Summer Management of Meat Rabbits

In summer, the temperature is high, the humidity is high, the sweat gland of meat rabbit is not developed, it is easy to produce various diseases, which seriously affects the growth and production performance of meat rabbit. Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job in summer management of meat rabbits. So what do you need to pay attention to in summer management of meat rabbits?

Cool down heatstroke prevention Plant trees or vines around the rabbit house to make the rabbit house ventilated and cool. When the temperature exceeds 30℃, sprinkle water to cool down in time.

Rain and moisture in summer rain more, in feeding do not feed with dew grass, in rabbit houses and sports ground to often sprinkle some plant ash and lime dry matter.

Due to the summer heat, it is necessary to timely supply sufficient drinking water to rabbits. In order to prevent digestive tract diseases, rabbits can drink 0.01% potassium permanganate water once a week.

Prevention of coccidiosis high temperature and humidity in summer, easy to break out large-scale coccidiosis, prevention of coccidiosis is essential. One is to control from the environment; the other is to strengthen drug prevention, small rabbits should start prevention from the age of 20 days, when big rabbits and small rabbits mixed breeding to achieve joint prevention of diseases.

Scientific feeding management uses reasonable feed formula, so that early feeding in the morning, late feeding at night, and more succulent grass.

Six measures to prevent rabbit heatstroke in summer:

I. Sunshade and sunstroke prevention

1. Greening and Cooling Plant a variety of broad-leaved trees and vines around the rabbit house, and plant low grass between the houses to block sunlight and reduce direct sunlight on the rabbit house.

2. For outdoor rack rabbit houses, pergolas can be built with local materials such as branches to block the sun and create shade to cool down. Farmers with asbestos tile roof, can be covered with a layer of straw, wheat straw and shade net.

II. Heat dissipation and heatstroke prevention

1. Ventilation cooling hot season, the rabbit cage placed in the back of the sun, ventilation, easy to air convection, heat dissipation cooling, open doors and windows, open the ground window, install fans, etc., can also be combined with the increase of wet curtains, in order to strengthen the ventilation cooling effect.

2. Different colors have different absorptivity and reflectivity to sunlight. Black absorption rate is the highest, white reflectivity is very strong, so the rabbit house top, south and west face by direct sunlight inside and outside the wall, available lime white, to reduce the rabbit house heat absorption, heat insulation cooling effect.

3. Lowering density is an effective way to reduce heat stress. The density should not be too high. Each rabbit should have room to move. The density of rabbit cage should be about 10 rabbits per square meter. At the same time lactating female rabbits and young rabbits cage feeding, regular lactation, so more conducive to young, female rabbits heatstroke prevention.

III. Water for heatstroke prevention

1. Sprinkle cold water on the ground, walls, roof, dung board and other places of the rabbit house to cool down at noon and evening. The amount of water sprinkled shall be wet without ponding.

2. The rabbit needs twice as much water in summer as it does in winter, so give the rabbit enough clean water. To improve the heatstroke prevention effect, 1% salt or baking soda or vitamin C should be added to drinking water.

3. Wet brick cooling Take 1-2 ordinary new bricks, immerse them in cold water (the best well water quantity) for several minutes, and put them into the rabbit cage after the bricks absorb enough water. Because the brick temperature is lower than the rabbit body surface temperature, it can help the rabbit body to dissipate heat and cool down.

IV. Melons to relieve summer heat

1. Watermelon rind, cucumber antipyretic summer watermelon rind and cucumber sweet cool, in the hot summer every day to rabbits to feed some fresh clean watermelon rind or cucumber, not only palatability, and rabbits after eating with antipyretic, summer heat, diuretic, thirst quenching effect.

2. Momordica charantia juice quenching summer bitter bitter with sweet, hot summer can be added to the rabbit drinking water in the right amount of fresh Momordica charantia juice, rabbit drink after effective stimulation of saliva blowing, gastric secretion, with salivation quenching, heat and antipyretic and promote rabbit appetite function.

5. Herbs to relieve summer heat

In summer, rabbits are often fed with some wild herbs, which not only have nutrition, but also can prevent the occurrence of heatstroke in rabbits. Common herbs that can prevent and cure rabbit heatstroke include verbena, ox tendon grass, plantain, houttuynia cordata, ox hundred vine, golden flower and other herbs. These herbs all have the functions of dispelling heat and relieving summer heat and lowering rabbit temperature.

6. Treatment of heatstroke

1. When the temperature in the rabbit house and cage exceeds 30℃, all kinds of rabbits of all ages are prone to heatstroke. After heatstroke, the symptoms of rabbits are as follows: elevated body temperature, shortness of breath, accelerated heartbeat, loss of appetite, constant lying, salivation, oral mucosa, conjunctival congestion and flushing: severely ill rabbits stretch legs and lie down, limbs are spasmodic convulsions, and soon die. Comprehensive treatment method: Once rabbits are found to have heatstroke performance, they should be quickly moved to a cool and ventilated place, watered with cold water, and taken orally with cold water or light salt water, or taken orally with 2-3 ml of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, or 3-5 drops of ten drops of water, or fed with a small amount of human Dan, or with garlic juice, ginger juice a little nose drop. Severely ill rabbits can acupuncture ear vein, choose tail tip bloodletting, acupuncture, medicine combined with better efficacy.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine

1) Litsea cubeba root 5 grams, ground into fine powder, add a small amount of salt, boiled water infusion (irrigation).

2) 50 grams of fish grass, washed and mashed to extract juice, washed with boiled water and mixed thoroughly, and then given to the affected rabbit.

3. Chinese medicine treatment

1) 10g each of branches, wings, golden rooster feet, wood defenses and Centella asiatica, decocted and administered, each time taking 20- 30ml.

2) Golden Rooster Feet, Centella asiatica, Honeysuckle each 10- 15g, decocted water feeding, each time 20- 30ml, 2-3 times a day.