How does the hare keep warm in winter?

Hare is a new breed raised in recent years, its meat quality is more delicious than rabbits, disease resistance, vitality is stronger, the market price is also higher than rabbits, so many small and medium-sized investors have developed special hare breeding. However, at present, many breeders are lack of experience in protecting rabbits from cold and warmth in winter, which leads to the decline of their production performance and economic benefits.

Measures to prevent cold and keep warm outside the rabbit house

1. Thickening the roof

Straw with a thickness of 5cm to 10cm can be covered on the roof, or a layer of thermal insulation foam can be installed underneath, so that the cold air cannot blow into the rabbit house and the hot air is not easy to escape from the roof.

2. wind shielding materials are installed on the outside of the rabbit house wall.

Cover materials such as wooden boards, straw curtains, plastic films, straw bundles or grass bags are used to seal tightly the areas around the rabbit house that are blown or leaking by the wind, so as to prevent the invasion of cold wind; the accumulation of appropriate straw outside the north wall of the rabbit house also has the function of keeping warm from the wind. The outer wall of the rabbit house is usually wrapped with plastic film and fixed with nails and wooden slats, and the thermal insulation materials can be recycled.

3. Thicken doors and windows

The doors and windows on the walls of the rabbit house are made into double layers or by the way of glass and film, the heat preservation effect is better.

4. Keep warm and ventilated.

Cold weather every morning after 10:00 to open doors and windows for ventilation, such as stocking, the hare will be put on the playground, after 4 pm according to the temperature to close the doors and windows, which is an important work of heat preservation. During ventilation, as moist air and harmful exhaust gas are more deposited in the lower layer of the space, opening the floor window is more conducive to the discharge of moisture from the house and keep the environment dry.

Measures to prevent cold and keep warm inside the rabbit house

1. A greenhouse should be established in the breeding house of female rabbits.

When the temperature is below 18 ℃, a warm room is needed in order to maintain the normal living environment of the baby rabbits. The breeding rabbit house can be heated properly with a heater or electric furnace, or a fire can be used to heat the breeding rabbit house. In order to prevent carbon dioxide poisoning, it is necessary to use a pipe to discharge the exhaust gas.

2. Young rabbits and young rabbits should be kept warm reasonably.

① increased the feeding density of rabbits in the house. The feeding density of the rabbit cage in the cold season is 30%-50% higher than that in summer and autumn. Let the rabbit sleep next to each other, which can increase the temperature of the rabbit cage.

Flexible arrangements for ②. According to the characteristics that young rabbits need higher temperature and stronger ability to resist cold, younger young rabbits can be arranged in the upper layer with higher room temperature, and older rabbits can be arranged in the lower layer at lower room temperature.

3. The breeding rabbit house is equipped with air conditioning.

The breeding rabbit house was equipped with air conditioning to make the breeding rabbit live in the rabbit house with a temperature of 18-28 ℃. At this temperature, the pregnancy rate of female rabbits is high, and it is easy to mate successfully.

4. Assemble the heating system by using the biogas of the biogas digester in the rabbit farm.

A hot blast furnace heated with biogas and heated with a hot water pipe (similar to the heating system of a building in the north) allows rabbits to lie only on the floor. The temperature in the house should be kept above 18 ℃, and the temperature should be adjusted according to the physique of the young, weak, sick and disabled rabbits.

5. Dry padding in the cage, and timely ventilation.

The rabbits only lay down with boards and dried straw to reduce the heat loss of the rabbit body. When the weather is sunny at noon, you can take advantage of the high temperature period to put the rabbit to the playground to bask in the sun, which is conducive to speeding up the blood circulation of the rabbit body and strengthening its physique; open doors and windows and ground windows for moderate ventilation to promote air circulation in the house, and at the same time, the moisture and harmful gases in the house can be eliminated.

6. Regular removal of feces and urine

Because there are many feces and urine in the rabbit house, the humidity is high, which makes the room more humid and colder, and there are more harmful gases, which is easy to cause respiratory diseases of rabbits. Therefore, the timely removal of feces and urine can greatly reduce the humidity and increase the temperature. If the rabbits are trained to defecate outside the house and eat and live in the house, the humidity of the rabbit house will be reduced and the air will be better. To the rabbit house that sets up the dung and urine ditch on the floor, after cleaning the floor, the entrance of the interior and exterior of the house must be blocked with a plank to prevent cold wind from invading.

7. Adopt dry fecal cleaning process.

In the overcast, rainy and cold weather in winter and winter, rabbit dung should be collected by cleaning and eradicating, so as to reduce the heat loss and humidity in the house.

8. Turn on hot air facilities

The heating devices of electric hot air stove and coal heating hot air stove are mostly used to deliver warm fresh air to the mother rabbit litter house and the rabbit breeding house. In winter, the air in the rabbit house is warm and dry, when the air temperature of the mother's litter room is 20: 23 ℃, the survival rate of the young rabbit can be improved, and when the temperature of the rabbit breeding house is 20: 24 ℃, the disease decreases and grows well.

9. Feed warm water

Lack of water in rabbits often leads to indigestion, loss of appetite, metabolic disorder, decline in body fat and so on, so rabbits in captivity must be provided with enough warm water of about 20 ℃ in cold season. The hot water pipe of the blast furnace heated by biogas can be used to provide clean hot water for the rabbit farm (only drinking water, mixing feed and cleaning water for rabbits). At the same time, pay attention to the leakage of water supply system and automatic drinking fountain to prevent excessive humidity in the house caused by water leakage.

10. Change the wet disinfection in the house to flame disinfection

Wet spray disinfection in the house will increase the humidity in the house, which is not conducive to heat preservation and dehumidification in the rabbit farm in winter. Using LPG spray gun to disinfect the objects that are not afraid of fire in the rabbit farm can not only achieve the purpose of disinfection, but also improve the ambient temperature in the house, killing two birds with one stone. Flame disinfection is especially suitable for disinfection of female rabbit birth house and rabbit breeding house, as well as rabbit hair removal and environmental disinfection of rabbit house and rabbit cage under the environment of changing rabbit hair.