Attention should be paid to raising rabbits at high temperature in summer

In the hot summer, if rabbit breeding does not take measures to prevent heat and cool down, the growth and development of rabbits will be affected, especially on long-haired rabbits. Therefore, in order to enable rabbits to spend the summer safely, the following heat prevention management measures should be taken.

Build an Arbor if rabbits are exposed to the sun for 4 hours in summer, they will die of heatstroke. Therefore, the Arbor must be built on the open rabbit cage, and the closed rabbit house should open the doors and windows to ventilate and cool down.

Second, wet bricks dissipate heat in summer, put the bricks soaked in cold water into the rabbit cage, and the rabbit lies on it, which can lower the body temperature.

Third, rabbits raised in groups with reduced density should be divided into small groups to avoid overcrowding and heating. When caged, the number of caged animals should be reduced.

Fourth, make sure that the drinking water is clean and fresh, and add an appropriate amount of salt, vinegar and mint to the water.

Fifth, carefully feed in summer, rabbits eat very little during the day, should choose to feed at a cool time every morning and evening. Should feed some green feed, and in the feed mixed with a small amount of mashed garlic, minced onions, leeks and so on, in order to sterilize and prevent disease. If the rabbit is fed with wet material, the basin should be washed and dried every day to prevent the remaining feed from accumulating mildew. In addition, the bean curd dregs should be fed fresh and fed as much as they eat to prevent the leftovers from becoming moldy and deteriorating.

6. After cutting rabbit hair in summer, cut the hair between the neck, back and waist of the rabbit, and cut off some of the hair in other parts as well. The long-haired rabbit cuts off all its hair before summer.

7. Spray water to cool the cage when the temperature exceeds 30 ℃, sprinkle an appropriate amount of clean water around the floor and walls to help cool down.

To do a good job of hygiene, high temperature and humidity in summer is the most unfavorable season for raising rabbits, in which the morbidity and mortality of rabbits are the highest in a year. Therefore, it is very important to do a good job in the hygiene of the rabbit house. Drainage ditches should be dug around the rabbit house, and there can be no dead pond. The rabbit house should be disinfected regularly and kept clean and hygienic.

9. Unweaned rabbits should be kept in spacious cages, separated from the mother, and weaned at regular intervals. Weaned rabbits can be reared separately after being adapted to 1Mel for 2 weeks.

Control reproduction in summer, due to the high temperature, the feed intake of rabbits is reduced, the physique is weak, so that the semen quality of male rabbits is poor, and female rabbits are easy to miscarry after pregnancy. Even if the female rabbit gives birth, it will reduce the diet and lactation in the hot weather, which will make the physique of the baby rabbit thin and the survival rate reduced. Therefore, under normal circumstances, breeding and reproduction should be suspended.