Any novice rabbit breeder expectsThe natural ability of rabbits to reproduce offspring with a high degree of fertility will be pleasing to the eye and generate income or provide dietary meat in the diet. However, rabbits are quite capricious in care, especially if you choose a hybrid breed of broilers: flandr or giant. They are more sensitive to infections, drafts, especially for newborns of rabbits.
Положительные стороны разведения кроликов в том, that they are prolific and clean, therefore, organizing the right care, it is possible to avoid problems. However, if you chose a large breed of rabbit, you should know about some of the nuances of their breeding.
Породы кроликов бывают крупными бройлерными (они in rare cases, they even reach 18–20 kg in weight), medium-sized (up to 6–7 kg) and decorative animals (these babies are often kept as an indoor animal, because there is not much space to accommodate the cage, and the size of the mother rabbit is also quite compact). They are classified according to the color and quality of the fur, the volume of attainable weight, some special characteristics of the breed.
If you keep in a small apartment or houseornamental rabbit (more precisely, rabbit) and are going to get offspring from her, you should take into account her full safety and security of her brood from other pets. In order for future rabbits not to fall through the bars of the cage when they are born, a special room should be provided where the rabbit can give birth to them and leave them while she needs to leave. This room is called the mother liquor for rabbits, its size should not be large, it is not necessary, but the comfort of such a dwelling for the coming weeks for the rabbits should be respected.
Meat-fur breeds are the most popular among rabbit breeders; many prefer to raise rabbits for meat, so they take a large meat breed.
Among the most popular large meat species:
For large rabbits are characterized by such signsas a phlegmatic character, relatively low fecundity, late maturation. It should be noted that such rabbits need large cages, respectively, and the size of the mother liquor for large breed rabbits should be larger. In addition, the food of rabbits, which are bred for meat, must include proteins, so that they gain weight more intensively, they are quite demanding of cell purity. Usually, the size of the mother liquor for rabbits, whose drawings illustrate a regular box with a convenient entrance, depend on whether it is planned to be year-round or only in the warm season. On the one hand, it is advisable to create conditions for the appearance of offspring in the warm season because of the considerations that it is easier to feed a mother who feeds babies with milk for up to two months. Often, rabbits who drink mother's milk are slaughtered for meat at the age of two months. Leaving on the growth of a young rabbit, who ate the rabbit's milk longer, can be in the winter, he has a strong immunity. On the other hand, if space allows, and around is planned year-round, the size of the mother liquor for the rabbit should take into account the cold season. This mother liquor should have good walls with insulation.
If you make queen rabbithands, their sizes vary depending on the breed and in the first place - on the size of the rabbit. On average, they have the following parameters: side walls 350 mm by 400 mm, front and rear walls 500 mm by 300 mm. The bottom and top cover will also be 500 mm by 300 mm in size. Build a box is not difficult, the only thing to consider is to make a large enough hole in the front wall so that on the one hand the rabbit enters the mother liquor and falls into the nest, and on the other hand there are the rabbits in this nest. If it is difficult to make the entrance round, like a burrow, then it is quite possible to make it rectangular: the main thing is to provide a rim in the design of the mother liquor so that the little rabbits do not fall out of the liquor maple, accidentally falling out of the nest.
Rabbits are born, like all mammals,blind and practically hairless, so their bodies are weak and susceptible to infections and drafts. This is exactly what should be avoided in the first days: do not touch the rabbits with your hands so that the mother does not abandon them because of someone else's smell, do not open the mother liquor without an urgent need and prevent cold and drafts into the nest. The rabbit will not remove the survivors in the litter herself. As for what the size of the mother liquor for rabbits should be for year-round okrol, there are some subtleties.
If you use the classic designrectangular box, the cover can be arranged on top of the entire width, and you can make the side, front. The winter mother liquor for rabbits is, respectively, larger in size due to insulation, which runs along the perimeter of the cage and the bottom in a separate layer. As a heater use small sawdust, wood chips. Sawdust is stuffed very tightly between the two parts of the plywood that makes up one wall. You can use the foam, and the outer part of the plywood is replaced by another, cheaper option. The dimensions of the queen cell for the rabbit on the inner side will be 2-3 cm larger in width, only all the details will need to be cut in double quantity, two parts will go to each wall and the floor. The outer side will be equipped with additional laths, fastening the walls, each pair of parts will be fastened together by 2-3 cm thick bars, depending on the width you choose for the insulation.
Usually use a rectangular mother liquor withside entrance for the rabbit, which is installed directly in the cage. The mother liquor is subsequently removed from it, and the rabbit with a brood remains and feeds the babies, who are already fully adapted to independent living.
If the rabbit breeder is simultaneously waiting for replenishmentthe rabbit family in several females, it is advisable to put the mother cells in such a way that the side walls are in contact, and the entrance to them is in front, the nest is located under the rear wall. It is very practical to use the heating of the entire wall in particularly cold months. And you can make it with the help of a light bulb in the niche of each queen, formed by an empty cavity under the insulation, between the two plywood walls. It turns out that the nest will be warm, and rabbits will survive even in frost. What size should the queen be for rabbits, if a light bulb is used as a heater? Taking the size of the mother liquor for the rabbit, which you make for the summer period, you need to add to its length 7 cm, using this place under the cavity for the light bulb. The only concern will be to regularly check to see if the light bulb has burned out from around the clock heating.
The material is not suitable Fiberboard, rabbit, being on the eve of okrola, can gnaw through all the thin sheets, so it is recommended to carry them out of plywood: this material is good in operation.
