Laboratory & Pet Animal Production Management

Explore important cat breeds and wild cat species, including their appearance, physical characteristics, temperament, and geographic origins.

Learn about the seven AKC dog groups—Sporting, Hound, Working, Terrier, Toy, Herding, and Non-Sporting—and the key characteristics of each.

Explore Angora rabbit wool production, including wool harvesting methods, shearing, storage, fiber quality, composition, and characteristics.

Learn about common rabbit slaughtering methods, including neck dislocation, stunning, bleeding, and skinning techniques for proper carcass preparation.

Learn about common rabbit disorders and conditions, rabbit housing hygiene, disease prevention, and proper disposal and utilization of rabbit waste.

Learn about parasitic diseases of rabbits, including coccidiosis and ear mange, with their causes, symptoms, transmission, lesions, and treatment.

Learn about viral diseases of rabbits, including myxomatosis and viral hemorrhagic disease (VHD), their causes, transmission, symptoms, and control.

Learn about bacterial diseases of rabbits, including pasteurellosis, abscesses, and mastitis, with their causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.

Learn about common diseases of rabbits, including their causes, clinical signs, important features, and treatment options for rabbit health management.

Learn about rabbit feeding management, including nutrient requirements, feeding schedules, water and fiber needs, forage feeding, and cecotrophy.

Learn proper handling and restraint techniques for rabbits and how to identify the sex of male and female rabbits by examining the external genitalia.

Learn about rabbit breeding management, including pregnancy care, kindling, nest management, fostering, nursing, and weaning of young rabbits.