Feeding techniques of meat rabbits

The feeding techniques of meat rabbits are as follows: the living habits of rabbits

Rabbits have unique living habits, and it is of great benefit to know and master it when raising rabbits.

1. Eating at night (nocturnal): Rabbits have the characteristics of quiet day and moving at night. Despair during the day, eyes closed, seldom eat; In the evening, the spirit is vigorous, and the intake and water consumption increase, accounting for more than 70% of the whole day. Therefore, we should feed enough forage and drink enough water at night, and farmers with conditions can feed it at night.

2, lethargy: rabbits often close their eyes during the day, in a dormant or sleeping state. At this time, other stimuli except hearing are not easy to cause excitement. According to this habit, the breeder should not only ensure normal feeding, drinking water and daily management, but also keep the rabbit house and its surrounding environment quiet and try not to interfere with the rabbit's sleep during the day.

3. Timidity: Rabbits are timid animals. They can judge with keen hearing when the enemy is hurt. Sudden noise, strangers or strange animals, such as cats and dogs, will make rabbits panic and affect rabbits around them. Therefore, in the feeding management, the movements should be as light and steady as possible to prevent strangers or other animals from entering the rabbit house.

4. cleanliness: rabbits like a clean and dry living environment. Wet and polluted environment is easy to cause the spread of parasites transmitted by rabbits. Therefore, in the design and daily management of the rabbit house, it is necessary to ensure that the pen house is clean and dry, warm in winter and cool in summer, and well ventilated.

5. Loneliness: Although rabbits have groups, they are poor. Adult rabbits of the same sex, half male and half female, often fight with each other in the process of group rearing, especially male rabbits. Pay more attention to the new ones. Therefore, adult rabbits should be raised in single cages.

6. Bite: The rabbit's first pair of front teeth are permanent teeth, which have been there since birth, never change and continue to grow. In order to maintain the normal occlusion of the upper and lower incisors, rabbits must eat and chew hard objects and wear them constantly. Therefore, rabbit breeding should pay attention to the construction of cages and try to use materials that rabbits don't like to bite, so as to prolong the service life of rabbit cages. In addition, it is necessary to provide conditions for rabbits to grind their teeth, such as processing compound feed into hard pellet feed, or putting more branches or sticks in cages for rabbits to chew, so as to facilitate the wear of front teeth and promote the chewing and elimination of feed.

7. Cavernity: Cavernity refers to the instinctive behavior of rabbits to make holes and give birth in caves. This habit cannot be used in modern rabbit production. However, in the case of cage breeding, it is necessary to build a nest box or nest for breeding female rabbits, so that the female rabbits can give birth in the box (nest). However, when building a rabbit house, we must consider the rabbit cave. Rabbits make holes in the house because of improper material selection or unreasonable design, which brings difficulties to feeding management.

8. Eating dung: Eating dung by rabbits refers to the instinctive behavior of rabbits eating part of their own dung. This is a normal physiological phenomenon, which is good for rabbits. Usually rabbits excrete two kinds of feces, one is granular hard feces, which is excreted during the day. One is a lump of soft dung, which is discharged at night. When the rabbit excretes soft feces, it will naturally bow down, eat it from the anus with its mouth, chew it a little and then swallow it. The soft feces discharged every day are eaten by oneself, and only when rabbits are sick will they not eat feces. Therefore, in management, we should pay attention to whether there are soft stools in the house. If soft stool is found, the rabbits should be examined in time to treat the disease early and reduce the loss.

Feeding management of young rabbits

Young rabbits refer to rabbits weaned to 3 months old.

1, the physiological characteristics of young rabbits, because young rabbits have just been weaned, it is a transition from breastfeeding to complete feeding, and it is also the first age-related molting and musculoskeletal growth stage. So it's hard for them to keep rabbits all their lives. If the feeding management is improper, it will not only reduce the survival rate and growth rate, but also affect the improvement of rabbit quality and the embodiment of improved variety characteristics. Due to the anti-microbial substances in the stomach, the normal microbial flora in the digestive tract of young rabbits can not be formed, which may be the main reason for the digestive tract disorder and diarrhea of young rabbits. The young rabbit stage is a period of rapid growth, which requires a lot of nutrition and must eat a lot of feed to meet the needs. However, its digestive organs are not suitable for digesting a large amount of feed, especially the digestibility of crude fiber is very low. Therefore, it is prone to nutritional deficiency, or eating too much will cause food damage, digestive dysfunction and diseases.

2. Feeding young rabbits should choose feed with small volume, easy digestion and high nutritional level. Such as improper feeding, lack of nutrition or overeating, and heavy gastrointestinal burden will cause indigestion, diarrhea, enteritis and other diseases. Generally, it is better to feed two meals of concentrated feed and three meals of green feed at intervals every day, and the feeding amount should increase with age, so it is not advisable to suddenly increase or decrease or change the feed. For weak young rabbits, milk, soybean milk, rice soup, vitamins, antibiotics, fish meal and so on can be supplemented.

3. Management of young rabbits Young rabbits must be kept in a warm, clean and dry place, and should be divided into groups according to their age and physical strength. 1 3 cages should be kept, 15-20 cages 1 groups should be kept. The temperature in the rabbit house within two weeks after weaning will affect the growth and survival rate of young rabbits. Young rabbits must also be weighed regularly, usually for half a month 1 time, so as to know the development of rabbits in time. If the growth and development have been very good, it can be raised as a backup rabbit. If the weight gain is slow, it is necessary to feed separately and observe.

