How to produce high quality rabbit wool

Rabbit hair can be divided into three types: fine hair, coarse hair and two-type hair. Fine hair, also known as rabbit cashmere, has an average fineness of 12 to 14 microns, the shortest of the three types. There is a marked irregular bend. Because fine wool has good physical and chemical properties, it has high textile value in wool spinning industry.

Generally speaking, its price is also higher than the other two types. For this reason, mastering the production technology of rabbit cashmere and producing more fine hair is an effective means to improve the production efficiency of wool rabbits.

1. Understand the quality requirements of rabbit wool. Rabbit velvet should be pure white, all loose hair, no impurities, no knots. The rabbit velvet with an average fineness of more than 14 microns or less than 12 microns was degraded. The longer the rabbit hair, the better, the first grade rabbit hair is 3.35 cm on average. The content of coarse hair in rabbit cashmere should be controlled within 1%.

2. Nutrition level. Rabbit hair contains five main elements: carbon 50%, hydrogen 60.8%, oxygen 20%, nitrogen 1719%, sulfur 33.5%. Other elements that are directly related to the formation of rabbit hair are copper, magnesium and so on.

3. Management principles. In addition to the general daily management, amino acids should be added properly to make the feed diversified and reasonable. Often clean up feces and raise them in separate cages. Regular removal of digestive tract and body surface parasites.

4. Rabbit cashmere production. Because the growth rate of coarse hair is faster than that of villi (fine hairs), it generally protrudes on the surface of villi. In wool production, the coarse hair should be carefully pulled out by hand, and then the remaining rabbit wool should be collected by shearing method. The order of shearing is from the back of the neck to the back of the torso, then the sides of the body, the head, buttocks, legs and finally the abdomen. When the male rabbit is young, the quality of rabbit wool is the best, and it can be produced every 80 days or so.

5. Repeat production of rabbit cashmere. Half a month before the production of rabbit velvet, pull out the coarse hair first, wait for the root of the coarse hair to grow to the same level as the scissors, and then cut the wool. In this way, the difficulty of repeated shearing of coarse hair is solved because the coarse hair is higher than the wool and the coarse hair is not clean.