How much is the price of rabbit seedlings on the market at present? How to improve the survival rate?

Rabbit is the general name of all the genera of the family Lagomorpha of mammals. Commonly known as rabbits, they like to eat grass. Are timid animals, sudden noise, strangers and strange animals. How much is the price of rabbit seedlings on the market at present? How to improve the survival rate? It is learned from the Changsha rabbit breeding base that several rabbit seedlings are about 5-10 yuan per rabbit.

How to improve the survival rate of rabbit seedlings?

The rabbit from birth to 40 days after weaning is called young rabbit, which is the stage of high incidence of disease and high mortality. According to its physiological characteristics, targeted management must be done to improve the survival rate.

First, the temperature is suitable

The first big change experienced by newborn rabbits is a sudden drop in temperature. The fetus lives in the uterine environment of about 39.5 ℃. The fetus is hairless at birth, and the ambient temperature is generally about 20 ℃ lower than the body temperature. The temperature of raising rabbits outdoors in rural areas is even lower, but at this time, the thermoregulation ability of newborn rabbits is poor, and if the temperature is too low, they will freeze to death quickly. Therefore, on the one hand, the temperature of the delivery room should be maintained at about 10 ℃, on the other hand, the microclimate of the delivery box should be controlled, bedding grass should be laid in winter to help cover the baby rabbits with rabbit hair, or the delivery box should be moved to the feeding room with ideal temperature, and the mother rabbits should be fed in cages regularly. The modern rabbit farm has a special air conditioner to control the temperature. We should try to keep the small environment of the production box at 20 ℃ ~ 25 ℃. The suitable temperature environment is the key to ensure the survival of young rabbits.

2. Adequate breastfeeding

Adequate milk supply is the guarantee for the survival and growth of young rabbits. After birth, the newborn rabbit suddenly changed from maternal nutrition to milk nutrition. Half a month later, it jumped out of the nest box and gradually picked forage. At this time, the gastrointestinal function of young rabbits is poor, and a little discomfort (such as insufficient milk of female rabbits or poor milk quality of mastitis) will cause weight loss, diarrhea, and even death. Therefore, to ensure the health of the female rabbit, so that it has sufficient milk in order to meet the needs of the rapid growth of young rabbits.

When the baby rabbit skin shrinks, crawling in the nest, the fur is dry and dull, touching squeak with hands is often a sign of underfeeding, we should find out the cause, promote milk or foster feeding. Some female rabbits have poor nursing ability, especially the first-born female rabbits, although they have milk, they do not feed the young rabbits. At this time, the female rabbits are fixed by hand and forced to feed milk, which usually takes effect after 3-5 days of training. It is generally appropriate for high-yielding long-haired rabbits to have 5-6 litters, and if the litter size is too large, it should be adjusted. For too many young rabbits, you can find the female rabbits with similar delivery period for foster feeding (put the baby rabbits in the production box for about half an hour, and then come into contact with the female rabbits; you can also use the mat grass in the nest box to wipe the baby rabbits and then put them into the box, which is generally successful).

When the milk of the female rabbit is insufficient, there can also be the phenomenon of "hanging milk", that is, the baby rabbit clings to the nipple of the female rabbit (trying to suck more milk). When the female rabbit jumps out of the nest box, it is easy to take the baby rabbit out of the box; it will also take the baby rabbit out of the box because the frightened mother rabbit suddenly leaves the delivery box, or the delivery box is improperly designed. The mother rabbit does not have the instinct to bring the baby rabbit back to the nest box, and the baby rabbit that falls out of the box is easy to die of cold, so it should be sent back to the nest box in time; if it is found that the body surface of the baby rabbit has become cold, it can be fixed by hand to soak its body in 40 ℃ of hot water, and dry water can be returned to the original box after the rabbit's limbs kick randomly and recover.

III. Strengthen management and protection

Carry out regular and meticulous observation and inspection to see if the fat condition of the baby rabbit is normal, replace the wet mattress in time and remove the dead rabbit. Pay attention to cold prevention in winter, summer heat prevention and mosquitoes and flies; usually should also pay attention to timely repair rabbit house walls and cages loopholes, in order to prevent weasel wolves, mice, cats, dogs and other damage. Long-haired rabbits should keep short hair before birth, which is not only beneficial to breast-feeding of postpartum rabbits, but also can prevent female rabbits from pulling hair to make nests, polluting and wasting a lot of long hair, and preventing hair length from forming hair rope and strangling the neck and feet of young rabbits to death.

The young rabbits opened their eyes about 12 days after birth and went out of the nest to feed at half a month. The transition from milk to forage is an important change. at this time, the ability of gastrointestinal digestion of forage is still very poor and needs to be fed with digestible tender forage. The baby rabbit can be weaned after about 40 days. When weaning, it is best to remove the mother rabbit and leave the baby rabbit in the same place, so as to prevent the uneasiness and death caused by changing the environment of the baby rabbit. After weaning, the spirit, appetite and feces of the young rabbits should be checked frequently, and the abnormalities should be dealt with in time.