First, nutritional requirements. To improve the economic benefit of rabbit breeding, we must pay attention to increasing nutrition. If you want to increase nutrition, you need to pay attention to several aspects:
1. requires diversification of feed. Feeding rabbits with various feed combinations not only improves the palatability of feed, but also improves the digestion and absorption rate. Different nutrients contained in various feeds complement each other and have high nutritional utilization rate. If a single feed is fed for a long time, it will not only fail to meet its nutritional needs, but also cause nutritional deficiency of breeding rabbits and affect their growth and development.
2. The weather is hot in summer, and the intake during the day is very small, mainly by feeding at night. In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, so "night feeding" must be carried out. "Night feeding" means feeding once before going to bed at night. Feed (mixed concentrate, wet mixed powder or granular feed) is put in the feed trough, beverage is put in the water dispenser, and forage is put on the grass rack (mixed green feed is put in summer and autumn green feed season, and mixed coarse feed is put in winter) for rabbits to eat at night.
3. Feed and drinking water should be kept fresh and hygienic, and special attention should be paid to the freshness, cleanliness and hygiene of feed and drink all year round. It is forbidden to use moldy, rotten, deteriorated and toxic feeds and drinks.
4. The combination of timing, quantification and flexibility is to fix the feeding times and time every day, so that the breeding rabbits can develop the habit of regular feeding and regular excretion and give their gastrointestinal tract a rest time.
Second, the disease prevention of breeding rabbits:
Some diseases of rabbits are difficult to treat thoroughly. In order to save the breeding cost, it is necessary to prevent and improve the local strains of rabbits:
The offspring of American rabbits introduced in early years were selected, crossed with the offspring of French and German rabbits newly introduced in recent years, and then hybridized and fixed, so as to cultivate an excellent new rabbit strain in this area, namely China rabbit. It has the characteristics of large size (4.5 kg), high reproductive rate (more than 30 litters per year), young rabbit survival rate of about 90%, fast growth (650 g gain per month), good fur (80% of top grade skin) and strong disease resistance (the incidence rate is less than 3%).
A breeding rabbit is a breeding animal that can be eaten and decorated. Rabbit meat is superior to chicken, cattle and sheep in quality. Because of its tender meat, high protein, low cholesterol and strong reproductive ability, it is internationally known as "beauty and longevity" meat. Rabbit skin is the best industrial leather with high value; Breeding rabbits are widely distributed, almost all over the world, but the amount of breeding is very small; The requirements for breeding rabbits are not very high. In general, rabbits are raised in rural families, mainly with coarse fodder, supplemented by concentrated feed, and attention is paid to cleaning, heatstroke prevention and cold prevention.
Rabbit varieties are: Rex rabbit, Belgian rabbit, New Zealand rabbit, Flower Giant rabbit, California rabbit and so on.
Breeding rabbits are well-proportioned, with beards under their gills, long and upright ears, thin and curly eyebrows, fine and rich fluff, short and flat, bright and dazzling appearance, and a cool silky feeling when touching the coat. Up to now, there are more than 90 colors, among which four colors, such as beaver color, white (including extra white), red, blue and cyan, have been confirmed in American breeding.
Breeding rabbits are of medium size. After continuous feeding in recent years, adult rabbits weigh more than 4.0-5.0 kg, have a body length of 56-68 cm and a chest circumference of about 40 cm. They can breed 4-5 each year, and each one gives birth to 6-8.