STUDY ON THE PRODUCTIVE AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF RABBIT AND THE ECONOMICS OF RABBIT FARMING
M. Hasanuzzaman, K. B. Amin, M. Ahaduzzaman, and M. Alam
Date : 2014-07-29 Volume : 6

A study was conducted to know the growth and reproductive performance of rabbit as well as to assess the cost of rabbit rearing. The study carried out in the rabbitry unit, Department of Animal science and Animal Nutrition, CVASU. For this study 12 adult rabbit were selected and fed concentrate mixture containing 2369 Kcal/kg energy and 16.44 % CP and green grasses. The entire animal was tried to keep in same management system for the entire period. From this experiment it was observed that the total average dry matter intake of male and female was similar as 119.5±5.05g per day. It was also observed that the daily average body weight gain was lower (13.33±0.07) in female and higher (14.44±0.09 g) in male rabbits. The reproductive performance in the study includes percent of does kidded, gestation period, litter size, litter weight at birth, average individual kit weight at birth and kit mortality and those were 100%, 31±0.3 days, 3.4±0.45, 240±15.25 g, 70.59±3.3 g and 10.5% respectively. The daily average feed cost for each animal was found as 3.39 Taka. Finally, Total profit from rearing of 12 adult rabbits was 7030.6 taka for three months. From this discussion, it can be summarized that, rabbit have great potentiality in growth and reproduction. Rabbit can be reared in least cost and it’s a profitable species. As rabbit farming is easily manageable and sustainable it has a bright future potential in our country as a source of income generation as well as a source of animal protein. 1400256413.php