Key points of safe and efficient feeding management for rabbits in autumn

1. Scientific feeding

In early autumn, it is hot at noon and rabbits often lose their appetite. Therefore, every day to feed early in the morning, evening feeding, Chinese food to feed more green feed, provide adequate drinking water, and add 1% salt and 2% bone meal or flour to supplement the consumption of salt in the body.

Second, prevent heat and moisture

The heat dissipation of rabbits is not good, and they are afraid of heat and tide. It is rainy at the turn of summer and autumn, with high temperature and humidity. The Arbor should be set up and the rabbit house should be sheltered and ventilated to prevent direct sunlight. The caged rabbit house can be cooled by sprinkling cold water. It is best to plant towel gourd, Trichosanthes, grapes, fruit trees and other plants around the rabbit house, so that the vines spread shade above the cage. The weather was still hot in early autumn, so the Arbor was removed from the cage.

Feed and drink water

When it is cool in the morning and evening in autumn, the rabbit's appetite is enhanced, the mixed concentrate should be fed in the morning and evening, 2 / 3 of the diet should be fed in the evening, clean drinking water should be provided, and high quality roughage should be fed at other times. After regaining fat, feed more protein-rich feeds such as soybeans, wheat bran, fish meal, germinated barley and silkworm pupa powder. Do not feed rotten, moldy, toxic feed, as well as grass and leaves with dew, Rain Water, do not drink dirty water, so as not to cause gastrointestinal diseases in rabbits.

IV. Careful management

In the high temperature season, the testicles of male rabbits shrink by 60%. Even after the temperature drops, it usually takes 45 days to recover, while female rabbits can resume breeding in about 7 days. After autumn, farmers should strengthen the ventilation of the rabbit house and keep it clean and quiet. If a three-story cage is used, the breeding male rabbits should be raised in the lowest cage. Because the temperature in the lower cage is lower than that in the upper cage, the breeding male rabbits can also be raised in the semi-basement.

5. Breeding and reproduction

In autumn, the female rabbit is in normal estrus and the male rabbit is in estrus, which is the best season for rabbit breeding, so the breeding rabbit group should be adjusted and the female rabbits with strong fecundity, high production performance and good motherhood should be selected for breeding, and excellent reserve breeding rabbits should be selected to enrich the rabbit group. After entering autumn, it is necessary to master the oestrus period of female rabbits (estrus once in 7-15 days, lasting 3-4 days each time), timely mating and early mating by freezing estrus. High temperature has a great influence on the sexual function of male rabbits, and the conception rate of natural mating is low. After entering autumn, artificial insemination with frozen estrus can improve the conception rate. Before insemination, each female rabbit was injected with 50 100 units of chorionic gonadotropin. Insemination was performed 4-6 hours after injection, and the insemination volume was 0.3-0.5 ml. The mother rabbit is thirsty after parturition, in order to prevent her from swallowing the baby rabbit, after giving birth, the fetal placenta, stillborn fetus and mat grass and rabbit hair contaminated by blood should be cleaned in time, and bran water or warm rice soup with a little salt should be supplied; and the newborn rabbit should be sent to the mother rabbit cage to suck in time.

VI. Strict epidemic prevention

In the hot and rainy season, it is necessary to strengthen the prevention and control of common diseases in rabbits, regularly clean and disinfect rabbit houses and cages, regularly deworming rabbits, and at the same time do a good job in the prevention of infectious diseases such as rabbit plague and rabbit pasteurellosis. it is also necessary to strictly prevent the outbreak of coccidiosis and strengthen the prevention and treatment of scabies. Eliminate mosquitoes and flies, wash the food basin once a day, sweep the cage frequently, disinfect frequently, and prevent feed mildew.