When keeping pets, many owners are interested in the question regarding the duration of their life, and it doesn’t matter for what purpose the animal is kept. However, it is important to understand that no matter how many years the same rabbits live (ordinary or ornamental), a lot depends on the home conditions you created for them. These factors are decisive in the issue of longevity of animals.
Longevity conditions
If you want your furry pets to enjoy your health for a long time, when choosing a rabbit, you must take into account its genetic background and susceptibility to longevity. In the future, everything will depend on you: what conditions you create for him and what you will feed.
Genes
Almost all domestic rabbits have a high life expectancy, but when choosing young stock, it is important to apply only to professional breeders containing completely healthy pets. 
When choosing a pet necessarily look at his parents and appreciate their condition, because only strong representatives of the breed can produce good offspring. In some cases, the animal can be purchased "from the hands", but you have little chance to get reliable information about the ancestors of the baby.
Important! Carefully study all the features of the exterior of the selected breed, because if you want a lop-ear representative, and you sell a straight-faced rabbit, in the future this may be a cause for frustration, even though all such fluffy animals are very cute.
Conditions of detention
The second important factor directly affecting the life span of a rabbit is where it is and how it lives. So, even representatives of rocks of long-livers need comfortable conditions of keeping, and therefore, the dwarf rocks must have a spacious cage. 
It is also important to provide your pets regular walking lasting at least one hour. If possible, take out the animal on the street so that he can run on the grass. But you can not allow children to carry a rabbit for a long time on their hands, squeeze it and use it as a living toy.
Try to ensure that the animal does not experience stress, for which the house should be as calm as possible. This requirement especially applies to owners of ornamental breeds, since such animals can even stop their hearts from sharp cotton.
Regular cleaning of a permanent home of a fluffy pet is also obligatory. Every day, food residues, litter and litter should be removed from the cage. Make sure that the water in the trough is clean. The cage with decorative rabbits, however, as well as with the usual ones, should be placed away from drafts and the scorching sun, because the animals are equally affected by overcooling and overheating. 
Having created optimal conditions for animals to be kept, you will protect them from diseases, which means that nothing will interfere with the genetic makings of a long-liver.
Important! If you notice that your pet's eyes have become dull, he is sluggish and refuses to eat - do not pull on a visit to the vet.
Nutrition
If you do not breed rabbits as a source of meat, but are more interested in growing a healthy pet, then you should not overfeed the animal. All the time, how many domestic rabbit lives with you, he should receive only balanced feed, with all the vitamins and microelements necessary for its body.
Constant excess of food will quickly lead to weight gain, and as a result - problems with the cardiovascular system may begin, shortness of breath will appear, the body's resources will quickly deteriorate, which also affects the ability to reproduce offspring. 
In the diet of your pet rabbit must be present cereal crops, greens and various vegetables, tree branches. Of course, if you are interested in animal weight gain, then the amount of these products can not be limited by adding even more nutritious food to them.
Learn more about the benefits or dangers of hay, burdocks, nettle in the rabbit diet.
How many years do rabbits live?
In addition to the above factors, the environment in which they live also affects the life span of rabbits. Of course, in the wild it is much more difficult to live to old age than in a room or in a street cage with regular food and lack of predators.
Ordinary
Common can be called the animals, which are quite large in size and are raised with the aim of obtaining meat and skins. So, broilers feed no longer 70-75 days, and representatives of other meat areas - about 4 months. However, with good keeping in the yard, Viennese, New Zealand, French sheep and other rabbit breeds can live up to 8 years and even more. 
When cultivating for gastronomic purposes, farmers do not advise keeping animals for more than three years, since they will start growing more slowly with the same feed costs, and their productivity will decrease.
Read also about the breeds of rabbits: California, Soviet chinchilla, giants (white giant, gray giant, flandr), Angora, black-brown, butterfly, rizen.
Decorative
Buying a decorative rabbit for itself, the question of the length of its life worries the newly minted owners sometimes even more than breeders of meat-bearing animals, because, having become accustomed to a new family member, they do not want to part quickly.
How much rabbits live in this case also depends on the breed of the pet and the conditions of his life, but most often dwarf species (for example, the same sheep) live only to 5-7 years. True, with proper nutrition, regular walks (several times a day) and the absence of stressful situations, many representatives can safely meet old age and age 10-15 years. 
It should be taken into account that lop rabbits live a little less than right-handers, and on average their life expectancy does not exceed 8 years.
Did you know? Contrary to popular belief, rabbits have some learning ability. For example, they are able to remember their name, and decorative breeds, like cats, go to the toilet on the tray.
Wild
In the wild, animals are much harder to survive, because, in addition to food, you still need to hide from predators in time and protect their offspring. All this causes their average life to be only one to two years. 
However, if you put a wild animal in a cage and even with regular feeding, most likely, this will not significantly affect the increase in these indicators, since the wild rabbit is simply not adapted to limited living conditions.
Did you know? Rabbit eyes allow you to see a predator approaching from the back, without even turning your head.
Long-lived rabbits
Rabbit Doo with mistress. All of these values are fairly averaged, and it goes without saying that among the different breeds of these furry animals there are their long-livers.
Perhaps the most famous of them was homemade. Bunny Flopci from Australia, who was born in 1964 and did not live to see his very 19th birthday.
The holder of the Guinness Book of Records bunny title was also a 17-year-old rabbit doo from the state of New Jersey (USA).
In a word, whatever breeders promise you and whatever statistics on a particular breed would say, the length of life of your eared pet will directly depend on your care for it. Therefore, only love and good conditions will help preserve the health of the animal for many years.
