Self-made feed and reducing cost is the way out for small and medium-sized rabbit farms.

Small and medium-sized rabbit farms refer to those with less than 200 breeding rabbits and less than 10000 commercial rabbits per year. This kind of rabbit has the shortcomings of less capital and low comprehensive development ability, so their profit space is relatively less. Large rabbit farms are all in the form of rabbit companies, and its mode of operation is one-stop. That is to say, in addition to selling commercial meat rabbits, they also sell breeding rabbits, cages, feed, veterinary medicine and health products, and also recycle or even process meat rabbits raised by other farmers, so that their industrial chain is long and the profit space is big. The state will also provide financial support and policy support to these rabbit companies, and it is very difficult for the small and medium-sized rabbit industry to have such opportunities. Reducing costs is the only way to increase profits, and feed cost is the largest cost in the breeding industry, accounting for more than 70%, so making full use of local resources, self-made feed and reducing costs is the way out for small and medium-sized rabbit farms. Rabbits are herbivores, and the diet is dominated by green roughage, supplemented by concentrate. The intake of green and coarse feed can account for 10% of their body weight, 70% of the total diet, 3% of the body weight, and 2030% of the total diet. Small and medium-sized rabbit farms should use sporadic land or rent some land to grow forage grass, such as Guimu No. 1 hybrid elephant grass, king grass, winter ryegrass, etc., and use some agricultural and sideline products such as peanut vines, peanut shells, sweet potato vines and so on. Some non-toxic weeds can also be harvested as rabbit feed, thus greatly reducing the feed cost, although it will cost a lot of labor to do this work, and small and medium-sized rabbit farms are generally family-run. Regardless of labor costs. Of course, self-made feed requires a certain amount of knowledge, which can be obtained by buying some books or learning on the forum. When I have time, I will also publish some experience of self-made feed on the forum for colleagues' reference. At present, the price of compound feed for rabbits is 2.8 yuan / kilogram, right and left. According to the feed-meat ratio of 3:1, the feed cost of a jin of live rabbits is 4.50 yuan, which is not lower than that of other livestock (poultry). Pigs (self-breeding) is 5 yuan, chicken (120 days) is 5.3 yuan, ducks (42 days) is only 2.8 yuan, such a rabbit is not a diet animal. All the grain saved has been given to feed manufacturers.