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Rabbits are one of the most profitable domestic animals to breed. They grow and gain weight very quickly, and reproduce just as quickly. Of course, the success of an enterprise will depend on many different factors. For animals, you will need to purchase spacious cages and develop the right diet. So let's see how to breed rabbits.

Varieties of rabbit farms

Fluffy animals are bred for meat or skins. Both the one and the other method are considered quite cost-effective. Also recently, breeding of decorative rabbits has become very popular. In this case, the animals are not slaughtered, but sold as pets. Breeding meat and decorative rabbits in our time is considered the most profitable.

Business plan

If you want to take out a bank loan to start a rabbit farm, you will have to draw up a business plan. Usually, its development is entrusted to specialists. Roughly a business plan for breeding rabbits consists of the following points:

1. Market analysis. It is indicated that it is far from being saturated with rabbit meat and fur.
2. Advantages. It is worth noting, for example, that rabbit meat has excellent taste characteristics and belongs to healthy dietary products.
3. Costs and Benefits.
4. Conclusions.

This is, of course, an extremely simplified diagram. A more detailed business plan has a fairly large volume, and a huge number of very different rules are followed in its preparation.

Which breed to choose

The question of how to breed rabbits comes down primarily to the correct choice of breed. The most popular meat in our time are:

1. Soviet chinchilla. The average weight of adults is 5 kg.
2. Gray giant. Weight - 7kg.
3. White giant. Weight 5-6 kg.
4. Riesen (German giant). Weight up to 12 kg.

The most commonly used rabbit skin breeds for breeding are:

1. Vienna blue.
2. Soviet marder.
3. Chinchilla.

All rabbits belonging to the skin breeds have thick, even and beautiful fur. Slaughter of animals is carried out in the winter, after the end of the molt. Processing of skins is a rather complicated process, which includes several stages.

As for decorative breeds, the most popular among breeders are such domestic rabbits as:

1. Hermelines.
2. Lop-eared.
3. Colored smooth-haired.
4. Long-haired foxes.
5. Rexes are short-haired.

Content methods

There are several ways to keep rabbits:

1. In cells. This is the most common way. Usually on private farms, this is how meat rabbits, as well as skin and decorative rabbits, are bred.
2. Aviary. In the 50s, this method was very popular for breeding meat rabbits. It is rarely used now. Animals are kept in a spacious open-air cage with wooden "houses" placed on it.
3. In the pits. This is another rarely used method. They dig a large hole and mark the location of the burrows in it. They run rabbits there and cover them with a chain-link. The animals will make their own homes. However, it will be very difficult to catch them later.

What cells should be

Rabbit breeding cages should be spacious enough, dry and warm. A prefabricated battery is considered the best option. Frame size for her:

1. Width - 0.5 m.
2. Length - 6.5 m.
3. Height - 1.8 m (front wall), 1.6 m (back wall).

A frame is made from a 10x10 bar. The cages are arranged in three tiers on a 5x5 cm bar. Each tier is divided into compartments (5 compartments 70 cm wide and one for young animals a meter wide). For a large farm, of course, you will have to arrange several such blocks.

We buy rabbits

Rabbit breeding as a business will only succeed if the right breeders are selected. You shouldn't buy them at the bazaar. Animals that are sold by private owners are probably not vaccinated and are unlikely to be purebred. Better to overpay and buy animals on a licensed farm. Remember also that there should be at least two or three females and no more than nine for one male during breeding.

Feeding rabbits during a non-random period

Rabbit breeding as a business will also be successful if the animals are fed correctly. A diet should be developed with sufficient amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, fats and minerals. In a non-random period, rabbits of meat breeds are given (on the head):

Oats or barley	30 g
Corn	20 g
Wheat bran	10 g
Salt	1 g
Eggshell	2-4 g
Bone flour	4-6 g
Hay, branches	With no restrictions
Juicy feed (carrots, apples, beets, pumpkin, cabbage)	With no restrictions

The rabbits are fed three times a day. And in the morning they give juicy feed, at lunchtime - concentrated (oats, barley), and in the evening - rough (hay, branches). Hay must be kept in the cages at all times.

