Hello am restarting rabittery, and would like to have young men who would love to start up too... so we can join heads and compare our growth. Both in size of farm and gains..


Well in 2017, I was 18 and ventured into rabbitery as a new bie and didn't really know much about it, but actually new the basics ..
Well I lost my first pair (buck and doe) to what I came to only find out few months ago as diarrhea.. because I abruptly changed from grass to feeds few days after I first bred the doe.. well it was painful having waited a long time for them to mature.... I didn't ever think about keeping them again after what I called a mysterious death...

Long story short am ready to start afresh after 3 years.. am better equipped and matured now to handle them.

I have built a new hutch... With three stages..
I'll be starting off with 2 mature never bred does and 1 buck.. hopefully I'll add another two does after the first set Kindle..

I currently live in uyo.. it's a clean neat andapeacful place..
And I'm equipped with a business plan that' I have plotted to boom into a brand...

Though for a start I'll be more focused in increasing the size of the farm..

The two does and the buck will give me enough time to refamiliarise myself with rabbitery and by the time the does have their first little I'd have been ready to add more

Below are pictures of my new hutch...nearing completion, I'll be done tomorrow....
And by Saturday the first occupants would have arrived...


The Ibgo man I bought from and buying from again is virtually a very wealthy man thanks to rabbits...

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I am not a carpenter... But I was able to put that up with little Manual and more of mental help from my dad...a 3 stage 8 compartment hutch..

Bulk of the work was done by me .. and lol I have many injuries to testify to that...



The first stages are divided into two and are the largest of all the compartments were i'll keep the just weaned juveniles from the two does... (I'm going to do a major study.. on them so as to prepare for the future and gather data.. the juvens are going to stay there and be fed a diet if fresh grass and feeds that'll enhance growth .. they'll stay there for three weeks before they are moved to a bigger hutch we're they'll be ready for the freezer or to be sold alive..

The second biggest compartments 4 and are for females and are big enough to contain doe and her kitts for 3 weeks... Till they are weaned and the doe is ready to be be bred again.

The least biggest 2 compartments will house the bucks... Though I plan to use one buck for now and even when I get two more does to complete the remaining 2 spaces left for does .. So till I reach a point were I need another buck.. the remaining empty buck compartment will house just weaned juveniles with special treats, selected from birth for the sole reason of breeding... This selected few will be fed a slightly different diet from other litter mates. They'll also spend three weeks too before moving to the bigger hutch we're they'll continue on a special diet till they are matured for breeding duties....

So this first hutch is what I'll call the first of my rabbit maternity/nusery hutches were everything about reproduction and nursing will take place ..


I'll explain why I space everything in three weeks and other things later....

If you have questions on how and why I'm building the hutch the way it is please ask..

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I used to keep Rabbits as pets when I was in Primary school.

You have reawakened my interest in Rabbits once more.

I am following up on your experience.

Thank you.

Abasman008:
Hello am restarting rabittery, and would like to have young men who would love to start up too... so we can join heads and compare our growth. Both in size of farm and gains..


Well in 2017, I was 18 and ventured into rabbitery as a new bie and didn't really know much about it, but actually new the basics ..
Well I lost my first pair (buck and doe) to what I came to only find out few months ago as diarrhea.. because I abruptly changed from grass to feeds few days after I first bred the doe.. well it was painful having waited a long time for them to mature.... I didn't ever think about keeping them again after what I called a mysterious death...

Long story short am ready to start afresh after 3 years.. am better equipped and matured now to handle them.

I have built a new hutch... With three stages..
I'll be starting off with 2 mature never bred does and 1 buck.. hopefully I'll add another two does after the first set Kindle..

I currently live in uyo.. it's a clean neat but peacful place..
And I'm equipped with a business plan that' I have plotted to boom into a brand...

Though for a start I'll be more focused in increasing the size of the farm..

The two does and the buck will give me enough time to refamiliarise myself with rabbitery and by the time the does have their first little I'd have been ready to add more

Below are pictures of my new hutch...nearing completion, I'll be done tomorrow....
And by Saturday the first occupants would have arrived...


