Rabbit farming is an emerging but profitable business. A beginners guide to raising rabbits mother earth news. The focus is on raising rabbits to add needed protein to family diets and as an incomegenerating project for small farmers. Rabbit farming has emerged as a new business opportunity. While raising rabbits is a labor intensive endeavor, there are. Thus for your rabbit farming project, you do not need to have elaborate and expensive housing. Okay, so we have considered all the requirements for starting a rabbit farming business. At this juncture, it is pertinent to define and explain lowinput farming systems lifss.
A complete handbook on backy ard and commercial rabbit. The guide to raising and breeding rabbits for meat. The amount of capital required when raising rabbits for meat depends on the scale of the project. The rabbit food and agriculture organization of the united nations. In europe and the united states large scale commercial rabbit farming has been practised for many years and standards of husbandry raised. Rabbit farming, rearing a complete project guide agri. Introduction the importance of the domestic rabbit as a supplier of meat for human consumption is widely recognised throughout the world. A project of the national center for appropriate technology. A beginners guide to raising rabbits, including a rabbit barn, pens, feeders and waterers, breeding stock, care and feeding, breeding, butchering, and meat sales. You can get a loan from the bank, or funding from investors, to use as capital to start your rabbit farming business.
Get the information on rabbit farming loan, subsidies in india. Raising and marketing rabbits is an ideal project for 4h members, espe. A complete rabbit farming rearing project guide for commercial rabbit production in india. Types of rabbit production fanciers pets, breeding stock, and show animals laboratory furhair angora rex meat largest rabbit market. The role of small livestock like rabbits as a tool in poverty alleviation programmes has been acknowledged for decades and successful national rabbit projects have clearly been demonstrated in africa. Intelligent technology for rabbit farm amazing technology. Pdf backyard rabbit farming can be a great idea for having healthy meat and an additional source of income for the family without much involvement. There are many species in the rabbit family but all domesticated rabbits are believed to have descended from a single species known as the european rabbit. The majority of information found in that handbook was an adaptation and revision of commercial rabbit raising agriculture handbook no. You can house your rabbits in outside hutches, wire cages, or. Intelligent technology for rabbit farm amazing technology for agriculture modern farm for rabbits smart technologies on the modern rabbit farm. A complete handbook on backyard and commercial rabbit production replaces an earlier publication of the same name that was produced by the peace corps in 1982.
Health division aga has supported and developed rabbit projects in egypt. Pdf backyard rabbit farming can be a great idea for having healthy meat and an. You will need money for constructing the rabbit hutches, buying the breeding stock, buying the feeds e. Message to county extension agents and adult leaders this manual is a reference guide for young people and adults wanting to participate in a 4h rabbit project in texas. Pdf rabbits are members of the leporidae family, indigenous throughout most. In the last ten years, faos animal production and health division aga has supported and developed rabbit projects in egypt, ghana, guineabissau, equatorial guinea, haiti, mexico, rwanda, sao tome and principe and the democratic republic of the congo former zaire.
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