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building a pen; food and shelter plants
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r rabbits? ....... . 2
r rabbits
and much to them ........ . 4
other things that you should
about feeding your rabbits .......... . 8

r 10

ating ........................... . 10
Helping rabbits to mate .............. . 12
The baby rabbits ................... . 13
When the baby rabbits born ....... . 15
Raising young rabbits ............... .
How to tell the difference
between female and male rabbits ..... 23
When should you mate
female rabbits again? ............. . 25
When to replace
your full-grown female rabbits ....... .
When to replace
your full-grown male rabbits ........ . 29

31

The pens ......................... . 31

Food and water .................... . 33
The rabbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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42

Raising more rabbits ................ .

Building better pens ................ . 43
Taking better care of your rabbits ...... . 49
131. Rabbits like to eat green plants,
and are best.
However, during the times of year
when there are few fresh plants,
you can feed your rabbits d

fresh plants

dry plants

132. Remember, if you want your rabbits

to grow well and fast,
you will have to feed them
some as well.

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133. When you were looking

for rabbits to buy,
you saw what they were being fed.
So, you should have a good idea
of the kinds of food that they eat.

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1 Here is a list of
that rabbits like to eat.

Fresh plants

nearly all green plants,

and especially rich plants
such as bean plants and alfalfa

many kinds of grass and weeds

the outside leaves

and the tops of vegetables

lettuce, endive and chicory

• tenderbanana,cane
and bamboo leaves

cut-up pieces of the stalks

of plants such as
maize or banana

roots such as cassava, yams,

carrots, beets and turnips

Dry plants

nearly all plants

dried when they are green,
including grass and weeds

Rich foods

barley, maize, wheat, oats,

field beans, rye, buckwheat,
millet and sorghum

cottonseed, groundnut, coconut,

linseed and sesame cakes.

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can 1n give it

136. However, a sudden change of food

may make your rabbits sick.
So, when you give them something new,
give it to them little by little
for a week or more
until they become used to it

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137. You have al ready learned
that rabbits eat at night
as well as during the day.
So, you must be sure that they have
enough to eat all of the time.

138. The best time to feed rabbits

1s early in the morning
and in the evening,
before it is dark.

morning evening

139. Each time you feed your rabbits,

put fresh or dry plant materials
in the plant feeder,
and put some of the rich food
that you are using,
such as crushed maize,
in the grain feeder.

fresh or dry
plant material
and
rich food

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140. If you are feeding your rabbits
any larger foods,
such as sections of banana stalk
or whole carrots, beets or yams,
you can put them on the floor
of the pen.

141 . Rabbits need

different amounts of food
at different times in their lives.

142. The following items will help you

learn how much to feed your rabbits.

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female rabbit

male rabbit

1 They must be given enough food

keep them strong and healthy
but not so much that they get fat.

145. Female rabbits that are fat

do not have babies easily.
Male rabbits that are fat
are and do not want to mate.

146.

147: Once you know that a female

is going to have babies,
give her as much food
as she can eat.

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the babies inside her.
the babies are
II have able
uce a of rich milk

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all of their food,
them a little less.

151 . see that your rabbits

all their food,
give them a little more
unless they are fat.

152. will learn what baby rabbits eat

in the section in this booklet,
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153. You must be careful
that the food you feed your rabbits
is clean
or it may make them sick.

154. gather green food

from places made dirty
by other animals.

155. give your rabbits

food that is mouldy or dusty.
Even food that was once clean,
such as dry hay, grass or grain,
can become mouldy or dusty
after only a very short time.

MOULDY DUSTY

156. You must also be careful

not to feed your rabbits
food that is sour or spoiled
because it may make them sick.

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157. give r rabbits
fresh green food
that has been standing in piles.
Fresh green food left standing
becomes spoiled very quickly.

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even for a very few hours
after it has been cut,
spread it out
and turn it over from time to time
so that it will not become warm,
sour or spoiled.

159. If you build a rack

like the one shown below,
you can dry green food completely
so that you can use it later
when you cannot find fresh food.

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you can tie it in bundles
and hang it in a place
where it will stay dry and clean,

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mated
are 4 to 4 i/2 months . ,
and ma!e rabbits
they are 5 to 5 1/ 2 old.

161. So, once rabbits are enough

(and if they are not sick),
can begin mate them
for the first time.

1 The best time for mating

is early in the morni
or in the evening
when it is cool.

morning evening

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into the pen
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If the male
and in a
falls off side,
mating has taken place.

165. As soon as this has happened,

put the female back in her pen
and write down the date of mating.
This way you will know when to expect
the baby rabbits to be born
(see Item 171 in this booklet).

write down the date

of mating

166. If the rabbits do not mate

after about five minutes,
put the female back in her cage
and try again the next day.

