Raising Meat Rabbits in Alberta

Agdex 476/20-1 $5.00 Raising Meat Rabbits in Alberta gives you the general principles of rabbit raising. The book discusses how to choose a breed of rabbit and how to buy your stock. Building and equipment requirements are discussed and illustrated. Further sections on: nutrition reproduction breeding problems how to raise litters diseases breeding systems record keeping 58 pages

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• Why raise rabbits
• Size of operation
• Marketing

• New Zealand White
• Californian
• Champagne d'Argent
• Flemish Giant
• Florida White

• Visual assessment
• Record assessment
• Age of stock
• Buying entire rabbitries
• Buying the buck
• Tattoos and pedigrees
• Registered stock

• Location
• Size
• Space allotment within the building
• Construction and design
• Heating
• Ventilation
• Lighting
• Costs
• Professional advice

• Cages
• Watering equipment
• Feeding equipment.
• Nest boxes
• Other equipment
• Basic equipment costs

• Digestive system of the rabbit
• Nutritional requirements
• Feedstuffs
• Kinds of feed and methods of feeding
• Medication of feeds
• Feed storage
• Nutrition and disease
• Changing rations

• Fertility
• Gestation period
• Age to breed
• Making matings
• Determining pregnancy

• Pseudopregnancy
• Factors that limit conception
• Neonatal deaths and abortions

• Kindling
• Care of the young litter
• Fostering
• Causes of losses in newborn rabbits
• Care of the young litter
• Lactation
• Causes of losses in young out of the nest box
• Weaning

• Stress
• Diseases
• Abnormalities

• Handling rabbits
• Tattooing
• Determining sex
• Castration
• Sanitation and disease control
• Consulting a veterinarian
• The use of drugs
• Submissions of specimens for laboratory diagnosis
• Daily management schedule
• Breeding programs
• Further considerations

• Methods of improvement
• Progeny testing
• Replacement numbers
• Selecting does
• Selecting herd bucks

• Genetics
• Traits
• Breeding systems

• The doe card
• The buck card
• The daily work card
• Feed conversion ratio
• Herd production summaries
• Financial records
• Pedigree book
• Using home computers

• Capital costs
• Operational costs
• Income