Recently, RICHI signed a 3-5 tons per hour rabbit hay feed production line project with a Cuban customer. The customer owns a rabbit farm and breeds 3,000 rabbits. Therefore, the customer invested US$220,000 to build a rabbit feed production line (including silage storage warehouse and hay storage warehouse) in the breeding farm, with an output value of one million US dollars.

Market prospects of rabbit meat

Rabbit meat is a nutritious food with health care functions. Rabbit meat is a nutritional and health food recognized by the World Food and Nutrition Association as “three highs and three lows” (“three highs and three lows” refers to “high protein, high lysine, and high digestibility”). “Low fat, low cholesterol, low calories”) has become increasingly popular among urban and rural consumers.

Rabbit breeding characteristics and benefit analysis

• Breeding characteristics: “short, flat and fast”. Short breeding cycle: it only takes about 70 days for a commercial rabbit to grow to 2.5 kilograms from birth to slaughter; the breeding risk is small, the feeding cost is lower than that of other animals, the benefits are seen quickly, and the rabbits have strong fecundity, and each breeding rabbit can use up to Artificial insemination takes 45 days to produce a litter, with an average of 8 rabbits per litter. Farmers can breed a large number of high-quality rabbits in a short period of time and earn substantial profits quickly. In addition, rabbits are nocturnal animals. If the feeding time is reasonably arranged in the evening and morning, it does not take up time for farm work, so it is very suitable for large rural households and farmers to raise them.
• Benefit analysis: If a breeding rabbit produces 7 litters per year, 8 rabbits per litter (maximum 13 rabbits), and a survival rate of 95%, then 50 commercial rabbits will be produced per breeding rabbit per year. The total cost of a commercial rabbit from birth to 70 days when it grows to 5 pounds for slaughter is less than US$5 (feed cost + epidemic prevention cost of 1 yuan + rabbit cost). The price of commercial rabbits is calculated at 10 yuan/jin (the current market price is 10-16 yuan/jin). A breeding rabbit can bring hundreds of dollars of net profit to farmers in a year. If qualified farmers use idle chicken houses to breed on a moderate scale, they can obtain more considerable economic benefits.