Saturday, February 21, 2009

Rabbit Breeding Technical Reference


Necessary to notice in rabbit breeding is location preparation, stable maker, rabbit preparation and woof preparation.

Tool and equipment preparation
Stable function as place to develop luxuriantly with ideal temperature 21 degrees c, fluent air circulation, long ideal illumination 12 hour and protect rabbit from predators. Follow use, rabbit hutch is discriminated to be mother stable. For adult mother/rabbit or mother and the children, male stable, special for stud of the size bigger and free child stable weans. To avoid group beginning marriage is done separation between male and female. Stable measures 200x70x70 cm tall covering 50 cm last for 12 tail female/10 male tails. Child stable is (box) size 50x30x45 cm.

Follow its for rabbit hutch is divided to be:
System stable postal, without yard, lay in room and suited for young rabbit.
System stable ranch; equipped with yard.
Stable battery; resemble in line cage where one cage to one rabbit with construction Flatdech Battery (in a row), Tier Battery (high rise), Pyramidal Battery (compile pyramid).

Stable equipment that need woof place and drink that unbreakable and easy cleaned:

Cultivation of seedlings
For livestock condition is depending from rabbit maintenance principal aim. For feather kind so kind Angora, American Chinchilla and Rex be livestock that fit. For meat so kind Belgian, Californian, Flemish Giant, Havana, Himalayan and New Zealand be livestock that fit to maintained.

Rabbit election and mother candidate
When does husbandry aim for meat, chosen body heavy rabbit kind and tall with good flesh, while for clear feather chooses potential that seeds genetic good feather growth. According to specific to both must has character fertilities tall, not easy nervous, not defect, clean eye and cared, feather not dull, nimble/mobile move.

Rabbit treatment and mother candidate
Rabbit treatment determines good mother quality also, therefore principal treatment necessary attention woof gift enough, arrangement and good stable sanitation with prevents stable from disturbance outside.

Breeding system
To get breed better and defend character specific so breeding is divided in 3 categories that is:
  1. In breeding (cross in), to defend and signalize feather for example specific character, meat proportion.
  2. Cross breeding (cross outside), to get breed more superior characters good/increase.
  3. Pure line breeding (cross between rabbit), to get new kind supposed has appearance that is blend 2 seed superiorities.

Reproduction and marriage
Female rabbit soon is married off when achieve adult in age 5 months (female and male). When under age disturbed well-being and tall child mortality. When is stud first time marry, best marry femalely that ever yean. Time marries morning/afternoon day at stud stable and let up to happen 2 marriage times, afterwards stud is separated.

Birth process
After rabbit marriage will experience pregnant during 30-32 day. Pregnant in rabbit can be detected with feel female rabbit stomach 12-14 day after marriage, when to grope there is globule mean to happen pregnant. Five days approach birth mother move to stable yeans to give a chance to prepare warmer by falling the feather. Birth rabbit often happen nighttime with weak child condition, closed eye and not hairy. Child total that give to vary around 6-10 rabbit.

Maintenance

Sanitation and action preventive
Maintenance place is carried on always dry so that doesn't so breeding place of disease. Moist place and wet causes cold easy rabbit and attacked skin disease.

Disease controlling
Rabbit that attacked disease usually has weary phenomenon, desire eats to go down, body temperature rises and droopy eye. When does rabbit show this matter soon quarantines and thing dirtied also soon remove to prevent disease epidemic.

Livestock treatment
Weaned leveret is done after age 7-8 week. Child wean lay stable aloof with contents 2-3 tail/stable and provided woof enough and have a certain quality. Separation based on sex necessary to prevent adult too early. Castrated can be done moment approach adult. Usually done in male rabbit with throws away testis.

Woof gift
Woof kind that given to green grass cover field grass, bulrush, vegetable covers cabbage, mustard green, frog, bean leaf, leaf turi and string bean leaf, lasing cereals/woof covers corn, green peanut, rice, peanut, sorghum, bran and cake of pressed peanut. to fulfill this woof necessary addition woof shaped concentrate that can be bought at livestock woof store. Woof and drink given morning day around 10 o’clock. Rabbit is given bran woof that mixed a little water. 13 o’clock given grass a little/sufficient and blow 18.00 grasses is given in number more many. Drinking water at stable gift necessary to provided the body liquid need.

Stable maintenance
Stable floor/covering, woof place and drink, woof remainder and rabbit dirt every day must be cleaned to avoid incidence disease. Sunshine morning must step into stable to kill disease seed. Stable wall is painted with lime/tar. Stable former ill rabbit is cleaned with kreolin / lysol.

References:
  1. Anonymous, 1986, Pemeliharaan Kelinci dan Burung Puyuh, Yasaguna, Jakarta.
  2. Kartadisastra. HR, 1995, Beternak Kelinci Unggul, Kanisius, Yogyakarta.
  3. Sarwono. B, 1985, Beternak Kelinci Unggul, Penebar Swadaya, Jakarta.
  4. Yunus. M dan Minarti. S, 1990, Aneka Ternak, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang.

Contact Information:
  1. Proyek Pengembangan Ekonomi Masyarakat Pedesaan – BAPPENAS Jl.Sunda Kelapa No. 7 Jakarta, Tel. 021 390 9829 , Fax. 021 390 9829
  2. Kantor Menteri Negara Riset dan Teknologi, Deputi Bidang Pendayagunaan dan Pemasyarakatan Iptek, Gedung II BPPT Lantai 6, Jl. M.H.Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta 10340, Indonesia, Tel. +62 21 316 9166~69, Fax. +62 21 310 1952, Situs Web: http://www.ristek.go.id

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