In article the new technology of feeding, leaving and the maintenance of rabbits is opened. Special cages will allow to reduce time expenses considerably.
GROW UP RABBITS – FAVOURABLY
In 70-80 years of the XX century rabbit breeding in the Crimea was popular and profitable. The most part of rabbits was grown up in collective and state farms.
Unfortunately, in recent years rabbit breeding as branch, the existence, first of all, in agricultural enterprises practically stopped.
Main reasons for its present crisis state two: diseases of rabbits and unprofitability of their cultivation on old technologies. Only with introduction of new technologies rabbit breeding can revive and be profitable. The basis for such statement is that any species of animals can’t be compared to rabbits on energy of growth and a korotkost of terms of increase in live weight. It is possible to argue with confidence that rabbit breeding in the short term can be rather profitable both in farms, and in personal farmsteads krymchan, but only under condition of observance of the main processing methods and norms.
At the organization of small farms it is required to make some cages and to buy a uterine livestock. Well and the success will depend, generally on three factors, each of which influences receiving production in equal proportions: it is genetics (quality of a uterine livestock), conditions of the contents and feeding.
What should be a cage for rabbits?
The greatest economic efficiency at cultivation of rabbits-akseleratov can achieve, applying a special cage which should be:
– a peculiar home for animals from the birth to a face;
– to work in an automatic mode: rabbits without participation of the person within 6-7 days could be fed, drink pure water;
– automatically to be cleared;
– not to involve insects, to eliminate unpleasant smells;
– it is reliable to protect animals from rodents;
– to provide to small animals comfort;
– to protect them from traumas, kokcidioza, dermatitis;
– krolikovodu it is necessary to work with an issue so that the doe-rabbit of it didn’t see;
– to carry out okroly to winter time;
– not to burden krolikovoda;
– krolikovodu not to burden itself it is excessive;
– the farm should pay off quickly and long serve;
– outwardly to be esthetic, convenient: to decorate the farmstead territory.
The cage is made so that a rabbit, being in it, felt comfortably in the summer and in the winter. It is reached when northern and western its parties are completely closed, and east and southern – are closed only by a grid. The cage surely should be painted light nitroenamel with ornament elements. Such combination caresses a look krolikovoda and it is physiologically useful for an animal, improves sanitary conditions, therefore, works for profitability.
The rabbit who has been grown up in a special cage, practically never is ill nothing. It is promoted also by that krolchat impart against GBQ and miksomatoza, together with a doe-rabbit they are till 80-90 days, instead of how at usual technology – 19-30 or 45 days.
The best forage for rabbits – the granulated compound feed (diameter of a granule of 5 mm, and it is long – no more than 10 mm). Optimum structure of granules: 50 % of barley, 25 % of wheat, 22,5 % of a sunflower oil cake, 1 % of a premix, 1 % of a lysine, 0,5 % of salt. Humidity of granules should be no more than 10 %. However, at a skarmlivaniye without fail it is necessary to give them to animals and qualitative hay as in the winter, and in the summer. That is, all the year round rabbits receive granules, hay and water. Other forages to rabbits-akseleratam don’t feed.
In the presence of three components the rabbit consumes forages so much, how many it is necessary to it. He per day eats no more than 110 grams konckormov and 55 grams of hay, and in 120-140 days – about 15 kg of concentrates and 7 kg of hay. The live weight of a small animal during this time reaches 4 kgs.
Meat of the rabbit who has been grown up on such technology, possesses high dietary and flavoring qualities. In it practically there is no cholesterol, pesticides and herbicides.
So, if you intend to be engaged seriously in rabbit breeding, but don’t know from what to begin, address in the Crimean state agrarian educational advice center. Unas you receive detailed consultation.
V. Kondratenko, head of department of animal husbandry KGAUKC.