How to make rabbits spend the hot summer safely?

In hot summer, raising rabbits without heatstroke prevention and cooling measures will have a great impact on the growth and development of rabbits. In order to make rabbits spend the summer safely, the following management measures should be taken:

1. Build an arbor: In summer, rabbits will die of heatstroke after 4-6 hours of sun exposure. Therefore, it is necessary to set up a shed on the open-air rabbit cage to shade the sun, and the closed rabbit house should open the doors and windows to cool down.

2. Cut rabbit hair: After summer, cut the hair between the neck, back and waist of the rabbit, and subtract some hair from other parts. Long-haired rabbits should be cut 1 time before the arrival of dog days.

3. Reduce the density: rabbits raised in groups should be divided into groups to prevent rabbits from crowding and heating. The number of rabbits in cages should be reduced.

4. Ensure drinking water: Prepare enough clean and fresh drinking water, and add some salt, vinegar and mint to the water.

5. Feed carefully: In summer, rabbits eat very little during the day, so choose to feed when it is cool every morning and evening. Feed in the morning and feed late at night. Feed 1-2 times at night and avoid feeding at noon. Should feed more green feed, and mixed with a small amount of garlic paste, onion powder, leeks and so on. , in order to facilitate sterilization and disease prevention. If you feed wet feed to rabbits, wash the feed basin and dry it every day. In addition, the bean dregs should be fed fresh, and the amount should be as much as what you eat to prevent the leftovers from becoming moldy.

6. Heat dissipation and cooling: In midsummer, put the bricks soaked in cold water into the rabbit cage and the rabbit will lie on it, which can lower the body temperature. When the temperature of the cage exceeds 30℃, a proper amount of well water can be sprinkled around the ground and walls to cool down.

7. Do a good job in hygiene: high temperature and high humidity in summer are conducive to bacterial reproduction. Therefore, ditches should be dug around the rabbit house, and there should be no dead ponds. Rabbit huts should be disinfected regularly to keep them clean and hygienic.

8. Lactating young rabbits: The unweaned young rabbits should be placed in spacious cages, raised separately from the mother rabbits and weaned regularly. After weaned rabbits adapt to 1-2 weeks, 2-3 rabbits can be raised in 1 cage or 1 rabbit.

9. Control reproduction: In summer, the physique of rabbits declines, the semen quality of male rabbits is poor, and female rabbits are prone to miscarriage when pregnant. Even if the mother rabbit is born, it will eat less and produce less milk because of the hot weather, which will lead to the physical exhaustion and low survival rate of the young rabbit. So, stop breeding.