Kira Stoletova
To raise healthy and strong animals, you need to know the characteristics of their diet. How many times a day do you feed rabbits? We will analyze what and in what quantity should be given to the eared, so that there are no problems in the future.
Nutrition Basics
It is difficult for beginner breeders to understand the intricacies of breeding, so they often make certain mistakes. No need to calculate the ratio of proteins and carbohydrates per month on a calculator. Knowing the basics of feeding, you can avoid trouble.
- Quality products. It is forbidden to give rotten and moldy food. Wet, frozen or frosted food is a source of disease.
- Diverse menu. Even the most delicious diet quickly becomes boring. Rabbits are more sensitive to food, so it is important to offer them a variety of species.
- Water. Dry food is better absorbed only with an abundance of fresh liquid. The lack of an important element is first of all reflected in the form of constipation and lack of milk in lactating females.
- Food is given at a certain time. Animals quickly get used to the schedule and wait for food.
- You can't feed all groups the same. The daily rate for each type of rabbit is different.
Eared eat at least 30 times in 24 hours. According to the Mikhailov system, animals have regular access to food. In nature, the rodent constantly finds twigs or grass, so the body receives nutrients in sufficient quantities. In this case, the livestock grows up healthy and strong, without a single hint of obesity.
With cellular content, not only plant foods are necessarily obtained, but also animal products. Experienced breeders provide fish oil, bone meal and whole milk with whey. It is useful to give silage with the addition of beets, potatoes and concentrate. Be sure to include trace elements.
Feeding mode
Rabbits eat very often, so it seems to beginners that the animal is constantly chewing something. Farms prefer two meals a day: in the morning and in the evening. At home, three meals a day are practiced:
- in winter - at 8, 12 and 17 hours;
- in summer - at 6, 15 and 19.
In cold weather, in the morning and in the evening, they give half the ration of concentrate (grain) and the same amount of silage. At noon, it is better to feed root crops. In warm seasons, dry food (50%) and grass are preferred at the beginning and end of the day. Dried greens are divided into 3 portions and made each time.
This diet will help to quickly build muscle mass in animals. Always check the availability of drinking water. In cold weather, the liquid must be heated to room temperature.
fattening
Meat breeds are grown according to a certain scheme. It is important in a few weeks not only to increase weight, but also to get an excellent ratio of meat and fatness. Experienced breeders recommend starting the process 42 days before the intended slaughter.
What and how many times a day to feed rabbits? More than 50% of the menu is concentrated, and to increase fat, it is recommended to give boiled potatoes, corn and barley. Sometimes peas and oats are allowed, and parsley and dill are mixed with hay.
Animals should move less and gain weight faster. To do this, their movement is limited to a cage in which no more than 6 eared heads sit. They are sent for slaughter after the individuals become lazy and have little interest in food.
Diet during mating
To get healthy and strong rabbits, you need to take care of the condition of future parents. Thin people are provided with enhanced nutrition, and fat people are transferred to a diet. Lack or excess of fat leads to stillbirth, and the quality of sperm decreases in males.
Enhanced feeding of emaciated individuals begins a month before the mating period. It is necessary to increase the daily ration, bringing it closer in nutritional value to the menu of mother-in-law ladies. Abundance and variety are complemented by multivitamins.
To improve the quality of sperm in males, you need to use protein foods. For enrichment, oilseed cake, meat and bone and fish meal are added to food. During the mating period, products that contribute to obesity cannot be used, therefore, exclude:
- barley;
- corn;
- potato.
The viability of rabbits depends on the state of health of producing animals. It is advised to provide a complete and varied diet with a sufficient amount of useful trace elements. Veterinary supplements can be used at this stage.
What should a rabbit eat during its dormant period? A typical diet consists of a third of grain and 70% of hay. Add to food (in grams per head):
- salt - 1;
- bone meal - 4;
- ground shell - 2.
Features of the menu of females
A pregnant rabbit eats a lot. It is difficult for obese mothers to give birth. Before the round, the daily norm is reduced, but starvation is not allowed. Lack of nutrients leads to a delay in the natural development of the fetus.
One rabbit eats from 60 to 100 g of vegetable food (oats, concentrate, legumes) per day. Additionally, sunflower or soybean cake is added - no more than a third of the norm. Since there is no lactation yet, half a kilogram of grass is enough.
