Feeding and Management techniques of Rex Rabbit in Winter

Rex rabbit is a kind of rabbit species specially used for leather. Rex rabbit has strong growth ability, fast growth speed, short growth cycle, simple breeding and low breeding cost. With the entry into winter, Rex rabbit breeding management has also reached a very important point in time. Improper management will affect the growth of Rex rabbit and reduce the breeding benefit. So Xiaobian below brings you the breeding management technology of winter Rex rabbit, let's take a look together!

1, cold and warm

Winter temperature is relatively low, so Rex rabbit's primary management work is to do a good job of cold and warm work. In winter, the temperature of the rabbit house should be controlled at about 20 degrees. If the temperature is too low or too high, it will have a certain impact on the physiological function of Rex rabbit. Try to control the temperature in the range of 12-28 degrees. Appropriate increase of breeding density, increase of Rex rabbit temperature and decrease of ventilation frequency can effectively increase rabbit house temperature. Can also cover plastic film on the rabbit house, improve the utilization rate of sunlight, conditional can be added in the rabbit house warming equipment, such as stoves, electric blankets and so on.

2. Supplementary light

Adequate and appropriate intensity of light is the key to ensure the healthy growth of Rex rabbit, Rex rabbit light time should be maintained at about 14 hours a day, its growth capacity and production performance will be improved. However, the natural illumination time is less than 10 hours in winter, which is not conducive to the growth of Rex rabbits and the secretion of reproductive hormones of female rabbits. Therefore, in order to improve the production performance of Rex rabbits, we should artificially supplement the light in winter, and extend the light time to a suitable degree. Artificial supplementary lighting is needed at 6 a.m. and around 6 p.m. every day to lengthen the lighting time.

3. Feeding management

Rex rabbit is a herbivorous animal, in artificial breeding if feeding grass every day is completely unable to meet the nutritional needs of Rex rabbit. Therefore, in the daily feeding in winter, the treatment needs to feed fresh feed, but also appropriately increase the complete feed, complete feed storage capacity is strong, comprehensive nutrition, very suitable for Rex rabbit consumption. And winter Rex rabbit heat consumption, energy production is far more than other seasons. So in winter to increase the amount of feeding, pay attention to improve the proportion of vitamins in the feed. When feeding powder, pay attention to mixing warm water, mainly feed a small amount, feed residue in the trough should not be allowed to prevent feed freezing, Rex rabbit eating by mistake.

4. Reproductive management

Winter temperature is low, the activity of pathogens decreases, especially some infectious bacteria, so the disease of Rex rabbit also decreases, and the survival rate of young rabbits will increase greatly. So we just need to keep the temperature fluctuations small enough for out-of-season winter reproduction. Although the breeding rabbits in winter oestrus symptoms are not obvious, but also normal ovulation, so we should be at a higher temperature at noon for breeding work. Repeat or multiple breeding methods can be used to improve the fertilization rate, about 10 days after breeding to touch the fetus in time, found that there are empty pregnant female rabbits to immediately complement the work.

The above is a brief introduction to the breeding and management technology of Rex rabbits in winter. Although the incidence of Rex rabbits in winter is low, it is still necessary to do a good job in disease prevention. Clean the rabbit cage in time, disinfect the rabbit house, clean the living utensils, etc. At least two kinds of disinfectants shall be used for disinfection alternately to prevent the bacteria from producing resistance. Today's introduction is here, this article is for reference only, thank you for reading and support.