The biggest problem of young rabbit breeding is that it is not managed according to the rules and is not well protected, which leads to the death of young rabbits. There are mainly the following aspects:

(1) Imperfect measures for heat preservation and cold protection in winter. If cold protection and warmth are neglected in winter, the temperature in the rabbit house is too low, which will easily lead to frostbite of young rabbits. Especially young rabbits born within 7 days have almost no ability to regulate their body temperature. For example, the mother rabbit is left unattended when giving birth, and the young rabbit is born outside the nest. The mother rabbit has no long hair and will freeze to death in about 2 hours.

(2) Stress caused the mother rabbit to be frightened before giving birth to pica, and there was abnormal smell in the litter after giving birth. Cats, mice, etc. Entering the rabbit house or the mother rabbit is not very maternal, which can easily lead to the abnormal reaction of the mother rabbit and eat her own rabbit baby. Some female rabbits with blood type matching will refuse to breastfeed or even kill their young rabbits because they mate immediately after delivery.

(3) Cats and mice harm young rabbits within 7 days after birth, which is the key period to prevent cats and mice from entering the rabbit house to harm young rabbits. Poor management can easily lead to the death of cats and mice and the biting of young rabbits.

(4) The mother rabbit starved to death, trampled to death, died of illness, poor lactation, too little lactation, and the young rabbits did not have enough to eat, or because there were too many young rabbits, the weak ones starved to death for a long time. Crushed to death because some female rabbits are not strong in maternity and are used to sleeping on young rabbits; Some rabbits are raised in groups, and several rabbits gather together, and the backlog time is too long, resulting in the death of young rabbits. Most of the causes of death are acute enteritis and diarrhea in young rabbits after eating milk with mastitis, and the discharge of smelly white or yellow feces will soon lead to the death of young rabbits. If young rabbits suffer from coccidiosis, rabbit plague, etc. If the treatment is not timely, it will easily lead to the death of young rabbits.

(5) Accidental death Because the rabbit house is too high and the cage door is not tightly closed, the young rabbit falls from the cage and dies; Or because the mat is too soft and tough, the young rabbit is entangled in it and dies. (1) Let young rabbits eat milk early and eat enough milk. Under normal circumstances, young rabbits will automatically breastfeed soon after delivery without assistance. But some can't, so we should pay attention to observation and find that young rabbits who don't breastfeed should let the mother rabbits breastfeed in time. The female rabbits with weak protective ability should be forced to feed, and some rabbits who can't breastfeed themselves or have weak constitution should be artificially assisted to feed, and soybean milk, milk powder or malt extract can be supplemented. Feeding can be done with syringes and plastic eye drops. Connect a plastic hose at the outlet, and put the other end of the hose into the mouth of the young rabbit.

(2) adopt foster care. When the mother rabbit has many babies and the milk secretion is insufficient, it can be fed in foster care. The method is to select the female rabbit within 3 days after delivery as the mother, first transfer the female rabbit to the mother delivery box for 3 hours, let the female rabbits crawl each other, and then hang the female rabbit into artificial auxiliary feeding after the smells are mixed evenly, and the female rabbit will be fed automatically after 2-3 days.

(3) Feed the young rabbits, and pay close attention to the supplementary feeding after feeding the healthy young rabbits for 2 weeks. In addition to feeding the mother rabbit with concentrate, special attention should be paid to strengthening the supplementary feeding of the young rabbit, which can supplement some foods with rich nutrition and easy digestion and absorption, such as fresh grass, green leaves and concentrate. However, we should pay attention to do it from less to more, step by step, feed less and add more to prevent waste. You can be completely weaned in 40 ~ 50 days.

(4) Strengthen the management of rabbit huts. You need to keep warm in winter and spring to prevent thieves from entering. The mother rabbit should prepare the calving room or calving box for calving. Prevent animals such as cats and mice from entering the rabbit house, so as not to disturb the young rabbits.

(5) Do a good job in environmental sanitation, pay attention to the cleanliness of rabbit cages such as litter boxes, and keep the feeding environment dry. Before use, rabbit cages such as litter boxes should be cleaned and exposed or disinfected with alkaline water, lime water or 0. 1% sodium hydroxide and bromogeramine solution, and rabbit huts and rabbit cages should be cleaned every day to eliminate pathogenic microorganisms in the environment and enhance the physique of rabbits.

(6) Do a good job of heat preservation in winter and heatstroke prevention and cooling in summer. If the young rabbit is born in winter and spring, the box should be padded with grass when the weather is cold, warm and no thief wind enters. An infrared lamp or15 ~ 25w incandescent bulb can be installed on the box to keep the young rabbits warm and prevent them from freezing and frostbite. If the young rabbit is born in summer, it is necessary to pay attention to building a sunshade and planting sunshade plants around the rabbit house in advance to avoid direct sunlight from entering the rabbit house. When the room temperature is higher than 35℃, we can put bricks soaked in cold water in the cage and let the rabbits lie on it to cool down and prevent heatstroke.

(seven) to do a good job in the prevention and treatment of common diseases, mainly around the following four.

(1) Cold: When young rabbits have a fever and don't eat grass, they are given mixed intramuscular injections of 400,000 units of penicillin, 300,000 units of streptomycin and 5 ml of antongding twice a day.

(2) Abdominal distension: When young rabbits have abdominal distension and don't eat grass, feed 5ml of liquid paraffin or 4ml of vegetable oil.

(3) Coccidiosis: Take SD 1 tablet and 2 tablets of baking soda orally, 1 twice a day for 3 days; Furazolidone 1/2 tablets for 3 days. Each young rabbit was given clobenguanidine 10 mg for 1 week.

(4) Gastroenteritis: Furazolidone 1/2 tablets, chloramphenicol 1/2 tablets and sulfanilamide 1/2 tablets were taken orally twice a day, and 2 ml of berberine, 3 ml of vitamin C or 2 ml of chlorpheniramine were injected twice a day.