How to feed during the breeding season

Rabbits, whose breeding (maintenance, care, feeding, cleaning of cages, etc.) is a rather troublesome procedure, should receive maximum attention during the breeding period. In particular, a protein-rich diet should be developed for them. Something like this:

Concentrated feed	90-100 g
Alfalfa hay	90-100 g
Other types of hay and branches	Unlimited
Juicy feed	Unlimited

Salt, shells, flour, branches are given in the same quantities as in a non-random period.

At what age can mating be done

Sexual maturity occurs at different times in different breeds. Rabbits begin to breed at the age of about 5-8 months. Usually, the larger the breed, the later it matures. Females usually mature earlier than males. When setting up such an enterprise as a rabbit farm, of course, you need to be aware of this.

How to mate

For mating, the rabbit is launched into the cage to the male.In this case, he feels more confident. Sometimes females are capricious and do not accept a "gentleman" who does not like them. This is how domestic rabbits, both meat and skin rabbits, can behave. In this situation, the manufacturer will most likely have to be replaced. However, this happens quite rarely.

Leave the female in the male's cage for half an hour. After about one and a half to two weeks, a control mating should be carried out. Add the female to the rabbit again. If she starts to growl, worry and bite, then the pregnancy has come. If not, leave it with the male for another half hour.

Pregnancy and childbirth

Female rabbits carry from 28 to 35 days. The litter usually contains 4-12 cubs. You can find out that an okrol will soon occur by the behavior of the rabbit herself. As soon as the expected date of delivery approaches, follow up with your pet. If she begins to drag hay and straw into the mother cell and rip the fluff out of her chest, then most likely the cubs will appear at night. In any case, childbirth will occur within the next few days.

Rabbits of meat breeds, like skin rabbits, as well as decorative ones, give birth very easily, and there is no need to interfere with this process. In the event that you fed the female correctly and in sufficient quantities during pregnancy, most likely all babies will be born alive and strong. However, do not be particularly upset if you find one or two stillborns in the litter. This is normal for rabbits.

The first days of life

Bunnies are born completely helpless - blind and naked. However, after a couple of days, their skin begins to darken, becoming covered with fur. At the age of two weeks, all babies already know how to walk and jump, and their eyes are open. These two weeks are the most crucial and difficult period in the life of both the rabbit and the cubs. If the female did not receive enough food during pregnancy or it was monotonous, she may not have enough milk for the entire litter. In this case, she will throw the weakest cubs out of the nest.

Why does the female gnaw the rabbits

Eating rabbit droppings can be a very big disappointment for those who wondered how to breed rabbits and set up their own farm. The female can gnaw the cubs for the following reasons:

1. Disease of the nipples. Mastitis can cause the rabbit to experience unbearable pain while feeding. As a result, she will get rid of her source.
2. The rabbit has no milk. Often, even with proper feeding, some females who have hatched for the first time have such a problem. If there is no milk in the second litter, such a rabbit will not be suitable for producers. Then it will have to be rejected.
3. Too close presence of another rabbit. Sometimes, furious with the invasion of a competitor into the territory that she considers her own, the female gnaws at the cubs.
4. Poor living conditions. The female can gnaw the little rabbits even when she thinks that there is simply not enough space for such a large “family”.
5. The female can also eat the rabbits because of the foreign smell. Only one person should check the health of newborns. The one that normally feeds the animals is desirable. Put on rubber gloves before handling the babies to avoid leaving your scent.

In general, the question of why the female eats rabbits is not well understood. The above reasons are mostly just pretty confident assumptions of experienced rabbit breeders.

How to feed a pregnant rabbit

So, the mating was crowned with success, and new little rabbits will soon appear on your farm. Breeding, growing, feeding - all this is interconnected in such a business. It is very important, for example, to correctly formulate the rabbit's diet in the second period of pregnancy. In the first, the fetus develops slowly, and the mother's body copes well with the usual diet. To exclude diseases, the cage should be constantly cleaned and periodically disinfected.A week before birth - in order to avoid the possibility of obesity (which can cause unsuccessful childbirth) - bulky feed is excluded from the diet. For example, the female is not given silage. They also reduce the amount of roughage. In the second half of pregnancy, the rabbit's diet should be something like this (on the head):

Compound feed, oats or legumes	80-100 g
Sunflower cake (protein feed)	50 g
Soybean meal	Up to 30 g
Carrots and other juicy foods	Plenty
Chalk, bone meal or meat and bone meal	15 g
Salt	1.5 g
Fish fat	2 g

We have given the diet of a full-grown female rabbit. For young first hens, these volumes are increased by about 20%.

