COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF RABBIT BREEDS SOVIET CHINCHILLA AND WHITE GREAT
Rabbit husbandry is one of the most promising and economically profitable branches of animal husbandry. In a short time, due to high fertility and early maturity, a significant amount of dietary meat, fur raw materials and down can be obtained from rabbits. And although today there are many specialized and universal breeds and highly productive crosses, for many years in diﬀerent regions of Russia, two breeds of domestic selection have remained the most popular: the white giant and the soviet chinchilla, whose share in the total population of rabbits is 12,87%, respectively and 9,35%.