How many rabbits do you need to keep to earn money? Breeding rabbits using the Mikhailov method. Market and competitive environment analysis

The topic of rabbit breeding is revealed by a successful Russian entrepreneur, professionally engaged in in various directions in agribusiness for more than 15 years. Participated in the creation and development of both his own and third-party projects. Has extensive knowledge in many areas of agricultural production. The article contains a short but very comprehensive business plan for breeding rabbits (up to 1000 animals per year) with specific figures for income and expenses.

 

Surely you know the saying: “ The surest way to throw money away is to invest it in agriculture" Well, the time has come to completely refute this saying and forget about it once and for all. After all, we will talk about one of the most stable and profitable areas - rabbit breeding as a business. Namely, about creating your own rabbit mini-farm, which will provide you with a constant source of income all year round.

Firstly, rabbit meat has exceptional dietary properties. In addition to the fact that rabbit meat contains all the essential amino acids, it is absorbed by the human body by 90% (pork, beef and lamb by only 60%) and helps regulate metabolism. And you can play well on these properties of rabbit meat. Agree that there are now more than enough people on a diet for one reason or another.

Secondly, the rabbit meat market is practically empty, and it won’t be difficult to break into it. This is primarily due to the fact that no one can compete with rabbit meat: neither poultry farms, nor pig farms, nor livestock complexes, i.e. this niche is actually empty. And ask yourself, how often do you see an abundance of domestically produced rabbit carcasses on supermarket shelves?

Organizational and legal aspects of running a rabbit breeding business

Before opening a mini-farm, let’s consider the two most acceptable forms of doing business: peasant farms and individual entrepreneurs.

Peasant farm (peasant farm).

In fact, the activities of a peasant farm enterprise are the same as individual entrepreneurs, but with only one difference: it may include citizens who jointly own the property of the enterprise and have the right to carry out any economic activity. At the same time, the peasant farm does not have its own statutory documents, constituent agreement and its own name. By registering a peasant farm in your own name, you become its head, or more precisely, an ordinary individual entrepreneur.

But whether it is worth accepting new shareholders or not depends on the situation, but I would answer this - no. Since, if successful, problems will inevitably arise with partners (shareholders), which can lead to the complete liquidation of the enterprise. In addition, according to the law, you have the right to manage a peasant farm as one person. The advantage of a peasant farm is that it can count on government support in the form of all kinds of subsidies and tax breaks.

IP (individual entrepreneur).

To be honest, in my opinion, this is the most acceptable form of business organization for a rabbit mini-farm. The fact is that the legal field of peasant farming does not have clear boundaries, and there have been constant disputes around this for a whole decade. And the so-called advantage of peasant farms in receiving government benefits and subsidies is completely smashed against the bureaucratic wall.

For example, to get a preferential loan for agricultural producers, you need to submit an application to the local district administration. The commission that considers such applications will include good men and women who are vitally interested in receiving these very loans. Now guess who will win the tender for a soft loan?

Tax form for rabbit farming

As a taxation system for this type of activity, it is worth choosing from two forms of taxation: Simplified taxation regime, income minus expenses or the Unified Agricultural Tax.

Economic activity type code

OKVED with coding - A.01.25.2 will suit you. What does it mean: breeding rabbits and fur-bearing animals on a farm. This group has restrictions prohibiting the production of skins and hides of animals obtained as a result of hunting and trapping.

Organization of material and technical base

In order to mechanize as much as possible the entire process of raising and keeping rabbits, it is best to use a shed system. A shed is a shed with a wood or metal frame that houses rabbit cages under one roof.

Place for a mini farm

To build a mini-farm, no special permission is required. All you need is to have a plot of land outside the city, owned or leased. The only catch is the permissible distance of the mini-farm from residential buildings. Such things are regulated by local governments, so find out in advance where you can install a farm and where it is unacceptable.

The place for the farm itself should be on a hill or on a piece of land with a slight slope.

Try to avoid low areas, as rabbits cannot tolerate high humidity. Ideally, the entire site for the farm should be asphalted, concreted or filled with gravel, and a storm drain and water drainage system should be installed.

So, the mini-farm project will allow producing 700-1000 rabbit carcasses per year, and the farm area will be about 800-1000 m² of land.

