Rabbits are the most suitable animals for cultivation in house conditions. They with little effort can be supported also on a personal plot, and in the city apartment. The main thing - the clean cage, qualitative forages, fresh air and timely preventive inoculations is necessary for a rabbit.
Instruction
1. Rabbits are usually kept in a cage. It has to be convenient, rather lit and free. The cage can be constructed independently of construction waste, its approximate sizes - 120 cm in width, 60 cm in depth and 70 cm in height. But the main thing that walls of a cage had no cracks as rabbits do not stand drafts. Attach a drinking bowl and a feeding trough to walls of a cage. It is necessary to watch that in cages it was always clean and dry carefully. It is necessary to clean cages daily, also periodically it is necessary to carry out disinfection.
2. Feed rabbits not less than three times a day and try to adhere to a constant daily routine. The main forage for rabbits is hay (winter) and a fresh grass (summer). Also in a diet of rabbits there have to be vegetables - carrots, a carrot tops of vegetable, beet. It is possible to give also shredded grain of corn, oats, peas, wheat. Use when feeding and fodder mixes for rabbits is possible. But as they are enough kaloriyna, they should be given in limited quantity. Do not forget and about a branch forage – branches of a bird cherry, a poplar, an apple-tree for this purpose will approach. Water for a rabbit has to be all the time. The acute shortage of moisture badly affects health of an animal.
3. Rabbits can breed since three-four months. It is necessary to couple healthy rabbits to good weight. Right after pairing of a rabbit from a doe-rabbit remove. Pregnancy of adult doe-rabbits usually lasts no more than a month. Approximately in 4 days prior to an okrol the doe-rabbit spreads a nest down, pulling out it at herself on a stomach. As not all females do it, krolikovoda cover a nest down or cotton wool. Krolchat keep under a female not less than 50 days, then otsazhivat them from a female. Feed them as well as adult rabbits. Life expectancy of rabbits averages 6 — 8 years.