Everyone who decided to undertake cultivation of rabbits has to understand that the end results of its work will depend to a large extent on creating favorable conditions of keeping of animals. Having penetrated in particular lives of these animals, having examined methods of leaving and rules of contents, each beginner will be able to achieve success in their cultivation.
Instruction
1. Now the set of methods of keeping of rabbits, among them, such as zagonny, cellular, a floor free is used. The most widespread method is keeping of rabbits in cages as it allows to conduct with higher quality work on selection and cultivation of rabbits, to interfere with developing of diseases. Today around the world there are more than 60 breeds of rabbits. However not all of them have economic value. At the beginning krolikovod of the most widespread breed gray and a white giant, a chinchilla, etc. is considered. Distinctive feature of this breed, is its sizes, up to 60 cm in length and up to 5 kg of live weight, the young growth develops intensively. They are unpretentious in contents, are hardy.
2. First of all, it is necessary to define the place for placement of cages. The site should be chosen as dry, on the height, far away from swamps. The humidity at which rabbits feel comfortable is 60-70%. Especially drafts and dampness are harmful to rabbits. Rabbits consume the increased amount of oxygen. They do not transfer a heat. Influence of sunshine can cause in them heatstrokes. But they are resistant to low temperatures, are adapted to winter out of rooms though it is required to treat such contents with care. Cages can be built of Teso and the metal gauze. It is more preferable to do them by blocks, in each block on two cages. As a partition between cages serves grass feeder and Sena, from the metal gauze. Each cage represents two offices, nested and fodder which are divided by a wooden partition with a manhole of 20 by 20 cm. For nested office 40 cm, and for fodder 60 cm of width of a cage are taken away. The nested office is made continuous, and fodder — of a galvanized grid with a size of cells of 16-18 mm, wire of 2 mm thick. Sometimes, the grid is replaced with laths from a tree of strong breeds, with intervals between them of 1-2 cm. The feeding trough and a drinking bowl fasten in a fodder compartment on a front wall. Feeding troughs for the combined forages and root crops and also drinking bowls it is accepted to do on the front party of a cage. Feeding troughs do by 50-60 cm long. Fix them so that after loading of forages, she leaned back in a cage and its outer side adjoined to a front wall. The roof becomes odnoskatny with an inclination 15 °, becomes covered with roofing material, with a peak of 30 cm for protection against the sun, a rain and snow. Cages are established at the height of 0.7 m from the earth.
3. Cages have to be oriented so that to interfere with influence on animal direct beams of the sun. Generally cages try to develop on the West or the East a facade. Krolikovoda, as a rule, prefer to grow up animals in the cages directed by facades at each other that allows to build, with little effort, in winter time over cages a dvukhskatny roof, and to close sides wooden boards. Apply also the combined contents when for winter of a cage transfer to the shed, it is especially relevant when okrol rabbits it falls on the winter period. All-weather stay in the fresh air favorably affects animals, they become more resistant to diseases, their wool becomes more dense and brilliant.
4. Rabbit breeding is the industry, with quickly increased volume of end products and deserves due consideration. People receive the products which are in stable demand from reproduction of rabbits. Skins apply to tailoring of fur products. Meat of rabbits, is a tasty dietary product, contains high amount of protein. Its advantages allow to recommend for consumption to people of brainwork, advanced age, children, people with digestive tract diseases, heart and other diseases.