Tips for touching the fetus of a female rabbit

Fetal touch is the most common diagnostic method to determine whether breeding female rabbits are pregnant or not. The operation of fetal touch examination is simple, the accuracy rate is high, and skillfully mastering the technology of fetal touch, we can make preparation for nutrition, fetal protection and delivery of pregnant female rabbits, and replenish empty pregnant female rabbits in time, so as to improve the reproduction rate of female rabbits and increase the benefit of raising rabbits. The techniques are as follows: 1. The time of fetal modeling should be carried out 8-10 days after mating, and the examination should be carried out at the fasting time of female rabbits. Beginners lack of understanding of embryos and fetal position, which can be carried out 12-14 days after mating of female rabbits, so as to facilitate accurate identification. two。 When touching the fetus, first put the female rabbit to be examined on the flat plate or on the ground, or in the rabbit cage, so that the head of the rabbit is facing the examiner, one hand grabs the skin of both ears and neck of the female rabbit, and the other hand makes the thumb and the other four fingers in a "eight" shape, palm upward, extending to the belly of the female rabbit, gently holding up the rear abdomen, moving forward the contents of the abdomen, slowly closing the five fingers, and touching the shape, size and texture of the abdominal contents. If you touch the abdomen as soft as cotton, there is no pregnancy. If you feel the meat balls the size of peanuts next to each other, the meat balls can slide and be flexible, this is the fetus, indicating that the female rabbit is pregnant. In the process of examination, the number of pregnancies of individual female rabbits is often small, and the embryos can only be detected by touching repeatedly from front to back during the examination. 3. The first point for attention is to touch the fetus in the early stage. Beginners are easy to confuse the 8-day-old and 10-day-old embryos with fecal balls, which are mostly round, smooth, inelastic, large abdominal area, no certain position, and connected with rectal fecal balls. The position of the embryo is relatively fixed, gently pinched and pressed with the hand, the surface is smooth and elastic, and the hand is easy to slide. Second, the action should be light when touching the fetus. Do not pinch or pinch the embryo with your fingers, so as not to cause miscarriage or stillbirth. The fetal rabbit the size of egg yolk can be felt in 15 days, the breast of the female rabbit begins to swell in 24 days, the belly is big and sagging, and the breast milk begins to give birth in about 30 days. -studied. Thank you.