How to raise rabbits in summer

With high temperature and humidity in summer, it is easy to cause many adverse effects on the production. Such as heat stress, decreased feed intake, slow weight gain, reproductive disorders and so on. In order to minimize the adverse impact, the following measures are recommended:

1. Pay close attention to preventing heat and cooling. Planting trees, forage grass or some vines in front of the rabbit house can not only shade the sun and cool down, but also green the environment. If you miss the planting season, you can build a 3-to 4-meter-high Arbor. When the temperature in the rabbit cage reaches 30 ℃, the ground water can also be used to reduce the temperature, but when the house is wet, it is necessary to strengthen ventilation and keep it dry as far as possible. High temperature and humidity do more harm to the rabbit body.

two。 Prevent mosquito and fly bites. Nail screen windows, hanging screen nets, timely spraying drugs, rabbit houses can be sprayed "mosquitoes and flies net", "insects do not bite" and so on, the external environment, especially the corner of the wall, roadways, open-air dung, sewers and other places can be sprayed with dichlorvos, but to stay away from the rabbit house, the dosage should not be too large to prevent rabbit poisoning. Faeces should be washed into the septic tank or transported outside the site for accumulation. Septic tanks should be covered to prevent air pollution caused by harmful gases; dung piles should be timely sealed with soil for fermentation to prevent Rain Water from scouring and polluting water sources; at the same time, it can also ensure that pathogenic microorganisms and parasitic eggs can be killed as soon as possible to prevent the spread of infectious and parasitic diseases.

3. Prevent poisoning. Take good care of the feed, mildew occurs, resolutely eliminate; compound feed should be used now; when loose breeders go to the field to collect green feed, they should stay away from cotton fields, tobacco fields, orchards and other places where pesticides are easy to be sprayed; corn seedlings and sorghum seedlings should not be fed to rabbits to prevent hydrocyanic acid poisoning.

4. Reasonable collocation of feed. The wet powder should be mixed and fed fresh to avoid corruption and deterioration. Do not feed feed with mud, heat and mildew that has been accumulated for too long. Grass cut after rain and grass with dew should be dried and fed. In overcast and rainy weather, green fodder with high moisture content should be fed less and some dry roughage can be fed more. To prevent diarrhea, add some garlic, green onions and a little charcoal powder to the feed.

5. Master the principles of feeding. Feed once in the morning, in the evening, and adhere to the principle of early feeding, less concentrate feeding and more grass at noon, and evening feeding plus night grass. For young rabbits and young rabbits, we should adhere to the principles of regular and quantitative feeding, less frequent feeding and feed diversification, especially for young rabbits who have just been weaned, if the feeding amount is not controlled, diarrhoeal disease will occur. First feed the fodder that is poor in palatability and do not like to eat, and then feed the forage that is palatable and like to eat.

6. Provide plenty of drinking water. Always check whether the drinking water is clean, flush the moss in the pipe in time, and ensure the water supply. In particular, the vigorous growth of young rabbits, late pregnancy lactation of female rabbits, but also to meet the water supply. Drinking water should be clean and hygienic. 1% salt water or 0.01% potassium permanganate water can be supplied to prevent heatstroke and digestive tract diseases.

7. Management reduces stress. In terms of management, it is necessary to keep one rabbit in cage, and the number of young rabbits in lactation and newly weaned rabbits can be controlled according to the situation. In the distribution of the cage, the three-layer caged male rabbit is in the bottom layer, the female rabbit is in the middle layer, and the young rabbit or young rabbit is in the upper layer; the two-layer caged lactating female rabbit is in the lower layer, and the baby rabbit is in the upper layer. Young rabbits and concentrated areas are caged in three layers. Make use of the environment as much as possible to keep it in captivity. It is necessary to reduce the density in order to reduce the heat dissipation of rabbits to the environment per unit area, which is 1/3 less than that in winter.

8. Pay attention to hygiene and disinfection. Clean the trough and sink every day, clean the faeces, and often disinfect and sterilize with ash.

9. Prevention and treatment of frequent diseases. To prevent coccidiosis, coccidiosis powder can be added to 0.4g / kg feed, or 0.2g / kg of drinking water for 3 days, and 0.125 g / kg feed for 3 days. Double the amount of treatment. Colibacillosis is prevented by vaccine and treated with streptomycin 20 mg / kg body weight, intramuscular injection twice a day for 3 consecutive days, or 2% enrofloxacin injection 2.5 mg / kg body weight for 3 consecutive days. Often feed mildew, rough or lack of vitamin B2 feed can cause infectious stomatitis, treatment with purple medicine smear oral ulcer, once a day for 3 days; penicillin diluent, containing 20-40 thousand international units per milliliter, rinse the mouth twice a day for 3 days; take Banlangen granule internally for 3 days. Heatstroke rabbits can be taken with 3-5 tablets of Ren Dan or 10 drops of water, or ten drops of water can be added to drinking water to prevent heatstroke. Rabbits with organophosphorus poisoning can be injected intramuscularly with atropine sulfate 0.25 × 0.5 g and dephosphoridine 2ml. If organic fluorosis, Jiefuling can be used to treat.