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1 Sometimes when a female
is put into a pen with a male rabbit
she will hide in the corner
and the male rabbit
wiil not be able to mount her.

168. If this happens,

you can help them to mate.
To do this,
hold the female by the neck
with one hand.

169. Then, put the other hand

under the female
with one finger on each side
of her tail
and push gently backwards.

170. This will make the female

lift her tail
so that the male can mount her.
The drawings below
will show you how to hold
a female rabbit for mating.

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171 . Baby rabbits are usually born
about one month after mating.
However, they may be born
afew days earlier
or a few days later.

1 About five or six days before

you expect the babies to be born,
put one of the nest boxes
that you have built
(see page 41 in the last booklet)
in the pen with the female.

173. Cover the bottom of the box

with sawdust or wood chips.
This will help to keep the box dry
after the baby rabbits are born.
Put a little dry grass
or hay in the box.

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175. The nest is i

because baby rabbits are weak
and helpless when they are born.
Baby rabbits have no fur,
they cannot see and they cannot walk.
So, they must be well protected.

176. Soon after the female rabbit

has finished the nest,
you can expect the baby rabbits
be born.

177.

This is especially true

while she is having the babies.

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178. rabbits
look them careful
see that are all well.

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179. Here are some things

that you should look for.
You should see

if they are lying

close together or far apart

if they are warm

and well protected in the nest

if they are alive and well

how many baby rabbits there are.

180. One very important thing

that you should always remember
is never touch baby rabbits
unless you must,
and if you must,
make sure your hands are clean.

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to her babies only once a day.
If the babies are not close together,
she may not feed them all.

183.

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around them

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take away dead

or deformed babies

185.

female rabbit with eight teats

can feed only eight babies.

186. You can move baby rabbits from one female

to another one that also has babies.
If you have another female rabbit
with too few babies,
you can give some to her to feed.

if one rabbit has too many babies,

give some to another female /
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187. However, the baby rabbits

that you give to another female
should be no more than two days younger
or two days older than her own babies.

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1 Gently b rabbits
are going move
some of the grass or hay
the new

gently rub the babies

with grass or hay
from the new nest

189. This will give them

the same smell as the new nest
so that the new female rabbit
will be more likely to accept
the new babies as her own.

190.

This can happen if a female rabbit

does not have enough milk.

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191. It can also happen the first time

that a female rabbit has babies
because she does not know
how to take care of them.

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1 if she kills babies
II not them
the next time she is m ,
do not use her for mating again.
Replace her with a new female.

193. Look at your baby rabbits every day

to make sure that they are all weil.
Take away any babies that die.

194.

195. So, be very careful with female rabbits

when they are having babies.
Be sure that they can get as much food
and water as they want

196. At first, your new little rabbits

will sleep most of the time
and move very little.
They will take milk once a day.

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1 When they are about
their fur wili begin g
they will to see
and they will start to move about.

198. At about three weeks, the little rabbits

will come out of their nest box
and they will begin to eat food
in addition to the milk they drink.

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199. From this point on, the little rabbits

will eat more and more food.
So, be very sure that there is enough food
for all the rabbits to eat.

200. By the time they are six weeks old,

the little rabbits
will no longer take milk
and they will eat all of the foods
that full-grown rabbits eat.

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202. Make sure that their pen

is always clean.
Make sure that the food and water
is always clean and fresh.

203. move little rabbits of this age.

Leave them with the female rabbit
in the same pen.
If you move them to a different pen
they may get sick or lose weight.

leave babies
with the female
until they are
eight weeks old

204. When the rabbits are eight weeks old

it is safe to move them.
Then, you can take them
away from the female rabbit
and put them in their own pen.

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to eight young rabbits in a
of the size you learned
in the last booklet

206. However, it is to
all of the young rabbits
from the same female rabbit
together in the same pen.

207. Once they are in their own pen,

you can begin to fatten them
to eat or to sell.
So, give them as much food
as they can eat
and plenty of fresh water.

give your young rabbits

as much as they can eat
and drink

208. Young rabbits are usually big enough

to be eaten or to be sold
when they are about three
to four months old.

209. After four months of age,

rabbits begin to eat a lot more food.
So, you should try to eat or sell
all of your rabbits by this time.

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male rabbits
it is best to eat
male rabbits fi

1. ii next learn ten

the difference between
female and male rabbits.

212. It is not too hard

to tell the difference
between female and male rabbits
they are eight weeks old.

213. The easiest way to learn

is to ask someone
who al ready knows how.
If there is no one to help you,
the following items will tell you how.

21 Hold the rabbit in your arms

put it on its back
on a table, as shown below.

