Many people think that rabbits reproduce quickly and feed well! Why don't Chinese farmers breed rabbits to get rich?

Simple, just a handful of grass, a handful of food, it sounds like a very good way to get rich, but why are there not many people in the countryside who specialize in raising rabbits?

Advantages of Breeding Rabbits

First, let’s talk about the advantages of breeding rabbits.

 

When I was a child, I lived in my grandma's house in the countryside. Once my grandma bought two little rabbits as pets for me. What we didn't expect was that in less than two months, the rabbits began to give birth. From two to four, and from four to six, slowly more and more, the family was about to have a "rabbit panic", and finally my grandmother could only take it to the market and sell it. A lot of money.

It is true that rabbits have many advantages in large-scale breeding. On the one hand, domestic meat rabbits have strong reproductive ability and fast reproduction. If they are well raised, it will not be a problem to produce seven or eight litters of rabbits a year. Its growth The cycle is also relatively stable. And the initial cost of raising rabbits is not high, because the rabbit seedlings are very cheap, and the rabbit shed does not need to be rebuilt.

On the other hand, domestic rabbits raised are widely used and in high demand. For example, the path for raising meat rabbits is very good. Even in some small counties, there is a good market for rabbit meat. According to some wholesalers, the wholesaler said that meat rabbits are very easy to sell, 7 yuan a pound, how much is needed.

 

In addition to the edible value, after being processed, rabbit fur can also be made into fur, which has a very good thermal insulation effect and is deeply loved by consumers.

 

 

 

Why not breed rabbits to get rich?

But in reality, raising rabbits is not as simple as it sounds.

 

Rabbit farms in many villages have been empty, and the rabbit cages are also empty. The investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars back then turned out to be an empty bamboo basket.

 

The first reason people give up breeding rabbits is because the price of rabbits is very unstable, fluctuating high and low, and it depends on luck whether they can make money or not. For example, last year, the price of a pound of rabbits could be sold for 15 yuan, but after the May Day, the price of rabbits dropped rapidly, and the lowest price even sold for 5 yuan a pound.

In addition to the low price, the acquirer will also be selective, not too thin and not good hair color. If the price is very low, this year may be in vain, and even the book will not be returned. If the price remains low, many farmers may not be able to hold on, because although the initial cost of raising rabbits is not high, as the scale of breeding continues to expand and the number of rabbits increases, farmers may be unable to make ends meet. .

The second reason is that rabbits eat a lot, which is complementary and interrelated with the selling price issue mentioned above. Don't look at the petite stature of rabbits, and think that their food intake is also small. If the number of breeding is large, the feed that needs to be put in every day will also be a lot.

 

Seeing this, some people may ask, don't rabbits eat grass, can't it be enough to go up the mountain to mow some grass to feed them, so as not to save the money for feed, why spend money to buy feed?

In fact, raising rabbits is not as simple as a handful of grass and a bowl of water as everyone thinks. Especially in large-scale farms, such feeds as fresh grass and highland barley are rarely used or even not used, because These feeds have many uncontrollable factors. For example, if the rabbit eats grass with dew, it will cause diarrhea, which will greatly affect the growth of the rabbit and may even cause death, which is very dangerous for farmers.

So now most of the rabbits are fed with feed, and it is concentrated feed. These feeds need to be purchased from feed manufacturers. In recent years, the prices of corn and soybeans have been rising, and the prices of feed have also risen. When feed is cheap The profit of breeding is still relatively high, and once the price of feed rises, the profit margin becomes very small.

 

The third reason is the problem of the market for raising rabbits. It is not difficult to find a market for raising poultry such as pigs, chickens, ducks and geese in rural areas. However, for rabbit meat, the acceptance of the public is not as high as that of chicken and pork. At present, rabbit meat is not very popular, and people rarely eat rabbit meat in daily life, although in some places rabbit meat is It is a special delicacy, but there are still many people who don’t like rabbit meat. It is not as popular as other poultry, so the sales of rabbits will have certain limitations.

Rabbits cannot be sold, which is an important reason for farmers to choose to breed rabbits on a large scale. Now is the Internet era, communication tools are relatively developed, and there are relatively channels to find for sales. But if you can't find a channel, miss the market, and have a backlog of rabbits in your hands, it will only increase the cost of breeding.

 

 

 

Another key reason is that rabbits get sick easily. Don't look at the hares are always lively and jumping, but the domestic meat rabbits are much more squeamish. Many farmers who have just started raising rabbits have also heard of this, and they have also spent a lot of effort to understand the relevant knowledge of epidemic prevention and disease prevention. The child is thoughtful. As a result, the rabbits died from freezing or heat, and some female rabbits were not good at motherhood, and they even ate their own rabbits after giving birth.

The little rabbits have grown up with great difficulty, and they are very easy to get sick, and even the whole army will be wiped out if they are not careful.

 

For example, when winter and spring alternate, the weather is hot and cold, and the rabbit house is difficult to keep warm, and the temperature difference between morning and night is large, many rabbits are prone to rhinitis, pneumonia, fever, runny nose and other symptoms.

 

This is still mild, and if you suffer from pasteurellosis in rabbits, you will also experience symptoms such as difficulty breathing and stiffness in body movements. I had to take penicillin, streptomycin, lincomycin and other drugs one by one every day, but the results were not very effective, and the mortality rate could even be as high as 30%.

 

 

 

Here, the rabbit pasteurellosis has not been cured, and there is a group of rabbits who died due to lack of energy and diarrhea, and there is a high probability of contracting colibacillosis. After this stage, it is estimated that only half of the rabbits that can survive will be left.

 

Seeing that they have survived these human hardships, there will be a month before the rabbits will be able to be sold on the market. As a result, a rabbit plague struck again without warning, and suddenly dozens of rabbits died of sudden illness every day. Some rabbits were eating the forage well, but suddenly struggled and jumped twice, screamed a few times and died.

 

 

 

Rabbits raised hard, under the bombardment of various epidemics, are almost "annihilated". Therefore, in the case of large-scale farming, it is often necessary to regularly disinfect the rabbit shed, vaccinate the rabbits, and sometimes even ask a veterinarian to check the rabbits. These processes are cumbersome and labor-intensive.

From this point of view, raising rabbits is not a simple matter. Many farmers have found that raising rabbits is a thankless job. They have already learned all-round knowledge about epidemic prevention and took good care of rabbits, but they always lose money for various reasons, so they have to give up this project. project, and then invest in other product farming.

 

Many netizens who have raised rabbits shared their experience of raising rabbits: at the beginning, they calculated how much money they could make, but when the rabbits were launched, they found that it was not the case at all, and the gap between expectations and reality was too great! Therefore, raising rabbits sounds easier than it is to do. Slowly, except for those who are experienced and have mastered the market, not many people continue to choose the path of raising rabbits to become rich.