How to raise a drooping rabbit best?

The biggest characteristic of the drooping-ear rabbit is that its long and big ears droop on both sides of its head, like to live in caves, quiet, timid, cold-resistant and heat-resistant, and stay in a dry and clean place. If you want to raise a drooping-eared rabbit, you must understand its living habits and master the breeding methods. Let's take a look at the best way to raise a drooping-eared rabbit.

The living habits of drooping-ear rabbits

1, timid and quiet: the ear-drooping rabbit is very timid, suddenly hear the sound, there is a "surprise" phenomenon, the appetite will be lost, the female rabbit who is giving birth is disturbed and often has dystocia or refuses to breast-feed the baby rabbit. In addition to exercise and food, like rest and sleep, as soon as there is a movement immediately alarm, so it is important to raise this rabbit to choose a quiet and comfortable environment.

2. Cold-resistant and heat-resistant: the hair of the drooping rabbit is very dense and can withstand the severe cold. The adult rabbit can withstand the temperature below zero and can breed in winter at about 5 ℃. The drooping-ear rabbit is afraid of heat because the sweat glands are underdeveloped and cannot regulate body temperature in the form of sweating. So when the outside temperature is too high, drooping rabbits often crawl on the ground, using the ground conduction to emit heat, or increase the number of breaths, using exhalation to bring out heat.

3. Daytime and nocturnal walking: in addition to feeding, drooping-ear rabbits like to rest or sleep in cages during the day, but they are extremely active and eat frequently at night, accounting for about 75% of the total diet at night, so rabbits must insist on feeding night grass.

4. Like to live in caves: hanging-ear rabbits like burrowing, and burrowing is more frequent before breeding. We should pay attention to this in the design and materials when building rabbit houses. According to this habit, we can make use of mountains and hills to raise holes in places with good climate.

5. Belligerence: adult male rabbits chase each other when they meet, female rabbits also bite each other when they are together, and male and female rabbits live in harmony when they are together. Therefore, in the management, try not to raise adult male rabbits or adult female rabbits together.

6. Heterosexual reproduction: when male and female rabbits are together, it only takes a few seconds to complete mating, because the birth of a baby rabbit is very harmful to the female rabbit, so the unsterilized male and female rabbits must not be put together. in addition, it is best to be sterilized for the health of rabbits.

How to raise a drooping rabbit best?

1, diet collocation: rabbit diet needs to prepare sufficient and clean plain boiled water, food should pay attention to balanced nutrition, food collocation. Food should be vegetables, rabbit food, hay and other organic mix, and then give the rabbit to eat. Rabbits do not have the concept of satiety, feed rabbits must eat, to avoid too much food caused by drooping rabbit indigestion, serious will kill the rabbit.

2. Feeding environment: rabbits like a dry and clean environment. At home, prepare a dry and ventilated place for rabbits to put a rabbit nest, and add a plank or mat in the rabbit nest to prevent rabbits from suffering from foot dermatitis and other diseases. Rabbit nests should also be cleaned regularly.

3. Avoid bathing, do not give the baby rabbit a bath, the rabbit is very clean and will lick his hair every day. It is not recommended to give it a bath, but when it is not necessary to take a bath, choose to wash it when the weather is good and sunny. Water should also be avoided from entering its ears. If you don't pay attention, you will get otitis media.

4. Comb often: most drooping-eared rabbits belong to the type with more hair, so they must lose more hair than short-haired rabbits at the change of season. if you can't comb it often, it's easy to tie a knot. Over time, the skin of the rabbit will be red and swollen because of the fur problem. Raising the drooping-eared rabbit should be done in the way of long-haired rabbit, and the ear is the key part of finishing.

5. Do not scratch the ears: never catch the rabbit's ear when catching the rabbit. The ear is an important organ of the rabbit. The rabbit must use the ear to dissipate heat without sweat glands. If the rabbit's ear is scratched and caused by nerve injury, the rabbit's ear will not straighten up and cannot turn. The correct way to catch the rabbit should be to hold the rabbit's back with one hand and lift the rabbit's butt with the other, so that the rabbit's legs and belly are facing forward.

Health examination of drooping-ear rabbits

1. Appetite: whether to eat or not is a very sensitive sign of animal health. In general, animals have a good appetite before every time they eat. If they find that they do not eat or do not finish it within the usual time range, it is a sign of many diseases.

2, drinking desire: drinking amount is also a very important information of changes in the rabbit body, especially when drinking suddenly increases or decreases, which is often the beginning of the disease.

3. Feces: feces are the informants of rabbit disease and an intuitive manifestation of the normal digestive tract. About 30% of the diseases can be reflected in fecal changes. Normal faeces should be independent, moderate in size, moderate in softness, smooth in appearance, floating in water and dispersed as soon as they are pinched by hands. if you find a tip, two tips, paste, porridge, water sample, blood sample and mucus sample should be diagnosed and treated immediately.

4. Spirit: healthy rabbits should be energetic, bright-eyed and responsive. If they find that they are slow or overexcited, they should be further observed.

5. Facial features: a healthy rabbit should have no dirt in the eyes, no snot in the nose, no fire in the tongue, no pus in the ear, no feast in the mouth, and it is unhealthy to find eye drool or tears, snot, drooling and abnormal ears.

6, action: if it is found that the rabbit head tilt, turn, take itching, anus and so on are the occurrence of the disease.

7, coat: healthy rabbit fur is clean and pure, if there is sparse hair, hair loss, ringworm, scab, very dirty, wet should be observed.

8. Sound: the rabbit makes a sound that has never been heard before, such as sneezing, coughing and so on.

9. Odor: rabbits have a smell that has never been seen before. For example, smelling rotten apple is toxemia of pregnancy, sour is food injury, and stench is Clostridium welchii.