If people can breed everything else in the world i.e dogs, cats, horses. Then why not rabbits?
:wave: Firstly, the reason you will find people against rabbit breeding on this forum is because it's a rabbit forum and therefore that is the issue at hand. I'm sure many of us are also against the breeding of dogs, cats, horses etc, it just doesn't really come up as a topic here because this is a rabbit forum...
For me there are a number of distinct issues -
*Many breeders don't keep their breeding animals in accommodation which is up to the minimum acceptable standards for animal welfare
*Many breeders breed too often, which is not good for the animals (personally, like the others, I think a months break is not enough)
* Most breeders do not home check where the animals are going to or provide suitable advice to the new owner (e.g. neutering, bonding, size of accommodation, vaccinations if available in that particular country)
*Many breeders leave rescues to 'pick up the pieces' - either by mis-sexing rabbits so that they are unwittingly bred by the new owners, or by dumping ones not "suitable" for showing, or by dumping ones that they can't sell to pet shops, or too old for breeding etc etc...
*Some breeders view their animals as 'stock' who simply get disposed of once they are no longer any use for breeding, or get sick
* In the UK there are already 33,000 rabbits taken into rescues every year - and that does not count those who are just set loose, neglected to die in their hutches, or those who are put to sleep because there aren't enough homes to go round. So if each of your does has 3 litters a year, that's 21 litters a year. Say there's 6 bunnies in each litter - then that is 126 bunnies a year. Now say that half of those babies are female, and that half of the households you sell them to breeds from them - even "just once" so that they can experience babies. That makes 31 babies having 6 each, giving another 188 babies. And if the same thing happens to that generation, that's another 283 babies...so you see your 7 does can create about 1000 babies in a year just by a quarter of the homes you give them to, letting them have one litter each. That's 1000 homes where people could have adopted a rescue rabbit instead! Plus you may be confident that you rehome the direct babies to good homes, but could you guarantee the same for the potential 1000s over the years that could result?
Hope that makes sense