Breeding Prospect of Sima Rabbit in Rural areas

The countryside is rich in crop resources, which is suitable for the development of such grain-saving animals. Sima rabbit breeding is a rural characteristic breeding project with low investment, short cycle, easy feeding and high income. In recent years, with the enhancement of people's awareness of health care, Sima rabbit meat, as a "three high and three low" health meat, is more favored by people. Its consumer market is gradually expanding, the price is showing a rising trend, and has a good international and domestic market potential.

Rich in feed resources

The diet of Sima rabbit is mainly grass, which is a typical grain-saving herbivorous domestic animal. Sima rabbit belongs to monogastric herbivorous livestock and has the strongest tolerance to rough feeding. The average proportion of raw food in Sima rabbit feed formula is 23%, and that of pigs and poultry is about 60%. The results showed that the weight of rabbit meat obtained by feeding Sima rabbit and beef cattle with the same amount of feed was 5 times that of beef, which indicated that the conversion efficiency of monogastric herbivorous domestic animal Sima rabbit into meat was higher than that of compound stomach herbivorous cattle. This is of great practical significance to the development of Sima rabbit breeding industry in China, which is relatively short of grain and rich in forage resources. By raising hemp rabbits, farmers transform the rich forage resources into rabbit meat, rabbit skin and rabbit hair, which is a good way to get rich.

High production performance

The Sima rabbit has the advantages of multiple birth and high yield, short feeding cycle, early sexual maturity, about three or four months, the first mating of 6 months, the gestation period of 1 month, the average number of offspring is 7 to 8, and can be mated after delivery, and can give birth to more than 6 babies a year. The growth rate of young rabbits is fast, weaned in 1 month, and then reared for about 60 days after weaning. A female rabbit can get 35-40 offspring in one year, which is equivalent to 20-25 times the weight of the female rabbit. However, the value of cattle and sheep is only 0.35-0.63 times, so it is difficult to compare with Sima rabbit for other livestock raised at present. Therefore, the development of Sima rabbit breeding industry is an important way to solve the source of meat and enrich the vegetable basket of our country.

Small investment in breeding

Compared with raising other animals, the investment of Sima rabbit is small, and the ratio of input to output is high. The investment of raising Sima rabbit in rural areas can be divided into rabbit breeding fee, feed fee, epidemic prevention fee, cage fee and so on. If you breed five groups of rabbits, you can earn a gross profit of nearly 20,000 yuan a year.

Simple feeding and management

Sima rabbit farming covers an area of less, less labor, every household can do Sima rabbit can be raised flat, but also three-dimensional breeding, either indoors or outdoors, on the ground, underground or on the roof. Small-scale family feeding can make use of the courtyard or spare house old house, the general family courtyard can accommodate about 30 basic female rabbits. Raising rabbits without heavy manual work can be done by both the elderly and women. Rabbits like to be nocturnal, so there is no contradiction between raising rabbits and the labor needed for farming. Farmers can make use of their spare time to raise them without losing their farm work.

The market is in great demand

The meat raised by Sima rabbit is a famous health meat and beauty meat, with international and domestic market potential, rabbit meat has the characteristics of "three high and three low", and its comprehensive nutritional value is higher than that of pork, beef and chicken. Rabbit meat not only has high nutritional value, but also its fiber is delicate, and it is easy to be digested and absorbed by human body after processing. it is a good nutritional food for the elderly, patients, pregnant women and young children. In addition, often eat rabbit meat is not easy to get fat, can maintain a beautiful posture, but also has a health care effect, for the prevention of atherosclerosis, hypertension and heart disease has a good effect. Therefore, rabbit meat has long been called bodybuilding meat and beauty meat in developed countries, and it is deeply loved by people. At present, the vast majority of rabbit meat produced in China is exported. In recent years, eating rabbit meat has gradually become a habit in some places in China, and there is even a situation that there is no rabbit without a table in some places, so the potential of rabbit meat in both international and domestic markets is great. Sima rabbit breeding is worth vigorously developing in rural areas.