Feeding the lactating female

Rabbits' milk is very fatty. And no wonder. After all, babies grow and develop very intensively, and therefore they need a lot of protein. The older the rabbits, the richer in protein their mother's diet should be. The feed rate is as follows:

WHAT TO FEED RABBITS / HOME RABBITS

Hay	100-300 g
Sunflower cake	40-60 g
Sunflower meal	30 g
Feed yeast	5 g
Fish fat	3-3.5 g
Bone flour	34 g
Salt	2.5 g
Herbs	Plenty
Roots	Plenty
Oats, barley	Plenty

The proportion of concentrated feed in the rabbit's diet should be 70-80%. The number of feed units fed depends on the lactation period:

Day after okrol	Number of feed units
1-10
11-20
21-30
31-45

How to feed young animals

Rabbits are deposited from their mother at about one month of age. However, they begin to eat on their own as early as two weeks. At first, the rabbits are given the same food that they ate with their mother. New products are introduced into the diet gradually, in small doses. This condition is very important to comply with. Otherwise, digestive disorders and, as a result, death cannot be avoided. Small rabbits are given easily digestible food - green young grass, vitamin hay, boiled potatoes, carrots. You can also give bran, but in small quantities. The rabbits are transferred to an adult diet at the age of five months.

How to prevent death

So, we have sorted out in sufficient detail the question of how to breed rabbits. However, it is important not only to increase the number of livestock, but also to maintain it until the age of slaughter. The real scourge of rabbits are all sorts of infectious diseases, as well as colds. This is the main reason for the death of animals. In order to prevent contamination, cells should be kept clean and periodically treated with disinfectants (once a week). Drafts should not be allowed in rabbit dwellings. Feed should only be purchased from trusted farms. Basically, the infection is transmitted through them. In unfavorable years for diseases, even one purchase of feed at the bazaar can lead to the death of most of the livestock.

Breeding rabbits is a profitable business, however, and quite troublesome. If you are not afraid of difficulties, buy producers and arrange your farm. Of course, there may be setbacks at first. However, everything comes with experience. We hope you succeed.

Breeding rabbits is quite profitable, but not too difficult. With proper care, you can get a lot of meat and beautiful skins from these animals, because they multiply quickly. However, in order for the rabbits to be born healthy and develop well, you need to know how to choose the right breeders, how to mate, what to do when you breed, and much more.

At what age do mating

Reproduction of rabbits at home occurs quickly enough also because these animals are early maturing. Their sexual maturity occurs at 3-4 months, depending on the breed. However, it is certainly not worth allowing such young animals to mate. Although the reproductive system in rabbits has already matured by this time, physiologically they are not yet ready for conception and gestation.

The optimal breeding age for rabbits is 5 months for females and 7-8 months for males. In no case should you rush to mating. If the rabbit is too young, the offspring may be weak or completely unviable. Females, however, who have not reached the age of 5 months, often do not wear their rabbits. In addition, their maternal qualities subsequently deteriorate. They give birth to few cubs and become dairy-free.

How to choose manufacturers

Rabbits reproduce very quickly. However, in order to have as many healthy rabbits in the litters as possible, the breeders should be chosen correctly. Of course, first of all, these should be active, well-developed animals. There are several rules that must be followed when choosing manufacturers. A rabbit should be discarded if she:

• did not become pregnant after two or three consecutive cases;
• raised less than 5 rabbits in two litters in a row;
• ate her cubs.

Krol is discarded if his efforts to procreate are unsuccessful in 30% of cases.

Physical defects

When choosing manufacturers, you should pay attention to their appearance. Do not allow mating animals with:

• narrow chest;
• a depression behind the shoulder blades;
• drooping croup;
• flaccid stomach;
• too much dewlap;
• a rough head (for rabbits) or too "tender" (for rabbits);
• very thin ears;
• drooping ears (except for rams);
• humpbacked back.

Breeding rabbits: what else is worth knowing

Among other things, manufacturers must be of normal weight. From animals that are too thin, not particularly viable babies are usually born. Obese rabbits often do not even hunt.

