Cultivation of rabbits – useful and fascinating occupation. All know that it is necessary to look after and care for any being. Care for rabbits is absolutely simple. The main thing to follow several basic rules: purity in a cage, prosperity in food and health of animals.
It is required to you
- Cages for keeping of animals, stock for cleaning of cages, feeding troughs, drinking bowls and matochnik, a stern, vaccines.
Instruction
1. Choose the version of the contents of animals suitable you. Rabbits can be held in external cages or in special rooms – rabbit-hutches. It is necessary to remember that the rabbits who are grown up in the open air have fur of the best quality and higher rates of health, than at contents indoors. There is a lot of designs of cages for rabbits. On sale there are even ready systems of cages with automation of feeding and cleaning.
2. Make or acquire necessary stock for care for animals: drinking bowls, feeding troughs, nests. It is better to choose drinking bowls for rabbits automatic since water in cages has to be always, and flat dishes and bowls animals often wrap. Rabbits feeders exist different modifications. The main requirement to a feeding trough – convenience of approach to a forage animal and ease in cleaning. You remember, rabbits very quickly chew feeding troughs from a tree.
3. Prepare for rabbits of a forage. During the summer period the animals consume various greens (a clover, Vick, a lucerne, peas, corn and wild-growing herbs), and in the winter – rough (hay) and juicy forages (potatoes, carrots, a squash, cabbage, pumpkin, a girasol). Do not forget about the concentrated sterns and vitamins.
4. Calculate diets of feeding of animals, proceeding from nutritiousness of forages and age of rabbits. Remember that at winter contents the nutritiousness of forages has to be higher. Diets of animals will differ, proceeding from a type of contents and the direction of cultivation.
5. Take care of necessary inoculations for animals. Not less once a year show the pets to the veterinarian. You watch purity of wool, especially at long-haired breeds. Comb and delete koltuna and the rolled wool at rabbits. Check a condition of eyes, ears and claws of animals.
6. At achievement of a polovozrelost of animals solve whether you will be engaged in thoroughbred cultivation or crossing of rabbits.