Rabbit breeding

The rabbit breeding (or cuniculiculture ) is the breeding domestic rabbits. It has as an main object the production of Viande, and sometimes that of hairs (rabbits will angoras) or Fourrure. Recently, the rabbit is high also like Pet.

History of rabbit breeding

Rabbit breeding is very old. As of the Moyen-âge it was practiced by the monks in enclosures called wild rabbits. It remained a long time a family breeding, each farm maintaining a rabbit burrow whose rabbits were nourished with the vegetation wastes available. Since about thirty years, an industrial breeding for the production of rabbits of flesh, intended especially for the Latin countries appeared.

Duration of breeding

In rational breeding, the setting with the reproduction of the lapines takes place 3 days after the birth of the preceding range. Artificial insemination is largely widespread. Knowing that gestation is 31 days (29 to 32 days), and that the prolificity is from approximately 10 to 12 young rabbits, a lapine can under these conditions of producing more than 90 young people per annum.

After setting-low, the lapine nurses its small during 35 days, until weaning. To weaning, the lapines are transferred in another part of the building and low put a new batch of rabbits a few days after the transfer. For the young rabbits remained in the old cage of the mother, the phase of fattening follows (lasted: approximately 40 days), during which they will pass from a weight bordering 900 grams to a weight bordering 2,5 kg. With demolition, the rabbits are thus old from 70 to 75 days (maternity + fattening).

Certain rabbit races, intended for the marketing of luxury, like the Orylag, profit from privileged conditions of breeding.

Sanitary arrangements

The recent System' Duet, or Very Full concept - Very Vacuum, allows, thanks to a transfer of the lapines, to ensure a control of the health hazards by allowing a total disinfection of the buildings of fattening. It also facilitates the work of the stockbreeders while enabling them to transfer only the mothers, instead of the young rabbits as it was usual to do it before. The rabbit is an animal particularly sensitive to the conditions of hygiènes.le rabbit is a rather delicate animal which often suffers from various anomalies and diseases: The dental anomalies often occur in rabbits. That can be so serious, that the absorption of food becomes impossible and the animal dies of hunger. One can avoid that by regularly cutting the incisors, a rather practical solution consists in introducing into his cage a wood end which the rabbit will corrode from time to time.

Many indispositions of rabbit can be treated without the assistance of the veterinary surgeon. It is especially necessary to give a food rich in greenery and to supervise: the eyes, the ears, the anus must always be kept clean and the position of the teeth must be regularly controlled. Moreover, the majority of the diseases of rabbits are to be allotted to malformations skeletons and a bad food. With the trouble for lack of congeneric. With an inappropriate food, misses water, drafts, too low surrounding temperature or too high, soaked litter, insufficient wear of the teeth for lack of material to corrode, abrupt change of food, not enough of place, not enough of space, misses care on the level of peeling at the time of the moult, etc a good maintenance of the animal decreases the diseases! " To have a pharmacy at the house appropriate to rabbits, cannot make mal."

The most frequent diseases in rabbits

" " It is always necessary to isolate the sick animals from the others if not that can quickly turn to the drama and all the breeding can be decimated all the élévage" "

Here a short outline of the diseases met in rabbits with the various symptoms and the possible causes:

Selection of the reproducers

It is very easy to determine the sex of the young young rabbit before it reaches the adulthood. That is possible by putting forward its sex by evagination. when it is about a male, the sex seems a round whereas in the case of a female, its vulva presents itself in the shape of a slit. (See figure Ci afterwards). Sexage of young Rabbits In the older young rabbits (1 month and more), a light pressure easily emphasizes the penis of the males or highlights well the vulvar slit of the female. In the reproductive female, a vulva going of the pink dark or bright red is the sign of a hormonal state allowing the coupling easily. If the vulva is white, there are very few chances so that the female agrees to couple itself with the male. Thus, the stockbreeder will may find it beneficial to check the color of the vulva before presenting a female to the male, so as to increase the chances of profitable projection. As should it be known as the color of the vulva can change from one day to another, even of the morning for the afternoon. (See figure Ci afterwards) Sexage of rabbits the lapines do not have all the same number of nipple under the belly (of 6 with more than 10 often) .cela can be an important criterion during the selection of the reproductive lapines. There are no regular sexual cycles at the lapine. It is the transfer in the cage of the male and the nervous shock caused by the projection which start hormonal secretions at the origin of ovulation. That Ci is possible in theory constantly safe for the period of gestation.

Unfolding of the projection

To accelerate the fruitfulness of the lapine, it is necessary to provide him in food corn grains or germinated corn. It would also be necessary to check the position of the female to know if it is in heat or not (by knowing that a lapine in heat folds the posterior legs tended and forefeet tended). The young male must have between 4 months and half and 5 months for a first experiment. The lapine can be covered dice the four months age. Always bring the female in the cage of rabbit and supervise the good progress of the operations to withdraw the female with the least confrontation or if she refuses the overlapping. A male should not be used more than 3 to 4 times per week and not more than 2 to 3 times per day, with an activity more reduced at the end of the summer. Note on the card of the male and that of the female the date of the projection and the identity of the joint reproducer.

Gestation

After the projection, gestation at the lapine is 31 days during which the lapine required an special attention and various care. Gestation is determined by the palpation of mother 12 to 14 days after the projection (to be realized with prudence). if not another way of knowing if a lapine is pregnant is to check the color of its urines i.e.: indeed a lapine in gestation with urines of a color blanchâtre (one would say milk). Lapine in gestation must much to drink (always to check that there is water in its cage), it should not also miss food because it is very important for the preparation of milk.

Preparation of the low setting

3 or 4 days before the date of low setting, it is necessary to envisage a papered nest of straw or chips inside from which the lapine will come to put low. A few front days, the female activates itself in the nest box. It arranges the straw with agitation? It depilates the belly. The low setting takes place the night, without intervention of the stockbreeder. Check the following day that all the young people alive and are well covered by the hairs in the nest. The cold is one of the main causes of mortality.

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