How to care for a rabbit? How to raise rabbits

Eat when you want, sleep when you want.

The first thing to know when raising rabbits is:

1. Rabbits are herbivores, 2. Rabbits are kept indoors as pets for a long time and need to cut their nails regularly. 3. Rabbits need to grind their teeth, 4. To provide rabbits with a special small pet kettle, 5. Rabbits do not need to take a bath often, it loves to be clean, 6. It is best to play with rabbits often, give it time to let off steam, and avoid rabbit depression, 7. Before raising rabbits, first look at whether there is a small pet hospital near your home to ensure that rabbits can seek medical attention in time if they are sick, 8. Rabbits are timid and easily frightened, do not scare it in ordinary life, so as not to cause rabbits to overreact, and serious rabbits may be scared to death.

Item Required: Cage. Choose a larger cage to facilitate rabbit activities. If the rabbit is too small, it is not recommended to buy a double cage to avoid leg injury.

Foot pads. Prevent rabbits from dermatitis of the feet.

Toilets, diapers, deodorized rice grains. Owners can exercise rabbits to go to the toilet kettle at a fixed point. Use a ball-bearing kettle to prevent rabbits from getting stomatitis. Note: Rabbits have weak stomachs, so they should be fed cool white food bowls, grass racks, and teething utensils.

Feeding: Rabbit food.

Hay grass, alfalfa + Timothy grass for young rabbits (< 6 months), Timothy grass for adult rabbits (> 6 months).

Molars, vegetables, snacks.

Note: Young rabbits (< 6 months) must be protected against coccidia.

1. Rabbits need a quiet environment.

2. Rabbits can't drink too much water, can't eat stale vegetables, and can't eat food with too high water content.

3. The feeding environment is clean and ventilated, and there is a certain amount of activity time every day.

4. If you are raising in a cage, you need to pad a wooden board at the bottom and add a towel.

Rabbit breeding is not complicated, but there are some details that need to be paid attention to: first of all, in terms of diet, rabbits should be mainly pasture and rabbit food, and the owner should choose to feed young rabbit food or adult rabbit food according to the age and nutritional needs of rabbits. If the rabbit is still in the juvenile stage, the owner should feed alfalfa grass and Timothy grass in a two-to-one ratio, if the rabbit is already an adult, it should be mainly Timothy grass, too much feeding may cause diarrhea in the rabbit.

Secondly, in terms of daily care, it is necessary to clean the cage regularly, and lay foot pads in the cage to avoid toylitis in rabbits without foot pads. Finally, it is also necessary to deworm the rabbit regularly, and the number of baths should not be frequent, and in summer, the owner also needs to do a good job of preventing heatstroke for the rabbit to avoid heat stroke in the rabbit.

1. Buy an indoor rabbit cage. Although rabbits are small in size, they need plenty of space to move around. Medium-sized rabbits need to be at least 120 cm wide, 60 cm deep, and 60 cm tall.

Look for a cage with a solid bottom and surrounded by wires on all sides to allow plenty of air circulation.

2. Spread hay or wood chips in the cage. Rabbits love cosy nests, so spread soft natural materials on the bottom of the cage to keep them comfortable. You can use any hay other than alfalfa grass.

Never use pine or cypress chips, as the smoke emitted by these plants is harmful to the rabbit's organs.

3. Place the cage in the area for rabbits to move. You have to put the rabbit out and jump around, so put the cage in a room you don't mind sharing with the rabbit. Remove all wires, small items, and valuable furniture from the room, as rabbits love to bite things.

4. Provide a potty. Rabbits will naturally use the same spot as a "toilet" over and over again, and this is usually a corner of the cage. Spread the newspaper on the urinal to transport the plum (the pet store has **), put the hay, and then place it in the rabbit's favorite corner.

The vitality of the young hare is very fragile, and it is necessary to give it a healthy and clean breeding environment. The feeding is mainly fresh grasses, supplemented by wheat flour, carrot flour and soybean flour, which is fed every four hours and four times a day. Keeping them exercising for half an hour a day can boost digestion and strengthen their physique.

When feeding, we should pay attention to the reasonable combination of food and feeding methods. The concentrate feed of rabbit food is mainly to provide rabbits with daily energy nutrients, such as protein, fat, then minerals, amino acids and so on.

Forage roughage mainly provides the crude fiber that rabbits need every day, followed by protein, amino acids, etc. The juicy feed of vegetables and fruits mainly provides rabbits with daily vitamins and water.

Therefore, when feeding, rabbit food, pasture, fruits and vegetables should be reasonably matched. At the same time, feed regularly and quantitatively every day, do not change the time when the rabbit eats at will, and do not change the type of food suddenly.

Avoid rabbits from adapting to this sudden change in their stomach and intestines, resulting in indigestion, vomiting and diarrhea. It should take 7-10 days to change the food for rabbits, gradually and slowly.

In addition to reasonable diet, in order to make the rabbit grow quickly and healthily, it is also necessary to guide the rabbit to carry out the necessary exercises. Strengthen the body, promote metabolism and blood circulation of the body, enhance the body's resistance, prevent the injury of diseases, and can also effectively prevent obesity and ensure that the rabbit's body is healthy and hungry.

The habits of the hare:

Hares generally eat once every two days, like dry, very hidden, generally alone, no holes, usually difficult to be found, and the food is mainly weeds, leaves, etc., if it is artificially bred, can be fed all kinds of grasses, vegetables, etc.

In addition, the hare will change its behavior pattern in the spring to achieve reproduction, and the female rabbit will "box" the male rabbit to test the male rabbit's determination.

Compared with rabbits and hares, the difference is that rabbits are larger, and rabbits are thicker in terms of coat, and in terms of reproductive performance, rabbits have higher fecundity, and can produce about 50 rabbits a year, while hares can only produce about 20 rabbits.

Hares are highly prolific animals, usually begin to mate and breed in the spring of each year, and depending on the climate, generally the northern hare breed 3 to 4 litters per year, and the southern hare breed 6 to 8 litters per year.