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just behind the tail.
The opening nearest the tail
is where the rabbit droppings come out.
This opening looks much the same
in all rabbits.

216. However, the second opening of a female

looks quite different
from the second opening of a male.
This is how you tell them apart.

217. Push down gently with your thumbs

on each side of the openings.
You wi 11 see that they are
red and moist inside.

218. Look carefully

at the second opening.
Some rabbits have a sl
and some rabbits have a
with a small hole in the centre.

219.

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220. you have already learned,
rabbits can have babies often.
Female rabbits have babies
or times each year.

1. However, a female rabbit

must be strong and healthy
and be fed good food
to produce healthy babies
that many times each year.

When you first begin

to raise your own rabbits,
you should mate your females
only r or times each year
(see the diagrams on pages 26 and 27).

223. After you have been

raising rabbits for some time
and you see that your female rabbits
are strong and healthy,
you may be able
to mate them often.

224.

Remember, if you mate

all of your female rabbits
at about the same time,
all of your baby rabbits will be born
at about the same time.
That way you can easily move them
from one female to another
if you need to
(see Items 186 to 189 in this booklet).

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 If any of your full-grown
female rabbits become sick
or do not have healthy baby rabbits,

Replace them
with new full-grown females.

replace unhealthy females

with healthy females

228. As long as your full-grown

female rabbits are healthy
and have healthy baby rabbits,
you can continue to mate them
until they are

change
FIRST SECOND THIRD female
YEAR YEAR YEAR rabbits
after
three
years
~ale

229. However, after three years

you should replace them
with other full-grown females.
You can either buy new females
or you can use your own.

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230. If decide use r ,
choose one or two of r healthiest
and strongest young females
before you eat or sell
of your young rabbits.

1. That way you will always have

a healthy young female ready
to replace one of your old females
or a female that becomes sick.
You can also use a young female
if you decide to mate
more than two female rabbits.

232. Male rabbits can be used for mating

until they are
and even longer if they are healthy
and the females that they mate
continue to have healthy babies.

FIRST SECOND THIRD males

YEAR YEAR YEAR can be
mated
after
three
years
if the
babies
born are
healthy

233. However, you should not mate

rabbits from the same family
or your baby rabbits
may not be strong and healthy.

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 mati ,
should replace r male
about once every year.
That way you will be sure
not to mate a father a daughter.

You can either buy a new male

or you may be able to exchange
your old male rabbit
for a new male rabbit

236. Perhaps you can find

another farmer with rabbits
who would like to exchange
male rabbits from time to time.
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your old male
for a new male

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Remember to choose rabbits that come

from big families of five to six babies
that weighed at least 11I 2 to 2 kilograms
when they were three to four months old.
In addition, remember that new females
should have eight teats.

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 If you built your pens
like those shown in the last booklet,
they will usually stay clean.
However, sometimes the droppings
may not fall out of the pen.

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239. So, watch careful

to see that rabbit droppings
collect on the floor
or in the corners of your pen.
If they do,

brush out
rabbit droppings

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 Clean the pens
of your full-grown rabbits
with soap and water
at least twice each year
and more often if they become dirty.

241. When your baby rabbits are big enough

and no longer need their nest boxes,
clean the boxes with soap and water
and put them away for the next time.

242. When all of your young rabbits

have been eaten or sold,
clean their pens with soap and water
before you put in more young rabbits.

If a rabbit begins to ruin its pen

by chewing the wood
of the walls or the floor,
give it a piece of wood to chew.

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244. When you give your rabbits new food,
uneaten food from the last feeding
may be left if the food is clean
and the feeders and containers are clean.

But if the old food

or the feeders are dirty,
take away the old food
and clean the feeders
before you put in 'new food.

246. in addition, if the water

or the water containers become dirty,
empty out the water, clean the containers
and put in new water.

take away
old food
and water

put in
new food
and water

clean feeders
and containers

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 does not eat its food

loses weight

• dirties the fur

around its tail

sits in strange positions

or cannot move about easily

has rough, d fur.

If one of your rabbits becomes sick,

take it out of its pen,
wash the pen with soap and water
and, when the pen is dry,
put the rabbit back.

249. If a rabbit becomes sick,

take it out of its pen
to keep the sickness from spreading
to your other rabbits.
This is especially important
when there are many rabbits
in the same pen.

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 burn dead rabbits
at once

251. Here are some other things

that you should watch for,
and what to do
if rabbits

Sometimes rabbits have ..,.,,..-,u,

is may caused
under the skin inside the
If this happens any r rabbits,

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Sometimes rabbits have
This may be caused by flies,
or they may have scratched their eyes.
If this happens to any of your rabbits,

If any of your rabbits

sneeze or rub their nose
or have a nose,
they may have a cold.

