Rabbits are beings timid and nervous. And the lack of what they got used for long time to, can injure them up to heart attack. Therefore if the former owner gave to drink to them regularly, it is necessary to provide also to you all conditions for the big-eared fastidious person.
Instruction
1. Do not trust the statements of those who consider that rabbits can perfectly do without drink and that they quite have the water which is contained in juicy vegetables and a grass. Of course, they drink a little, but the lack of water can lead to reduction of appetite and as a result, to decrease in live weight.
2. Pay attention: need of rabbits for drink directly depends on their mass, physiology and level of reproductibility. Besides, the need for water is affected by a type of a forage, level of humidity of air indoors and temperatures.
3. You give to drink to rabbits only clear, otstoyanny water or buy the filter. In the summer water temperature in a drinking bowl has to be within 18-25 °C. In hot weather pour into a drinking bowl water more, than usually. It is necessary to give to drink to rabbits during daylight hours in the winter, warming up before it water. Track that rabbits drank water before it becomes cold.
4. Do not give to small animals water from the river, the lake or even the spring as there the pathogenic bacteria, salts of heavy metals or residues of fertilizers which are washed away by careless farmers directly in natural reservoirs can contain.
5. The pregnant and feeding doe-rabbits need to drink as much as possible to exclude a possibility of emergence at krolchat various anomalies and problems with a GIT. To younger generation big-eared pour water at the rate of 100 ml of water on 1 kg of live weight in case you give them a dry feed.
6. If you use an autodrinking bowl, constantly check as far as it is reliable. But usually owners of rabbits give preference to mobile faience, plastic or galvanized pans. However such drinking bowls quickly become soiled, turn over or fight. Therefore attach the drinking bowl which is available for you to a cage tightly. There are also plastic drinking bowls droppers which are considered the most suitable as they provide uninterrupted water supply are hygienic and in them it is possible to change water less often. The only lack of droppers – water in them can heat up in the summer too strongly, and in the winter – to freeze and break off a drinking bowl.