Li Suli, 55, has been raising rex rabbits for five years. In five years, she became an expert from a lay rabbit breeder, and led 18 households around her to become rich through rex rabbit breeding.
Li Suli's home is in Hexi Office, Zhalantun City, Inner Mongolia. Most of our income comes from growing seasonal vegetables. In recent years, with the influx of foreign vegetables, the income of growers engaged in open-air vegetable cultivation has been affected.
Li Suli, after seeing a report on TV that farmers in Arong Banner became rich by breeding rex rabbits, also planned to try it.
It is said that rex rabbit is an animal that can pay for everything. It has tender meat, high protein content, low cholesterol and uric acid content, and is internationally known as "beauty and longevity" meat; Moreover, the market demand for rex rabbit skin is large. Through comprehensive analysis, Li Suli thinks it is very feasible to raise rex rabbits-first, the adjacent climate conditions of Zhalantun City and Arongqi City are similar, and similar breeding and management methods can be adopted. Secondly, there are certain guarantees in terms of farm land, technical support and sources of funds. So Li Suli began to cultivate rex rabbits. Although Li Suli is now talking about the breeding and sales of rex rabbits, she suffered a lot when she first started raising them.
Li Suli: "I got rabbit plague in the first year, and almost all the troops were wiped out. I was unwilling, so I borrowed 5000 yuan from my sister, bought 30 female rabbits and raised them from scratch. After that, I started the rabbit industry. "
At most, there are 1500 rabbits in the breeding room in Li Suli. Unlike most local farmers who mainly raise white rex rabbits by selling rabbit skins, Li Suli raises eight-point black rex rabbits. This kind of rex rabbit is well-proportioned, with a moustache under the cheek, long and upright ears, thin and curly eyebrows, fine, rich, short and flat plush, bright and dazzling appearance, and a cool silky feeling when touching the coat. This kind of rex rabbit is full of treasures, fur, rabbit meat and internal organs, which can be sold for money.
Li Suli: "Under normal circumstances, the profit of a rabbit is around 20 yuan. It is good to catch up with the market, and sometimes it earns 50-60."
Since the breeding of rex rabbits, the life in Li Suli has changed from bustle to quiet, and the activity track has changed from vegetable fields, markets and homes to breeding rooms and bedrooms. Li Suli spends most of his day in the breeding room. Li Suli knew all about which rabbit had a baby, which rabbit was sick and which rabbit had gone to do private work. Li Suli breeding room is also different from other breeders. Most rex rabbit breeders in Zhalantun adopt fence farming, but Li Suli adopts burrow farming.
Li Suli: "This crypt is time-saving and labor-saving. Don't worry about breastfeeding, the survival rate is still high. Another advantage of this cave is that it is warm in winter and cool in summer. In winter, it is warm here, there is no wind, and the survival rate is particularly high. This little rabbit is a cub. There are no accidental casualties. The mother rabbit went down to feed the little rabbit. "
By 20 19 1 month, there were 1000 finished rabbits on farms in Li Suli, and Guangdong Dongxing fur processing factory sent people to buy rex rabbits. Seeing that the "production, supply and marketing" of rex rabbits in Li Suli is in charge, the neighboring neighbors also come to understand the breeding technology and inquire about the market situation. Li Suli also shared his breeding experience with you without reservation.
Li Suli said that rex rabbits breed fast, with 6-7 litters a year. Repeated mating and double mating are generally adopted, and the ratio of male to female is 1:8- 10, and the mating frequency of male rabbits is preferably once every two days or 3-5 times a week. The female rabbit should be put into the male rabbit cage when breeding. Breeding time is best in spring and autumn, and it is selected at 8- 1 1 in the morning. In summer, morning and evening are used. Due to the hot weather in summer, July 14 to August 20 is the rest period for female rabbits. Winter is carried out at warmer noon to improve the conception rate of female rabbits.
Someone told Li Suli that many techniques of your eight-point black rex rabbit were discovered by yourself, and they were all returned with money. What do you teach others? This unique technique has always been "passed on from inside to outside", and others have learned it and started to raise it. Where can you earn money?
But Li Suli said that everyone would raise it, and the merchants would like to come. We sell at a high price and get a good profit. Then everyone will unite to purchase and sell, which will reduce the cost of feeding.
With this idea in mind, Li Suli has driven the surrounding 18 households to engage in rex rabbit breeding, and the breeding varieties have also expanded from white rex rabbits and eight-point black rex rabbits to velvet rabbits, colored rex rabbits and hybrid rex rabbits.
At present, Li Suli is discussing with 18 farmers to introduce pure German rex rabbits and explore the matter of cross breeding. Although the initial investment is 3 or 4 times higher than the cost of introducing hybrid rabbits, it can save a lot of money by really supporting the technology, and you can also improve your own varieties.
When it comes to whether technology should be shared with everyone, I think there is nothing to worry about, and it is not the secret recipe of the hotel. Most of the technical points of breeding are open, such as the requirements of temperature and humidity, the ratio of feed and so on. Most people who do well are due to their mastery of technology and their intention. So we took out the technology and shared it with everyone. Everyone learned it. If the output is large, won't it increase the chips in the market competition?
To say the least, even if your skills are all helpful, you can't achieve the set goals if you don't pay enough attention to them! And technology is constantly developing! We can't be old-fashioned, we must keep up with the pace of technological development.