Breeding rabbits in cages allows you to organize correct feeding rabbits, efficient use of feed, to breeding and targeted treatment-and-prophylactic work.
When breeding rabbits in cages throughout the year they are kept under the open sky in a stationary or portable cells.
Used the combined content when the rabbits during the warmer time of the year contain in the open air, and in the cold — in premises for the breeding of rabbits, barns, rabbit-hutches.
Depend on these systems from climate characteristics of the area. So, in Central parts of the country mainly bred rabbits in cages outdoors, and in the Northern and North-Eastern regions use a combined method.
In addition, private breeders animals mainly in the areas sheds – rabbit hutches.
Breeding rabbits in cages outdoors improves the quality of hair and strengthening the health of animals, enhance the body resistance to diseases, etc.
Breeders-fans use different the design of cages for rabbits. It depends on many factors, primarily the availability and cost of local building materials, climatic conditions, animal size (small, medium, large), age groups.
Cages for breeding rabbits made from plywood, wood, asbestos cement sheets, bricks, Adobe, sheet metal, metal mesh, and combinations of these materials.
Common to the cells used by the breeders-Amateurs is that they usually have a wooden base with a mesh door and front wall. When the keeping of rabbits premises, rabbit hutches nesting compartments of the cell, and then the liquor made only from the boards, planks, chipboard, and other parts of the grid.
Unfortunately, not always breeders-fans can purchase building materials, in particular a metal grid. Some made it themselves, using a fairly simple technology.
Manufacturer of mesh for kralici cells:
For example, breeder A. A. Zhashkov from Vyazma to obtain a mesh beret flat bar of a width equal to the size of future cells and a thickness slightly greater than the thickness of the wire used.
Bar pulls tight rows of wire. Then removes it from the beam and each turn extends at a 90° angle to the previous one. So blanks are made of the future grid. In conclusion, rotating snake, concatenates its links with the links of the other of the workpiece and receives in this way the canvas size.
The scheme of manufacture of nets by A. A. Jaszkowo
Breeder-Amateur I. G. Lague applies a different method of making mesh. On the metal bus pulls 20-30 turns of soft thick wire, which then releases. To facilitate removal, previously to both sides of the tire applies on the two segments of wire, then the removal of snakes removes them.
Further, xplosiv tap of the hammer coils, remove them from the bus, stretches like an accordion, and strung on stiff wire. The resulting mesh clip on a wooden frame of desired size.
Practice other ways of weaving the mesh. To effectively use the usable area of the premises, the breeders set cages for rabbits in 3-4 tiers, although it is difficult to service animals.
The scheme of manufacturing of grid I. G. Lague
(1 – Sheena metal, 2 – stringing coils on stiff wire)
When breeding rabbits in cagesto improve sanitary conditions the floor in the cells that make the rack or net. Through cracks and cell sex excrement of rabbits fall to the ground or in special trays (boxes). Slatted flooring is assembled from numerous wooden slats, metal rods or strips of a width of 25-30 mm, leaving between them the slit width 16-18 mm. For floor use mesh galvanized welded mesh with cell 16х48 mm or square 20 mm.
However, research has shown that the use of nets with mesh 20x20 mm leads to injury of the extremities in calves. In General, the mesh floor in cages of different designs and modifications is the most technologically advanced and hygienic for breeding rabbits in cages.
However, when the outer content rabbits mesh floor contributes to a significant cooling of the cells. This problem breeders decide differently, using different insulation.
Already mentioned the breeder-enthusiast A. A. Zhashkov to retain heat in cages with mesh floors, each of them equipped with slide-out drip tray made of wood with plywood bottom size of the bottom of the cage. With a tightly customized pallet cooling through the mesh floor stops.
The design of the cages used by breeders differ depending on their purpose.
