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There's a right way to feed rabbits: keep these three dos and three don'ts in mind
Feed a complete mixed ration. The nutrient composition of a rabbit's daily ration is: 10% crude protein and 10% crude fiber, 5% fat, 2800 kcal of digestible energy per kilogram of ration, and 10% amino acids. If there is no way to feed a complete mixed feed, appropriately add concentrated feeds such as soybeans, soybean cake, wheat bran and corn, along with succulent feeds such as carrots. Feed heavily at night. Rabbits have a strong tendency to eat at night, and nighttime intake can account for more than 75% of their total daily intake. Therefore, provide rabbits with enough feed and drinking water at night. Change feed gradually. When one kind of feed has been fed for a long time, the rabbit has
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Diagnosis and Treatment Methods for Cold Medicine Poisoning in Rabbits
In October 2005, 120 young rabbits raised by Liu in Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province, developed symptoms similar to the common cold, including runny noses and sneezing, in most of them due to the influence of a cold wave. The rabbit owner ground up "Ganmaotong" (a human medication produced by Zhengzhou Kangli Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) at a dose of 1 tablet per 2 young rabbits and mixed it into the feed. The rabbits were fed at 9 AM, and by 10 PM, 55% of the young rabbits showed abnormalities; by the next morning, 7 had died. The owner then came to my clinic for diagnosis and treatment, during which 8 more died successively. After a systematic examination, the diagnosis was "Ganmaotong" poisoning. Because
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Young rabbits have weak constitutions and poor disease resistance, and are prone to death: an analysis of key points in feeding and management
Young rabbits have weak constitutions and poor disease resistance and are prone to death: key points in the feeding and management of young rabbits
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How to detect suspicious sick rabbits early? A must-read for rabbit keepers
Examine the ear color of a healthy rabbit: pink, with bright eyes. If the ears are red or light purple, it means the rabbit is overheated; placing it in a ventilated hutch to rest a while will relieve it. If the ears are pale and feel cool to the touch, it means the rabbit has drunk too much cold water or has caught a chill; on auscultation there will be a sloshing sound in the abdominal cavity, and placing the sick rabbit on a heated kang to warm its belly will suffice. If a young rabbit's ear tips bend forward or droop slightly, it means its body temperature is high; let it move about freely for a while to help bring the temperature down. If a rabbit's eyeballs look dull, it indicates the air in the hutch is foul, and ventilation should be carried out promptly. A rabbit running clear watery nasal discharge is a precursor of common cold,
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How to Identify a Sick Rabbit? Learn the Nine Observations to Easily Judge Rabbit Illness
Discovering sick rabbits and diagnosing rabbit diseases is the foundation for controlling the spread of disease. Whether a rabbit is healthy should be observed from the following aspects: Appearance: A healthy rabbit is full of energy, has smooth fur, moves nimbly, holds a proper posture, and grows quickly. Sick rabbits, however, are mostly listless or extremely excitable (such as with rabbit plague), have rough, messy fur (such as with chronic wasting diseases, nutritional deficiency disorders, etc.), move slowly, and have abnormal postures. For example, when suffering from pododermatitis and foot ringworm, the hind limbs dare not touch the ground; with "splay legs" and "O-shaped legs," they cannot stand normally; with pneumonia, breathing is difficult; with wry neck, the head and eyes are tilted and the rabbit rolls over.
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How to prevent and treat ear mange in rabbits? Practical advice is here
Rabbits in breeders' homes showed symptoms such as restlessness and scratching their ears. After follow-up investigation, they were diagnosed with ear mange. Some prevention and treatment suggestions for this disease are now proposed for reference. Affected rabbits mainly show unbearable pain and itching in the ear area, often constantly scratching with their forelimbs and shaking their heads, while also showing symptoms such as lethargy, restlessness, reduced appetite or refusal to eat, and weight loss. Physical signs include redness and swelling of the ear skin, scaling and hair loss, with the affected area gradually expanding, inflammation of the external ear canal, discharge, scabbing, and thickening of the skin. Because the rabbit keeps scratching, it often causes skin infection, making the injury worse and leading to
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What is the best time to collect rabbit skins?
① Collect skins by age in months. At around 6 months of age, the second molt has ended and the fur enters its growth and maturation stage; the hair roots are firmly seated and not easily shed. At the same time, the skin board has basically matured, with good flexibility, toughness and elasticity, and the skin board area has also reached the grading standard. Therefore, collecting skins at 6 to 8 months of age is best, and can improve the grade and economic value of the rabbit skin. ② Collect skins by season. Collecting skins from the end of December to before the end of March of the following year is the best season for obtaining high-grade rabbit skins.
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Detailed Explanation of Prevention and Treatment Methods for Common Diseases in Large-Scale Rabbit Farms
A large-scale rabbit farm mainly follows the immunization program, injecting vaccinations against three diseases: rabbit hemorrhagic disease, pasteurellosis, and clostridial disease. Secondly, prepare complete nutritional pelleted feed according to the nutritional needs of rabbits; feeding moldy feed is prohibited. As long as the feed is stabilized on a rabbit farm, the rabbit herd will stabilize. Rabbit diseases are fewer compared to chicken and pig diseases. However, rabbits are delicate animals with poor resistance; if a rabbit falls ill, it is very difficult to cure. For example, if a pig has diarrhea for 2 to 3 days it will not die, but if a rabbit has diarrhea for 2 to 3 hours it will die. Therefore, it is particularly important for rabbit farms to carry out epidemic prevention and hygiene, and to do a good job in feeding and management.
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How to manage a rabbit farm? Keep these 4 key points in mind
1. Vigorously tackle disease prevention and control: In addition to controlling infectious diseases through preventive injections, coccidiosis in particular, which occurs mostly in spring, has a very high mortality rate and poses a great threat to rabbit farms. We should persist in combining prevention and treatment, with prevention as the priority. Veterinary drugs such as Qiu Ke can be mixed into the feed, and the whole farm can be sprayed once every 10 days with Baidusha, which can control the occurrence of coccidiosis. 2. Do a good job in rabbit breeding: Does have a short reproductive cycle and a high kindling rate, and breeding is highly technical and meticulous work. Timely mating and regular breeding should be carried out to improve the survival rate of young rabbits. 3. Seed
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What are the key points and methods for feeding rabbits concentrated feed?
Concentrated feed includes energy-based grain feed ingredients such as corn, barley, wheat, sorghum, wheat bran, and fine rice bran, as well as feed ingredients with high protein content such as soybean meal, rapeseed cake, fish meal, silkworm pupae, and blood meal. Their common characteristics are low crude fiber content, low moisture content, and high nutritional value. To increase the weight gain rate of meat rabbits, make wool rabbits produce more wool, and make Rex rabbits produce more high-grade fur, concentrated feed is indispensable. The principle of using concentrated feed is to follow the nutritional needs of different types of rabbits, according to different regions and different
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