29/03/2023
ADVANTAGES_OF_RABBIT_FARMING
Below are the Main Advantages of Rabbit
farming:
✅ Rabbits are highly prolific and a good
female can produce 25 to 30 kits
(young ones) per year.
✅ Rabbits can be reared in small groups
(up to 50 rabbits.) in the garden/backyard of farmer's house
with kitchen waste as feed. Family
labor is adequate to take care of the
labor requirements of the unit.
✅ The initial investment cost is low.
✅ Quick returns i.e. within six months after the establishment of the farm.
✅ Rabbit meat is rich in poly-unsaturated
fatty acids and is categorized as white
meat.
✅ Rabbits are the best producers of wool
on per kg body weight basis. They
require 30 % less digestible energy to
produce one kg of wool as compared
to sheep.
✅ Income generation at quarterly interval
makes the repayment easy.
✅ Apart from providing wool, rabbits also
provide income from the sale of kits, meat, pelt, and manure.
✅ Residual feed, together with rabbit
manure is highly suitable for vermicompost which in turn provides
excellent manure for fertilizing the agriculture fields.
✅ Rabbit wool is 6-8 times warmer than
the contemporary sheep wool. It can
be mixed with silk, polyester, rayon,
nylon, sheep wool and other fibers to make good quality handlooms as well as hand knitted apparels.
✅ Rabbits consume a large amount of
forage from diverse origins and hence,
can be reared on roughage with very
less quantíty of costly concentrate
feed.
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