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255. If any
have i
it may be caused by a h place
or a wet, dirty floor in their pen.
First, smooth out rough places
and clean and dry the pen.
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256. Rabbits that live in pens

often grow very
!f their claws become too long
they may get caught in the pen floor
and the rabbits may hurt their feet
If this happens
However, avoid the red centre of the claw.

257. If any of your rabbits become sick

and you do not know what to do
or you need help with a problem,
your extension agent
will be able to give you good advice.

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 II a rabbit
or a from ace pi
when its stomach is fuiL
However, during this time
be sure that it has water drin

Remember, you can ii rabbits

a need meat
The drawings the pages
show you n and clean a
261. If you are goi to sell rabbits
the market,
you should move them when it is
If it is too hot, they may die
before get to the market

Another way sell rabbits

is to a them in
in a pen the side the road
near r house.
That way people can come
to look at them and to them.

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tie it up by the back feet,
cut off its head and front feet
and let the blood drip out

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 clean a rabbit
1 slit the skin
around both back feet
and make a cut
from one leg to the other

2 pull off the skin

from both back legs
and cut off the tail

3 continue to pull the skin

until it is completely off

4 cut the rabbit up the middle

and take out everything
except the kidneys, liver
and heart (which are good to eat)

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 After have been raising rabbits
some time
with two full-grown females
and one full-grown male,
you may find that you and your family
could eat or sell more rabbits
if you had them.

The easiest way to raise more rabbits

is to mate your two females more often.
However, to do this your females
must be very strong and healthy.

265. You can also raise more rabbits

by keeping and mating more females.
You can begin by keeping three
or more full-grown females
instead of only two.

with three females MALE

you will need
only one male

FEMALES

266. You have already been told

that you can use your own young rabbits
when you need more females for mating.
So, start by choosing one or two
of your healthiest females.

267. Remember, when you use

your own female rabbits for mating,
you must change your male rabbit
about once every year
(see Items 233 to 236 in this booklet).

42
 if
than six female rabbits
will need have males.

if you have more

than six females MALES
you will need
two males

FEMALES

269. in the last booklet you told

that wire mesh is the best material
for building rabbit pens.

When you begin to keep

more female rabbits for mating
you will have to build more pens.
Perhaps you would like to use
some wire mesh when you build them.

271. The drawings on the next pages

show you how to build a better pen
using wire mesh for the floors
and for the inside walls.

272. If you use wire mesh

to build any of your pens,
be sure to use pens
for your full-grown rabbits.

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How to build a better pen
using wire mesh

These pens are built much like those

that you learned to build in the last booklet;
however, the floors, inside walls and doors
are made using wire mesh.
The following items
will tell you how
to build these pens ...

1 build the frames as you did before

(see pages 22 to 24
in the last booklet),
put them in the ground,
fill the holes with earth
and pack them well

I
nail board I
in centre I ,·...u!I'',
~-,,
11' ~......

I I
0 I
I I
I I
u
~
I
I
I I
I I
u I
I 2 nail a 4 x 1O cm wooden board
I between the floor braces
u where the centre wall will be
(see arrow)

44
3 nail 4 x 1O cm boards
at the level of the braces
all the way around the frame

4 cover this frame

with 1 .25 x 1 .25 mm
wire mesh

4 x 10cm
boards

1.25 x 1.25 mm
wire mesh

5 cover the ends

and back of the frame
with wooden boards
(see page 25
in the last booklet)

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6 bui a wall place
between the pens,
cover it with wire mesh
and attach it
in the centre

attach the wall

in the centre
I
• . -1~// '/ ~lll / / /
of the pen

,·•l///1 7///..,

7 finish boxing in the front

using i 0-cm boards,
making sure
that the boards
are straight
and square

46
8 to hold the pen doors in place,
attach four pieces of wood
to the inside of each pen
and four small blocks
with screws to the outside
of each pen

9 now you can build the roof

and cover it as before
(see pages 31 and 32
in the last booklet)

47
1O build the pen doors as before;
however, make plant feeder
using strong wire and wire mesh
and cover the small door
with wire mesh

wire
mesh

water
wire container
strong mesh
wire

48
 r
Remember, the more learn
about your rabbits
the better you can take of them.
So, always watch them very carefully
and learn as much as you can.

274. With experience you will learn

the best food to feed them and just how much
so that they wrn be strong and healthy
and always have healthy baby rabbits.

275. You will also learn how best

to keep them from getting sick
and what to do for them
if they do get sick.

276. Then, if you always choose

the best young female rabbits
when you need a new female for mating,
you will improve the quality
of the rabbits that you raise.

277. So, with more and better rabbits

to eat and to sell,
you and your family
will be able to live better.

l//(f\\l/lfll\ll
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