Water is a variable which will influence every quality you look for in a breeding stock rabbit for your commercial rabbitry. One quality that water has a major influence on is growth rate. When looking at growth rate as a quality in your breeding stock rabbits you have to look to see if the rabbits were provided water with water bottles or an automatic watering system. Rabbits provided water with an automatic watering system will grow a lot faster than rabbits provided water with water bottles. So you can see what an influence water has on the quality of growth rate.
Water also has a vast influence of milk production in a rabbit.
Without the proper amount of water a mother rabbit will go dry and be unable to provide any milk for her babies. So you must look at the variables very closely when selecting a breeding stock rabbit. Because the variable have a major determination on how good the qualities are in a rabbit. Many times a variable can make it very hard to tell a quality in a rabbit because of it's influence. Hutch size is one of these variables which can make a quality in a rabbit look deceptive.