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160:'We are an optimistic crowd, and we will carry on.' There were now over five hundred judges, who wanted people to breed exhibition rabbits with beautiful fur." Women were active in supporting the club and providing refreshments at meetings, but the organisation wanted more women active in showing rabbits. In the same year, the society set up examinations for rabbit-keeping. The first National Diplomas in Rabbit Husbandry were awarded in 1953.
228:. It carried out a survey of rabbit owners to try to manage the effects of the disease. The council successfully lobbied for inoculations against myxomatosis to be available for domestic rabbits. Members of the society were directly involved with dealing with the effects of the disease among domestic rabbits. They campaigned against the deliberate spreading of the disease.
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Council members and their rabbits must have a metal ring around one hind leg registered in their name. In 1993, the Council was said to give out a hundred thousand rings each year. In breed classes, the rabbits are judged to standards defined by the
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Council should try to put a stop to this important supplement to the nation's feeding and clothing supplies whilst the Government is doing everything in its power to encourage people to keep rabbits for food and fur. I would also point out that should any
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British Rabbit Council (BRC) you must be registered with them. The BRC supply ID rings to each member They are unique to that particular person and are slipped on to rabbits' legs when they're very
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many persons now out of work are anxious to breed rabbits ... The
British Rabbit Council has assisted some of the unemployment centres by gifts of stock, mainly in the form of young breeding does, but there are many more applications for these than can be
196:. The BRC set up the Commercial Rabbit Association as part of this project. In 1977, the secretary of the BRC "said that two or three does, kept in an ordinary backyard could produce enough meat for one family meal a week".
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rabbit keeper find himself in difficulties with the
Council I shall be quite prepared to refer the case to the Legal Department of the British Rabbit Council for proper action to be taken.
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536:"Rabbit Keeping: The Question of the Unemployed"
1123:"Breeders in fear of new killer rabbit disease"
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909:"A 'plague' hits British rabbits"
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725:Brown, Margaret (25 April 1977).
700:"Plan to develop rabbit industry"
673:Hall, Charles W (18 March 1960).
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1401:"Best in the Midlands"
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830:"Breed Rabbits To Eat"
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1102:. 10 September 1954
428:"Rabbit Production"
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