What feed does the rabbit eat?
The rabbits we are familiar with are herbivorous vertebrates among mammals. There are three kinds of food for rabbits in general life: concentrated feed, coarse feed and juicy feed. Concentrated feed is generally more than professional rabbit food; Coarse grains are herbivores; Juicy feed is vegetables, fruits and some roots that we are familiar with every day.
What does the bunny eat?
First, rabbits can eat alfalfa grass and ladder grass. Alfalfa is a leguminous plant, which is well nourished among all grasses (but with low crude fiber content), just meeting the growth and development needs of young rabbits. Alfalfa is delicious, and rabbits like it very much. Ladder grass is a gramineous grass. The crude fiber content of ladder grass is high, and the calcium and protein content is lower than that of alfalfa grass. In fact, many materials have introduced that alfalfa is the staple food of young rabbits, but I suggest adding ladder grass to prevent it from being picky when it grows up.
In fact, in addition to the above two kinds of hay, rabbit food is also one of the good foods for rabbits. Rabbit food can provide balanced nutrition and calories for rabbits. Because we can't provide rabbits with a variety of foods, it is easy to cause malnutrition or imbalance, which is the main function of rabbit food.
Rabbits are vegetarians and like to eat grass. Generally, rabbits raised at home should pay attention to the provision of food, because young rabbits are not full, and it is not recommended for young rabbits to eat vegetables, which is easy to get enteritis and can only be properly provided in adulthood. Rabbits are divided into young rabbits and adult rabbits. Young rabbits are 1 ~ 6 months old, and adult rabbits are over 6 months old. They are all fed in the morning and evening, twice a day. If it is necessary to change the brand of food, it is not appropriate to change it directly, which will lead to the inadaptability and discomfort of rabbits.
Second, how to raise rabbits?
First of all, rabbits have their own fixed life characteristics, lying during the day and moving at night. It lies in the cage during the day, jumps and runs at night, and keeps eating and drinking. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure diet and drinking water, feed it once in the evening and feed it regularly and quantitatively.
Secondly, rabbits also suffer from depression, and must be released to play 1-2 hours every day. If you can't be with the rabbit often, you might as well give him some toys to ease his mood and kill boring time.
Third, I like dry and hate wet. Rabbits are small animals that like to be dry and are afraid of being wet. Keep it in a dry place and clean it frequently. When the weather is fine, you might as well take it to the balcony to bask in the sun, but not at noon, it will get heatstroke. Don't stay in the sun for too long. A little shade will strengthen their bones.
The fourth is timidity and easy to be surprised.
Fifth, cold and heat.
Rabbits have certain cold tolerance, but they are afraid of heat. Be sure to feed more water in summer and put it in a ventilated place. If you are an unweaned rabbit, if you drink enough breast milk, you can slowly introduce some alfalfa, grass and rabbit food after 20 days. If suckling rabbits don't feed their mother's milk, they can buy kittens instead of milk, feed them once a day, and add a proper amount of lactic acid bacteria. Remember not to overeat, which will lead to bloating and death.
Also note that rabbits get sick easily. Don't give them medicine casually. Many rabbits are allergic to antibiotics, and some cats and dogs can't use them indiscriminately. There is also to maintain hygiene. Don't wash it if it's not particularly dirty. You can usually comb your hair.
Third, what should I pay attention to when raising rabbits?
1, rabbit selection
In order to better develop rabbit breeding industry, it is the key to select excellent varieties at the beginning of breeding. No matter what kind of rabbits are raised, improved varieties should always be introduced. In this way, population degradation can be avoided. A female rabbit can breed 30-40 rabbits a year. In order to breed better, it is generally necessary to eliminate old rabbits in time every 3 to 4 years and choose new varieties as breeding rabbits. There are breeding rabbits, and now we don't want hybrid rabbits. Although hybrid rabbits are strong, disease-resistant and grow fast, they are not suitable for breeding rabbits. Their inheritance is unstable, and serious character segregation may occur.
2. Feeding environment
Environment is an external factor affecting the growth, reproduction and production of rabbits. Too high or too low temperature in the feeding environment will affect the growth and development of rabbits. The suitable growth temperature of rabbits is between 15-30 degrees, and the newborn rabbits are weak and easy to be cultured in the environment of 30-32 degrees. When one month old, it can adapt to the temperature of 20-30 degrees, and adult rabbits and growing rabbits can adapt to 65438+. The feeding environment should be clean and well ventilated. In addition, light is very important for the growth and reproduction of rabbits. Adequate light is beneficial to estrus and delivery of female rabbits and to the quality and quantity of sperm of male rabbits. Generally, it is necessary to maintain the light duration of 12- 15 hours per day. Rabbits are timid animals, and the slightest noise in the feeding process will scare them, which will easily lead to abortion of female rabbits and collision and injury of male rabbits. Therefore, when breeding, we should stay away from urban interference and be close to highway factories.
Step 3: Feed.
For the rapid growth of rabbits, many farmers often choose intensive feeding, adding a lot of additives in feed to shorten the growth cycle and let rabbits put on the market faster. This is a great burden on the rabbit's stomach and affects the rabbit's metabolism. Feed is given priority to, supplemented by herbivores. Don't feed a rabbit to the end. In order to save time and effort, some farmers only feed one kind of feed from beginning to end, so that rabbits can grow slowly and feed in a balanced way. In addition, when raising herbivores, we should pay attention not to feed water, spoiled, polluted, smelly, pesticides, washed and frozen feed and forage grass.
