In household plots and on small farms, animals such as rabbits are often kept. Breeding, rearing, feeding of animals is mastered quickly even by inexperienced people. The benefits that can be derived are very substantial. Pets suitable for sewing fur coats and other products, fluff, as well as rabbit fat and high-quality dietary meat are obtained from animals.
The technology of breeding rabbits depends on which direction in this lesson to choose. Today, the downward orientation is distinguished, when the majority of the population (70%) is used only for the collection of fluff, and the remaining 30% give offspring and fluff. In this case, slaughter of culled animals for meat is allowed.
Meat-skinned rabbits are found in a completely different way. Breeding, rearing, feeding in this case is aimed at obtaining large offspring, as well as specimens of significant size (this increases the area of skins). From each rabbit a year (for no more than 4 rounds) get up to 25 rabbits. Breeds that have a dense hairline of equal height (black-brown, Viennese blue, silver, white giant, marder, Soviet chinchilla) are usually bred. You can get products in the form of skin from animals aged four to six months. Animals are slaughtered for meat at approximately three months of age. The maintenance is carried out in such a way that damage to the skin of animals is minimal.
Most often, the so-called meat rabbits are operated on farms . Breeding, growing, feeding here is aimed at obtaining about 6 aprons per year. Rabbits are weaned from the female at the age of a month (an increase in the suction period is allowed up to 45 days), after which animals up to the age of 90-105 days are fed with highly nutritious feed concentrates.
Broiler farms operating in the broiler mode are almost not widespread in Russia today. How are rabbits kept in this case? Breeding, rearing, feeding boil down to the fact that the best part of the food is given to rabbits that feed offspring up to 60-70 days. After that, the rabbits are handed over for meat with a live weight of about 2 kg. This method gives high safety to young animals, however, it limits the number of rabbits that one female can feed and give birth (no more than 3 babies per year).
Breeding and care (rabbits must be carefully monitored) give results very quickly. Industrial maturity (optimal for reproduction) in these animals occurs in 5-6 months (biological - in three months and a little), and the pregnancy of females lasts about 30 days. On average, one female with grown litter gives about a centner of meat per year. Today, rabbits are kept mainly in cages with a cage for walking. Rodents can be fed with grass, hay, twig feed, but on large farms they use special feeds and additives for the optimal development and healthy existence of animals. Rabbits consume relatively little food, but do so with enviable constancy. Therefore, hay and fresh water in rabbitry should always be.