Rabbits were mainly kept for consumption purposes (39 rabbits/farmer/year) and a few rabbits (31/farmer/year) were sold each year. On average only 1% of the rabbit producers sold more than 100 rabbits per year, 9%, between 50-100; and 90%, between 0-50. Farmers indicated lack of access to credit and feeds as the major challenge to rabbit ciency of a given rabbit-production system. Introduction Rabbits are becoming increasingly popular as a source of healthy meat with high nutritional value (Petracci et al., 2009). The world production of rabbit meat was calculated to be nearly 1 482 000tons in 2017 (FAOSTAT, 2019). Rabbit meat can be produced very easily; however, the A complete handbook on Backyard and Commercial rabbit production, P eace Corps. P reface This rabbit production manual is written for the Malawi Prison Service Farm Development program. This manual should be used as guidelines to produce rabbits under Malawi Prison Service circumstances. Rabbits are produced in the Prison Farms for meat consumption. The ideal small-scale rabbit production model (SSRPM) represents an alternative and self-supporting system, based on renewable farm resources, that embodies the greatest potential for achieving a favourable, sustained impact (chiefly nutritional and economic) on limited-resource farm families who are mostly from the lesser-developed countries. Rabbits are highly prolific and a good female can produce 25 to 30 kits (young ones) per year. Rabbits can be reared in small groups (up to 50 nos.) in the kitchen garden/backyard of farmer's house with kitchen waste as feed. Family labor is adequate to take care of the labor requirements of the unit. The rabbit housing systems which are commonly used in commercial rabbit farming are the cage system and the deep litter system. For the cage system, you will be keeping the rabbits in cages. You can either keep the cages indoors or outdoors. On the other hand, the deep litter system is whereby you keep the rabbits on floors e.g. concrete floors with bedding spread on the floor. rabbits for <3 years while 36 and 24% had spent 3 to 7 and more than 7 years respectively. These results confirm that rabbit farming continues to attract new entrants in Kenya as reported by Kale et al (2016). According to Borter and Mwanza (2011), for rabbit production to gain hold in a new production systems, it THE WELFARE OF FARMED RABBITS IN COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS Executive summary Rabbits are the second most frequently farmed species in the EU but are not protected by species-specific legislation. Global rabbit meat production is increasing year on year and reached 1.6 million tonnes in 2014, equivalent to 1.07 billion rabbits. While annual rabbit production in the EU has 4‐H Rabbit Production Record. 761‐00R 4‐H Youth Development May 2014 Name/Number of Doe chapter 1 an Introduction to rabbit … a href= '' https:? Costs of nutrients in European countries and management AgriMoon.CoM 4 management FREE /a Total world consumption - 1.5 million tons in 2017. Total annual consumption volume increase - +2.8% from 2007 to 2017. The global rabbit meat market revenue: $6.4 billion in 2017. country with the largest volume of rabbit meat consumption: China (925K tons), comprising approximately 62% of the total consumption.