Rabbit breeding is one of the leading industries in which rapid growth of products is observed, at the same time does not demand big material investments. The rabbit is not only two kilograms of digestible dietary meat, but also valuable fur which is demanded by producers of headdresses, fur coats and collars. As it is correct to raise rabbits and to look after them?
Instruction
1. In farmer and personal subsidiary farms it is recommended to support rabbits only in cages. At such system it is possible to carry out preventive actions, to economically spend forages and to effectively treat animals. Depending on climatic conditions establish cages on the open areas or indoors. In warm season you hold rabbits in the open air, in the winter – indoors. This way of contents is called combined.
2. At placement of cages consider that moment that doe-rabbits very badly transfer drafts and dampness. The humidity of air should not exceed 50%. Provide purity of air and sufficient illumination. Duration of light day has to be not less than 8-10 hours, but no more than 16 hours a day.
3. The quality of skins of males considerably decreases at the group maintenance of young growth. If in your economy there is no enough cages for keeping of rabbits individually, females can be supported groups, and males should be seated on one.
4. Feeding troughs for root crops and the concentrated forages and also drinking bowls it would be expedient to make built in a front part of a cage, it will facilitate care for rabbits. For feeding of granules and grain use bunker self-feeding troughs, put in them a forage once a day. As capacity for water use a usual bottle which should be filled with water and to connect to a drinking bowl a rubber tubule.
5. Make mesh or rack floors that kcal did not accumulate in a cage in fodder office, and failed down. Organize in a cage a recreation area or a nest with a continuous floor where it is possible to take cover from public eyes.
6. The main forage for rabbits are root crops, a grass and hay. These animals are very sensitive to the slightest deviations as food. Wash root crops before giving thoroughly and crush, give crude. Give potatoes in a boiled look in mix with loose sterns. The main source of vitamins in the winter and in the early spring – a silo which with success is used for feeding of rabbits.
7. At four-months age of females it is possible to let in copulation, at this age they reach puberty. Dl of females are necessary cages already with the built-in nests in which the new posterity will appear. Doe-rabbits for one okrol can give rise to up to fourteen krolchat therefore it is necessary to calculate the area of a cage in advance. Mother feeds krolchat within a month, then use for their livelihood grain crusts mixed up with boiled potatoes and compound feed, give also hay or a grass.