Rabbit Breeder Career Profile
- Career Name - Rabbit Breeder
- Category - Business
- Skills Required - Life skills 45% - Career skills 55%
- Basic School Subjects - Biology, Language, Business Studies
- Required Minimum Education - High School Certificate
- Species Worked With - Rabbits
- Kind of Interaction with Animals - Direct
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24 June 2023
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What is a rabbit breeder?
A person who mates carefully selected breeds of domesticated rabbits to reproduce offspring with the same qualities and characteristics.
Rabbit Breeders mostly Breed specific rabbit species for the pet trade, or meat industry.
Course Categories
The Rabbit Breeder career can be found within the following OZT career categories:
- Business
Cuniculture?
Is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits as livestock
Fur Products?
The Angora rabbit is know for it's amazing fur, used in producing clothing.
What does a Rabbit Breeder do?
Groups of animals a Rabbit Breeder works with
What is the level of Interaction with the Animals?
- Directly - A person works directly with the animals with some form of physical contact at least once every few days
- Indirectly - The career doesn't require direct or physical contact at all.
What does a Rabbit Breeder focus on?
The main focus of a rabbit breeder is to mate selected species or breeds as their own pets and to supply the pet market.
With who does a Rabbit Breeder work?
Besides working with all of the animals, Rabbit Breeders will need to interact with other people while doing their daily tasks. The people might include fellow staff members or the public.
Fellow staff might include:
- Supervisors/Managers
- Operational staff, such as Human Resources, Finance and Maintenance
- Sales Staff
What are the daily tasks of a Rabbit Breeder?
- Feeding and caring for the rabbits
- clean the cages
- talk with suppliers
- ensure registration is in place
- discuss budget with bookkeeper
- manage marketing campaign
- talk with prospective buyers
- arrange, prepare for and transport rabbits to shows
Work conditions of a Rabbit Breeder
Where does a Rabbit Breeder work?
Environment –
Rabbit breeders usually register and set up their businesses at home. The physical enclosure for the rabbits might be inside the home (when starting the businesses), or a separate building just for the cages.
Places of Employment –
Rabbit breeders are self employed and run a profit seeking business.
What is the average annual salary of a Rabbit Breeder?
The average income of rabbit breeders will be determined by a few factors, such as the scarcity of the species, the country wherein the business is registered. The average income in the US is around $40,000 per year.
Can a Rabbit Breeder be promoted?
Business owners don’t have promotion opportunities.
But if you work for a large travel agency as an employee, then advancement in the field typically depends on work experience. The levels of each promotion might differ from organization to organization, but generally are the following:
Intern > Junior Consultant/Agent > Senior Consultant/Agent > Supervisor
What kind of difficulties can a Rabbit Breeder face?
Entry breeders do not make a huge amount of money as most of the costs need to be covered. Running a business means dealing with bills that need to be payed. Breeding can be emotional as there could be deaths of new kits.
Future growth and Possibilities
The pet industry is one of the fastest growing animal career industries, and there will always be space for good growth.
Which Skills are required by a Rabbit Breeder?
The skills required for a career as a rabbit breeder can be divided into two very important groups. The first is the group containing life skills, which are the core skills that are necessary or desirable for full participation in everyday life. The second group is career skills, or the specific skills required to allow a person to enter and operate effectively within a specific career. Some or maybe even all of the life skills can assist in strengthening the career skills, and they might even be the same for specific careers.
Life Skills
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Decision making
- Problem Solving
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal relationship
Career Skills
- Basic animal handling and care techniques
- Basic business knowledge
- Basic customer service skills
- Good health and physical fitness
- Basic computer literacy
Which Subjects must I have at School to help prepare for this career?
Business Studies (or a subject in economic science) will be important to help you gain the necessary knowledge to start a successful breeding business.
Although there are no specific or required subjects to start a rabbit breeding business, Biology will be beneficial in your preparation while still in school.
Most students ignore the benefits of language as a subject, but it does prepare one to communicate well after school, and within a business.
These subjects are the ones recognized around the world. The subjects you choose at school are important as they lay the foundation for further studies at college or university. While still at school, it’s also important to learn more about the animals you will work with, as well as gain some experience.
OZT has a list of various tertiary institutions where you can study further, after school. Each of these institutions also have their own Group page on OZT where you will find the exact subjects they require of you to have passed in school. Keep these requirements in mind, and discuss it with your school, guidance counselor and parents to ensure that you are prepared!
What will I need to Study to become a Rabbit Breeder?
Minimum Requirements
There is no minimum requirements to become a rabbit breeder, although a High School Certificate or Diploma would be beneficial to prepare you to deal with setting up a business, dealing with costs and basic marketing techniques.
Study Focus
It is important that you learn as much as you possibly can about your chosen species or breed before you think about opening your breeding business. Short Courses in rabbit behaviour, health, business setup and marketing are recommended.
Study Duration
The duration of Short Courses can be between a few hours (online) to a few months.
Possible Career Preparation Paths
If this is your dream career that you want to pursue, then it’s important to plan the way forward.
Why is planning important?
To ensure that you understand the requirements for your career, and that you are always prepared for the next step on the road towards your dream. A Preparation Path is like your road map to where you want to be.
Possible Path:
Possible Combined Career Paths
It is possible to sometimes combine two or more related careers. This normally happens when you study and practice a specific main career, but the knowledge and experience gained also help you to have a paying hobby or secondary income career.
Possible Alternative(s):
- High School + experience while still in school + Short Course in Business Management + Short Courses in rabbit breeding
Pet Store Managers earn up to 15% more than breeders, but they can also use their knowledge to breed rabbits for trade.
Some of the possible combinations:
Stepping Stone Career
Rabbit breeder can also be used as a stepping stone career. A stepping stone career is one which is used to help you get to another career, normally because the other career is too difficult to reach immediately (high fees etc).
You can begin as a rabbit breeder, after basic short courses and expert guidance (maybe working under a mentor). The money made can then be used to pay for studies towards another career, and the experience helps in gaining knowledge. One paying to help get to the other.
Some of the possible paths:
Average level of education for those entering the career
Licenses, Certificate, Registration and Professional Associations
Certain animal care careers require some form of legal certification to prove that you can indeed do the work, and work with the necessary equipment.
Although not required by law, certifications may help workers establish their credentials and enhance their skills.
Learn more about requirements by joining the OZT Community.
Professional Associations
None added yet
Where can I study further?
All of the above information will help you understand more about the Career, including the fact that there are different paths to take to reach it. But if you are almost done with High School (Grades 11 or 12), you also need to start thinking about further studies, and WHERE you will study.
See the List of Universities, Colleges and Online Training Academies who offer courses towards animal care and training.
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