₦airaland Forum

ewizard1: Glad to find this thread...

I love rabbits with Passion and i just bought 2 (Male n Female) from an Aboki i saw passing by on my street.
I dont know the breeds, neither do i know how old they are but i am very sure they are still babies. They are both PLAIN WHITE in color.

I need help on how to rear this animals.
Can they stay in my room, cause i presently have the hopping around on my rug.
What local food/grass can i feed them with.
How often i should feed them and also the enviroment care.

Thanks.

NOTE : I bought as a pet as i would sometimes carry them like babies.

I would share pictures of them soon. I petnamed them RONNY(Male) & BELLA(Female)

dasparrow: Don't forget, rabbits love carrots and gnawing on carrots is good for their ever growing teeth.

dasparrow: Don't forget, rabbits love carrots and gnawing on carrots is good for their ever growing teeth.

dyoungforester: Kudos to all my rabbit lovers;
now grasscutter vs rabbit which one is better to rear.To me apart from being a rabbit lover, rabbit rearing pays better than Grasscutter rearing. My reason
1st. Rabbit is easy to domesticate than a grasscutter in terms of facilities like building of cages requirements. Money for acquisition i.e purchasing for instance grasscutter is sold in colony or family which mean 4 female and 1 male but not matured one at the rate of 45k unlike a rabbit where u can establish rabbitry with just 10 mature female and 2 or 3 male with less expensive housing unlike grasscutter.
2; Grasscutter are all wild and not friendly like a rabbit
3; Gestation period of grasscutter is 45 day or more unlike rabbit 28 - 32 max 35 days
4. In terms of litters i.e kit, rabbit is the first ranging from 5 kits 12kits with my experience while grasscutter is ranging 2 to 5 kits hardly 7kits. E.t.c as you can see rabbit rearing is the best.
As you can see start one now and enjoy the happiness of it. One love rabbit lovers, one love dyoungforester.
Motto- breeding to be the best.
And remember the love of rabbit is the love of good returns. Stay bless.

olumzzz: ONE WORD........
#EBOLA............
Rabbit meat kor Bunny meat ni

whitecat007: Long throat! Humans should stick with fish, beef and chicken, and leave bunny alone, haba! Those cuties make great pets and avoid ebola.

Apitch: Still waiting for ur call

Blackethics: U wil get frm edo state ministry of agriculture. Dey hv some arable farmlands in agonebode and other area

Dexpro: At what age will she start laying? Laying starts when she is 15 to 19 months old.

Matured to be slaughtered When they are 6-9 months old.

How many eggs can she lay in a year? It depends on how well she is fed. You'll get 30 eggs. **

fayahsoul: @dejia this AI you are talking about sounds like its a fertilized egg that's been implanted into your sows and not sperm. In other words your sows serve as surrogates.

Apitch: Yes my family house is there but I reside and work @ Ogidi
Please can I have ur number so we can hook up. Mine is 08038927644

mercylicious: Wow. Nice to know u are close. I will pay u a visit in ur farm one of these weekends. I have been planning on setting up a farm for two years now but have nt done anything. Thinking of doing both crop and animal farming so dt the refuse froom the animals will be manure for the crops. Am looking at buying vast lands at aguleri side for this as land at nkwele and nsugbe have gone so expensive. I will be needing ur mentorship soon.

felixzo1: the only place i know tse tse fly attack people even at home is the delta region. just a open house will be okay,( but if the cases of tse tse fly arise , you can alway use a net to cover the pens) similar to the one provide below, it is good the do not stand on the ground in wet regions, because more disease are transferred that way.( foot and mouth disease and respiratory diseases) goats love dryness. crossing the the northern goats for example sokoto red with a nigerian dwarf will help with easier adaptation and hybrid vigour.northern goats do not do well in the south because of poor housing

felixzo1: tse tse fly will not be a problem with proper housing.

Apitch: Which area of nkpor?
I guess it's on ur land, so how do u control the smell? Don't ur neighbours complain?

rareman: Am from Awka-Etiti based in Lagos have my farm in Ogun state, I want to know the marketing side of farm biz in anambra. Good thread anyway!

jamp: He can use poultry manure considering the capacity of his farm.

i will be constructing one very soon (mini biodigester) and i hope some people will join me when i start.

jethro2: TME 419 is 12 months.
should not stay more than 2 years

Nastydroid: it all depends on which type of acoustic and d size d prices ranges from (4k-12k)

kengeorge: @slurry

Please what would be the size of a biodigester that can accommodate the manure of 12,000 layers every day? and wht would be the rough estimate for construction?.

slurry: @ farmtech
U are very correct with d observation of my name & indeed its a cute name and profitable name.
There is lots of money & job opportunities to be made from farm wastes and other kinds of west and I think it's not too late for Nigeria to harvest from this profitable goldmine.

slurry: well its kind of two way things: if your farm is big, by big I mean with large animal stock yes you can go for that big biogas but if not then start small

frakdon: Hello!
pls hw do I get in touch with yu?

slurry: 25kva & 24 hours running Do you intend feeding your community with electricity, if not then you must have heavy farm equipments/ gadgets that consume much power.
In that case, you will need to construct a digester that will have gas output of 7000 cubic feet daily and such a digester will occupy a land space of 38.37 square feet.
You need to have 50 herds of cattle with a live weight of 100lbs or 100 pigs with the same live weight as cattle.
Men this is a big project you want to embark on, but with enormous rewards if you can pay the price.

heywhy4u: how much are the eggs? And how big? And where is ur farm located?

jethro2: That will be nice. Lands are very cheap in the villages/rural areas. It might be a few distance to the city.
One needs to know the chiefs and the bales.
In the South West, you can find cheap lands in the villages. I want to believe same thing happens all over the country.
Its getting across to the right people
Relocation to a new area may be quite expensive. I would advise sourcing for cheap one in the environment that you are used to. It will be cheaper and cost effective no matter how