Do not forget about carrots and potatoes: 250 g per head. Pregnant females must be given minerals and vitamins, and fish oil and meat and bone meal are suitable as natural supplements. It is important to monitor the quality of the water.
After childbirth, you need to increase lactation. A lactating female rabbit eats green grass in summer, and in cold seasons it is better to give root crops, hay and silage. Feeding rates increase in the period from 20 to 45 days (in grams per individual):
- compound feed - 150;
- juicy menu - 300;
- grass - 1000.
Lactating females need to consume 60-70 g of protein per day with food. The composition of their feed should include at least 17-18% of an important product.
Toddlers watch their mother and soon begin to taste adult food themselves. In order for the rabbit not to starve, it is necessary to add 30 g of concentrate and hay to the daily dose in winter, and in summer - 25 and 60 g each. In this case, you can not worry about the lack of food and a decrease in lactation.
Features of the young animals menu
Feeding rabbits has its own subtleties. It is better to plant babies in the period from 30 to 45 days after birth. If you deprive mother's milk for more early age, the digestive system of young people will not have time to form properly. Any "adult" diet is not suitable for eating crumbs, so everything new is introduced gradually.
Experienced farmers prefer to use granulated concentrate. The daily feed intake for young rabbits is (in grams per head):
- up to 2 months - from 85 to 125;
- up to 90 days - from 130 to 170;
- from 13 weeks - from 180 to 200.
By the way, the menu can be varied with greens and hay. Feed is reduced to 85% and the remaining 15% is used for grass. In the morning, they give half the daily norm of dry food, and in the evening, root crops are added to the remainder. During the day, it is recommended not to forget about silage. Wet types of food are given in such a way that they are eaten for 1.5 hours.
summer feeding
Warm seasons are a great period to diversify the menu of animals. The basis of the diet is both grass and a leaf of radish, carrots. Eared well absorb branches of fruit varieties of trees. It is not forbidden to offer apples, cabbages and waste from them.
You can not give large quantities of sugar and red beets. Foods cause increased gas formation, which leads to bloating. It is allowed to use fodder types of root crops. To improve digestion give odorous herbs:
- sagebrush;
- dill;
- yarrow;
- chicory.
Dried garlic stalks are used to prevent dental problems, and plantain is a natural antibiotic. Young nettles will become a natural source of vitamins. By the way, such a delicacy can be given to both a nursing rabbit and meat species.
How much greenery is allowed per pet? On average, adults eat up to 600 g of grass, rabbits - from 150 g or more. The content of lactating mothers allows you to increase the rate by 2 times. Using this type of diet reduces dry food consumption and saves on concentrates.
winter feeding
In cold seasons, animals are often deficient in vitamins. Microelements A, D, E and B12 must be added to the daily norms of feed for rabbits. High-quality hay and fermented green fodder will provide the body with important components. Fish oil is added once a day (in grams per head):
- rabbits - 0.5;
- lactating females - 3;
- pregnant women - 2;
- other animals - 1.
Sprouted grain is rich in vitamin E, so it is regularly given to both kids and adults. If there is no time to grow greens, then sometimes it can be replaced with yeast. Within 5 days, one individual is fed up to 6 g of a bakery product. Then they take a break for 72 hours and repeat again.
» Rabbits
Feeding rabbits and getting a healthy livestock is not difficult if you work hard. After birth, babies in the first weeks of life receive good nutrition with rabbit milk. Then they move on to food. There are some differences in the diet for babies and adults. Properly selected nutrition will improve the quality of fur and meat, and for this you need to know how to properly feed young animals of different ages. In this article, you will learn how to feed little rabbits, as well as consider all the nuances of artificial feeding.
From birth to complementary foods, the main food for rabbits is mother's milk. When the rabbit is behaving normally and she is healthy, then there is no reason to worry. At that time the concern of the rabbit breeder is to provide them with good conditions. This is an abundance of quality food and water. At this time, the female experiences a great load on the body, so it should increase nutrients in the diet. She has 170 grams of milk per day, or even more. And with it 25 grams of protein. Therefore, for replenishment, she needs more nutritious food than before the lactation period. For a rabbit with an average weight of 5-6 kg, the consumption rate of feed units is 330-700 grams (1 feed unit is equal to 1 kg of oats). The menu should be changed every week.
