Causes and countermeasures of female rabbits eating offspring
1. Rabbit feed is not nutritious Comprehensive: If there is a long-term lack of vitamins or minerals in the rabbit feed, it is easy to cause the female rabbit to eat the young due to malnutrition.
Corresponding countermeasures: It is necessary to control the complete nutrition of the feed of the female rabbit, especially during the breeding period of the female rabbit. The feed of the female rabbit should be rich in nutrients such as protein, minerals and vitamins, and the female rabbit can be regularly fed an appropriate amount of green and juicy feed to ensure that the rabbit is nutritionally complete.
2. The female rabbit is dehydrated: the female rabbit will often feel thirsty due to the loss of fetal water during childbirth and the fetus will be discharged. Therefore, the female rabbit will often jump out of the birthing box to look for water to drink after giving birth. Prepare drinking water for the female rabbit, and the female rabbit is likely to eat the offspring.
Corresponding countermeasures: Before and after the mother rabbit gives birth, provide sufficient water to the mother rabbit in time, and supply an appropriate amount of green and juicy feed at the same time.
3. The female rabbit is frightened: during or after the birth of the female rabbit, if the female rabbit is startled by a sudden sound or the sound of other animals, she will often stop giving birth, or put her offspring after giving birth. Rabbits are trampled to death or eaten.
Corresponding countermeasures: keep the surrounding environment of the rabbit house quiet, and pay attention to prevent other animals from breaking into the rabbit house.
4. The female rabbit smells irritating foreign objects: prevent the farrowing crate or litter from peculiar smell, so as to prevent the female rabbit from smelling Suspicious, eat the baby rabbit by mistake. Corresponding countermeasures: A few days before the female rabbit gives birth, thoroughly clean and sterilize the birthing box, put it in the sun to dry, and then put a clean bedding on it, and then place it in the appropriate place in the rabbit house. Also, after the mother has given birth, be careful not to touch the pups with smelly hands.
5. Postpartum lack of milk in female rabbits: The young rabbits will compete with each other for nipples when they do not have enough milk, and even bite the nipple of the female rabbit, so the female rabbit refuses to breastfeed or bite the young rabbit because of pain .
Corresponding countermeasures: strengthen the nutrition of the female rabbit in time, and feed the female rabbit with green and juicy feed during pregnancy to supplement nutrition. If the breast milk is not enough due to too many litter sizes, it is best to foster some of the pups to mother rabbits with sufficient milk.
6. Female rabbits suffer from cub-eating addiction: Many primiparous female rabbits may develop cub-eating habit after eating cubs for the first time.
Corresponding countermeasures: Arrange artificial supervision or artificial labor induction when the female rabbit is giving birth. When the mother rabbit is finished giving birth, the pups and the mother rabbits are kept separately, and the mother rabbits can breastfeed the pups at regular intervals every day.
