How do rabbits survive winter?

Rabbit is a common animal in life, with high nutritional value and broad breeding prospects. Many people specialize in raising rabbits to make money, so how to spend the winter when raising rabbits?

1. Protect against cold and keep warm

The temperature in winter is very low, so the first thing to raise meat rabbits is to keep warm. When there is no ventilation, close the vents in the rabbit house. Then the door should be covered with a layer of grass curtain and other substances to avoid cold wind invasion affecting the normal growth of meat rabbits. After entering the winter, the lowest temperature in the rabbit house should be kept above 5 degrees, the thickness of the ground mat grass should be thickened appropriately, and it should be changed frequently. Then it is necessary to create a dry and comfortable environment for meat rabbits. The rabbit house can be dehumidified and disinfected with plant ash or quicklime.

2. Diet adjustment

The natural feed resources in winter are relatively small, so we should appropriately increase the feed proportion of meat rabbits by about 25%. In particular, to increase the proportion of some energy substances, and to feed more green feed, carrots and other vitamin-rich feed. The proportion of green feeding is kept at about 30%. And because the winter night is very cold and the time is long, in order to make the meat rabbit better supplement energy, but also appropriately increase the feeding times and the amount of feeding, in the evening at 20:00 to properly increase the forage.

3. Drinking water exercise

There is very little fresh feed in winter, and the main feed is dry feed. Therefore, when feeding meat rabbits, we should pay attention to provide sufficient warm water for meat rabbits. Many farmers will not provide drinking water for meat rabbits when they raise meat rabbits in winter. If the meat rabbit does not drink enough water, it will affect the digestive function, thus reducing the appetite of the meat rabbit and causing a variety of digestive tract diseases. Then on a sunny day in winter, let the rabbit take more exercise in the sun and keep it for an hour, in order to improve the physique of the meat rabbit and promote the synthesis of nutrients.

4. Pay attention to keeping abdominal hair when shearing

Rabbits produce a lot of hair in winter, so choose sunny weather to cut hair to prevent frost injury and cold. When shearing, we should pay attention to keep the length of the hair on the abdomen longer to prevent diarrhea and so on.