Show testing dairy feed by adapting the guinea pig so commonly used in studying animal diseases the united states department of agriculture has discovered that feeding dairy feeds to rabbits in dicatos the effect the same feeds will 1 have on cattle use of rabbits which is 13 much cheaper speeds up results to a rate nearly ten times that when cattle are used as the rabbits breed so much faster the department began the rabbit feeding tests to in 1931 to ID these experiments 20 rabbits were used for each cacti type of feed the scientists found that the rabbits behaved almost exactly the same as dairy cattle under the same conditions |