At this time, the rabbit should be fed:
- during the summer period: clover, alfalfa, oat mixture, forbs;
- in winter: bean hay, boiled potatoes, silage, carrots.
Also on the menu pea mixture added, oats, bran and cake.
How much food do rabbits need per day
- from hay 100-300 grams;
- sunflower cake 40-60 grams;
- sunflower grotto 30 grams;
- fodder yeast 5 grams;
- fish oil 4 grams;
- meat and bone meal 7 grams;
- bone meal 4 grams;
- chalk - 3 grams;
- table salt 2 grams.
Be sure to introduce green and juicy food. The increase in lactation is influenced by the shoots of dill and elecampane.
During the feeding period, it is better for the female to make feed mixtures,%:
Recipe 1:
- oats - 60;
- alfalfa - 30-40;
- mineral supplements.
Recipe 2:
- from bran - 12;
- corn - 10;
- alfalfa - 10;
- mineral additives -2.
For a day, the rabbit should be given from 20 to 500 grams of feed mixture. On day 20, the amount of food is increased, because the babies begin to eat with their mother.
To increase lactation during this period, you can pour some milk in addition to water. In the morning 0.5 l and in the evening 0.5 l. To train her, use a 5 gram syringe. Pour a little into your mouth and then offer it to her in a bowl. Be careful with milk summer time so as not to drink her sour. Otherwise, there may be problems with the intestines. Cow's or goat's milk can be replaced with dry or mixtures.
How to feed rabbits without a rabbit at home
Sometimes there are cases when newborn rabbits are left without rabbit milk. How to get out of this situation? In this position, they can be fed artificially, even at home.
Up to 7 days
Babies up to 7 days old you can feed cow, goat milk or use dry milk mixtures. Cow's milk is diluted 1:1 with condensed unsweetened, the milk mixture is made in double concentration, and goat's milk is given in its pure form. Enter milk with a syringe or make a nipple. We wash the penicillin vial and put a nipple on it. We make a nipple from a pipette rubber cap.
Rabbits need to be fed 3 to 5 times a day.
- once in the early morning;
- 3 times a day;
- once in the evening.
For one meal takes about 1 ml.
For artificial feeding of rabbits, goat's milk is preferable. In concentration and composition, it is closer to rabbit milk.
After 7 days
Up to a week old only dairy food. After 7 days of age double the amount of food, and reduce feeding to 3 times a day. By 15 days portions are tripled.
In the early days of the baby, it is difficult to feed, so take a cotton swab, moisten it and gently wipe the mouth with it. Wait until he licks and continue on. When the rabbit gets used to it, switch to a syringe or a pacifier.
In the early days, the little one needs a tummy massage and hygiene. Wet wipe wipe the body. Special attention give it to the anus. Also wipe the muzzle after feeding.
From 20 days to a month
Rabbits from 20 days of age can already drink milk from a bowl on their own. We adhere to the dairy menu until the age of one month. After that, it will be possible to give them high-quality hay, grated carrots and moistened compound feed in small quantities. Feed mixers should be given in small portions, avoiding souring. You can buy herbal granules for feeding rabbits in a veterinary pharmacy. How much food to feed a rabbit? The serving is calculated by the weight of the baby and should be 3% of the mass.
One month old and older
From the moment the milk decreases, they need to be given additional water to drink. First, we force water to drink with the help of a pacifier. Later, when they begin to drink on their own, the water should be in the bowl at all times. Lack of water threatens rabbits with kidney disease. Until the age of 45 days, milk feeding and a smooth transition to an adult diet are possible.
A few tips for artificial feeding of newborn rabbits with milk
If such a misfortune happened and the kids were left without maternal care and milk, then rabbits can be fed artificially. Although this process is troublesome and requires great patience. And the result is not 100%, but rather deplorable, but you need to try. Such rabbits are usually retarded in development.
With such feeding keep clean. All nipples and dishes should be scalded with boiling water. Since the babies are naked, they should be kept warm. You can put a heating pad in the drawer where they are kept. When they grow fur, it can be removed.
