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A Complete Guide to Safe Winter Care Tips for Pet Rabbits
Beijing's winter is cold and dry. If you have a cute pet rabbit at home, you need to take extra care of it. In this season, rabbits at home easily get sick from a small oversight. So taking more measures to help them get through the winter smoothly is imperative. China Financial Ceremony Pet rabbits are prone to diseases in winter ★Colds If you find that your rabbit's body temperature suddenly rises, or its eyes become dull as if tears are welling up, or it coughs, has a runny nose, or is panting, it could
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Rabbit Care: Which Plants Should You Not Feed Rabbits?
Rabbits are small in size and have weak resistance. When cutting grass to feed rabbits, some toxic grasses may be mixed in with the forage. If not noticed, rabbits that eat them accidentally can suffer poisoning or even death. Common toxic grasses include: plantain (Plantago), morning glory, barley and wheat smut fungus, Gelsemium elegans, meadow-rue (Thalictrum, also known as manyflower rhubarb), mountain pepper, poison hemlock, Sophora flavescens, Chinese pulsatilla, Ranunculus chinensis, jujube-like tuber, sorrel (Rumex, sour sorrel), Arisaema, Pinellia ternata, cocklebur, coptis, stone dragon yellow, big tobacco root, oleander, lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana), garden balsam, datura,
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How to carry out year-round disease prevention on a rabbit farm? These key points must be kept in mind
Rabbits have the characteristics of low investment and quick returns, making them very suitable for promotion among farmers in general, but how to do a good job of disease prevention is the key to whether rabbit farming can succeed. Below we introduce the fifteen key points for year-round disease prevention summarized in our practical work. 1. Newly introduced rabbits should be raised in isolation and observed for 35-40 days, and only mixed into the group when disease-free. 2. Set up a disinfection pool at the entrance of the rabbit house, place sawdust moistened with 2% naoh inside, cover it with palm fiber or old burlap, and disinfect when entering and leaving. 3. When entering the rabbit house, change shoes and wear work clothes; before mixing feed,
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Is it really necessary to clean rabbit droppings once every day?
Teacher Xu Shangjin, a skilled rabbit raiser in Heilongjiang, said that he found that rabbit droppings have a thin film on the outside. About ten minutes after the droppings fall onto the dropping board, this thin film dries, and if it is not broken, the droppings do not smell or give off odor! If the system of cleaning droppings once every day is insisted on, it will inevitably cause the droppings to break and give off a foul smell and odor. In addition, it also shows that cleaning droppings in the rabbit house every day will inevitably affect the rest of the rabbit herd. If the rabbits do not rest well, they will not grow well. Therefore, cleaning droppings every day is not recommended, and at the same time, washing the rabbit house with water every day is strictly prohibited. Practice has proved that some large
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Ten Proven Recipes for Fattening Thin Rabbits in Autumn and Winter
After making it through the hot summer, most domestic rabbits are weak and thin, so as soon as autumn begins you must hurry to increase their feed and build them up, in order to improve their strength and productivity. The following methods can be used to fatten thin rabbits in autumn and winter. 1. For rabbits with coarse, messy fur and poor spirits, take an appropriate amount of tea leaves, plus 15 grams each of Clubmoss (Huperzia) and honeysuckle, decoct into a liquid and administer orally, twice a day, 10-15 ml per rabbit each time, for 3-5 consecutive days, with marked effect. 2. Dissolve 5-7 grams of white sugar per rabbit per day in warm water and let the rabbit drink it freely. Generally after 15-20 days
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Rabbits Are Prone to Heatstroke in the Hot Summer, Rabbit Farmers Must Not Forget Prevention
Heatstroke is a common disease of domestic rabbits in summer, and simply because rabbit farmers often take it lightly, cases of rabbits dying from heatstroke are frequently seen. Therefore, as the hot summer arrives, rabbit farmers are especially reminded never to forget to guard against heatstroke in rabbits. Precautions: set up simple shade shelters around the rabbit hutch or spread shade netting. Open all doors and windows of the hutch to let the air circulate; splash well water on the walls and floor inside the hutch to cool it down; provide the rabbits with plenty of clean drinking water, and feed more fresh green forage and an appropriate amount of watermelon rind, cucumber peel, etc., to help the rabbits quench their thirst and prevent heatstroke.
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How rabbit keepers can spot a suspiciously sick rabbit as early as possible
Rex rabbits have delicate bodies and are sensitive to external conditions, with the characteristics of sudden onset, rapid death, and quick recovery with timely treatment. Because Rex rabbits mostly fall ill at night, observing cage by cage and nest by nest when feeding the rabbits in the morning makes it easiest to identify suspiciously sick rabbits, and specifically you can start with checking, looking, touching, and measuring. 1. Check: A healthy rabbit's ears are pink, and its eyes are bright. If the ears are red or light purple, it means the rabbit is overheated, and this can be relieved by placing it in a ventilated cage with little movement; if the ears are white and feel cool to the touch, it means the rabbit has drunk
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Six things you must do when raising rabbits in autumn
1. Adjust the daily ration. According to the different ages of rabbits, prepare it according to feeding standards, appropriately increase the protein level, reduce energy feed, and require the feed to be nutritious, palatable and easy to digest. Ensure that rabbits have sufficient green feed every day, such as green grass, green vegetables, etc. 2. Build up autumn fat. With abundant feed and complete nutrition, build up good autumn fat to survive the winter safely. Therefore, prepare complete and abundant feed and supply high-quality green feed; feed at fixed times and in fixed amounts, following the principle of feeding breakfast early, feeding dinner late, feeding more green feed at lunch, and feeding at night. Young rabbits should be fed 5-6 times a day
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What methods give good disinfection results on rabbit farms?
Strengthen preventive disinfection. Rabbit farms should establish a scientific disinfection plan, carrying out scientific disinfection at set times and on a regular schedule; through regular disinfection, the environment is purified and pathogens are killed. For vehicles, personnel, articles and tools that frequently enter and leave, different disinfectants and disinfection methods should be selected according to the different objects, so that prevention comes first and treatment comes after. Choose suitable disinfectants. Under the guidance of professional technicians, rabbit farms should, according to the different objects, requirements and environmental conditions on the farm, purchase qualified disinfectants from legally operating units; when choosing, check
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How to prevent and treat rabbit salmonellosis? These methods you need to know
Caused by Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella enteritidis, it mainly affects pregnant female rabbits, characterized by septicemia, acute death, diarrhea and abortion, and mainly affects female rabbits more than 25 days pregnant. Symptoms: the incubation period is 1 to 3 days; acute cases die suddenly without showing any symptoms; most sick rabbits have diarrhea, elevated body temperature, listlessness, complete loss of appetite, increased thirst, and emaciation; female rabbits discharge viscous, purulent secretions from the vagina. Lesions: the liver shows diffuse or scattered yellow pinpoint-sized
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