Hugh-Jones M E, Parkin R S, Whitney J C
Vet Rec. 1975 Apr 19;96(16):353-6. doi: 10.1136/vr.96.16.353.
The costs of death in a model 100-doe commerical rabbit unit were calculated on the basis of two levels of breeding (7.5 and 10.0 litters per doe per year) and two levels of feeding, (ad lib and controlled). Although the cost of individual deaths from stillbirth and other perinatal and neonatal deaths was half or two-thirds the cost of an individual death later in the rabbit's life, the total cost of these early deaths was three times the total cost of the later deaths. Early death thus plays a major part in the profitability of a commercial rabbitry.
在一个拥有100只母兔的商业养兔场中，根据两种繁殖水平（每只母兔每年产7.5窝和10.0窝）和两种饲养水平（自由采食和限量饲喂）计算了死亡成本。尽管死胎以及其他围产期和新生期死亡造成的个体死亡成本仅为兔子后期个体死亡成本的一半或三分之二，但这些早期死亡的总成本却是后期死亡总成本的三倍。因此，早期死亡在商业养兔场的盈利能力中起着重要作用。
