What are the precautions for rabbit farming?
In China, rabbits are common livestock and pets, and they also often appear on our dining tables. Rabbit meat is tender, delicious and nutritious, and is deeply loved by consumers. With the improvement of living standards, many people like to keep small pets, and rabbits, with their cute appearance, have become the ideal choice as pets, so the market prospects for rabbits are excellent, attracting many people to farm them. So what do we need to pay attention to when farming them? Let's take a look together below with Qinnong.com.
1. Selection of breeding rabbits
To develop rabbit farming well, selecting good breeds at the start of farming is the key point. No matter which breed of rabbit is being farmed, good breeds need to be introduced regularly. This can avoid population degeneration. A female rabbit can reproduce 30-40 offspring a year. For better breeding, generally every 3 to 4 years the old breeding rabbits should be culled in time, and new good breeds should be selected as breeding rabbits. Also, it is best not to use hybrid rabbits as breeding rabbits. Although hybrid rabbits are strong, have strong disease resistance and grow quickly, they are not suitable for use as breeding rabbits. Their heredity is unstable, and severe trait segregation may occur.
2. Rearing environment
The environment is an external factor affecting the growth, reproduction and production of rabbits. If the rearing environment temperature is too high or too low, it will affect the growth and development of rabbits. The suitable growth temperature for rabbits is between 15-30 degrees. Among them, newborn rabbits are relatively weak and are best placed in an environment of 30-32 degrees for rearing. When they grow to one month old, they can adapt to temperatures between 20-30 degrees, while adult rabbits and growing rabbits can adapt to an environment of 15-25 degrees. The rearing environment must be kept clean and hygienic, with strong ventilation. In addition, light is also extremely important for the growth and reproduction of rabbits. Sufficient light is beneficial to the estrus and delivery of female rabbits, and is beneficial to the quality and quantity of sperm in male rabbits. Generally, a light duration of 12-15 hours per day needs to be maintained. Rabbits are timid animals. During the rearing process, even a small noise will frighten them, easily causing miscarriage in female rabbits, and male rabbits are prone to collision injuries. Therefore, during rearing, they should be kept away from busy urban areas, roads and factories.
3. Feeding
Many farmers, in order to make rabbits grow quickly, shorten the growth cycle, and put rabbits on the market faster, often choose concentrated feed when feeding, and also add large amounts of additives to the feed. This places a major burden on the rabbits' stomach and intestines and affects their metabolism. Feeding should mainly be based on feed, supplemented with grass. Never feed only one kind of feed all the way through. To save time and effort, some farmers feed only one kind of feed from beginning to end. In this way, rabbits grow more slowly, and feeding should be balanced and matched. In addition, when feeding grass, note that feed and forage that are watery, spoiled, polluted with off-odors, contaminated with pesticides, washed and frozen cannot be fed.
The above is an introduction to the precautions for rabbit farming brought to you by Qinnong.com. There are still many precautions for raising rabbits. For example, female rabbits that have just given birth should not be raised together with male rabbits, as this will cause the female rabbits to give birth too frequently, making them highly prone to illness and death.