What are the main benefits of using alfalfa hay to raise rabbits?

I. What are the benefits of using alfalfa hay to raise rabbits

  Everyone in the industry knows that Zhejiang's rabbit fur has formed its own system within China, and fur traders all say with one voice that it is good. So then, Zhejiang has a humid climate and a shortage of forage grass, so why does its rabbit fur dare to be called first-rate in China? The reason is that the people of Zhejiang are willing to spend money: in their pelleted feed they do not use corn stalks, soybean stalks and peanut hulls as grass meal, but instead buy alfalfa at a high price to make grass meal and feed.

During several months of on-and-off investigation this year, I once visited Gansu, Inner Mongolia and ** and quite a few counties and cities, and clearly found that the rabbits there were plump and strong, with a very low disease rate, an extremely high survival rate and extremely fast growth. One part of the experience there is that these rabbit farms all use alfalfa hay as grass meal to make pelleted feed. However, compared with Zhejiang rabbit fur, the rabbit fur quality in these places still cannot rank first at present. Why? Although raising rabbits with alfalfa hay gives nine parts certainty, the one part still lacking is that the breeding rabbits here are not very good; as long as the breeding bucks are changed, I think everyone will then have ten parts certainty.
 
II. Raising rabbits with alfalfa hay gives high returns: skillfully raise rabbits with 1 mu of alfalfa and earn 10,000 per year

The author saw at Juxin Rex Rabbit Breeding Co., Ltd. in Duanjiaji Township, Heshui County that in front of rows upon rows of neat Rex rabbit pens, management staff were busy at work. According to the person in charge of the company, developing the Rex rabbit breeding industry is a short, flat and fast project with small investment and quick results, yielding returns in the same year as the investment; 1 mu of alfalfa can raise 25 female rabbits, and 25 female rabbits can breed 650 young rabbits in one year, and selling the young rabbits can earn more than 13,000 yuan, which is to say that raising rabbits with 1 mu of alfalfa can net 10,000 yuan in one year.

In recent years, Heshui County has closely focused on the theme of increasing farmers' income, sought new breakthroughs in developing specialty animal husbandry, made specialty animal husbandry a main channel for increasing farmers' income, and promoted the county's animal husbandry industry to expand in scale and raise its level. At present, the county's total output value of animal husbandry has reached more than 88.99 million yuan, the per capita net income from animal husbandry is more than 600 yuan, and the county's animal husbandry characteristics are becoming increasingly prominent. In order to strengthen the staying power of animal husbandry development, the county, based on serving the city and enriching farmers, has skillfully done its work in the development of specialty animal husbandry, continuously explored and innovated, and implemented four major mechanisms for the development of the animal husbandry industry: the dairy cow foster-care type, the association-driven type, the leading enterprise-driven type and the breeding poultry-driven type, basically forming in the county the breeding and sales industrial chains of five major industries: live pigs, laying hens, Rex rabbits, dairy cows and beef cattle, driving farmers to increase income and become wealthy.