It is better to feed goat milk, but if this is not the case, then veterinary pharmacy you can buy powdered milk or mixtures for fattening puppies.
You need to feed often enough. They should eat 5 times a day in small portions.. Before feeding, the baby needs to be helped to empty. Under natural conditions, this is done by the mother, but in this case you need to do it yourself.
With a damp cotton pad, massage movements, wipe the body. Let's start massaging the tummy. With light pressure, we draw several times from the navel to the tail. We do this procedure until the baby is emptied. Then we wipe the anus and feed the rabbit. Massage for emptying to do within 2 weeks. Then it will empty itself.
It is important to monitor the presence and color of poop. They must be green. If they are not, then the baby needs help.
If he has not emptied, then he does not have enough food. You need to add some milk. A well-fed baby behaves calmly. Doesn't bounce in sleep. Doesn't crawl on the box. The tummy is plump and elastic.
By 15 days, a place should be allocated in the box where it will be dark. Rabbits by this time like to sleep in a dark place. Cover one corner with a cloth.
If the feeding process is successful, then by day 20, a rabbit can drink milk from a saucer. You can also give him finely chopped carrots. Green, quality hay or dried grass. If this happens in winter, then the greens can be grown hydroponically. Babies can also be given hay flour.. Gradually, small portions of moistened compound feed should be added to the diet. Boiled thick porridge.
You should not give cabbage leaves, although they eat them with pleasure. The digestive system is not yet formed, so the baby may have bloating and diarrhea. This will most likely lead to death.
As already mentioned, cleanliness must be observed. Food must be fresh. No souring, no mold. Mixture prepare immediately before feeding. Vegetables must be washed.
Perhaps these tips will help you feed a healthy baby.
How to feed little rabbits after jigging from their mother, how to make food
The jigging of rabbits from the mother takes place in different ages 28 to 45 days. But it is best to do this at the age of 45 days. Jigging at this time reduces the mortality of young animals. Since by this time his digestive system is formed. Together with his mother, he eats hay and other food from the adult diet.
In the beginning, they are given the same food that they ate with their mother. New foods for rabbits, introduced gradually in small portions. It is recommended to drip vitamin B into the water. 1 liter requires 50 ml. It prevents stress.
In the diet of rabbits should be present:
- dried greens or quality hay;
- boiled potato;
- pumpkin;
- zucchini;
- powdered milk;
- vitamin preparations if it's winter;
- hay flour;
- grated or cut into pieces carrot;
- oats;
- moistened compound feed;
- flattened grain;
- bone flour;
- fish flour.
- reverse
During this period it is useful to feed:
- chicory;
- yarrow;
- chamomile;
- hypericum;
- dubrovnik;
- burdocks;
- tree branches with leaves.
The rabbit should receive:
45-60 days:
- 70-125 feed units;
61-90 days:
- 145-170 k.u.;
90-120 days:
- 170-225 k.u.;
Since rabbits have intensive growth during this period, the digestible protein should be 18 grams per 100 k.u. Growing rabbits from 4 months are transferred to an adult diet.
When distributing hay, inspect carefully so that you do not hit toxic herbs:
- dope;
- henbane; and many others.
For grown-up rabbits from 4 months of age, they change the feed ration. Reduce the proportion of compound feed. It contains a lot of fat, which in large quantities is harmful to animals. They give plenty of vitamin hay, green grass and vegetables.
Winter feeding, %
- hay 10-20;
- compound feed 55-65;
- juicy food 20-30.
Summer feeding, %
- green grass 30-40;
- concentrate 60-70.
Feed is distributed 3-4 times a day. At the same time, if some food remains from the previous feeding, then its rate should be slightly reduced. Do not let the mixes turn sour. Such food must be removed. Dry grass before feeding. Remove dirt from vegetables and cut into pieces.
Feed in the feeders should be constantly. The digestive system in rabbits is designed in such a way that in order for him to empty himself, food must push food. That's why hay must be constantly. Even a little hunger can lead to problems.
You should not feed rabbits with bread, pasta.
It is important for a rabbit breeder to raise healthy offspring of rabbits. After all, these are females in the future, bearing offspring, and therefore good income. For the rabbits to be healthy, they need to provide proper nutrition and conditions of detention.
