Tan Rabbit

Facts about Tan Rabbits. The Tan Rabbit is a petite fancy show rabbit breed that is being shown all over the world. The Tan Rabbit breed originally comes from England, where the rabbit breed has been exposed since the last part of the eighteenth century. Though these Tan Rabbits originally originated from England, in current years they have gained a lot of fame in the United States. Tan Rabbit breeds are deemed as a complete-arch running rabbit breed in America. This indicates that they are permitted to move liberally on the fancy show table while they are assessed by the judge to best evaluate the color, type, and markings of the Tan Rabbit breed.

Features of Tan Rabbit

The Tan Rabbit is a small size breed that does not carry much body weight when they fully grown. Usually, the male Tan Rabbits have more body weight than the female rabbits. While the female rabbits have a body weight between 4 lbs and 6 lbs (1.8 kg to 2.7 kg), the typical male rabbit will have a body weight, ranging from 4 lbs to 5.5 lbs (1.8 kg to 2.5 kg).

The Tan Rabbit breeds are the complete curved rabbits, such that this type of arch starts at the nape of the neck of these rabbits, running well over their midsection, shoulders, and hips. The Tan Rabbits have an extremely lean, solid, proportionate body. They will have a small and deep type of body. The Tan Rabbits are visually arresting, owing to their distinctive markings, contrast, and concentration of their coloration.
The Tan Rabbit breeds come in four different colors, such as black, chocolate, blue, and lilac. All four color varieties of this rabbit breed have the same patterned marks. The Tan shadow is a strong, profound red color, which is even from their chest to their tail. As these Tan Rabbit breeds come in four different colors, they are exhibited by colors and not in groups. The Tan Rabbits are shown in terms of color heredity such that there are two fundamental casual color groups, such as chocolate or lilac and black or blue. Blue color is the recessive of black and the lilac color is the recessive of chocolate.

Tan Rabbit breeds are fairly small rabbits and they can be accommodated in a cage with the dimension of 24 by 18 inches (61 by 45.7 cm) in length and breadth respectively. The Tan Rabbit cage should be an all-wire cage because they need more ventilation and regular exercise. If the Tan Rabbit is to be accommodated in a hutch with a solid roof and solid sides, at least a fraction of the Tan Rabbit cage is supposed to be made of wire to encourage ventilation.

As the Tan Rabbit is an active animal, they require regular exercise. By no means, the Tan Rabbits should be permitted to wander an area outside their cage without company. All regions they are permitted to explore are supposed to be rabbit-proof and rabbit safe playthings are better to keep in their cage.

Breeding of Tan Rabbit

Though the standard litter size of the female Tan Rabbit is around 4 kits, the size of the litter may vary. These Tan Rabbits are not recognized for having common hereditary defects. Generally, most offspring of the Tan Rabbits are healthy during their birth. However, these Tan Rabbits are an extremely hyperactive breed and occasionally thus they will have kits within the nest box and have kits outside the nest box.Sometimes the Tan Rabbits unintentionally step on the offspring while they jump in and out from the box.

The average lifespan of the Tan Rabbit ranges from 8 years to 10 years.

Tan Rabbits love to run and can reach speeds of 30 to 40 mph. Tan Rabbits have 28 teeth and an incredible fact, a Tan Rabbit teeth never stop growing throughout its life.
Tan Rabbits can jump up to 36 inches (91.4 cm) and sometimes higher.

"Scientific name for Tan Rabbit is Oryctolagus cuniculus". "Fear of Rabbits Leporiphobia". All rabbit breeds are "lagomorphs" various plant-eating mammal of the order Lagomorpha ; a hare, rabbit, or pika.

The male Tan Rabbit is called a buck and a female Tan Rabbit is called a doe, also both known as a bunny. A young rabbit is called a kit "kitten" or baby bunny.

Tan Rabbits have an outstanding sense of vision, smell and hearing. Having eyes on the side of their head and being so big, gives them nearly 360 degrees vision, allowing the Tan Rabbit to see predators from all directions. The Tan Rabbit can see everything behind and in front of them and have just a small blind-spot in front of their nose.

Pet Tan Rabbits should be kept in pairs for Companionship, its important for a Tan Rabbits happiness and it can live longer with a companion. In the wild, rabbits are very social.

Tan Rabbits are very clean animals and will groom themselves and also each other. Tan Rabbits are crepuscular-(meaning the are most active at morning and evening) and do most of there feeding in the evening. Tan Rabbits on average sleep about 8 hours.
Tan Rabbits as pets enjoy wet food like carrots, hay or lettuce and dark leaf lettuce. (Iceberg lettuce contains too much water and too little fiber to be suitable.) Limit giving them fruit with sugar in it. Alfalfa provides the high caloric content necessary for baby bunnies development. Once Tan Rabbits reach seven months of age, gradually switch them over to timothy hay, oat hay, or orchard grass. Avoid giving them yard clippings, since grass is often sprayed with fertilizer, insecticides, pesticides, and other chemicals rabbits should not be eating. The Tan Rabbit diet should consist of 70% of Hay and make sure they have fresh water every day. For bedding, give Rabbits wood pellets or aspen. You can use pelleted horse bedding. Do not give them pine or cedar. Clean the cage with either white vinegar or a cage safe cleaner; don’t use bathroom cleaner or other things that are toxic for the pet cage.

Tan Rabbits have long ears which can be as long as 4 in" (10.2 cm). Tan Rabbits are herbivores (a herbivore, eats leaves, grass, hay and furns (plant eaters) and also mammal.

Tan Rabbits are born with without fur and its eyes closed. Half of the rabbits in the world live in North America. Rabbits are comfortable living in groups. European rabbits like to live in burrows underground. Warren is known as a group of burrows. Cottontail Rabbits are the only rabbit that does not live under ground.