Minecraft crashing when one of the new entities (items and Rabbits) are nearby on a multiplayer server

When logging onto a server of version 14w27a having a rabbit or an item in the form of Rabbit Hides, Rabbit Stew, Raw Rabbit, Cooked Rabbit, Raw Mutton or Cooked Mutton in a nearby chunk it causes one's client to crash, however the server is entirely unaffected.