When planning to breed these animals on a personal farm, each future owner asks questions: what do rabbits eat? How much to prepare grain and hay for the winter? How to properly feed and care for rabbits? How many times a day to feed?
Ensuring a complete diet is the responsibility of the rabbit owner
AT natural conditions rabbits themselves feed on those types of food that the body needs. How much eared ones eat on the farm depends on the climatic zone, conditions of detention, and the conscientiousness of the owner. It is recommended to give food twice a day.
Feed types
Like many farm animals, rabbit food is divided into groups:
- Green fodder. These include all herbaceous plants with early spring until late autumn. It should be noted that it is better to slightly dry the freshly cut grass in the sun. Do not give poisonous herbs.
- Rough. It's hay good quality, straw of spring crops (except rye), branches of trees, bushes. Branches of poisonous bushes are excluded.
- Juicy food. These include root crops, silage, waste from melons and gardens. You can not give tops of tomatoes and potatoes.
- concentrates. They have a large amount of protein. These include grain and its waste, as well as animal feed.
- Granular feed.
- Microelements.
Vegetables and fruits should be on the menu of rabbits
Summer feeding
What do rabbits eat in summer? The basis of the nutrition of these animals in the summer is green grass, tops from the garden (radishes, carrots). Very willingly they eat branch forage. It can be branches of fruit and deciduous trees. Brooms from tree branches can be prepared for the winter. Domestic rabbits eat cabbage, apples and their waste.
How to give beets and how much? Red and sugar beets should not be given in large quantities. In large quantities, it causes tympanum (bloating). Fodder beets can be given ad libitum. The beets are chopped or chopped.
Include in the diet and bitter aromatic herbs - wormwood, chicory, yarrow, tansy (a little), dill. They have an anthelmintic effect, enhance digestion. To prevent stomatitis, dried garlic stalks can be given. Plantain is a natural antibiotic.
Nettle is the first herb to appear in spring. After winter, the rabbit eats the first treat with appetite. For feeding nettles, you must first prepare: cut and mash, let lie down. Thus, its pungency is lost.
Nettle - the first spring grass for rabbits
Young branches of willow trees with first buds and leaves serve as excellent transitional food from winter diet for summer feeding. An abrupt transition can cause indigestion.
In late autumn, flower stalks can be added to the rabbits' diet. He eats stems of gladiolus, calendula, asparagus, hops, phlox.
How much water does a domestic rabbit drink? He drinks little by little, but very often, so there should always be fresh water in the drinkers. In the summer it is changed every day, preventing spoilage. Drinkers are often washed.
Food is laid out in clean feeders. The remaining feed (except dry) is removed first.
Feeding in winter
When winter approaches and the amount of green fodder is significantly reduced, the animals on the farm are transferred to winter food. Feeding rabbits in cold weather has its own characteristics. Food for rabbits in winter conditions consists of hay and root crops, kitchen leftovers, concentrates with mineral additives. In late October - early November, the animals are fattened for meat.
Part of the hay is replaced with branch fodder. Properly prepared brooms contain many vitamins. It is necessary to give branches to grind down the incisors, otherwise the rabbits will gnaw at the cages.
Wheat, barley and other grains can be replaced with grain waste.
Potatoes should be given only in their pure form
In winter, the food should be given in a dry form so that it does not freeze, and the food that is difficult to chew (waste of lentils, vetch, peas, corn) should be pre-soaked. Lightly moisten compound feed and bran with salt water. Add boiled potatoes or grains.
Beets, carrots are washed, cut into pieces. Shredded root crops rabbits eat better than whole ones.
In winter, the water often freezes. It is not always possible to follow the drinkers. Therefore, you can give snow or ice.
To prevent beriberi, needles of coniferous trees should be given. At first, the pet eats them reluctantly, but then gets used to it.
To calculate the number of feed units per day, there are feeding norms for rabbits.
Coniferous branches - a good prevention of beriberi
Rabbit Feeding Mode
A domestic rabbit eats almost constantly. It is better to feed domestic rabbits 2 times a day. If the farm needs to be away for a long time, then you can give food for a longer period. The calculation of how much and what kind of food to give is determined by multiplying the feeding norms by the number of rabbits. In summer conditions, the cut green grass is slightly dried so that it does not burn out, and put into bunker feeders.
