Causes of death of young rabbits and countermeasures

Rabbit breeding is a kind of breeding industry with high economic benefit, but the phenomenon of infant rabbit death often occurs in the process of rabbit breeding, especially the infant rabbit of 20 days old, once mismanaged, it is easy to die. What are the causes of rabbit death? How should he respond? Let's take a look at the detailed introduction.

1, improper insulation cold

In winter when the temperature is low, it is easy to cause rabbit frostbite, and just born young rabbit constitution is weak, basically no body temperature regulation ability, so once frozen easy to die. For example, when the female soil gives birth, the baby rabbit is born outside the nest, and there is no heat preservation measures, generally two hours later, the baby rabbit will freeze to death.

Countermeasures: Strengthen the management of rabbit house. In winter and spring low temperature season, cold insulation measures should be taken. The female rabbit should check every 1-2 hours when giving birth, so as not to expose the baby rabbit outside.

2. Stress reaction

Like many animals, rabbits have less courage and are more sensitive to odors. Many female rabbits have other animals entering the nest after giving birth, or the female rabbit's maternal strength is not strong, which leads to abnormal reactions in the female rabbit, thus killing and eating the young rabbit. Some female rabbits mate immediately after giving birth, and refuse to breastfeed their young rabbits after re-pregnancy, and even bite them to death.

Countermeasures: Pay attention to the harm of cats and mice when the female rabbits give birth. They are strictly prohibited from entering the rabbit house. For the female rabbits with weak motherhood, foster care or artificial lactation can be adopted to feed the young rabbits. It is not advisable to breed the female rabbits immediately after giving birth, but to breed the next one when the young rabbits can feed freely.

3. Starvation and death

The lactation of female rabbits is not strong, the milk volume is small, and the number of young rabbits is large, there will be the phenomenon that young rabbits are not full, and some weak young rabbits will starve to death in the case of long-term lack of food. If the female rabbit itself suffers from the disease, the bacteria are transmitted to the young rabbit through lactation, but the resistance of the young rabbit is weak, and it is easy to die after the disease.

Countermeasures: After the female rabbit gives birth, it is necessary to improve the feed and nutrition level, feed more grass and protein feed, ensure adequate nutrition, and secrete more milk to make the young rabbit full. At the same time, daily observation should be done well. If weak branches cannot eat milk, artificial lactation method can be adopted. The environmental sanitation of rabbit house should be done well, cleaned and disinfected regularly, and diseases found should be prevented and treated in time.

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