Rabbits are as all know, not only valuable fur, but also dietary digestible meat. If you decided to make copulation of rabbits on a farm, it is necessary to do it by certain rules.
Instruction
1. You make copulation in due time day. During the spring and summer period it is better to do it in the morning and in the evening, and in the winter and in the fall - in the afternoon. However, if your rabbits are held in the room with adjustable climate, copulation can be carried out practically at any time.
2. Pick up suitable individuals for copulation. Males have to be healthy and active. It is better to discard inactive phlegmatic persons at once, without allowing to copulation. The male has to be not less than 6-7 months old from a sort. Females can be allowed to copulation at the age of about 4-5 months if their weight is more than three kilograms. Before copulation in 10-15 days invite the veterinarian and perform full inspection to choose the best individuals.
3. You carry out copulation in the shortest time possible, it is better that it occurred no more, than in 5-6 days, so you will be able to receive amicable okrola, and it will help to look after krolchata.
4. Place a doe-rabbit at whom the condition of sexual hunting began to a male, but not on the contrary. Sexual hunting can be determined by behavior of a female. At this time it becomes uneasy, refuses a forage, and when stroking accepts a special pose, raising a back part, her genitalia considerably redden. Sexual hunting lasts approximately up to 5 days.
5. From a cage for the period of copulation remove a feeding trough and a drinking bowl.
6. At once replace the covered doe-rabbit in other cage. If the doe-rabbit did not accept a male, then in several hours the attempt of copulation can be repeated. If it did not help, simply place her to another, reserve, to a male.
7. In 13-17 days after the happened copulation carry out early diagnostics to learn whether there occurred pregnancy. Put a female the head to yourself and hold with the left hand. The right hand very carefully probe a basin cavity through a belly wall.
8. If pregnancy did not occur, repeat copulation after a while. If the sukrolnost did not come again, the female is discarded.