Wheat or other grains, concentrates are added to special feeders.
Wet mash is left only at a low temperature. It is laid out in small lumps, sprinkled with concentrates.
In conditions of dormancy in winter, when three or four individuals remain, and they do not fatten for meat, do not rabbit, it is possible to leave animals for a month. In a large room, several bunker feeders are arranged. Stuffed with hay, add branch feed for rabbits. Hang brooms from deciduous trees, bunches of nettles, leave a lot of ice.
New rabbit food is added little by little. Unfamiliar food makes animals rummage through it, so the food is trampled and scattered.
Bunker feeder for feeding in winter
Eared fattening
Special feeding of rabbits before slaughter allows you to increase the weight of the carcass for meat, the accumulation of fat, fatness. The meat tastes better, the quality of the wool increases. Feeding should begin 6 weeks before the planned slaughter.
How to feed rabbits before slaughter for meat and how many feed units are needed? The feeding time is divided into three parts:
- The concentrates are adjusted to 50%.
- Feeds are introduced to increase fat in the carcass - barley, corn, oats, peas, boiled potatoes.
- Add dill, celery and parsley to the hay.
The fattening of rabbits for meat ends when they become inactive and food ceases to interest them.
Dill promotes weight gain
Feeding baby and lactating rabbits
The pregnant female eats a lot. It is not worth increasing the norms of cheese concentrates per day, so that the rabbit does not get fat, and before the round, the norm of concentrates is reduced.
The diet during the lactation period of domestic rabbits increases by about three times compared to the sucrose period.
This increase is due to the growth of proteins. The share of concentrates increases by 70-80%.
Additions are made gradually, as young rabbits grow. In order to increase the amount of milk, lactic herbs are added to the diet: nettle, dill, parsley. During the feeding of rabbits, the female domestic rabbits eat food that increases the nutritional value of milk.
The rabbits begin to feed with their mother, starting from about the 20th day. It is good to add sour or powdered milk to the feed of a nursing rabbit. If you properly care for rabbits, you can get healthy offspring.
Powdered milk stimulates lactation
Feeding young rabbits
Detached young rabbits must be properly cared for. The young rabbit eats the same food as in the cage with the mother. For the first two days, feed the rabbits with grated raw carrots, boiled potatoes.
Beets should not be given. Concentrates are given in small portions in crushed or flattened form.
They constantly monitor how much and how young animals eat, whether there is enough food. Hay is fed ad libitum.
Rational feeding of rabbits is necessary in order to have a healthy livestock on the farm, to reduce the cost of fattening for meat. Applying the knowledge gained, novice rabbit breeders will be able to significantly reduce the cost of growing, keeping and fattening domestic rabbits for meat.
» » » What and how to feed rabbits
Namely, let's talk about how much and how often to feed the rabbit.
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Besides, in recent times cases of overfeeding decorative rabbits and the occurrence of related problems have become more frequent. To help you avoid such mistakes, I have prepared this article.
How to feed a rabbit correctly?
Some breeders are of the opinion that until 6 months old, rabbits should eat as much as they want. However, after 5 years, I realized that food for decorative rabbits Still, it's not that easy to organize.
The fact is that they are not at all similar in the rhythm of life to their wild counterparts. Your pets move less, sleep a lot more, and experience little to no stress. Of course, the metabolism in this case is slowed down. And rabbits are prone to obesity. And fast and serious.
This is why I DO NOT recommend letting your baby eat a lot before 6 months of age.
How do you feed a rabbit then?
- pour 2 tablespoons of food in the morning
- if your pet ate everything before the evening, then give the evening the same amount
- if there is food left, then try to move it a little rabbit food- give 1 spoon in the morning, and 3 in the evening (the fact is that rabbits eat more actively at night)
- if in the morning the evening ration was left half-eaten, then reduce it as well.
I do not recommend increasing the amount of feed when feeding rabbits!
Otherwise, your rabbit will start gaining weight very quickly.
I especially advise you to listen to those whose decorative rabbit little moves and rarely goes out for a walk. And you don’t need to tell me that the pet looks with hungry eyes and demands food - you are the owner and you are responsible for his health. And so that the bowl does not rattle at night, if you have already eaten everything, just remove it.
