Pointers on Raising Rabbits
POINTERS ON RAISING RABBITS
For Beginners:
- Raisers can start with one male and two females
- It is best to buy them when they are 2 months old right after they weaned.
- Be sure to buy your breeding stock only from reliable sources.
- Select your rabbits that are the offspring of prolific does who knew how to suckle or nurse their young.
- Pick out aggressive, well develop bucks.
- Bucks and does selected should be both vigorous, healthy and free from defects.
- Raisers should provide each animals with its own cage, which should be placed in a quite area that is not directly exposed to sunlight. Bucks and does must be separated because rabbits are territorial animals.
- Rabbits are strict vegetarians and should be fed twice daily, once in the morning and then late in the afternoon. To maximize productivity, the animals should be feed with concentrate, supplements like green roots or bread scraps maybe added to the diet. Scrap table greens may include pechay, lettuce, cauliflower, camote leaves, malunggay and cabbage. Rabbits also relish peelings of banana, melons and various kinds but not the rinds of green papaya and chayote.
- Water should be provided at all times, the container should always be full of fresh, clean drinking water. Rabbits, especially lactating does, drink plenty of water. The container should be cleaned daily
- Does in heat become restless and lose appetite. Their external genetalia become inflamed. When this occurs, the does in heat should be brought to the buck pen. Since rabbits are territorial, the female should be place in the male pen. If it’s done the other way, the female may kill the male.
- The buck should serve the doe at least 2 times. The best time to breed the animals are early in the morning(5:00 -8:00 am) or late in the afternoon(4:00- 7:00 pm). Be sure not to leave the doe in the pen overnight with the buck.
- A pregnant doe has a short gestation period of 28 days to 1 month or 32 days if it is an old
For Beginners:
- Raisers can start with one male and two females
- It is best to buy them when they are 2 months old right after they weaned.
- Be sure to buy your breeding stock only from reliable sources.
- Select your rabbits that are the offspring of prolific does who knew how to suckle or nurse their young.
- Pick out aggressive, well develop bucks.
- Bucks and does selected should be both vigorous, healthy and free from defects.
- Raisers should provide each animals with its own cage, which should be placed in a quite area that is not directly exposed to sunlight. Bucks and does must be separated because rabbits are territorial animals.
- Rabbits are strict vegetarians and should be fed twice daily, once in the morning and then late in the afternoon. To maximize productivity, the animals should be feed with concentrate, supplements like green roots or bread scraps maybe added to the diet. Scrap table greens may include pechay, lettuce, cauliflower, camote leaves, malunggay and cabbage. Rabbits also relish peelings of banana, melons and various kinds but not the rinds of green papaya and chayote.
- Water should be provided at all times, the container should always be full of fresh, clean drinking water. Rabbits, especially lactating does, drink plenty of water. The container should be cleaned daily
- Does in heat become restless and lose appetite. Their external genetalia become inflamed. When this occurs, the does in heat should be brought to the buck pen. Since rabbits are territorial, the female should be place in the male pen. If it’s done the other way, the female may kill the male.
- The buck should serve the doe at least 2 times. The best time to breed the animals are early in the morning(5:00 -8:00 am) or late in the afternoon(4:00- 7:00 pm). Be sure not to leave the doe in the pen overnight with the buck.
- A pregnant doe has a short gestation period of 28 days to 1 month or 32 days if it is an old