Detailed Explanation of the New Technology for Mixed Rearing of Ground Beetles and Rabbits

    Rabbit manure is excellent feed for ground beetles. A mixed rearing trial of rabbits and ground beetles at the foreign trade base in Xinzhaizhen, Linqu County, Shandong Province, was successful.

    The specific method is: 1. Build ground beetle tanks; leave a corridor in an idle room or plastic greenhouse, and build ground beetle tanks with bricks. The ground beetle tank should be about one meter wide and 25 cm high, with the length depending on the length of the room. Put 8 cm to 10 cm of culture soil in the tank. 2. Modify the rabbit cages; fit the rabbit cages with four legs, raising them more than 30 cm above the ground beetle tanks. Then place the rabbit cages in the ground beetle tanks so that rabbit manure and dropped rabbit feed fall into the ground beetle tanks and the ground beetles feed on them by themselves. 3. Stocking; it is suitable to place four rabbits per square meter of rabbit cage, and the best rabbit breeds to choose are Large Yellow Rabbit, Belgian Rabbit, and New Zealand Rabbit. It is best to place 250 g of ground beetle eggs or 1500 g of ground beetle mother stock per square meter.

    In this way, by feeding only rabbits and not feeding the ground beetles, each square meter can produce 96 jin of meat rabbits per year, worth 432 yuan, and produce 10 kg of dried ground beetles, worth 140 yuan, creating a total output value of 572 yuan. This is a new method that achieves two goals at once, so you might as well give it a try.