In addition, put plenty of hay - it is it that helps to form normal feces and promotes good digestion.
As for the grown rabbits (after 6 months), I feed them even once a day, pouring about 4 tablespoons of compound feed. Often in the morning there is still food left, but by the evening everything is eaten clean. And of course, the rabbits have hay all day - I put it on regularly.
It is this mode of feeding rabbits that allows you to avoid many of the difficulties that I will tell you about on Friday.
The process of taking feed by rabbits per day should be repeated, but in small portions. This is due to the anthropological features of the body - with weak stomach muscles. Namely: a new portion of food moves the old one from the stomach to the intestines. Feed moves through the rabbit's esophagus for 70 hours.
The basis of rabbit nutrition
The main diet of decorative rabbits includes hay and drinking water. Both components help cleanse the body of swallowed wool. Hay should be present in the diet daily in large quantities. In the summer, hay can be replaced with sun-dried grass. Useful and saturated trace elements for a rabbit are yarrow, chickweed, common hogweed.
But you should avoid acacia, aloe, beans, bindweed, oak, jasmine, iris, calendula, bay tree, rhubarb, fern, tulip, as they contain poisonous components for the life of rabbits.
The amount of dry food should be limited
The next element of nutrition is dry food. A good product should be based on 20% fiber, 15% protein, 1% fat and 1% calcium. The daily norm included in the diet of dry food for an adult should be 15 - 20g.
This rate should be increased during the growing up of the rabbit, as these elements are necessary for growth. And after 7 months, a large intake of dry food can lead to obesity. With caution, you should also treat feeds that include nuts and dried fruits, since their use can adversely affect the liver of the animal.
Fruits and vegetables - consumption norms
Another important component of the rabbit's diet are vegetables: lettuce, parsley, cabbage, carrots, dill, tomato, pumpkin, zucchini and others. Due to the fact that their use has a laxative effect on the rabbit's body, the supply of vegetables should be combined with the supply of hay.
The daily diet of vegetables for an adult rabbit is 100 - 150g.
As a treat for a rabbit, you can use fruits: apple, apricot, banana, peach, pear, pineapple. As well as berry crops - strawberries or cherries.
The daily norm of fruits included in the diet of an adult animal should not exceed 1 tablespoon.
We sharpen teeth
To grind incisors, dried bread, walnut branches or branches of fruit trees are introduced into the diet. A mineral or salt stone is also placed in a cage.
Thus, for the full development of a decorative rabbit, a varied diet is necessary. However, each New Product it is worth introducing into the diet gradually, observing the further behavior of the animal. By following dietary patterns, your rabbit will glow with health and happiness.
A decorative rabbit lives in my house, how many times do I need to feed it? Or should the bowl always be in the cage and with food?
Make sure that the food in the feeder does not spoil. The rabbit can be fed several times a day, a little, or two times a day, give increased portions. Don't forget fresh water.
Hay in a rabbit should be freely available, in unlimited quantities and constantly.
To natural products a rabbit at any age should be taught gradually, one species at a time.
If you can provide your rabbit with a complete, natural diet of 5 or more greens per day, you can eliminate grass pellets from the diet.
If you continue to give herbal pellets, remember that the adult rabbit is allowed no more than 1 tablespoon of herbal pellets per day.
You can not feed the rabbit with grain, grain mixtures, cereals. your table food. honey sticks, grains, vitamin supplements, breadcrumbs, crackers, chocolate, dairy products, lactic acid products, etc. Avoid white cabbage.
Decorative rabbit menu
What should you feed a dwarf rabbit? In their desire to diversify their pet's menu, people often begin to overdo it, which often leads to various illnesses for the baby. Rabbits don't need a varied menu!
The standard diet of a rabbit includes, first of all, compound feed. Feeding compound feed is the key to a healthy and long life for your pet. I have been accustoming my rabbits to compound feed since early childhood, but a problem may arise, and the rabbit will stop eating it. But it's not scary! The rabbit first eats the most delicious grains and only then switches to all the others. The remaining food pellets are very important, as your pet grinds teeth on them, which are constantly growing. I feed rabbits three times a day for a tablespoon. Adult rabbits - twice a day, one and a half tablespoons. If not everything is eaten between feedings, reduce the amount.
