Cultivation of rabbits in house conditions becomes more and more popular. Thanks to their high fertility at small expenses it is possible to gain decent income from sale of young growth, meat and skins in a year.
Instruction
1. For a start it is necessary to make cages and to choose the good space for their placement. It can be the shed or a canopy, the main thing that there was no wind. Cages can be bought or made most of boards, thick plywood, the metal gauze. The cage for a rabbit of the average size becomes the following sizes: 90 cm – length, 60 cm – width, 45 cm – height. For doe-rabbits provide nested office.
2. It is better to buy rabbits from the checked krolikovodov-private or on rabbit farms. It is better to refuse the market, there it is possible to buy sick and low-quality animals from whom the good posterity cannot be received.
3. It is simple to feed rabbits. A basis of a diet is hay. It has to be green and not rough. It is better to prepare hay most, it is so possible to track that poisonous plants accidentally did not get to it. In the summer of rabbits feed with a sun-burned grass. The diet of rabbits surely contains grain. It can be wheat, oats, barley. In addition give root crops, mineral salts, surely pour fresh water in a drinking bowl. Feed rabbits twice a day.
4. Doe-rabbits can be sluchena at the age of 5-7 months. Males in copulation are allowed from 6 months. Animals have to be not fattened, especially it concerns females. The Sukrolny doe-rabbit bears krolchat 30 days, there can be fluctuations in 1-2 days. Okrol of rabbits occurs quickly, usually at night.
5. Krolchata are born absolutely naked and blind. It is necessary to track that in a nest there were no corpses. It is necessary to do it very carefully, hands should not have foreign smells, it is better to rub them with a dung of a female. Mother does not sit constantly with the cubs. She periodically visits nested office, digs out down, feeds krolchat and again digs in them.
6. Open the krolchat of an eye for 10-14 day, quickly grow, from 17-day age begin to leave a nest and to be fed together with mother. Monthly krolchat otsazhivat in a cage for young growth, and again couple a doe-rabbit.
7. Young growth strongly feed, at achievement of 3-4 months the rabbits are ready to a face. But, if are grown up breed meat-shkurkovye, then slaughter rabbits proceeding their extents of the termination of a molt.