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How to Select Quality Breeding Rabbits
A breeding rabbit's quality strongly affects its offspring, so check both bucks and does carefully when buying in. Here is how to choose.
Is a Stiff Rabbit Beyond Saving?
A stiff rabbit does not always mean no hope. If the stiffness comes from low blood sugar, giving glucose in time can relieve it; but if it is from other causes, the rabbit may already have lost vital signs and be beyond help. Read on to learn about rabbit stiffness.
Key Points for Managing Breeding Buck Rabbits
Breeding bucks need stricter management, because herd reproduction and quality depend on buck quality. Below are some management points we offer to help rabbit farmers.
Which Rabbits Should Not Be Selected as Breeding Stock?
Rabbit farmers place great importance on breeding-stock development, especially large-scale operations, because only high-quality breeding stock can raise a herd's reproduction rate and economic returns. Selecting excellent young rabbits as replacement breeders is key to maintaining both quality and numbers. So how should you select replacement breeding rabbits? We hope the following advice helps.
How to Raise Newborn Rabbit Kits
Raising kits is hard and losses are high, but if you ever breed rabbits you must know it. Here are the eight essentials of kit care.
How to Prevent and Treat Rabbit Mastitis
Oversupply, thick milk, unclean glands, low water or breast trauma can all cause mastitis in nursing does. It is a key disease to prevent. Here is how.
How to Prevent Rabbit Yellow Urine Disease
Yellow urine disease is a major threat to young kits, usually appearing around 7 days of age with a high death rate if untreated. Preventing doe mastitis is the key. Here is how.
Medications for Rabbit Mastitis and Yellow Urine Disease
Yellow urine disease in kits is easy to treat if caught early. Common drugs include gentamicin and chloramphenicol. Here is how to use them and how to prevent the disease.
Is Yellow Rabbit Urine a Sign of Yellow Urine Disease?
Brief yellow urine is usually diet-related and needs a feed change. True yellow urine disease strikes nursing kits. Here is how to tell them apart.
Causes and Symptoms of Rabbit Mastitis
Rabbit mastitis mostly hits nursing does, from stagnant milk or breast trauma. Learn the causes, signs and how to treat each stage.