How to improve the survival rate of young rabbits
1. Stress factors
The process of transitioning from young rabbits to young rabbits will experience large environmental changes and are easily affected by various stress factors, such as diet changes, feed changes, cages Changes, vaccine injections, drug prevention, etc., these factors can easily lead to stress in young rabbits and reduce their disease resistance.
Therefore, the feeder should pay attention to the details of feeding and management, and try to prevent rabbits from stressing. Keep the feed, environment and management unchanged within one week after weaning rabbits, implement gradual transition, give young rabbits sufficient time to adapt, and reduce the probability of rabbits being stressed due to various changes. In addition, scientific arrangements are made for grouping and cage adjustment, piercing the ears, vaccination, drug prevention, etc., to be carried out separately.
2. Provide a comfortable breeding environment
Young rabbits have poor adaptability to the environment, so a suitable growth environment should be created for the young rabbits in advance. Because the neuromodulatory function of young rabbits is not perfect, a little fright may cause the rabbit group to startle, affecting the feeding, digestion and excretion of young rabbits, as well as affecting the normal growth and development of young rabbits. induce disease. Therefore, care should be taken to create a quiet, clean, dry, ventilated, warm and moderately dense growing environment for young rabbits.
3. Do a good job of nutritional regulation in a timely manner
the growth of young rabbits Development is rapid, and young rabbits need to eat a lot of feed during this period. However, at this time, their gastrointestinal volume is still small and their digestive ability is poor, but because of their strong appetite, young rabbits often suffer from indigestion due to gluttony. More than 50% of the death causes of young rabbits are caused by abnormal digestive system, so it is necessary to focus on nutritional regulation for young rabbits to prevent them from developing digestive system diseases.
Young rabbits after weaning should be fed with pellets that are nutritionally complete, small in size, good in palatability, high in energy and protein, and easy to digest, while a small amount of feed is too much water green fodder and coarse fodder. Note that the diet of young rabbits is not as high as possible. Feeding too much concentrated feed will easily lead to diarrhea and enteritis in young rabbits. A certain amount of roughage is very helpful for young rabbits to regulate the function of the digestive system. Therefore, it is necessary to Pay attention to feeding high-energy concentrated feeds such as corn in moderation, and increasing the feeding of high-fiber feeds such as alfalfa, which can prevent enteritis in young rabbits to a certain extent. In addition, in order to promote the growth and development of young rabbits, an appropriate amount of vitamins, trace elements, amino acids, enzymes and antibiotics can be added to the mixture. In addition, pay attention to ensure that the rabbit feed is clean and fresh, the green feed should be fresh and tender, and the grass with soil must be cleaned and dried before feeding them.
4. Strengthen feeding management
Young rabbits have a strong appetite and are prone to gluttony. Therefore, when feeding young rabbits, we must pay attention to regular and quantitative feeding, and feed less frequently. Feeding can be divided into 4 to 5 times a day. Mixed concentrates can be fed 2 times a day, and green feeds can be fed 2 to 3 times a day, but pay attention to proper feeding. At the same time, the feeding amount should be gradually increased with the growth of the young rabbit’s age and body weight. Generally, it can be judged whether to adjust the feeding amount by observing whether there is leftover material after each feeding and observing the softness and hardness of the feces of young rabbits. However, it is also necessary to keep the feed relatively stable, and do not increase or change the feed suddenly, otherwise, it is easy to cause the baby rabbit to suffer from digestive tract diseases or cause death. In addition, in the process of raising and managing young rabbits, pay attention to ensure that they are always given sufficient and clean drinking water.
5. Do a good job of epidemic prevention and control measures
Young rabbits are easy to cause disease Rabbit coccidiosis, colibacillosis, pasteurellosis, rabbit plague and other diseases, if you do not pay attention to the epidemic prevention work for them, young rabbits can easily get infectious diseases, and even cause the whole group to be wiped out. Therefore, attention should be paid to formulating scientific and reasonable immunization procedures for young rabbits, and doing a good job in environmental disinfection, drug prevention, immunization, and strengthening feeding management. Keep the rabbit house and cage clean, insist on regular disinfection, and remove the rabbit’s feces in time. After the young rabbits are suitable for vaccination, they should be vaccinated with vaccines such as rabbit plague vaccine, Pasteurella, Bordetella and Clostridium welchii vaccines in time to prevent the disease. In addition, rabbits in this period are easily threatened by coccidiosis. Therefore, it is also necessary to add anti-coccidial, anti-enteritis and growth-promoting drugs to the feed of young rabbits, such as diclazuril, dichloride and other drugs. Prevent young rabbits from contracting coccidiosis.
