Efficient breeding technique of long-haired Rabbit

Rabbit hair products have the characteristics of light, soft, comfortable, warm and beautiful, and are deeply welcomed by consumers at home and abroad. Raising long-haired rabbits with less land, less investment, wide feed sources and large income is a good way for farmers to get rich.

Variety

There are many varieties of long-haired rabbits in the world, among which Angora rabbit is the best one, and its origin is in the province of Angola, Turkey. There are many strains of Angora long-haired rabbits, such as Chinese, British, Japanese, German and so on. Among them, the weight of German is larger, the adult weight is about 5 kg, the annual wool yield is 0.75-1 kg, and the excellent and good ones can reach 1.5 kg; the body weight of Chinese Angora angora rabbits is 2.5-3.5 kg, and the annual wool production is about 0.25 kg. The excellent and good ones can reach more than 0.5 kg. The Chinese Angora rabbit has strong adaptability, high reproduction rate, resistance to rough feeding and strong disease resistance, and has a good coordination ability with the German Angora rabbit.

Rabbit house

Long-haired rabbits like dry, clean and quiet environment, so the rabbit house should be built in a place with high dry terrain, quiet environment and good drainage. Long-haired rabbits are generally raised in cages, breeding rabbits in a single cage, and young rabbits in more than one cage. The size of the rabbit cage must have a certain specification. Commonly used rabbit cages are generally 60 cm long, 55 cm wide and 45 cm high; breeding cages should be enlarged appropriately. The bottom of the rabbit cage should be more than 30 centimeters above the ground. The bottom plate of the rabbit cage had better be laid with bamboo slices, which are 2.5 cm wide and should be straight. The distance between the two slices is 1 cm. In this way, rabbit droppings can be made to fall without trapping the rabbit's foot. The bottom plate of the cage can not be nailed to the rack and should be made movable so as to facilitate replacement and cleaning. Rabbit cages can be stacked and three-dimensional feeding, making full use of space.

Rearing

Long-haired rabbits are mainly herbivorous, properly matched with concentrate. The rabbit's cecum is well developed, its length is about the same as that of the rabbit, and it has a strong ability to digest crude fiber, second only to cattle and sheep. Hair-producing rabbits need about 0.5 kg of green feed and 100 to 150 grams of compound feed every day. Long-haired rabbits like to eat a lot of green feed, such as alfalfa, vegetable leaves, all kinds of leaves, Astragalus adsurgens, peanut seedlings, sweet potato seedlings and all kinds of wild vegetables, which can be fed with sun-dried hay in winter.

The reference formula of formula feed is: soybean meal 15%, wheat bran 28%, barley 15%, corn 10%, rice bran 20%, fish meal 5%, cottonseed cake 5%, shell powder 1.5%, salt 0.5%. The diet contains 18% crude protein, 11% crude fiber and 12.5 megajoules per kilogram of digestible energy. Breast-feeding female rabbits are fed with 15-25 grams of soybeans a day. When there is a lack of green feed in winter, an appropriate amount of multivitamin additives can be added to the feed.

Long-haired rabbits should be fed regularly and rationally 3 or 4 times a day, especially at night to ensure adequate forage and drinking water. Green fodder should be washed and drained, and do not feed green fodder with soil, Rain Water or pesticide sprayed. Concentrate should be mixed and fed fresh to prevent overnight sour. Young rabbits can be fed at 16 days old, supplemented at 30 days old, and weaned at 40-45 days old. Young female rabbits should strengthen exercise, and male and female rabbits should be reared separately after 4 months of age.

Reproduction

The female rabbit is 6-7 months old and weighs 2.5-3.5 kg, while the male rabbit can be mated and reproduced at the age of 9 months and 3.5-4 kg. The ratio of male and female rabbits was 1 ∶ 8 to 10. Female long-haired rabbits often refuse to mate for the first time, and can be forced to mate, grasping the rabbit with the left hand, extending the right hand from the left crotch of the rabbit, separating the vulva with two fingers, and allowing the male rabbit to climb across the mating. After 8 hours, re-mate with the same method, and when mating, the female rabbit should be put into the cage of the male rabbit. The pregnancy period of the female rabbit is 30 to 31 days. After 25 days of pregnancy, the female rabbit begins to pluck the litter. At this time, the litter box should be put into the nest and the litter box should be filled with soft bedding grass. Give the mother rabbit some water after giving birth. In general, there are 5 to 6 cubs per birth, and most of them are 8 to 10, and it is appropriate for each female rabbit to breast-feed 6 to 7.

Pick wool

Long-haired rabbits can collect hair 3 months after birth. The state buys rabbit hair at different levels according to its length. In order to ensure the quality of rabbit hair, it is best to comb the rabbit hair with a comb every 10 days to prevent entanglement. There are two methods of hair extraction and shearing. Young rabbits generally shearing, adult rabbits plucking, winter and summer plucking, spring and autumn shearing. Pluck can be plucked once a month, plucked long and left short, when plucking a handful of light. Shearing is usually done at intervals of 70 to 90 days. First, cut the back, then cut the abdomen, and cut against the direction of the hair. Must be graded shearing or plucking, graded packaging, graded storage, in order to improve the sales level.