Fourth, the basic knowledge of novice rabbits.
First, after the rabbit gets home, don't feed coccidiosis medicine casually. Ok, go to the hospital for a routine check-up. If there is coccidia, you need to take medicine. If there is no coccidia, there is no need to take medicine.
Second, rabbits must be fed scientifically, and there is no limit to raising grass and cooling water every day. The rabbit food of young rabbits is 3% ~ 5% of the rabbit's body weight, and that of adult rabbits is 1% ~ 3% of the rabbit's body weight. Rabbit food plays a role in balancing nutrition. Eat less, but eat well. Therefore, we reject the three-no-rabbit food and recommend Bunny, Abel and booger.
There is no limit to alfalfa for young rabbits under three months. Alfalfa can be gradually reduced after four months, and alfalfa will be stopped and rabbit food will be reduced after eight months. Mainly raising grass. Fruit grass, green oats, wheat grass and barley grass are all used as snacks. Rabbits won't be hungry unless they eat grass. The physiological structure of rabbits is very low. If they don't eat or drink for 4-8 hours, it will damage their liver and kidneys, and even cause sexual damage.
Adult rabbits over four or six months old can eat some vegetables (Chinese cabbage, Shanghai green) and a small amount of fruit every day according to their physical condition. While feeding vegetables, reduce rabbit food. All sweets are forbidden, and tooth decay is a terminal disease. Excessive sweets do great harm to rabbits' teeth. Sweets can cause tooth decay in rabbits. Tooth decay will crack, food residue will block up and become a hotbed of bacteria. Bacteria will enter the root and gum with cracked teeth, causing infection and inflammation of the root or gum. Root damage will lead to abnormal crown growth and malocclusion, and further lead to abnormal root length. This is a vicious circle. The inflammation of the root of the tooth lasted for a long time, and then facial pustules were produced. Don't feed any rice, steamed bread, bread, biscuits or anything anyone eats. Of course, if you are not sure about the continuous learning, mastery and flexible application of rabbit breeding knowledge, you can ask.
Necessary items: rabbit cage (more than 80 cm) foot pad, ball kettle, toilet (don't choose triangle toilet), food box, grass rack.
Sixth, the standing nutritional products are recommended to be prepared to help you strengthen the cream, lactic acid bacteria and hair cream (continuous feeding for one week, one centimeter a day). Rabbit balance elements, Marca yellow water and green water. Rabbit grass powder or Aibo grass powder can be selectively retained.
7. It's useless to cure diseases by praying only in areas where medical resources are not perfect. Usually consult more, study more and communicate more. There are many senior rabbit mothers in the post bar or rabbit group, and basically they have questions and answers. As long as you really love rabbits, everyone is willing to help you!
Eight, young rabbits and sick rabbits can not take a bath, adult rabbits over six months should be fully prepared even if they want to take a bath, and try not to take a bath. Bathing is prone to stress reaction and death, and it is easy to get skin diseases. Hydrocephalus in the ear is easy to cause otitis media.
Nine, rabbits are solitary animals, fighting with the same sex and mating with the opposite sex. If you have two or more rabbits, you must separate them. Never say that your rabbits don't fight. Maybe one minute it's peaceful, and the next minute it's bitten all over. What's more, it's hard to tell a male rabbit from a female rabbit. If you don't want a nest of rabbits to suddenly appear at home one day, you can separate them or sterilize them.
Ten, about sterilization, it depends on how people think, any operation is risky. Sterilization is not only to prevent reproduction, but also to make your rabbit healthier. Sterilization can prevent male rabbits from urinating during estrus and prevent some diseases. Female rabbits are prone to uterine diseases when they are about two years old. Sterilization can prevent uterine diseases in female rabbits. The sterilization period of rabbits was 8 months, and the young rabbits recovered well. It is recommended not to be over two years old.
Refuse to breed, even if you really love every rabbit, even if your economic conditions permit, it is more important that you spend so much time to raise every rabbit. Otherwise, you have to give it away. If you give it away, it's ok to meet a good master, but if you don't meet a good master, your fate will be bumpy. You all want your rabbit to have a happy ending! Therefore, we must be cautious and cautious!
12. Rabbits need outdoor air. It's impossible to keep them in cages all day. They must be given a space to run. It is recommended to keep out the wind for one to four hours every day and prepare water and grass for a long time. The outdoor place must be paved, and rabbits can't run directly on the hard floor, otherwise the joints will be prone to problems in the future.
Thirteen, scientific feeding! Never leave! If you don't know how to take care of a rabbit, please treat it like your own child. I hope that rabbit parents will continue to learn rabbit breeding knowledge together!
5. What is the prospect of raising rabbits?
Regarding the prospect of raising rabbits, Bian Xiao will analyze it from the following aspects:
1, from the yield point of view: the experiment shows that the conversion rate of rabbit meat is five times that of beef with the same feed amount. In addition, rabbits have multiple births and high yield, short feeding cycle and high meat yield, so they are relatively efficient.
2. From the perspective of income, there are abundant sources of income for raising rabbits, and the sales of rabbit meat and hair are gratifying and the income is diversified. The cost of raising rabbits is quite low, but the profits are rich. About 1 year can be recycled, and the gold absorption strength is excellent.
3. From the market: Nowadays, people's eating habits are changing quietly. Rabbit meat attracts more people's attention because of its high nutritional value and health care function. People who are keen on eating rabbit meat are in short supply in many cities.