For the reason that rabbits are a source of dietary meat, skins, down and fertilizers, and it is quite simple and favorable to breed these small animals, the increasing number of people gives preference to this type of business. How it is correct to breed rabbits?
Instruction
1. It is possible to breed rabbits and in the city apartment. There are examples when people equip under it a balcony or the whole room. However, living during the summer period in the village or at the dacha, it is better to move rabbit economy there. In the conditions of the private house the rabbits can contain in cages out of the room, or cages with big-eared can be mounted in a sheda – the special shed, or to be held in the heated rabbit-hutches. At any system of contents the continuous access of fresh air, smoothing of such weather factors as a strong heat or cold, in the summer – lack of direct sunshine is important for rabbits. In city apartments the rabbits contain, as a rule, in close cages, for the purpose of economy of the place that adversely affects both health of adult small animals, and a condition of posterity.
2. For a start it is worth getting one-two mature rabbits males and several doe-rabbits, depending on in what scales you plan cultivation. Each rabbit can cover till 15-18 females. It is recommended to buy small animals on krolikovodchesky farms or from skilled krolikovod.
3. Rabbits are extremely prolific: in one dung happens 12-15 krolchat (leave, as a rule, 8-10 that mother could bring up them) and skorospela: 4-month-old females are already ready to pairing. Duration of pregnancy of a female is from 28 to 32 days. Thus, in a year the adult doe-rabbit brings posterity on average 5 times.
4. Even if rabbits are held on the balcony in the city apartment, it is necessary to get cages for doe-rabbits is more spacious taking into account that together with them the numerous posterity will have to live from time to time.
5. The economy doe-rabbits will demand on 10-20 from you everything 2-3 hours a day, in time, free from the main work. However for positive results from cultivation of rabbits it is necessary to stock up with special knowledge surely. Care for small animals though is simple, but in it there are a lot of nuances which, in turn, will define your success in rabbit breeding. Having mastered subtleties, you will be able to make rabbit breeding the main "easy" business or a source of additional income.