JF RABBITS: FOREMOST RABBIT BREEDER IN NIGERIA

Prevention of diseases in rabbits Some basic steps to prevent disease problems in your herd are: Try to avoid buying at the marketplace where many unknown germs come together. Try to buy from respected breeders, or farmers with clean housing and healthy looking animals. Inspect the animals anyway and after bringing them home keep them separated from your other animals (quarantine) for at least 2 weeks. Make routine checks on the health of your animals on the following points: Check nose, eyelids, ear edges for mange (little crusts), inside the ear for ear mite. Check the manure. It should be dry not somewhat pasty. Feel the stomach, to check that it is not spongy. This requires some practice. Check nose and front legs, certain coughs produce a kind of snot which then makes the front legs dirty. Check for the smell in the hutch, diarrhea /enteritis often causes a dirty smell. When the doe is lactating she is under stress and more liable to ...

Put in simple terms, breeding stock are the initial rabbits you will use to start a rabbit production project. This may consist of just a male and female rabbit or several females and few males depending on the scale of the project. Breeding stock or foundation stock is to me the most important factor to consider when going into rabbit production, the quality and quantity of which will determine to a large extent the profitability of the venture.  Don’t get your fingers burnt! 

What happens when a rabbit is pregnant?       How to check if the rabbit is pregnant Is the rabbit pregnant? How do I know? Examining a pregnant rabbit Actually, there are at least six very useful clues. In addition, knowing these clues becomes even more crucial if you suspect a breeding took place by accident.   Bone picking  

Rabbit breeding tips: Litter   I thought it very important to share with you a list of breeding tips as I am currently writing a book on milking babies from rabbits which I will publish soon. These tips I extracted from the book are worth going through if you are really interested in, or are already breeding rabbits  

  Feeding your bun: Rabbits have a very fragile digestive system, which has a low tolerance for bad/wrong feeding rations. For example, feeding your rabbits lettuce creates gas, which they cannot expel (they do not fat), this can upset the stomach, resulting to bloat and eventually death in severe cases. Before feeding your rabbits, do your bunny good by looking into the following points: