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A Complete Handbook on Back-Yard and Commercial Rabbit Production (Peace Corps, 1982, 92 p.)

1. (introduction...)
2. Author's introduction
3. Author's preface
4. Selecting a breed
5. Methods of breeding
6. How to breed
7. The rabbitry and its equipment
   • Housing
   • Hutches
   • Feeding equipment
   • Equipment for watering
   • Nest boxes
8. Feeds and feeding
9. Feeding rabbits
   • (introduction...)
   • Concentrates
   • Home-mixed feed
   • Important note
   • Forages
10. Coprophagy
11. Reproduction
    • Lactation
    • Factors that limit conception
12. Managing the herd
    • (introduction...)
    • Methods of handling rabbits
    • Determining pregnancy
    • Kindling
    • Care of young litter
    • Causes of losses in newborn litters
    • Weaning
    • Determining the sex of young rabbits
    • Records
    • Preventing injuries
    • Sanitation and disease control
    • Fur eating habit
    • Preventing fur block
    • Gnawing wooden parts of the hutch
13. Various uses of rabbit manure
    • Disposal of rabbit manure
    • First class compost fertilizer
    • Methane generator
    • Construction of methane generator
    • Earthworms in the rabbitry
14. Types of production
    • Fryer production
    • Breeder production
    • Roaster production
    • Angora rabbit wool production
    • Grooming
    • Shearing
    • Grading, preparing, and marketing wool
15. Marketing rabbits
    • (introduction...)
    • Cutting and packaging rabbit meat
    • Crating and shipping live rabbits
    • How to assess sales prospects
    • The economics of rabbit production
16. Simplified tanning
    • (introduction...)
    • 1. Slaughtering
    • 2. Curing the skin
    • 3. Dehairing
    • 4. Actual tanning
    • 5. Washing and oiling
    • Oiling formula
    • Making charms from rabbit paws and tails
    • Making artificial rabbit tails
17. Cooking recipes
    • (introduction...)
    • Filipino recipes
    • International recipes
18. Multiple-project approach to rabbitry
19. Glossary