Since these proteins are always undergoing recycling, I would suggest using GFP transgenic animals to study the dynamics through live imaging. However if that is not possible, I believe there is a Rab4 antibody commercially available that you can use. I am not sure if there is an antibody for Rab11 yet.
It depends on which recycling are you studying. There are various recycling routes, and this paper explains them very clearly http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v5/n2/full/nrm1315.html .
If you are looking for something possibly related to the early endosomes and not to the recycling from Golgi, I suggest to use anti-transferrin receptor antibody. it is bright in immunofluorescence and it marks ALL the recycling pathway that involves both Rab11 and Rab4. Instead, I strongly discourage the use of Rab antibodies, even if various antibodies are available in the market. They are really shitty in my hands, very low fluorescence and difficult interpretation of the results. In addition to transferrin receptor, also anti-EEA1 antibodies work well (early endosomes) .
If you need some other suggestion, don't hesitate to contact me.
good luck!
I agree with Chiara, anti-transferrin receptor, or fluorescently labeled transferrin are the best tools available when following recycling routes via immunofluorescence.
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