Do a good job of Rabbit breeding in Winter and improve the benefit of Culture

Raising rabbits is a good way for farmers to get rich. in order to make rabbits reproduce normally, it is necessary to create a good living environment for rabbits. Doing well the breeding of rabbits in winter is an important measure to improve the efficiency of rabbit breeding. Through years of practice, Zhou Fengxian, a professional rabbit farmer in Yiyang City, Hunan Province, summed up a set of culture techniques to strengthen the management of rabbit winter breeding and improve the efficiency of rabbit breeding.

? Choose a good breed rabbit

For breeding rabbits used for breeding in winter, male rabbits should be 8-10 months old and weigh more than 3.5 kg, and female rabbits should be 6-8 months old and weigh more than 3 kg. Male rabbits require plump appearance, long body, flat back, agile movement, normal appetite, stout limbs, shiny hair, good development, exuberant libido, good semen quality; female rabbits require a strong system, gentle temperament, hair glowing, good reproductive organs, no pollutants in the anus, normal estrus, no less than 4 pairs of nipples, will hold grass to pull hair cushion nest, will lactation, give birth to more, good physique.

Keep a good breeding

In winter, rabbits do not like activities, the estrous cycle is generally 7-17 days, and the estrous duration is 1-3 days. Therefore, it is necessary to master the law of estrus and breed in time. Winter mating will take place at noon on a sunny day after October of the lunar calendar. At this time, the rabbit's libido is exuberant, energetic, relatively quiet, easy to conceive. In addition, before sunrise and 1 hour after sunset in winter, it is also a period of exuberant sexual function of rabbits, so mating can also be carried out at this time. After mating, breed rabbits should immediately pat their buttocks with their hands to stimulate post-drive contraction, incorporate semen and improve the conception rate. The "double mating method" can be adopted, that is, one male rabbit in the morning and another male rabbit in the evening, and the "administrative breeding method", that is, a male rabbit in the morning and this male rabbit in the evening can be used to make the female rabbit have more rabbits.

? Do a good job of cold protection and heat preservation of rabbit house

Rabbits like dry and clean environment, and the most suitable temperature is 10 ℃ ~ 25 ℃. Therefore, in winter, we must do a good job of cold protection and heat preservation of the rabbit house. The rabbit house must be built in a leeward, sunny and warm place. It can be raised in cages, rooms or plastic sheds. The temperature should be controlled above 10 ℃ and the lowest should not be less than 5 ℃. During the breeding period, grass curtains should be hung at the door of the rabbit house, and soft grass should be padded inside the house to protect against wind and heat. When the weather is warm, rabbits can be released for exercise and receive light. Do not light fire and smoke in the rabbit house to prevent gas poisoning or respiratory diseases. The rabbit house can also be sprinkled with plant ash or quicklime to prevent moisture.

? Strengthen feed nutrition

In winter, the diet of pregnant female rabbits, wild vegetables, cabbage leaves, carrots and other green feed should not be less than 30%, but also with wheat bran, rice bran, bean cake, fish meal, bone meal and other feed ingredients to prevent feed homogenization. Otherwise, the conception rate of the female rabbit is low, the vitality of the newborn rabbit is weak, and it is easy to be paralyzed after delivery. After each feeding of rabbits, more drinking water should be supplied to help digestion. It is also forbidden to feed vegetables and grasses with soil, mildew or frost.

? Carefully manage and protect the baby rabbit

After giving birth to the baby rabbit, the mother rabbit should be fed some brown sugar water and salt water to prevent it from thirsting to eat the baby rabbit. In winter, young rabbits should eat a few more days of milk to strengthen their physique and resist the severe cold. Young rabbits to 16-19 days old, can begin to try feed, initially can be fed with a small amount of soybean milk, rice soup, a few days later added wheat flour, bean dregs. After 6-7 days, you can mix in mineral feed, feed some carrots and so on. The young rabbits should be fed 4 or 5 times a day and once more at night, and adequate drinking water should be supplied after each feeding. Let the young rabbits exercise more and bask in the sun more to improve the survival rate.

? Do a good job in epidemic prevention and control

In winter, in addition to preventing rabbits from getting cold, but also often feeding garlic, ginger, yeast slices and so on, to prevent the occurrence of epidemic disease. If rabbit disease occurs, it is necessary to immediately isolate and treat the disease to prevent its spread.