Feeding and management of farmed rabbits

If you haven't seen the rabbit, you must have heard of it. Breeding rabbits can be divided into many directions, such as pets and meat rabbits. Now there are not a small number of people who raise meat rabbits, the rabbits are very cute, but also very fragile, many people do not manage well when raising meat rabbits, resulting in a great reduction in the survival rate of rabbits. So the key is to do well the feeding and management of rabbit breeding, so how to manage it? Let's take a look at it with the editor.

1. Keep quiet

The rabbit is relatively timid, the breeding process must keep quiet around the farm, the sudden sound may frighten the rabbit. It leads to the loss of appetite, hinders the growth and development of rabbits, and is more disadvantageous to the pregnant female rabbits. Pregnant rabbits may suffer from abortion and premature delivery after being frightened, or female rabbits may refuse to breastfeed during the feeding period. It seriously affected the nutrition absorption of young rabbits and greatly affected the growth of young rabbits.

2. Heat dissipation and cooling

The hair on the rabbit is very thick and warm, can adapt to the low temperature environment very well, the temperature range that adult rabbits can bear can be as low as zero degrees or even lower. As long as it is not less than five degrees, the female rabbit can reproduce normally. But it is precisely because of this that rabbits are very afraid of heat. If the heat is not dissipated in time in a high temperature environment, it will easily lead to heatstroke in rabbits, and rabbits cannot sweat and dissipate heat through sweat glands, so we should do a good job in cooling rabbits in time.

3. Eat at night

The life style of rabbits is slightly different from that of human beings. Although they need to eat during the day, rabbits usually do not move after eating, but sleep or rest directly in the cage. But after night, the rabbit begins to be very active, and the food intake becomes very large compared with the daytime, and the food intake at night accounts for 3% of the daily food intake, so we have to insist on feeding more at night.

4. Life habits

Rabbits have the nature of burrowing, whether in captivity or in the wild. Especially when raised in a free-range way, rabbits usually drill holes to give birth before they begin to breed. So we should take this into account when building the rabbit house, try to build the rabbit house on the hillside or hilly place, the soil should not be too dry and hard, so that the rabbit can not make holes.

5. Raise separately

Separate breeding is very important in the breeding process, because rabbits will have a certain sense of territory in adulthood, and if raised together, there will often be same-sex chase fights, especially between male rabbits. So try to put a male rabbit and a female rabbit in the cage, which can not only avoid fights between the same sex, but also improve the reproduction rate between rabbits.

The above is the breeding and management methods of breeding rabbits, it should be noted that same-sex rabbits must not be raised together, although the occurrence of male rabbits is more serious, but female rabbits will also occur. Therefore, in order to avoid this kind of behavior, separate breeding should be carried out. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. I hope it will be helpful to you.