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Rabbit Salmonellosis
Rabbit salmonellosis is a digestive disease caused by Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella enteritidis, mainly hitting pregnant does. The bacteria are weak against disinfectants such as 3% lysol or 5% lime milk. Prevention centers on hygiene, flock screening, and killed vaccines for breeding and pregnant does.
How to Improve a Rabbit’s Forage Conversion Efficiency
Growing your own forage cuts rabbit-farming cost, but you must raise conversion efficiency and balance the diet. Key points: good palatability, varied feeds, greens-led with limited concentrate, about 0.5 to 1 kg greens and 150 g concentrate per adult daily, proper protein and crude-fiber levels, and not-too-high energy to avoid cecal gas and lower breeding rates. Add minerals and vitamins in moderation.
How to Raise Rabbits for Faster Growth
Growth rate is one of the indicators of a rabbit's quality. To raise fast-growing rabbits, focus on selecting fast-growing breeds suited to your local climate, grouping rabbits by size and age for fattening, feeding a balanced grain-based diet on a fixed schedule, providing ample clean water, keeping the hutch clean and well-ventilated, and staying on top of disease prevention.
Breeding Taboos for Rabbits
Good breeding is key to profitable rabbit farming, yet some owners breed does back-to-back regardless of health, leading to many kits but poor survival. Avoid close inbreeding, mating too early, over-mating, summer breeding, early or late weaning, mixed-group housing, and poor management to keep reproduction rates and kit health high.
Taboos You Must Know When Raising Rabbits
Many rabbit-keeping pitfalls are easy to overlook, especially on large farms. Avoid continuous back-to-back breeding, using crossbred rabbits as breeders, combining vaccination, deworming, and medication at once, blind medication, over-relying on feed additives, and feeding a single monotonous diet.
What Foods Should You Never Feed a Rabbit?
Most human foods are unsafe for rabbits, including greens like rapeseed and chives, plus chocolate and coffee. Forage must be free of dew, soil, and pesticides. Avoid starch-heavy staples and human dried fruits; offer only unsweetened, additive-free dried treats in strict moderation.
Why Is Your Rabbit’s Belly Bloated?
A bloated rabbit belly usually means overeating or gas. Causes include hard-to-digest food, low fiber, too much alfalfa, or toxic feed. Relief: portion control, exercise, belly massage, and celery or honey.
Rabbit ‘Big Belly’ Disease (Enteritis/Bloat): Causes & Care
Rabbit 'big belly' disease is a fast, often fatal gut illness from mixed E. coli/coccidia infection, viral diarrhea, or low fiber. This guide covers its signs, prevention (clean feed, grass), and treatment (fasting, gentamicin, probiotics).
Rabbit Bloat and Food Accumulation: Signs & Relief
Rabbit bloat from food accumulation shows as a growing belly, refusal to eat, and gurgling sounds. Relief: stop pellets, offer timothy hay, massage the belly, give celery, and watch for mucus that signals enteritis.
Why Is Your Rabbit Twitching or Having Limb Spasms?
Rabbit limb twitching can signal coccidiosis (often fatal in kits), low blood sugar, or epilepsy. This article explains each cause and the response—coccidia prevention, glucose first aid, and a calm environment for epileptic rabbits.