JF RABBITS: FOREMOST RABBIT BREEDER IN NIGERIA

  Checking a rabbits health   Rabbits are usually disease free animals but negligence is the only factor that causes complications. The most common diseases and health problems that could affect your herd, what causes them and possible remedies are discussed in this post.   Prevention First of all: It saves costs, prevents stress for care giver and rabbits and above all, prevention is very crucial where there is little knowledge on medications.

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 ...

   

        The life cycle of the rabbit Do you remember the day you got your first bunnies, a happy day when you chose which rabbit(s) you would like took them home and probably showed them to friends and neighbors? But some of us are unfortunate enough hours, days, weeks and even months later our new rabbits suddenly dying for no apparent reason. Or so we think. There is always a cause of death and many new owners in particular think the rabbit just randomly dropped dead for no reason when this is never the case.   Rabbits are born in litters of 1-14 typically around eight is what most rabbits give birth to, bear in mind new mothers will often birth smaller litters. The (kits) start eating what their mother eats at around three weeks and can leave their mother at eight weeks. Male rabbits (bucks) can become sexually mature as early as ten weeks so be careful but most become sexually mature at around four months when this is a good idea to have ...

 Why health experts recommend rabbit meat                                More meat less fat, less cholesterol Try this Old Fashion Rabbit Stew  

Why health experts recommend rabbit meat                               More meat less fat, less cholesterol Try this Old Fashion Rabbit Stew  

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