{"topic_id":"exotic_profile_rabbit_wales_summary","category":"exotic-pet-profile","context":"---\ntopic_id: exotic_profile_rabbit_wales_summary\ncategory: exotic-pet-profile\ntitle: \"Rabbit summary facts — life expectancy 8-12 years, adult weight 1-8 kg, gestation 30-33 days, litter 4-12 kits, weaning 5-6 weeks (Welsh Government code)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Welsh Government — Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits (Welsh Government, Crown copyright September 2009, 2021-02 edition); Open Government Licence v3.0; verbatim quotation per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §2.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/welfare-codes/rabbit_welfare_code_wales_2021.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-24\ntokens_estimated: 181\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 7\n  passed: 7\n  date: 2026-08-24\nrecovered: false\npath: exotic-pet-profile/exotic_profile_rabbit_wales_summary/01_exotic_profile_rabbit_wales_summary.md\nsource_document: \"Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits (Welsh Government, Crown copyright September 2009, 2021-02 edition)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Welsh Government (Llywodraeth Cymru)\"\n  title: \"Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits\"\n  url: \"https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2021-02/rabbit-welfare-code-of-practice.pdf\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-04\"\n  doc_type: \"statutory code of practice (Open Government Licence)\"\n  needs_review: false\nlicense: permission_granted\ncopyright_note: \"© Crown copyright September 2009, Welsh Government. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3): verbatim reproduction permitted with attribution, no implication of official endorsement. Attribution: Welsh Government, Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits.\"\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"manual:OGL statutory welfare code (government, legal-minimum claim domain)\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-24\n---\n\n# Rabbit summary facts — life expectancy 8-12 years, adult weight 1-8 kg, gestation 30-33 days, litter 4-12 kits, weaning 5-6 weeks (Welsh Government code)\n\nSource: Welsh Government, “Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits” (© Crown copyright September 2009; 2021-02 gov.wales edition), issued under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. Crown copyright, re-used under the Open Government Licence v3.0 with attribution. All bullets below are exact verbatim substrings of the cited source_file and C1-substring verified.\n\nThis topic records the 'Summary rabbit facts' reference block of the Welsh Government code: names for males/females/kits, herbivore and prey-species classification, life expectancy, adult body weight, pregnancy length, litter size and weaning age.\n\n## Claims\n\n- `Males are called bucks and females are called does. Baby rabbits are called kits.`\n- `Specialist have continuously growing teeth, produce soft droppings (caecotrophs) which they normally eat and hard waste droppings.`\n- `Prey species have many predators e.g. owls, buzzards, foxes, dogs and cats.`\n- `Life expectancy: 8 to 12 years (can be longer).`\n- `Adult body weight: 1 to 8 Kg (this varies with breed and sex).`\n- `Most litters will be born between 30 to 33 days. Litter size: 4 to 12 (average = 7) kits in a litter. The size of the litter depends on the breed of the rabbit. Generally smaller dwarf breeds will have litters of 2-4, medium breeds will have litters of 4-6, and larger breeds will have litters of 6-10.`\n- `Weaning age 5-6 weeks.`\n","sources":["exotic-pet-profile — Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits (retrieved 2026-08-24)"],"source":{"authority":"exotic-pet-profile","title":"Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits","url":"https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2021-02/rabbit-welfare-code-of-practice.pdf","retrieved":"2026-08-24","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits (Welsh Government, Crown copyright September 2009, 2021-02 edition)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/welfare-codes/rabbit_welfare_code_wales_2021.txt"},"source_document":"Code of Practice for the Welfare of Rabbits (Welsh Government, Crown copyright September 2009, 2021-02 edition)","source_file":"pdf-raw/welfare-codes/rabbit_welfare_code_wales_2021.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":"permission_granted","display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":181,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}