How does the bunny spend the winter?

When it comes to rabbits, many people like them. Some are specially raised as pets, some are for sale, but rabbits are afraid of cold, so they should do a good job of management technology in winter. How do rabbits survive winter?

1, cold and warm

The temperature in winter is relatively low, so the primary management work of raising rabbits is to do a good job of cold and warm. In winter, the temperature of the rabbit house should be controlled at about 20 degrees. If the temperature is too low or too high, it will have a certain impact on the physiological function of the rabbit. Try to control the temperature in the range of 12-28 degrees. Appropriate increase of breeding density, increase of rabbit temperature and decrease of ventilation frequency can effectively increase the temperature of rabbit house. Can also cover plastic film on the rabbit house, improve the utilization rate of sunlight, conditional can be added in the rabbit house warming equipment, such as stoves, electric blankets and so on.

2. Supplementary light

Adequate and appropriate intensity of light is the key to ensure the healthy growth of small rabbits, small rabbits should be kept in the light of about 14 hours a day, its growth capacity and production performance will be improved. However, in winter, the natural illumination time is less than 10 hours, which is not conducive to the growth of rabbits and the secretion of reproductive hormones in female rabbits. Therefore, in order to improve the production performance of rabbits, we should artificially supplement the light of rabbits in winter, and extend the light time to a suitable degree. Artificial supplementary lighting is needed at 6 a.m. and around 6 p.m. every day to lengthen the lighting time.

3. Feeding management

Rabbit is a herbivore, in artificial breeding if fed grass every day is completely unable to meet the nutritional needs of small rabbits. Therefore, in the daily feeding in winter, the treatment needs to feed fresh feed, but also appropriately increase the complete feed, complete feed storage capacity is strong, comprehensive nutrition, very suitable for small rabbits to eat. And winter bunny heat consumption, energy production is far more than other seasons. So in winter to increase the amount of feeding, pay attention to improve the proportion of vitamins in the feed. When feeding powder, pay attention to mixing warm water, mainly feed a small amount, feed residue in the trough should not be allowed to prevent feed freezing, small rabbits eat by mistake.

4. Disease control

Winter temperature is low, the vitality of pathogens decreases, especially some infectious bacteria, so the disease of young rabbits also decreases, and the survival rate of young rabbits will greatly increase. So we just need to keep the temperature fluctuations small enough for out-of-season winter reproduction.