Rabbits on the floor: the cheapest and easiest way to content
After trying several types of content in rabbits, a member with the nickname FORUMHOUSE paspay I came to the conclusion that the most convenient for the breeder and the most suitable for rabbits is a way to "keep rabbits on the floor."
In this article we will discuss:
- How to calculate the number of rabbits for floor, depending on the area of rabbitry.
- How to organize the content of the rabbits on the floor.
- How to make outdoor cages for rabbits.
- How to organize the rabbit population for floor maintenance.
- How to feed the rabbits at the floor maintenance.
- Disadvantages floor maintenance rabbits.
Experience in breeding rabbits in cages
By a method rabbits underfloor content paspay It was a difficult trial and error. Initially, rabbits, "Ladies - separately, the gentlemen - separately," lived in a single-stage cells that are located along the perimeter of a small shed. With this system, the rabbits were closely and breeders - troublesome: he had now and then wear a rabbit on a date is to one, then to another lady, move the rabbits in the liquor. Rabbits at this life is diluted terrible filth and stink, although the mesh floor, and the tray under the cages cleaned regularly. The most "straining" occupation was permanent wash feeders and an additive in animal feed and water them.
paspay (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Who faced - will understand.
The next stage was three-level content in a large barn. Rabbits were settled in furnished by all the rules of the cells, and, despite a number of obvious advantages, difficulties have diminished, rabbits rapidly multiplied, and cleaning 96 cells began to occupy the whole day, in addition, more work on the distribution of food and water.
paspay (Member FORUMHOUSE):
During these two months, I began to hate rabbits, as I realized that I got them into slavery.
How many rabbits in the rabbitry fit: do calculations
One person to grow as many rabbits difficult time and effort it takes too much. As a result, paspay I decided to keep the rabbits on the floor as much as possible by arranging livestock.
According to accepted standards in amateur rabbit breeding cells of floor space norm height of at least 40 cm per rabbit following:
krolikploschadsamka0,4-0,5 m. kvmolodnyak on otkorme0,08 m. kvremontny molodnyak0,17 m. kvsamets0,23 m sq.
The dimensions of the large barn were 12h4 meters. Multiplying the dimensions and dividing them by the arithmetic mean, the breeder found that can easily breed on the floor about 220 animals of different ages.
Example calculation: 12h4 / (0.4 + 0.08 + 0.17 + 0.23) / 4).
Thus, it turned out twice as individuals than with a three-tier content. Labor and time was to leave at times less.
Optimization rabbitry. Construction compartments
The next step after settlement began performing in Corel rabbitry plan and preparation for construction. By this time, the cells were disassembled, and rabbits almost three weeks galloping freely across the floor of the barn, so training has been reduced to cleaning the floor rabbit peas. During this cleaning breeder convinced that he was on the right track!
Cleaning 50 meters floor, which included a broom sweeping and washing, it took half an hour. Heap of manure, mixed with hay, shovel loaded on a wheelbarrow and taken out. Wherein:
- rabbit manure is dry;
- odor was absent;
- labor and vremyazatraty were minimal;
- rabbits themselves scattered to make way for a broom.
As a result, rabbitry was divided into four compartments (height partitions 1-1.2 meters), the height of the shed on the ground floor about two meters.
In the first compartment resides male and ten females. Rabbits at the age of 20-30 days, are taken from the rabbits from the first compartment and migrate into the second, nearby. There they remain until 60-90 days. Also in the second compartment contains the most interesting and promising young females. Growing rabbits are transferred into the third compartment, which contains the most promising male, rearing and for sale. Here, in all its beauty is a natural selection: the leaders and alpha males get into the first compartment, and outsiders - in the fourth.
In the fourth compartment contained rabbits, which are meat and sold for meat. From this compartment has done a manhole in the street area, fenced netting. On the ground, also bed netting that rabbits do not have dug a tunnel and escaped.
Also in the barn provided Senik, made feeders and waterers. Reusable queen cells are made of plastic boxes with a wooden lid.
Very young, unable to survive without their mother, rabbits can not leave the mother liquor, but as soon as they turned jump out of the box, the breeder thought them ready for independent life and tossed into a nearby bay, youngsters.
This is another advantage of this method: no need to count how many days turned to a particular rabbit.
As soon as the liquor out of all rabbits, it is removed, and in its place put the other in which all the plastic parts are washed, and the wooden insert burned with a blowtorch.
OnFORUMHOUSEwe were told in detail how to doliquor by Zolotukhin.
Member of our portal with the nickname ID1297105 also bred rabbits in this way: built frame 5 * 2.5 sheathed his polycarbonate, solar side obscured clapboard, arranged the nest, feeding, nipple drinkers and ran male and six females.
ID1297105 (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Fully confirms - no smell, clean and tidy!
Important: this method of content should be changed after each female 6-10 kindling.
So, sum up the benefits of floor maintenance of rabbits:
- rabbitry freely located in twice rabbits than in cells;
- rabbit transplant takes seconds: catch - threw;
- crawl-maker 15 days in a month living with a rabbit, 15 days - with young; thus, there is no need to carry it on appointments to females;
- Cleaning is done rarely and takes no more than 10 minutes in each zone.
How to make a bird feeder at the floor maintenance
As we remember, when caged breeder in most of the time occupied by the distribution of food for the feeder - one and a half hours. Here's how the process has been optimized feeding.
The second floor of the shed set drums with a capacity of 200 liters, the metallic drawing air from the pipe is made, at which the feed enters the compartment with rabbits on pad (Feed table). At the point where the pipe abuts against the pad on two opposite sides notches are made in the shape of triangles.
paspay (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Put a wooden platform on the floor, she put on the tube, the tube passes through the ceiling, on the second floor of the pipe wear metal barrel (a barrel bottom - cutout pipe size).
On one rabbit provided 5-10 cm long feed table.
Each feed trough 30 may simultaneously or adult rabbits to 60 young animals. Feed fed without restriction, each feeder poured separate type of feed: QA, oats, barley, wheat.
paspay (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Once or twice a month I fall asleep a few bags of food in the barrel to the brim, and feeding the problem is solved for me.
Staple food - barley.
paspay (Member FORUMHOUSE):
At 10 kilo of barley rabbits eat 7 pounds of 1 kg of wheat and oats. So they seem to want.
The composition of the hay, mainly include "fire", also rabbits willingly eat oats, which has been specially sown in summer and sloped green.
Article on FORUMHOUSE tells how to count your animals needed the volume of hay and how to prepare.
Get rabbits and juicy food: carrots, red and fodder beet. Root crops also issued little animals without restrictions.
paspay (Member FORUMHOUSE):
I dumped on the floor by the bucket - the rabbits when they want to, fit, bite, they leave.
The only obvious minus floor maintenance is associated just with unlimited food intake to Rabbit - young with 3-4 months of age consume food so quickly that the monthly rate goes 2-3 week.
paspay (Member FORUMHOUSE):
It is necessary to limit in food or score from reaching 3-4 months of age.
Despite the fact that the rabbit barn not heated at -20 ° C animals feel good. In general, these conditions are more natural for rabbits, and they are less likely ill.
On FORUMHOUSE you can meet other ways to optimize the rabbitry, Read an article about how breeding rabbits in a holeAs well as watch video Master class from an experienced breeder.
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