Indonesia
This research was funded by the Faculty of Animal Sciency through the 2023 PNBP Program carried out by a team of lecturers at the Aneka Livestock Laboratory, Dr. Ir. Sri Minarti, MP., IPM., ASEAN Eng, Prof. Dr. Ir. Mochammad Junus, MS, and Poppy Satya Puspita, S.Pt., M.Si regarding Rabbit Production Performance in People’s Farms in Bumiaji District, Batu City, is preliminary research to determine the potential and carry out a development and breeding program for rabbit livestock in the future. Bumiaji District is one of the potential areas to become a rabbit farming center. In its development, rabbits have quite good prospects in overcoming the problem of a continuous shortage of meat as a source of protein in order to ensure food availability at the community level, especially in areas with high population density and limited land. However, rabbit meat production is still very low compared to meat production from other livestock.
Apart from their meat being healthy for consumption, rabbits also have a lot of potential for development because they have many other uses such as producing skin/fur for the textile industry and droppings which have economic value to be used as organic fertilizer or pesticide. Rabbits are also popular as pets because of their docile nature and the unique beauty of their fur. The high price, available market, and fast supply turnover cycle are attractive for breeders to breed ornamental rabbits, even meat rabbits are often sold when they are still puppies. Because they are more interested in selling their rabbits when they are still puppies, breeders do not have many puppies to use as stock to raise until the rabbits become adults. This condition can cause a decline in the genetic quality of rabbit livestock, resulting in decreased productivity. The lack of data on the productivity of rabbits until they reach maturity or are ready to be slaughtered, especially for meat rabbits, is the reason it is difficult to carry out rabbit breeding programs.
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