Dwarf rabbit..

The Netherland Dwarf may be a common breed of domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) originating within the Netherland. Minor than maximum rabbit strains, Netherland Dwarf rabbits weigh five hundred g to one.6 kg (1.1 lbs to 3.5 lbs)[citation needed] and square measure sometimes unbroken as pets or exhibition animals. They’re not generally used as sources of meat or fur due to their little size.

 

• History:

         The Netherland Dwarf breed was initial made within the Netherlands within the early twentieth century. Little Polish rabbits were bred with littler wild rabbits; when many generations the ensuing animal was an awfully small domestic rabbit accessible in an exceedingly wide selection of colures and patterns. Netherland Dwarfs were initial foreign into the UK in 1948. within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies the u.  s. foreign its initial Netherland Dwarf rabbits. The breed was accepted by the Yankee Rabbit Breeders' Association in 1969 employing a modification of British normal. Early dwarfs, even into the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, had fearful and typically aggressive temperaments.

This was a results of breeders choosing wild breeding animals for his or her size. The primary dwarf rabbits behaved additional like these wild rabbits than livestock and weren't sensible pets. However, through generations of selective breeding, the fashionable Netherland Dwarf has become a delicate, friendly pet rabbit, although it still will retain a additional energetic disposition than larger breeds

 

• Dwarf breeds:

       Rabbit breeds derived from breeding larger rabbits with the Netherland dwarf (or any rabbit with a dwarf gene) square measure called dwarf breeds. Smaller breeds, just like the Mini-Rex, the Jersey Wooly, and therefore the Netherlands lop square measure results of such breedings.

Usually dwarf breeds square measure slightly larger than the everyday Netherland dwarf, not growing larger than four to five pound (1.8 to 2.3 kg).