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Advantages of free-range rabbit breeding compared to battery breeding

Building some outdoor enclosures is much cheaper than building many cages. The 110 square meter area can accommodate 200 free-range rabbits and can breed 10 rabbits. To fit into a free-range system, you need 25 cages and 8 growing rabbits per cage. In addition, breeding requires its own individual cage with a nesting area, which means an additional 10 cages.

Rabbit urine is high in ammonia and can be harmful to your health if not cleaned often. Snuffles, a highly lethal disease, generally occur. In nature, and in outdoor enclosures with soil floors, urine is safely absorbed into the ground.

Rabbits produce two types of feces, one of which needs to be digested again. It contains essential nutrients and beneficial bacteria that are essential for rabbit health. In the cage system, these droppings fall through the mesh and the rabbits cannot access them.

Cleaning the cage system requires more time and effort. First, you need to get rid of the urine-soaked feces under the cage. Next, the floor and cage should be disinfected regularly. The outdoor system is self-cleaning as nature works for us. As already mentioned, urine exudes and feces dry and become inactive in the sun and soil. It is ready to scrape feces once or twice a month and use it as an organic fertilizer.

Another time and labor-intensive responsibility is to feed the rabbits and maintain a constant water supply. In addition, the feeding bowl and watering system should be disinfected daily. As you can imagine, this task is much faster with one or two enclosures than with 35 cages.

Rabbits have minimal sweat glands and have a hard time keeping them cool in hot weather. In the cage system, there is no way to regulate the temperature. Farmers need to provide cooling systems such as insulation and air conditioning units. When the temperature reaches 30 degrees, the sperm of male rabbits decreases and deforms. Nursing becomes dehydrated and unable to raise the kit. In an outdoor enclosure, rabbits can create cool burrows and escape the heat. Alternatively, farmers can provide them with some shelter to escape the element.

Rabbits in cages are very stressful, boring and aggressive to each other, resulting in low immunity to illness, high food consumption and combat injuries. Free-range rabbits feel safe together and continue to entertain each other, resulting in a healthy immune system, less feed (nervous system rabbits use more energy), and less injury. I will.

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