Raising industrial rabbits in Cu Chi

Rabbits are easy to raise, economic, rabbit meat is also a nutritious, nutritious food. In recent years, agricultural land in the Ho Chi Minh City coastal area has been narrowed, giving way to industrial parks and high-rise buildings. There are no fresh green grasses, so rabbit breeders follow the traditional way (for rabbits to eat vegetables and grass), if they want to grow rabbits on a large scale even in quantity and quality, it will meet many difficulties. food towels, especially breeds.

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In order to overcome this problem, Mr. Nguyen Hoang To, owner of Vuong Tien farm is located in quarter 6, Cu Chi town - Ho Chi Minh City. After many years of research, combining animal husbandry has succeeded in raising and breeding two varieties. Exotic rabbits have a lot more weight than rabbits.

That's the same : French giant butterflies, California. Through research, he said that raising industrial rabbits is also very easy, less costly to take care of, it is faster to cut grass, rabbits, healthy, less sick, low veterinary costs. The maximum weight of raising is 6.5 -7kg / head, the area of ​​cages is not much, can make three-storey stables; area for a floor of 2m x1m = 2m2, area for 3 floors 2m ² x 3 = 6m ² , cage cage height 30cm. The distance between the two floors is 25 cm, below each floor, to catch feces and urine, around the barn and the trellis net; The bottom of the cage makes removable bamboo or wooden blisters for easy cleaning. Each row of cages should have a water reservoir (automatic pressure type), with wires to each compartment and a trough of starch feed. About the breeding farm providing healthy baby rabbits, not sick, before vaccination are vaccinated, the pregnant mother rabbits when brought back to ensure good reproduction.

Food : Feeding 100% starch feed can be used from agricultural raw materials and waste products such as rice, corn, soybeans, cassava, mashed and mixed with some essential minerals or processed foods Available as bran pellets of pigs, chickens, HIGRO 552 or VINA . for every 2.5kg of feed will give 1kg of meat, young rabbits eat 20g / day, 120g for big rabbits, 1 month weight gain to reach 1kg.

Care : Regularly clean the breeding facilities, feeding troughs, drinking troughs to dry and dry every day. Time for mating: Mother rabbits are 105 days old and start mating. From 20-25 days, the mother started to separate her mother, the weight reached 500-600 g, the time for the second breeding was 10 days apart. Rabbits rearing meat from birth to 2.5 months of production reach 2.2-2.5 kg. Currently his farm has nearly 100 heads of parents, rabbit and rabbits. The selling price of baby rabbits (from 25 to 30 days old) is 100,000 VND / pair, parent breeds 120,000 VND / kg.

Prevention : Industrial breeding rabbits are less disease-prone than grass rabbits, perform good breeding, balance rational diets because food affects a lot of diseases, such as high protein diets leading to Rabbits with diarrhea, clean cages, and well-done rabbit vaccines will prevent most diseases. After nearly 20 years of raising rabbits, breeding rabbits, he provided many breeds for farmers, technical support, especially he spent a lot of time and enthusiastically wrote the book " Industrialization of rabbit breeding " help farmers add more knowledge to change breeding methods more effectively.