There are three breeds of angora rabbits, which are divided into English, French and German. Angora rabbit hair is a high-grade textile material, about 90% of which is produced in China. English Angola, a British breed of angora rabbit, is native to Britain and prefers to be used as ornamental and fine wool. China began to introduce breeding as early as the 1920s and 1930s. The whole body is covered with white fluffy silky fluff, and the hair is delicate and soft. The head is round, the forehead hair and cheek hair are plump, the ears are short and thick, and the tips of the ears are densely fluffy, which looks like tassels. Some ears have long hair behind them and float out of them, which is very beautiful. Foot hair is abundant between limbs and toes. The hair at the back is naturally parted and hangs to the sides. British rabbits are small in size, weighing 2.5~3.0 kg in adult, 3.5~4.0 kg in height, 42~45 cm in length and 30~33 cm in bust. The annual wool output of male rabbits is 200-300g, that of female rabbits is 300-350g, and that of tall rabbits is 400-500g. The coat density is 12 000~ 13 000 per square centimeter, and the coarse wool content is 1%~3%. The fineness of fine wool is11.3 ~11.8 micron, and the length of wool is 6. 1~6.5 cm. Strong fertility, giving birth to 4-5 babies every year, with an average of 5-6 babies per baby, and the mating pregnancy rate is 60.8%.

The main advantages of British rabbits are their strong reproductive ability, fluffy white fur and beautiful appearance, which can be used for viewing. The disadvantages are poor coat density, low wool yield, weak constitution, poor disease resistance and poor lactation ability of female rabbits.

French breed origin: France, scientific name: French Angola rabbit, also known as French coarse-haired Angora Rabbit, is a medium-sized wool rabbit breed, which is famous for its coarse wool, excellent quality and high wool yield.

Origin, distribution and breeding history. French angora rabbit originated in France, and its original group of rabbits came from angora rabbit, which was the mutant of white angora rabbit first discovered by humans in Britain in 1708. Its breeding history is earlier than that of German Angora rabbits, and its breeding objectives and methods are different. France is the first country in the world to establish a rabbit club and systematically raise rabbits. 1765, France became the first country in the world to spin with angora rabbit hair. In order to cultivate coarse-haired long-haired rabbits, plucking technology was brought into the breeding plan of French long-haired rabbits when determining the indexes related to the wool production performance of French long-haired rabbits, and it ran through the whole breeding process. The breeding goal of German angora rabbits is good wool quality and high wool yield, and the specified wool harvesting technology is shearing. However, due to the lack of credible data, the specific breeding history of Angola rabbits in the legal system is unknown.

Physical characteristics. The main differences between French angora rabbits and German angora rabbits are: the hair quality is coarse, the wave bending of hair fiber is not obvious, the coarse hair content is obviously higher than that of German angora rabbits, the body is bulky, the face is long and the nose is high, the ears are large and thin, the ear hair is short, only a small amount of long hair is at the tip of the ear, and there is no long hair on the forehead and cheeks. Bald? Foot hair is mainly short hair.

Weight and size. The growth and development of modern legal angora rabbits have been improved compared with the average level in 1980s. According to the introduction of rabbit farm of Wanshengyuan Rabbit Industry Co., Ltd. in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province, 2 10 adult angora rabbits were introduced in 2007, with an average weight of 4,303 grams for male rabbits and 4,502 grams for female rabbits. The average weight of three-month-old rabbits is 27 17g for male rabbits and 27 16g for female rabbits. The average body length of 6-month-old male rabbits is 48.0cm, that of female rabbits is 48.5cm, that of male rabbits is 29.2cm, that of female rabbits is 29.4cm, that of male rabbits is 3385g, and that of female rabbits is 3540g g..

