Rabbits of this breed are kings of fur quality. Their skins are highly valued for special fur. Beaver color it has rare black hairs. Products from the fur of Rex rabbits are well bought both in our country and abroad
Description
Rex rabbits belong to meat and animal medium breeds. Their weight is 3-5 kg. The trunk is elongated (40–45 cm); narrow chest, in females - a small undershank. The back is long, narrow, with a hump. The bone is small bone, brittle. The head is small, elongated. Ears are small, upright.
Appearance
Rabbits of this breed are also called royal. And for good reason. They have a special, different from other types of fur. It is from white to dark blue. The most popular subspecies are Castor Rex, Chinchilla Rex. There are about 20 colors of Rex rabbits.
And in the countries of Western Europe, domestic rabbits of this breed of reduced copy are now popular - mini-rex. They weigh 1–2 kg and have reddish plush wool. But this is not the most important thing. And an important feature is the quality of the fur. It is very short, thick, silky, soft, shiny. It looks like velor.
At the beginning of the last century, in Paris, it was fashionable to wear a coat of skins of this breed. The dandies who wore it were called the Rex-beaver (royal beaver). For a velvety and brown color, similar to the beaver.
Productivity
And now the skins are in demand. Brown fur with black hairs is often issued as sheared mink or cat fur. Rabbit meat is highly valued, as it refers to dietary varieties.
Features breeding, care
Despite some difficulties in breeding, Rex is increasingly gaining popularity among domestic farmers. This difficulty lies in the pain of rabbits. They do not tolerate heat. At temperatures over 35 degrees Celsius can earn heat stroke.
Therefore, if the cages for Rex are in the courtyard, it is necessary to provide the rabbits with plenty of fresh clean water, to make a large wide canopy. In addition, rabbits do not tolerate cold. They can not be diluted in cages with a wire floor due to limb susceptibility to neurodermatitis. Cell floors should be slatted with a thick layer of straw.
Another common disease in Rex rabbits is a cold or an infectious rhinitis. A cold is treated by instillation into the nose with a 5% solution of furatsilin several times a day. But infectious rhinitis is not treated. It can only be warned by making appropriate vaccinations to rabbits.
In general, rabbits are kept in rooms, in a house, or in specially equipped cages. Drinking bowls and feeders daily must be washed with hot water. And in the summer to put in the sun to dry. Cleaned cages every 3-4 days. Just bought for breeding representatives of this breed, you must quarantine in a separate cage. Even if they do not have any diseases, abrupt changes in living conditions and a change in habitat can get sick.
In breeding a large role is played by the live weight of the rabbit. It is necessary that he was big enough and plump. Then fertility rises.
In addition, the age of parents of future babies plays a big role. Mating should begin between females and males from 5-6 months of age. Considering that rabbits live on average up to 12 years, already in the 3-year increase in the level of offspring begins to decline, rabbits are born weaker, smaller, less adapted to the environment.
Feeding features
In food breed Rex unpretentious. In winter It is recommended to give grain mixtures, dry food, branch feed, and root crops. In the summer, dried grass and garden waste are added to the diet. Rex willingly eat dry mixes from the pet store, hay, fruits and vegetables.
Consume a lot of water.
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantages of the breed include early maturity and milkiness of females; The high commercial value of the skin and rabbit meat. Disadvantages of the Rex rabbit breed:
Acceptable Poorly contoured neck, less harmonious constitution, long, thin, sharp ears (more than 12 cm long), low density of fur, too short or too long fur
Invalid Weight less than 3.5 kg or more than 5.5 kg, ears are upright, more than 13 cm long, the presence of a double-triple chin, sparse wool stuck together
Okrol
Rabbits Rex breed maloplodovity. One litter is 5-6 cubs. Often babies do not survive. Therefore, farmers breeding this breed go for such a trick - they feed the newborn Rexes to the feeding rabbits of other breeds. Then the probability of survival of the kids increases dramatically.
Okrol usually takes place in the fall, less often - in the winter. Time of day: night or morning; rarely a day. The presence of the farmer is not necessary, except in cases where the rabbit is giving birth for the first time. Awkol lasts from 20 min. Up to an hour. Milk appears at the time of birth of babies.
Rabbit Care
Mothers are generally childlike. Themselves prepare the nest for future babies, after birth, lick babies, eat the afterbirth and immediately feed. After feeding, babies are transferred to the nest, covered with fur.
If the delivery was successful and the babies receive a sufficient amount of mother's milk, on the first or second day after a roundwalk, the farmer must inspect the cage, remove the stillborn young.
The difficulty is young rabbit. They often do not nest before the birth of babies. After lambing is very irritable. If nipples are undeveloped and sucking them causes rabbit pain or severe painful childbirth, it can tear the offspring.
In order to prevent the death of small newborns, the farmer must give the pregnant female an adequate amount of fresh water before lambing. At the first feeding try to develop the nipples of the bunny rabbit. If the rabbit behaves restlessly, runs around the cage, scatters the young, you need to separate the young from the mother. And allow the mother to cubs only during feeding.
With a neglect of the rabbit to the offspring, ignoring the care of newborns, the farmer must provide warmth to the newborn. In the autumn - to equip a warm nest, in winter - to install a light bulb above the ceiling of the cage so that the temperature in the cage is about 40 degrees.
In cases where the female has no milk or other situations, babies are fed artificially. You can not feed baby rabbits whole cow's milk. The feed is diluted condensed milk or diluted milk formulas. Feed the cubs once a day. After 3 weeks milk feeding stops. Rabbit switches to the consumption of vegetable feed.
