What are the common misconceptions about raising rabbits on a farm? These mistakes should be avoided

First, blind introduction of breeding stock. Without a detailed understanding of rabbit breeds, blindly introducing breeding stock results in poor-quality, impure or diseased breeding rabbits. This is the main reason many rabbit farmers suffer losses.

Second, keeping crossbred rabbits as breeding stock again. When two rabbit breeds are crossed, the first hybrid generation is large, strong, more disease-resistant and fast-growing, but it should not be kept for breeding again. This is because hybrid rabbits have very unstable genetic traits, and their offspring will show severe trait segregation, slow growth, weakened disease resistance and reduced feed conversion.

Third, continuous blood mating. Many rabbit farmers, in order to make rabbits produce more kits, carry out continuous blood mating without considering the body condition of the doe or the influence of the season, resulting in many kits born but few surviving. After one blood-mating litter, it is best to rest for half a month or a month before mating again, while ensuring balanced nutrition.

Fourth, relying mainly on concentrate feed with grass as a supplement. Rabbits are herbivorous animals and should not be fed too much concentrate feed. However, some rabbit farmers, in order to make rabbits grow quickly, increase the amount of concentrate feed too much. This not only increases feed costs, but also increases the intestinal burden on the rabbits, affects their normal nutrient metabolism, and causes frequent intestinal diseases.

Fifth, feeding a single feed. Some rabbit farmers, to save trouble and avoid hassle, always feed only one kind of feed. Rabbit farmers should prepare a reasonable complete-price feed according to the rabbit's breed, age in days, purpose, etc., to improve feed utilization and increase rabbit-farming returns.

Sixth, abusing additives. Some farmers raising rabbits do not use additives in a targeted way according to the rabbit flock, but believe that the more additives the better for the rabbits. This not only increases feed costs and causes waste, but also, due to antagonistic effects between different additives, not only fails to achieve the expected effect, but may even cause poisoning and losses.

Seventh, carrying out epidemic prevention, disinfection and medication at the same time. Many rabbit farmers are accustomed to disinfecting immediately after vaccination, believing this can thoroughly eliminate pathogens, or feeding large amounts of drugs to prevent stress, which ultimately affects the immune efficacy of the vaccine, leading to decreased immunity or vaccination failure.