Cuniculture is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits as livestock for their meat, fur, or wool. Cuniculture is also employed by rabbit fanciers and hobbyists in the develo
Maciej, King of Kings by Antoni Kozakiewicz (1841–1929) from Book VI of Pan Tadeusz
Illustration of cuts of rabbit meat by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1657)
A wagon-load of rabbit skins in Walcha, New South Wales, Australia (1905)
Meat-type rabbits were raised for supplementary food in the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The domestic rabbit is the domesticated form and subspecies of the European rabbit. There are hundreds of rabbit breeds originating from all over the world. Rabbits were first domesticated and used fo
Cuniculture
…Cuniculture is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits as livestock for their meat, fur, or wool. Cuniculture is also employed by rabbit fanciers and hobbyists in the development and betterment of rabbit…
A medieval depiction of ladies who are hunting rabbits in a warren using cages and ferrets. Queen Mary's Psalter (1340)
Titian, Madonna of the Rabbit (c. 1530)
Beatrix Potter and one of her rabbits