Raising rabbits falls into two beneficial
reasons, for pet or profit. Rabbit is popular for pet lovers because of its
gentle characteristics, tame, social and such a great companion when outdoors. For
those who want to make some cash raising rabbit is efficient, cheaper, less
maintenance and productive than any other animals. But raising them will
require you a lot of work to keep them happy, healthy and profitable.
This article will provide you some useful tips
to help you in raising your rabbit. This will also guide you to determine your
purpose of raising rabbit.
1. For pet or profit. Do you want to keep your rabbit as companion or
do you want them to market to make money? If you feel that rabbit will make a
good pet for you read my article about choosing rabbit as pet and learn how to
take care of them. If you've considered raising rabbit for profit read the
facts on how to start a rabbit business
or get some ideas from my story on how do I start profiting my rabbit.
2. Choosing the right breed and learn how to breed. There are lots of
variety of rabbit’s breed, they varies from size, shapes, ears and fur. Some were
great for pet and others are best for meat and fur production. Keep in mind that
choosing the right breed is
important to determine which breed is best for pet and which is best for meat
and fur production. Breeds like netherland dwarft, dutch, and lop are best for pet
while medium size rabbits are best for meat and fur production. Breeding is one
of the most interesting things about rabbits and you’ll have to do it in a
right way by considering the facts on howto breed a rabbit.
3. Housing your rabbit. Keeping rabbit to a safe place to live is one
of the important things to provide by a responsible rabbit owner. Build cages
for housing rabbit indoors, hutch for outdoors, pen to let them run and
rabbitry to manage your rabbit business at ease.
4. Feeding and providing health care. This includes proper diet which
is one the main factor of keeping your rabbit healthy. It is important to give
your rabbit fresh and healthy food and medical attention if they get sick or
have injuries. You must also aware about rabbit’s minor and uncommon diseases with prevention and
proper treatment. By providing your rabbits primary needs you
can make sure that they will live happy and stay healthy.
5. Spending time with your rabbit. Sometimes problem of time
management and losing of interest results from abandoned rabbit. Getting along
with your rabbit like feeding, playing, cleaning, exercise and training needs a
plenty of time. Your interaction with your rabbit will surely make them happy. If
you figure out that you can’t take care of them anymore, don’t just leave them.
Some people think that let them loose on the wild will solve the problem, which
is wrong and dangerous for rabbit. If you find yourself in this situation there
are several organizations that are knowledgeable and willing to accept and give
rabbit a proper care.
By considering and have a better analysis of
the facts above you can surely have a good way of raising your rabbit for pet
or even for profit. Remember that before starting your rabbit business; its
better not expect too much that you can make large profit quickly. Success of
raising rabbits for profit are define in different keys of success: a demanding market, great health and care supervision,
good breeding routine, well feeding process, and source of effective information.
Don’t treat your rabbit as milking cow of
instant cash, but let it as a passion of an enjoyable hobby. Don’t rush too
much because there are lots of things and preparations you need to know and to
consider like record keeping in order to build strong and reputable rabbit business.
If you decided to see for yourself of how much joy you can get from raising
rabbits, I bet you’ll have fun of doing it. I hope this site will provide you
helpful topics and information to start your rabbit care and business, because
I always believed that raising rabbit is fun!
