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    The Chinchilla Rabbit - Its Breeding For Profit
    The Chinchilla Rabbit - Its Breeding For Profit
    The Chinchilla Rabbit - Its Breeding For Profit
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    The Chinchilla Rabbit - Its Breeding For Profit

    By W. Brumwell

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    Originally published in 1929 this early book on rabbit keeping for profit contains a mass of information that is still practical and useful today. Contents Include: The Origins of the Chinchilla Rabbit Commercial Possibilities Accommodation Management Food Marketing Exhibiting. etc. With illustrations. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473350946
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      The Chinchilla Rabbit - Its Breeding For Profit - W. Brumwell

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      PREFACE to the SECOND EDITION

      I was more than a little astonished when I learned that the first edition of this book had been sold in under six months, and the publishers were asking me for corrections and additions for the Second Edition.

      I do not flatter myself that this is due to any merit inherent in the book. It is in fact entirely due to the ever-growing interest in Chinchilla rabbit culture.

      Apart from a few unimportant errors which I made, owing to the haste with which the Book was produced, and which I have now corrected, the Second Edition is a reprint of the first. Nothing has arisen in the past six months to modify the general tenour of the contents.

      I should like to thank, very sincerely, all those who have been kind enough to write to me, expressing their appreciation of the work.

      W. BRUMWELL.

      CAMPSEA ASHE, 13/9/27.

      The Chinchilla Rabbit

      CHAPTER I

      THE ORIGIN OF THE CHINCHILLA RABBIT

      A good deal of controversy has centred round the origin of the Chinchilla. Protagonists have joined issue on the question of whether the variety was made by some clever breeder of rabbits, or whether it arose in the order of nature, as different breeds of other species have arisen.

      It has been claimed for more than one French breeder of rabbits, that he produced the Chinchilla rabbit by judicious crosses. Certain it is that, as far as this country is concerned, the first specimens were imported from France about the year 1919.

      French tradition gives credence to the tale that many years ago, in Paris, an old man used to take up his station on one of the bridges crossing the Seine, and offer these rabbits for sale. Other tales tell of travellers who brought them back from Eastern Europe. It is, I have concluded, impossible to verify these tales or to prove them untrue; and, on the whole, I do not think it really matters. Present and future lovers of the breed may cherish them and they tend to invest the variety with a halo of romance. Who would be so churlish as to desire to rob it of this charming feature?

      The picture in the fourth book of the Georgics, that the poet Virgil has left us of himself, tending his bees in the lemon groves of fair Parthenope, and investing them with superhuman, almost supernatural attributes, has not detracted from, nay has rather added to, the pleasure and profit of bee-keeping. However, the modern beekeeper is not invited to believe that swarms of bees are spontaneously generated from the carcase of an ox, as did Virgil. So we may be allowed to investigate the origin of the Chinchilla rabbit in the light of modern scientific research.

      The modern scientific view is that the Chinchilla arose as a mutation, either in the wild or in some variety of tame rabbit.

      That those connected with Departments of Research at various universities have proclaimed this fact, may be considered sufficiently good evidence for the ordinary rabbit breeder. But if any evidence of similar happenings of Chinchillation is required, it is available in what is known as the Sandringham hare. This beast, a perfectly good Chinchilla hare, which was killed at Sandringham, is preserved in the albino case at the South Kensington Museum, for all who are interested to see.

      I think we may take it as certain that the Chinchilla arose at some time or other in the manner described by the scientists. Indeed it may well have arisen in that manner more than once.

      Without any great strain being put upon our powers of imagination we can see some astute French rabbit breeder spotting the first Chinchilla rabbit. Perhaps it was a little wild beast that had been snared, betrayed into the hands of the hunter, who received a franc or so for handing it over. If a male it was maybe used with some ordinary doe, and by putting the progeny back to the sire, a new strain may have been founded. Alternatively a Chinchilla, or a pair, may have appeared in the litter of a tame rabbit, which the French smallholder, according to his custom, was keeping. If he chanced to have a neighbour who was particularly interested in rabbits we can see him agog with excitement, hurrying to tell of the strange new rabbits which his doe has brought forth. And he, more than probably, received a franc or so more than the restaurateur would have given him for the flesh, for handing over the peculiar specimens.

      One may be forgiven for speculating as to whether the purchaser had the vision to realise that he was

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