It is also highly discouraged to breed animals from the same litter. In this case, the rabbits will be born weak and will be more susceptible to all sorts of diseases.

A young female is best mated with an adult male, and vice versa. The mating is usually done when the female is hunting. In summer, this period in rabbits occurs every 5-6 days and lasts 3-5 days. In winter, the female hunts every 8-9 days.

How to mate

In order for this enterprise to be crowned with success, the rabbit is placed in a cage next to the rabbit. On the contrary, it is not worth doing. In foreign territory, the rabbit will not feel too confident.

Drinkers and feeders should be removed from the cage before mating. Reproduction of rabbits both in the wild and at home occurs quickly, primarily because these animals are very active. Therefore, in the process of pairing, all objects in the cage will most likely be turned over. Also, the place where the mating takes place should be carefully examined. There should be no sharp objects (nails, wire sticking out, etc.) in the cage. They can injure animals.

Control mating

In order to be sure that fertilization has occurred, after two weeks, the rabbit should be planted with the male again. If pregnancy has come, she will start to run around the cage and behave aggressively towards the "gentleman", not allowing him to come to her.

The fertility of the female can also be determined by palpation. In this case, the animal is placed on the table and, holding its head, probes the abdomen closer to the sacrum. In pregnant females, it is very dense. Also, with your fingers, you can feel the fruits the size of a small nut, located in a chain.

Number of manufacturers

The question of how rabbits breed at home also comes down to how to choose the right ratio of the number of males and females. Usually a young rabbit is used as a producer 1-2 times every other day. An adult male can cover up to 4 females daily. However, he should also be allowed to rest from time to time. Based on this, the number of manufacturers is calculated.

However, a novice rabbit breeder should also know that there should be at least two rabbits for one male. Otherwise, its quality as a manufacturer may deteriorate. The optimal ratio is considered to be 8-12 females per adult rabbit.

Pregnancy and childbirth

The female bears the rabbits for about 29-33 days. Just before giving birth, she begins to build a nest. First, the rabbit pulls dry hay to some corner. Then he lines the bottom of the nest with his down, tearing it out mainly from the chest. At this time, an additional drinker must be placed in the rabbit's nest. Otherwise, she can simply gnaw off the cubs.

Rabbits usually give birth either at night or early in the morning. They usually pass not too long - 20-30 minutes. Rabbits are born blind, helpless and naked. To keep them from freezing, the rabbit wraps them up in her down.

After giving birth, owners should definitely check the droppings for stillborn babies. This happens quite often in rabbits. A dead rabbit, if not removed, will begin to decompose in the nest, attracting insects, which, of course, is fraught with infection of healthy individuals.

Why does the rabbit throw out the cubs

It often happens that the female throws out the rabbits from the nest. The reason for this phenomenon is that the cubs are too tightly hooked on the nipples, and the rabbit simply pulls them out when leaving the nest. In this case, the baby should simply be carefully put back.

Some bunnies eat their droppings. This usually happens if the female did not receive a sufficient amount of food during her gestation and she does not have enough milk. Also, those rabbits who develop mastitis often gnaw their droppings. To avoid this disease, the animal should be kept on a clean, dry bedding. In any case, good care of the rabbits should be ensured. At home, reproduction will then be much more successful.

In the diet of a pregnant rabbit, it is imperative to include a sufficient amount of foods containing proteins. You can not feed the sucrol animal only with grass, vegetables and root crops. Be sure to give him barley or crushed (you can oatmeal, but it's worse), as well as boiled potatoes and dried white bread. Grain should only be purchased from trusted producers. You should not buy barley crushed at the bazaar. Most infectious diseases in rabbits are transmitted through feed.

Baby development

In the event that the female is chosen correctly, the reproduction of rabbits is really fast. In addition, at the same time, the cubs develop very well. After two weeks, they weigh 2-3 times more than after childbirth, and after a month - 10 times. This rapid development is due to the special properties of rabbit milk. It contains more proteins than any other mammal. Rabbit milk is fatter than even goat's milk.

The cubs are deposited from the mother at the age of 45 days. Previously, it is undesirable to do this.

How to determine the gender of a rabbit

Only healthy cubs with pronounced signs of the breed are left for the tribe. Breeding domestic rabbits on a farm in this case will be much more successful. Each litter must have the largest bunny. Therefore, summer residents usually have no problems with the choice of a future producer from their own herd.

