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:

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 ...

  Sample plan Rabbit Housing should be aimed at providing adequate shelter, a healthy and comfortable environment and reduce labor requirements to a minimum and at a low cost of formation. The rabbit spends its entire life in its cage and hence needs sufficient space to avoid the stress caused by restriction of movement. Vertical space is as important as horizontal space if the rabbit is to carry out its normal activities including stretching up its hind legs.

As I write this piece I am overwhelmed with joy because every day we keep getting new people into the rabbit industry, starting to raise their own rabbits in pairs and sometimes in hundreds.  Some new entrants in their own little way want to do just what I call ‘ Augmentation ’ of their income through the profit they will be making in their new venture. Others just want a new meat source; having lost their loved ones and country men to herdsmen carnage. Others just want to make good profit and others want to make huge and unrealistic profits from rabbit farming within a very short period of time. The last group of new entrants into the rabbit farming industry in Nigeria just want companionship and attachment to the furry creatures, in the ears of whom they can safely whisper their hearts. You  might be wondering what precisely I am talking about today. Well, am simply just want to appeal to you my dear reader to keep reading, whether you are newbie, and old...