JF RABBITS: FOREMOST RABBIT BREEDER IN NIGERIA

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.

In this article I will highlight what influences milk intake, solid feed intake, feed composition, restricted mode of feeding, hunger and thirst, feeding behavior in young and adult rabbits and restricted access to drinking water. The results of the research conducted by: Dr. Zsolt Szendro , Dr. Zsolt Matics , and Dr. Zsolt Gerencsér explains these factors that influence how rabbits feed.      suckling kitts   

  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:  

Rabbit farming in Nigeria       Pros The advantages of raising rabbits can be anything from a profitable hobby to a full-time living. Rabbits fit well into a balanced farming system. They complement well with vegetable growing. Excess and waste from vegetable gardens and kitchen goes to feed the rabbits, whereas their manure is used to fertilize gardens, thus forming a profitable cycle and aiding the balance of nature. Consumption of animal protein in Nigeria still remains low  at about 3.0-6.4 g/head/day many years after the 13.5g/head/day prescription by the World Health Organization (Egbunike, 1997).

  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: