What do you need to do to raise rabbits? How many rabbits can one person keep?

Rabbit raising is popular among rural entrepreneurs because of its small investment and quick profits. You can buy hundreds of breeding rabbits at a cost of tens of thousands of yuan. Compared with other breeding industries, the entry threshold for raising rabbits is too low. However, many farmers failed because they did not have a detailed budget and planning. Today,We will introduce some knowledge that you should know when entering the rabbit industry.

Next, let's take a look at what work needs to be done to raise rabbits.

1. Feeding. In order to save labor, young rabbits and adult rabbits without breeding tasks can be fed once a day, while female rabbits and young rabbits need to be fed at least twice a day. , you need to see if there is any leftover material in the trough. If there is any leftover material, you need to clean up the leftover material before adding the material. After adding the material, you need to add water (for automatic drinking water, you need to regularly check whether the water from the faucet is normal), and the drinking bowl is dirty. For cleaning, even a skilled breeder needs more than 0.5 minutes per feeding time per cage.

2. Hygiene. The feces of the rabbit house should be cleaned at least once a week. The feces need to be hung from the manure receiving board, and then loaded into a cart and transported to a place far away from the rabbit house for accumulation and fermentation. On average, the sanitation work of each rabbit cage is every It takes at least 1 minute.

3. Breeding. The day before the female rabbit is bred, it needs to be exchanged with the male rabbit to induce estrus, and then the female rabbit needs to be bred after estrus. At least 7-8 breedings are required.

4. Reproduction. The mother rabbit needs to organize the delivery room for her before breeding. After giving birth, you also need to check the number of litters and the health status of the baby rabbits. In the future, you need to check the feeding status and health status of the baby rabbits every day. Rabbits will not take less than 2 hours.

5. Epidemic prevention. Breeding rabbits need to be vaccinated every 6 months, and young rabbits need to be vaccinated at least 2 times from birth to slaughter. minute.

6, sub-cage. After the rabbit is born, the female rabbit needs to be taken out for weaning. 7~10 days after weaning, the first cage needs to be divided, and the pups are separated according to the male and female. Generally, 2~3 rabbits per cage are suitable, and the rabbits need to be larger. A second cage is needed, this time one rabbit per cage, and each rabbit needs to spend at least 3 minutes in the cage.

Finally, let's see how many rabbits can one person keep?

According toWe's experience, a highly automated rabbit farm (European-style rabbit cage, automatic feeding, artificial insemination, automatic manure removal, etc.) can easily raise 300 to 400 female rabbits, but most farmers do not. If it cannot achieve a high degree of automation, raising 100 to 150 female rabbits will be laborious.

Many friends who have never raised rabbits may not believe it. We can use 100 female rabbits as an example to calculate the average working time per day.

100 female rabbits and at least 110 male rabbits need to work for 110 minutes only for feeding twice a day; cleaning once a week for 110 minutes, an average of 16 minutes a day for work; epidemic prevention twice a year, a total of 220 minutes, an average of no daily work. To 1 minute; breeding and breeding are calculated as 7 litters per year, 140 minutes each time (20 minutes for breeding and 2 hours for breeding), and an average of 3 minutes of work per day. Rabbits alone need to work an average of 130 minutes a day, or more than 2 hours.

According to the calculation that the female rabbit produces 7 litters per year, and each litter has 7 young rabbits, 100 female rabbits can get 4900 young rabbits per year. The young rabbits are generally 4~5 months old and listed on the market. Even if they are listed at 4 months old, they need to be fed separately for 3 months. Although they were fed twice a day in the early stage, two rabbits were in a rabbit cage. On average, they were fed every day. After feeding once, 4,900 rabbits need to work about 220,000 minutes from weaning to slaughtering, an average of 604 minutes per day. Sanitation work averages 60 minutes a day. Epidemic prevention and cage separation work an average of 53 minutes a day. Rabbits need to work an average of 717 minutes a day, nearly 12 hours.

It takes 14 hours a day to raise 100 female rabbits, and this is a conservative estimate. If you catch up with the peak breeding season, you may have to work 18 to 20 hours a day. Therefore, the number of female rabbits raised by general farmers (couples) will not exceed 150. .