Rabbit feed commonly used

First, green feed

The green feed for rabbits includes forage legumes, grasses for grasses, leafy vegetables, and roots and forages such as alfalfa, clover, ryegrass, bitter leeks, sweet potatoes, comfrey grasses, pine cones, weeds, and leaves.

Second, roughage

Roughage mainly includes two types of hay (grasses, legumes, and other grasses) and straw (straw, soybeans, corn stalks, etc.). It is characterized by low water content, high crude fiber content, low digestible material, poor palatability, low digestibility, but has a wide range of sources, large quantities, and low prices. It is one of the indispensable raw materials for rabbit feed and is generally used in diets. The proportion is about 30%. Among them, the green hay is fragrant and has good palatability and should be used as the main roughage feed for rabbits in the family. If it is fed with clams, it is best to be mixed with other concentrates to make granules.

Third, concentrate feed

Concentrates mainly include energy feeds and protein feeds. Energy feeds mainly include corn, barley, rice and wheat bran. Its characteristics are rich in starch content, good palatability, high digestibility, crude fiber content, protein content is not high, containing more phosphorus, sulfur, less calcium, vitamin content is not comprehensive.

Protein feeds mainly include plant protein feeds and animal protein feeds. Vegetable protein feeds (such as soybeans, bean cakes, soybean meal, rapeseed meal, and cotton aphid, etc.) are characterized by rich protein content, balanced amino acids, and relatively complete nutrition. There are a large number of fats, vitamins E and B, aromatic odors, and good palatability. The proportion in the diet is 20-40% (the rapeseed cake contains mustardine, bitter and spicy, the proportion in the mixture should generally be controlled at about 5%); animal protein feed (such as fish meal, The characteristics of silkworm cocoon and flesh powder are high in protein content, and there are more essential amino acids, especially lysine, methionine and tryptophan content, and there are more vitamins and inorganic salts. It is a commonly used protein-added feed. Fishmeal is often used to adjust and supplement certain essential amino acids, but due to the high price, and special fish smell, poor palatability, the proportion in the mixture is generally controlled at about 3%.

In addition, feed yeast is rich in protein, vitamins, fats and inorganic salts, its nutritional value is close to that of fishmeal, and its usage in rabbit diets is 2-5%.

Fourth, inorganic salt feed

Inorganic salt feed mainly refers to salt, bone meal, stone powder, etc. The amount used in rabbit diets is small, but it is a very important part of rabbit dietary components.

Salt is an important source of sodium and chlorine. It has the functions of increasing the appetite of rabbits, promoting the digestion and absorption of nutrients, and maintaining the balance of body fluids. The amount of salt generally accounts for 0.3-0.5% of the air-dried diet. Salt can be mixed with concentrate or dissolved in water for rabbits to drink.

The bone powder used by the family rabbits can be self-made, and the skeletons of the livestock and poultry that are to be eaten will be cooked for 1-1.5 hours under high pressure to soften the bones, and the rabbits can be fed after cracking and drying. Feeding can account for 2-3% of the diet.

Stone powder is the most economical calcium supplement in rabbit diets. Shell powder is also a cheap calcium supplement, and calcium hydrogen phosphate is a calcium and phosphorus supplement.

V. Feed additives

Feed additives can be divided into nutritional and non-nutritive categories.

Common nutritional additives for rabbits include amino acids (mainly methionine, cystine, and lysine), vitamins (vitamin A, vitamin D powder, vitamin E powder, and rabbit multivitamins) and mineral supplements (salt, powder, Shell powder and composite trace elements).

Common non-nutritive additives for rabbits include growth promoters, insecticide-repellent health additives (such as flavomycin, chlorpheniramine hydrochloride, etc.), flavoring agents (creams, saccharin), and mildewproofing agents (calcium propionate, sodium propionate). Etc.) and Chinese herbal medicine additives (such as chicken inner gold, hawthorn, divine song, atractylodes macrocephala, orange peel, artemisia annua, leaves and malt, etc.) and enzyme preparations.

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