It is not difficult to find out the sex of the rabbits. This can be done as early as two to three weeks of age. To determine the sex of the rabbit, they take it in their arms, turn it upside down and lay it on its knees, with its hind legs away from itself. Next, you need to stretch the skin of the animal in the genital area. In rabbits, a long slit will be noticeable, reaching almost to the anus. In males, only a small tube hole is visible.

Breeding of decorative breeds

Farm owners that breed animals for sale usually know all about rabbits well. The maintenance, reproduction and feeding of these animals are procedures that are not particularly difficult for them. However, those who acquired the animal simply as a pet often make unforgivable mistakes, as a result of which the animal sometimes even dies. In order not to lose your pet, you should definitely follow these rules:

• In no case should you drastically change the animal's diet. This is especially true for young rabbits. The new feed should be introduced gradually, increasing the dose over the course of a week.
• It is not recommended to give babies food that can cause gastrointestinal upset. These include, for example, raw potatoes, beets and cabbage.
• Animal cages should always be clean. Reproduction of decorative rabbits occurs as quickly as meat. However, these animals die very simply. This can happen from anyone, even the most harmless disease.
• Drinkers and feeders should be washed daily for the same reason.

Beef breeds are looked after in about the same way. That is, they do not drastically change the diet and try to keep the cells or enclosures clean. As for the reproduction itself, the mating process in decorative rabbits occurs in the same way as in ordinary ones. The female is placed in the cage with the male, and not vice versa. A control mating is carried out two weeks later. The cage with a pregnant decorative rabbit should be placed in the quietest place in the apartment. These animals do not tolerate all kinds of noises.

This is how animals like rabbits are bred. Reproduction and caring for them are procedures that require compliance with certain rules. Rabbits are really poor health. Therefore, it is impossible to violate the content technologies in any case.

The maintenance and breeding of rabbits as a business in Russia has not yet become widespread, despite the fact that in rural areas these animals are raised for the sake of dietary and very tasty meat. Many are attracted by its low calorie content, as well as its composition, which includes protein with low cholesterol levels. Such meat is advised to those who are prone to overweight, as well as children, elderly people and patients with pathologies of the liver, blood vessels, heart and stomach. But domestic breeding of rabbits, as a rule, is not on a large scale. For personal needs, a very small number of animals is enough.

Keeping and breeding rabbits can be a very profitable and promising business for you. These animals are distinguished not only by high early maturity, but also by enviable fertility. During the year, only one female can bear offspring up to six times. This is approximately twenty-six rabbits or sixty to seventy kilograms of live weight. You can also get good skins from them.

However, the number of rabbit farms in our country can be counted literally on one hand. What prevents to put the breeding of these animals on a professional basis? As a rule, it is all the fault of the lack of necessary knowledge in this area. And an inept approach to business will never bring the desired profit.

Breed selection

Breeding rabbits at home requires preliminary preparation. At the first stage, it is important to decide which breed will be most profitable to grow, because there are more than two hundred of them. In order for your business to be as profitable as possible, you should consider the gradation of rabbits in terms of productivity.

All existing breeds of these animals are divided into the following:

- meat and skin;

- meat;

- skinny.

There are also decorative rabbits. Breeding and keeping these fluffy and small animals can be easily carried out even in an apartment. You can raise such animals not only for sale. Decorative rabbits are also popular as pets.Especially often, the choice falls on a breed such as a lop-eared ram. These fluffy lumps have funny long hanging ears.

Breeding rabbits for beginners is not easy. That is why the choice of the breed should be taken seriously enough.

A novice rabbit breeder should keep in mind that even to the same conditions, different breeds of animals will treat differently. That is why, when buying young animals, you should compare the quality of feed and the premises that your home farm has. This will become the main selection criterion.

For example, if the majority of households in the county are keeping and raising gray giant rabbits, this is usually influenced by economic reasons. These animals probably tolerate the climatic conditions of your area remarkably well. In addition, they do not have to be looked after with special care, and they will not be too expensive for the price. Only in this case, keeping and breeding rabbits on a home farm will become profitable.

Selection of animals based on the main goals of the business

Let's say your rabbit breeding plan calls for meat as an end product. In this case, you will need to purchase early maturing animals. Their list includes:

- white and gray giant;