Popularize and utilize. In 1980s, French angora rabbits were introduced from China as breeding materials for coarse-haired angora rabbits in Jiangsu Province, but their annual wool output was only 600-700 g, which seriously affected the population expansion. With the development of coarse wool processing industry in the world, a professional coarse wool trading market was first formed in Yingshang, Anhui Province in the early 1990s, which promoted the production of coarse wool rabbits in China. In 2007, Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province introduced coarse-haired angora rabbit from France, and began to develop and utilize its genetic resources. At the same time, pure propagation, population expansion, performance observation and demonstration were carried out.

Variety evaluation. French angora rabbit is a world-famous coarse-haired rabbit. Through continuous breeding, modern French long-haired rabbits have excellent coarse wool quality, and the annual wool output is obviously improved. It is an important variety for producing coarse-haired rabbit products and a rare genetic resource for cultivating and improving coarse-haired long-haired rabbits in China. It is of great significance to establish a pure breeding base of French angora rabbits in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province, to protect its excellent genetic resources.

German Angora rabbit, also known as German Angora rabbit, is a medium-sized wool rabbit. Because it has the characteristics of high whole-body coat density, obvious fiber cluster structure and wavy bending, not easy to entangle and low coarse hair content, it is recognized by the world as the variety with the highest wool yield and the best down quality in the 20th century.

Physical characteristics. German angora rabbits are large in size, wide in shoulder, deep in chest, straight in back line, plump in hindquarters and well-proportioned in structure. The head is slightly longer, which can be divided into two types according to the hair condition: a French-style hairy rabbit with less fluff in denomination, most of the ears have no long hair, and only a pinch of long hair is planted at the tip of the ear, commonly known as? A lock of hair? Type; The other is similar to the English rabbit, that is, the forehead and cheeks are covered with hair, and half or all of the ears are covered with hair. Lion head? Type. The eyes of German Angora rabbits are red, and their ears are of moderate size, upright and V-shaped. The whole body is densely covered with white fluff, and the tuft structure and hair fibers are obviously wavy and curved, which is not easy to entangle, with less gun hair and dense fluff on the abdomen, limbs, toes and soles.

Weight and size. The estimated weight of an adult rabbit is 3908. 0 to 3973. 9g。 According to the resource investigation report of Jiangsu Province in 2007, the German Angora rabbit weighed about 2,200 g at 3 months, 3,300 g at 6 months and 3,700 g at 8 months. Adult rabbits have a body length of 43-45cm, a bust of 33-37cm and a weight of 3,500-4,500g, up to 5,500g. ..

Popularize and utilize. German Angora rabbits have the characteristics of large annual wool yield, high fluff rate, high fluff content and excellent wool quality, which meets the needs of international rabbit velvet trade market and worsted products processing. After batch introduction, it quickly won the attention of China Foreign Trade Animal Products Import and Export Corporation and the Animal Husbandry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, and was welcomed by farmers. In order to meet the needs of domestic angora rabbit production and development, in just a few years, Jiangsu, Shandong, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan and other provinces introduced thousands of German angora rabbits in batches, and timely organized relevant scientific research institutions to carry out introduction observation, breeding research and popularization and utilization, and quickly extended them to Anhui, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. The survival rate is not as good as that of China angora rabbits, so German angora rabbits are mostly used to improve China angora rabbits to improve the production performance and rabbit hair quality of commercial rabbits and become new hybrid angora rabbits in China.

Important breeding materials of species (strains). At present, there are few pure German angora rabbits, and only sporadic breeding occurs in Xundian sheep farm in Yunnan Province and rabbit farms in Taizhou, Changzhou and Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province.

Variety evaluation. German long-haired rabbit is a world-famous wool-type long-haired rabbit, which has outstanding genetic characteristics such as high wool density, high wool yield, obvious wool tuft structure, wavy bending, difficult entanglement and good wool quality. It has made an important genetic contribution to improving the production level of China wool rabbits, the quality of commercial rabbit hair products and cultivating new varieties, and has important genetic resource utilization value for further improving the wool quality of new varieties (strains) and hybrid populations cultivated in various places and developing rabbit hair production.