis easy to see that nothing good couldcome of this. The nurse will beexhausted and the nurslings the survivors of such a litterreach the mating age their off-spring cannot possibly be is therefore unadvisable to raisetoo many in a litter, or too manylitters. Five litters annuallyshould content the breeder. Besides, the food given tothe young rabbits is not alwaysjudiciously selected, and this is one of the prin-cipal causes of disease ; too much green food isajjt to be
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