Hay in the cage should always be without restrictions. It is it that helps to form normal feces and contributes to the grinding of teeth. In summer, you can switch to greens, but gradually and very carefully so that there is no diarrhea. In winter, you can give greens occasionally. For example, parsley, dill, celery, lettuce, dandelion, plantain, lawn grass.
Water must be boiled and cooled. She should always be in a cage. Use hanging drinkers, not bowls. Water must be changed 1 time in 1-1.5 days.
In order for the rabbit to grind its teeth, you can put branches of oak, birch, willow, aspen, alder, apple, pear, mountain ash, cherry or cherry, acacia, willow in the cage. Let's give conifers only in winter and quite a bit. Branches can be straight with foliage in summer. Collect only in clean areas. Or wash and dry well.
You can also hang a mineral, salt or vitamin stone in the cage. And that's all. Everything else for a rabbit is overkill. But of course you can pamper your pet. We begin to accustom the rabbit to vegetables, fruits, greens after 3.5 months, starting with a small piece: 1/4 carrot, 1/4 apple, cucumber, cherry, tomato, melon, watermelon, sweet pepper, banana, kiwi, grapes. In no case should you give beets, plums, white cabbage or houseplants, oranges and grapefruits.
And most importantly, look at the reaction of the body. If softening of the feces is observed, then you should immediately stop giving a vegetable or fruit.
How many times a day can you feed a decorative rabbit?
how many times a day can you feed a decorative rabbit?
How much to feed?
Usually, rabbits up to 6 months are fed without restriction so that they grow.
But I don't do it for several reasons:
Firstly, the rabbit eats only the most delicious, and not the most useful.
Secondly, due to an excess of solid food, the rabbit goes to the toilet with soft feces - caecotrophs.
In theory, he should eat them, and poop only dry balls. But there are too many caecotrophs from excess food, they are smeared along the bottom of the cage and smell strongly.
Therefore, I feed adult rabbits twice a day for one and a half tablespoons. Rabbits - three times a day, a tablespoon. If not everything is eaten between feedings, reduce the amount.
How many times a day should decorative rabbits be fed?
The rabbit's body is designed in such a way that it eats little by little during the day, with a break for rest and activity, so it should always have food. I suggest feeding the rabbit 2 times a day in the morning and in the evening. Approximate morning diet: 30 * g of oats or compound feed, a large piece of hay, half a carrot, 1-2 raisins, for those who want a piece of white bread the size of a floor matchbox. In the evening the same ± amendments. In summer there is less hay, concentrates and no bread, more grass* and vegetables according to the strength of summer.
Nutrition and feeding of decorative rabbits
Rabbits eat a variety of foods. In the summer they are given different types cereals, dandelions, plantain, coltsfoot and other wild plants. You should carefully monitor that they do not get poisonous plants, such as celandine, buttercups. It is good to give them branches of willow, aspen. Rabbits must be fed with oatmeal and bread. Adult rabbits should be given oats, wheat, crackers as solid feed. In winter, when there is no grass, rabbits need hay and vegetables. They are good at eating apples. Dairy and meat products are not given to adult rabbits. Rabbits up to 2-2.5 months old can be given milk. Rabbits must have water. In general, their content is not difficult. It is also very good to feed with compound feed for rabbits.
As roughage they give: branches of willow, apple, pear, willow, maple, linden, raspberry, alder, mountain ash, aspen, willow.
You can: white crackers, boiled potatoes.
From succulent feed: apples and carrots.
Useful herbs: borage, heather, elecampane, sweet clover, Ivan tea, clover, quinoa, burdock, coltsfoot, cuff, mouse peas, dandelion, sow thistle, parsley, tansy, wormwood, plantain, yarrow, dill
It is impossible: wild rosemary, elderberry, bird cherry, buckthorn, wolf's bast.
Poisonous herbs: henbane, crow's eye, dope, cornflower, buttercup, bathing suit, horsetail.
Not allowed: sweet, sour, spicy.
Sources: www.8lap.ru, otvet.mail.ru, www.kot-i-krolik.ru, maxim01.ru, asktree.ru
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