Feeding management of rabbits

China has a vast territory and complex terrain, and there are obvious regional and seasonal differences in climate, rainfall and humidity. Therefore, in order to promote the healthy development of rabbit industry and obtain good economic benefits, we must do a good job in scientific feeding management according to the characteristics of different places and the changes in different seasons, so as to achieve satisfactory feeding results.

spring

In southern China, it is rainy and humid in spring, and rabbit diseases are frequent. There are many sandstorms in northern spring, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, which is one of the unfavorable seasons for raising rabbits. Therefore, special attention should be paid to moistureproof and disease prevention in feeding management.

1, ensuring feed supply Although weeds have gradually sprouted and grown in spring, due to high water content, they are prone to mildew, mud accumulation and heat accumulation. In rainy and humid weather, feed less high-moisture feed and increase dry roughage appropriately; The green fodder harvested after the rain should be dried before feeding. It is best to mix a small amount of sterilized feed such as garlic, onion and leek in the feed to enhance the disease resistance of rabbits.

2, do a good job in cage hygiene in spring, because of the large rainfall and high humidity, it is extremely beneficial to the reproduction of germs. Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job in cleaning the cage, so that the cage is clean and dry, and it should be cleaned, cleaned, washed and disinfected frequently. When the ground humidity is high, plant ash or quicklime can be sprinkled for disinfection, sterilization and moistureproof.

3. Strengthen inspection Spring is the season with the highest incidence of rabbits, especially coccidiosis. Check the health status of rabbits every day, and deal with problems in time. Rabbits with poor appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea should be isolated and treated in time. There is little rainfall in the north in spring and the temperature is suitable. It's just that the wind and sand are heavy and the climate is dry, so special attention should be paid to the prevention and control of epidemic diseases in management.

summer

The summer climate is characterized by high temperature and high humidity. Rabbits often lose their appetite and disease resistance because of underdeveloped sweat glands, which is a great threat to young rabbits. Therefore, attention should be paid to the cooling of prevention and control departments and careful feeding in feeding management.

1, heatstroke prevention and cooling In summer, the rabbit house should be cool and ventilated, and the sun should not be directly exposed to the rabbit cage. When the temperature in the cage exceeds 30℃, water can be poured on the ground to cool down. The open-air rabbit farm should build a shed in time and plant climbing plants such as melons and grapes as soon as possible.

2, careful feeding is hot at noon in summer, affecting appetite. Therefore, the daily feeding must be early for breakfast, late for dinner, eat more green feed at noon, and sufficient clean drinking water can be supplied. 2% salt can be added to drinking water to supplement the consumption of salt in the body, and it can also quench thirst and prevent heatstroke.

3, do a good job of hygiene In summer, because there are many mosquitoes and flies, germs are easy to reproduce, so we must do a good job of cleaning and hygiene. The trough and drinking utensils must be cleaned 1 time every day. Cages should be cleaned and disinfected frequently, and feed should be prevented from mildew and deterioration. Special attention should be paid to the prevention and control of coccidiosis.

autumn

Autumn is a good season for raising rabbits because of its dry climate, rich feed and rich nutrition. In rabbit management, we should do the following:

1. It is difficult to breed rabbits in autumn. The reproductive rate is low, the litter size is small, but the climate is mild, the feed is rich, the young rabbits develop well and the survival rate is high. Where conditions permit, breeding can be arranged in late July and early August. Sowing in September ~ 10 depends on whether there is heating equipment, if not, it is necessary to stop winter breeding.

2. Strengthen the feeding of adult rabbits, which are in molting stage in autumn. Rabbits in molting stage are weak and have poor appetite. Therefore, we should feed more green feed and appropriately increase the feed with high protein content. Rabbits in molting period are forbidden to slaughter and skin.

3. Carefully manage the autumn temperature. The temperature difference between morning and evening and noon is large, sometimes reaching 10~ 15℃. Young rabbits are prone to colds, enteritis, pneumonia and other diseases. Therefore, it must be carefully managed and the rabbits should be driven indoors every evening. When encountering strong wind or rain, they should not be allowed to move outdoors.

winter

1, pay attention to the low temperature in winter, short sunshine time and lack of fresh green feed. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen feeding management, cold protection and heat preservation. In winter, the temperature of rabbit house is not required to be very warm, except for newborn rabbits, but the temperature should be kept relatively stable, and it is forbidden to be hot and cold. Close the doors and windows when raising rabbits indoors to prevent thieves from invading; When raising rabbits in outdoor cages, the door of the cage should be hung with grass curtains or cotton curtains to prevent cold air from invading, and the bottom of the cage can be padded with grass or insulated with other materials.

2. Adequate feed In winter, rabbits consume more calories because of the low temperature. Therefore, regardless of rabbits, the daily diet should be increased by 65,438+0/3 compared with other seasons, especially by feeding more concentrated feed with high energy. In addition, due to the lack of green feed in winter, vitamin deficiency is prone to occur. Try to feed some vegetable leaves, carrots, barley malt, etc. Insufficient vitamin supplementation every day.

3, careful management in winter, regardless of the size of rabbits, put a small amount of hay in the cage for night accommodation. During the day, we should choose sunny weather and put rabbits in the sports ground, but each rabbit must have an ear number, otherwise it can't be done. It is necessary to strengthen the management of rabbit nest boxes, clean them frequently, change and expand grass frequently, and make them clean, dry and hygienic. Winter is the best season for slaughter and skinning, and commercial rabbits should be specially raised before slaughter to improve the quality of fur.