The Ibgo man I bought from and buying from again is virtually a very wealthy man thanks to rabbits...

Lovely plans

Ilaumoh:

Lovely plans

thanks man

uboma:
I used to keep Rabbits as pets when I was in Primary school.

You have reawakened my interest in Rabbits once more.

I am following up on your experience.

Thank you.

no problem..

trueking:
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Ikjosh04:
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Keep it coming man
Will join you soon,if you can find some where to keep the rabbit urine and excreta you can sell the urine for 65,000 per 1000 liters.

jjbest123:
Keep it coming man
Will join you soon,if you can find some where to keep the rabbit urine and excreta you can sell the urine for 65,000 per 1000 liters.

thanks bro... I'll sure keep that in mind

The hutch is fully completed... Except for the locks, I forgot to get them ......I'll get them and the padlocks this evening...

Found this cutie while working today... Never seen a green spider before...

Am so excited I have been able to get this far, can't wait for Saturday!!...

Do you know you know that the skin from one rabbit can earn you more money than the meat does?.....

I'll talk about that later too...

Hello guys, I promised to be putting in my rabbits by Saturday,...
But thungt didn't go as planned, the person whose new zealands I booked had sold them when I went to get them.
So I had to look elsewhere for the rabbits... surprisingly no one wanted to give out their females, those who deed were at a very exorbitant rate.. so i had help and was able to meet someone at a lower but still high Price..and theg were not newzealands as planned... So I got the females ...am going to get the buck this evening and I'll get you a picture by mid morning tomorrow.
Pictures are below..

I haven't gotten feeds for them yet but I will.. so I feed them on regular grass and they love it.....

I guess they are Californians...

Other pictures of them....

So I'm going to do my best to sift out breeds from the litters which will start arriving about a month from now...

And hopefully it'll be a fun journey....
I intend to sell the urine of the rabbits too

Hey...the male arrived.

Didn't have to wait till tomorrow...it arrived not so long ago..
It's much smaller...

Thank God all of them got in...
I can now start my darm book.

Please what's the name of that weed?

Abasman008:
So I'm going to do my best to sift out breeds from the litters which will start arriving about a month from now...

And hopefully it'll be a fun journey....
I intend to sell the urine of the rabbits too

Of what purpose is the urine? I'm interested pls

Chamberman:

Of what purpose is the urine? I'm interested pls

it's one of the best organic fertilizer around.. can be applied straight to your farm and crops

I need grascutter colony's to buy, someone help

Chamberman:

Of what purpose is the urine? I'm interested pls

organic manure production...it's about 65k per 1000 liters.

Hello... So God has so much made it that the area I live in has unlimited supply of shrubs and grasses that I can gibg my Rabbits.. they eat almost all the grasses but prefer the ones in the picture below.. they still jump at it even if it's dry...
So I went out today and got it in abundance..it's stored up in the lower empty compartment of the hutch...

I got feeds today...
Grower mash.
The two females already had been on the mash so it wasn't hard to get them to eat it..
The buck had few weeks on feeds but was cut out from it was largely on a diet of grasses..so when I brought in the feeds it still preferred grasses...it's the smallest and I really want it to gsig some strength and size, so that by the time the females are on heat.. it'll be ready to work...

So I had to take out all the grasses and left it with only feeds, it still wouldn't eat so I had to cut their favorite grass into small bits and put it in the plate of feed... It worked!! While eating the grass it eat the feed and even when the grass finished it kept in eating the feeds....

I put in the evening portion of their grass and feeds but left out the buck from the feeds and gave it grass instead...

It'll be abrupt disaster if I switch I try to add the feeds as if it were the bucks regular food.. I have to go slowly till it gets used to it..





My does pics..
the broken white one is less agile and less play full... The buck is the only friendly one..and got used to it's new home almost immediately..

The females we're always scared of the slightest noise.. but are okay today..
I have started collecting their urine..