RABBIT MEAT AS THE MAIN ORGANIC PRODUCTION RESERVE

The organic production which includes the rabbit meat that is a highly nutritional ecologically pure diet product facilitates the supply of the population with the ecologically pure products. Nowadays the development of the specialized organic rabbit meat branch has particular economic advantages for the Ukrainian industry as compared to the other branches of animal breeding. The rabbit meat comparative analysis of Kalifornia and Flandria breeds shows that the live weight, output the slaughter of muscular tissues, carcasses muscularity depends on the breed and season. The productivity of rabbits in spring and summer period is higher comparing with the autumn and winter one. The 4-month rabbits raised in spring and summer period gained the highest live and slaughter weight: Flander – 3375±27.0 g and Kalifornia – 2956.5±6.74 g breeds correspondingly