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The hair of a rabbit can be divided into three types:
A Selectively Bred rabbit from the 1900s, the Castor Rex , has no guard hairs, but this is atypical of rabbit hair. Rabbit hair is commonly considered a byproduct of the ordinary process of breeding rabbits for meat, and as such is manufactured in vast quantities in England and France ; more than seventy million Pelt s a year in France alone 1 . However, the quality of fur from these rabbits tends to be low, as the rabbits are slaughtered before reaching twelve weeks old and still have the infant coat. In temperate climates, the highest quality furs are obtained in winter from rabbits over five months old, when the thickness of the fur is even; at other times of year, varying degrees of hair shedding causes uneven patches in the fur. The coat is also at its thickest at this time of year. The highest quality pelts are suitable for Clothing , and typically constitute less than half of all pelts collected. The hair of the Angora rabbit is particularly preferred due to its length, caused by an unusally long growth phase in the hair cycle, the consequence of a Recessive Gene . |
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