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Secondary issues with colonies arise from the fact that rabbits living on the ground are very susceptible to the three P's , predators, parasites and pathogens. It can be harder to catch early and treat diseases in a colony , and even harder to eradicate pathogens and parasites from soil. | Secondary issues with colonies arise from the fact that rabbits living on the ground are very susceptible to the three P's , predators, parasites and pathogens. It can be harder to catch early and treat diseases in a colony , and even harder to eradicate pathogens and parasites from soil. | ||
Other issues are rabbits aren't always nice to babies, many are just bad mothers, and when allowed to go to ground to nest you may never find those failed litters, if you run more then one buck, pedigree tracking becomes impossible, and you lose control over being able to select for better traits | Other issues are rabbits aren't always nice to babies, many are just bad mothers, and when allowed to go to ground to nest you may never find those failed litters, if you run more then one buck, pedigree tracking becomes impossible, and you lose control over being able to select for better traits over being able to select for type to improve your stock, so you need to consider management systems and breeding. | ||
If the buck is left with the doe, does will be bred back to back a practice many try to avoid becuse it can exhaust the doe physically. | If the buck is left with the doe, does will be bred back to back a practice many try to avoid becuse it can exhaust the doe physically. | ||
Mentally rabbits that were studied in a colony setting actually showed to have more fear and higher cortisol levels becuse like their wild counterparts they had to remain on alert for extended period of time to watch for threats from predators and other rabbits. | Mentally rabbits that were studied in a colony setting actually showed to have more fear and higher cortisol levels becuse like their wild counterparts they had to remain on alert for extended period of time to watch for threats from predators and other rabbits. |