JF RABBITS: FOREMOST RABBIT BREEDER IN NIGERIA

   14 MUST KNOW FACTS ABOUT RABBIT MEAT PRODUCTION AROUND THE WORLD   This section will consider particularly those terms which are regularly used in rabbit reproduction that have to bear with the process of bringing forth young ones. Male: The male rabbit is known as the buck. Female: The female rabbit is known as the doe. Gestation: The gestation period of a rabbit is 29-35 days. Litter: The litter size can vary from 4-12 offspring. Continue:

   

  Fox glove  In the wild, rabbits eat grass and leafy greens virtually continually, and this makes up the bulk of their diet, topped up by the occasional windfall or tasty morsel of certain fruit and veg that they manage to find! In order to provide the correct diet for the domestic rabbit, these too should have access to lots of roughage to chew on continually, ideally in the form of fresh grass grazing, but if this is not possible, hay is an appropriate substitute.

Sprouts   Rabbit farming is fast becoming a profitable business in Nigeria with more youths daily going into the business. Thanks to but regrettably the deep recession   Nigeria is into, you can feel it’s waves sweeping through the country.   Rabbits can be raised in backyards, garages, storerooms, sheds or cages.   In the past years I have been researching on the best and cheapest feeds I can give my over 100 rabbits to grow big and mature fast. Check out my venturesome search for free rabbit feed   In just a moment I will share with you a simple, cost saving and efficient method I have been using to feed my rabbits optimally and keep them healthy the year round.

  Starting on a sad note, it is true that the country is in recession and is not recovering well. Citizens now taste, smell and feel the recession’s unhealthy pot. It is even worse and appalling out there were a population of teeming youths are only good at designing eye catching CVs and waiting for white-collar jobs without making use of their youthful vigor and education to invent and workout positive ideas that will positively affect and turn around the economy. Such is the case with Nigeria.   In this post  I am going to share with you some financial benefits of starting a rabbit farming business and hoping you start one tomorrow and get yourself out of that job seekers zone. Or perhaps diversify your farming project, or better still make a decision to save money and your family's health by raising your own meat rabbits at home.  

Rabbit farming in Nigeria Raising rabbits has been a long standing tradition in Europe, North America and Asia. Africa however, in Nigeria precisely, we are yet to see the type of large-scale type industrial rabbit farms we can find in England, China, US and Italy. On a small-scale platform however, Nigeria with its 100,000,000 population was known to be the leading rabbit meat producer in Africa decades ago. In recent times, countries including Kenya, Egypt and Burundi have taken leading positions in curniculture business while Nigeria with its massive population follows reluctantly.   The United Nations Organization in the past has sponsored a number of curniculture researches and projects in more than a dozen African countries ( Nigeria  included ) for the following reasons:  

The rabbit is a very unique animal with unique senses, likes and dislikes. To own a rabbit I use to say is a form of being unique – no exaggeration! And to be able to successfully take care of and raise a rabbit is even more matchless. It takes a really calm mind to understand and appreciate and look after them. Over the years of my living with rabbits, 1 in my room and a hundred+ in my backyard I have compiled a list of their basic needs which I feel might be useful to you. Check them out:   A suitable place to live A healthy diet including fresh clean water Exercise and activity Appropriate company, including any need to be housed with, or apart from other animals Protection from pain, suffering, injury and disease

An Adventurous search for free rabbit food Earlier this year I had worried about one particular group of bunnies in my herd. They eat almost anything; human food, scraps, woods, shrubs, leaves, greens, grasses, roots etc. Surprisingly, the rabbits proved my worrying about them wrong; they never fell or showed any sign of illness. They lived on munching, munching, grazing day after day, jumping-stretching in the air now and then. Every day was fun for the bunnies as they grazed outside on the forest of green pasture behind my home. 

Growing rabbit food without soil Rabbit farming is becoming a very lucrative business in Nigeria having more youths daily starting to raise rabbits in their backyards, garages and storerooms. Thanks to the Economic woes Nigeria is going through.

  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:

Why sprouted? Double the value, lower the cost of feeding. Give your bunnies the best! To sprout is quite simple. You will need the following: bleach, perforated container, water, wheat or barley - barley is best.