The mass rearing of rabbits, as one of the many areas of livestock production, is called cunicula or rabbit farming. It is about the exploitation of minor animal communities, in order to take advantage of all the benefits that their body can provide, such as their meat, fur and limbs (in this case, according to superstitious communities, rabbit feet are considered good luck objects). However, it should be mentioned that not the entire population of rabbits is destined for this, since some are raised and trained to be domestic or companion animals.
In recent years, due to the significant economic gains that the sector can provide, there has been an increase in the presence of rabbit farms, where the animals are given the necessary amount of food, in addition to the vitamins necessary for them to this can acquire a large size. The favorite species of breeders is the Oryctolagus cuniculus, commonly known as the common rabbit. To speed up the processes, on some occasions, it is possible to resort to the use of certain chemicals, in order to make the growth of the animal much faster, in addition to giving it an unnatural size for the species.
Rabbits, according to what is held by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the rabbit is one of the most outstanding exotic species, but harmful to nature itself, due to its constant habit of digging holes in the ground, a characteristic which is quite remarkable when they are in the wild and that influenced their inclusion in the list.
