Weaning Management affects Survival rate what should be paid attention to when weaning young rabbits

How to wean young rabbits and improve the survival rate of young rabbits, in the management of raising rabbits, we must pay attention to the following links:

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First, pay attention to appropriate activities to enhance the physique of young rabbits. Young rabbits are in the physical period, love activities very much, but also like the sun, so it is necessary to make young rabbits have a certain amount of exercise time every day. In spring and autumn, release the cage in the morning and return to the cage in the evening; in winter, release the cage at noon and return to the cage before evening feeding; in summer, release the cage at dawn and return to the cage at sunrise. Its activity place, both should have sunshine, lest because of damp cause rabbit tinea disease, can cover shade again, prevent heatstroke. In general, the area of the sports ground should be 2 young rabbits per square meter. The size of young rabbits should be basically the same, such as individual differences, separate activities, in order to avoid fights, resulting in casualties.

Second, drink water correctly and promote metabolism. In production practice, some rabbit farmers mistakenly think that rabbits do not need drinking water, and even say that rabbits need to have diarrhea when drinking water. In fact, rabbits are very sensitive to water, such as insufficient drinking water, a reduction of 8% of water in the body by 10%, loss of appetite, obstruction of digestive function, etc., which will affect the development of young rabbits, and will reduce the disease resistance of young rabbits because of dry mucous membranes. When more than 20% of the body's moisture is lost, it can cause death. This kind of death caused by water shortage is especially common in summer. As for young rabbits drinking water diarrhea, is caused by improper drinking water, do not allow baby rabbits to drink water for a long time, occasionally give a lot, make it drink too much, resulting in digestive disorders of young rabbits, resulting in diarrhea. Correct drinking method: young rabbits have water to drink at any time, generally 0.2-0.4 kg of clean water per kilogram of body weight every day and night. If the green feed with large water content is fed, the amount of drinking water can be reduced appropriately.

Third, adhere to the rational supply of salt to improve the appetite of young rabbits. Salt is indispensable for the growth and development of rabbits, especially weaned rabbits, who need 0.3-1.5 grams of salt per day and night. if there is a lack of salt in the diet, the appetite of rabbits will decrease and their disease resistance will be weakened, resulting in growth retardation and easy to get sick and die. Therefore, in order to feed the weaned rabbits with appropriate amount of salt, the addition of salt in the formula feed of young rabbits should be controlled at 0.4% 0.6%.

Fourth, carry out scientific feeding. As the weaned rabbits have just left their breast milk, their living conditions have changed greatly. at this time, the gastrointestinal digestive function of the young rabbits is still very weak, such as eating excellent and indigestible food will bloat and die. In particular, the baby rabbit weighing about 1 kg is still in the tooth lifting stage, the root of the tooth is itchy, do not know hunger and satiety, food intake can not be self-controlled, easy to cause thin neck and big belly, serious, abdominal distension and death. For this reason, in feeding and management, we should not only pay attention to hygiene, but also feed fresh, easy to digest, high nutritional value of fine and green fodder, concentrate had better be cooked food, feed concentrate 2 times a day, green feed 3 times, take less frequent feeding, do not eat too much.

Fifth, the prevention of epidemic diseases to ensure the health of young rabbits. For weaned young rabbits, there is no disease early prevention, disease early treatment. There are two diseases that do great harm to young rabbits, one is pasteurellosis, the other is coccidiosis.