• Sheds - 3 pcs. Total area - 360 m².
• The feed shop and the car access to it are 200 m².
• Room for equipment and spare building materials - 40-50 m².
• Premises for slaughterhouse and refrigeration equipment - 40-50 m².
• Manure collector - 30 m².
• The rest of the area is passages and passages for a mini-tractor.

Sheds.

Sheds for rabbit breeding

Due to the fact that the cages in the sheds are located in one place, this significantly saves building materials and time for their maintenance. Cages in sheds are installed in two tiers, on both sides of a covered passage. To allow more light and fresh air into the cages with rabbits, windows measuring 20x100 cm are made on their back walls, with removable boards on hinges. The length of the shed can be arbitrary (in our case it is 20 m), the height is 240 cm, the width of the passage is 120-140 cm. The floor in the passage is concreted or asphalted with a slope towards the cages.

Rabbit cages

The cage for the main herd has a length of 100-130 cm, a width of 60-70 cm, with a front wall height of 55 cm, a back wall of 35-40 cm. For ease of manure removal, the roof of the lower tier cages is made with a slope back and is a second solid bottom for upper tier cells. There should be a similar tray for the cells of the lower tier.

All cages are best made from galvanized welded mesh(cell size 18X18, 20X20, 16X48 mm).

The cages in the sheds are divided into two compartments - feeding and nesting, and mesh nurseries are placed between them (cell size 35X35 or 25X50 mm), but feeders and drinking bowls are located under the nurseries, which significantly saves space. Thus, one shed can accommodate 60 cages, in which up to 400 young animals can be raised in a year.

Feed shop

A feed shop is a room where an impressive supply of concentrated feed (compound feed, grain) will be stored, which should be enough for 2-3 months. If desired, the feed mill can be equipped with a professional grain crusher (production capacity of at least 500 kg/h) and a granulator to independently produce feed and save on this cost item.

Also on the territory of the mini-farm there should be a room for spare equipment (feeders, drinking bowls, etc.) and building materials (mesh, boards, fasteners, etc.).

Slaughterhouse and refrigeration equipment

In case of mass slaughter of rabbits, it is necessary to build a separate room, or rather an extension to the building where the refrigeration equipment will be located. In the slaughterhouse, a separate place for slaughter is allocated, which is equipped with a blood flow and special equipment. oven for burning offal (heads, paws, entrails, illiquid skins, etc.). This approach allows you to create a continuous process for processing rabbit carcasses. That is, they killed it, cut it up, immediately packaged it and froze it.

Manure collector

A manure pit is an ordinary pit with concrete walls and an open roof (canopy). The depth of the pit is at least 3 meters, the width and length are arbitrary. The manure collector is located in the farthest corner of the farm and as far as possible from the shads, feed shop and refrigeration equipment.

Business process: raising and feeding rabbits.

Let's consider business processes for raising rabbits for meat.

What breed of rabbits is it profitable to breed?

Since the main product of a rabbit mini-farm is meat, the breeds of rabbits must be meat accordingly. There should be no downy, meat-skinned, and especially crossbred rabbits. At first glance, there is no difference in weight between adult rabbits of meat and skin breeds, but the latter already reach a live body weight of up to 3.5 kg by the age of 3 months. There are only three of them: New Zealand red, New Zealand white and Californian.

• New Zealand red. Adult rabbits reach a live weight of 4.5-5 kg. They are characterized by high growth energy, especially in early age.
• New Zealand white. These rabbits are also distinguished by high growth energy, meatiness and early maturity. The live weight of young animals already at three months of age is 2.7-3.5 kg.
• Californian. The average daily growth of young animals of this breed is 40-45 grams. per day until two months of age, as a result of which these broiler rabbits reach a weight of 4.5 kg by 5 months.

My advice to you: do not buy breeding young animals at poultry markets. The best place to buy is specialized agricultural supplies. Exhibitions. Here you can find good suppliers of purebred rabbits, evaluate their products on the spot and compare the rabbits offered with breed standards.

Organization of feeding

I very often heard the opinion that rabbits are herbivores and you can get tons of rabbit meat from grass alone. Believe it or not, this is not true.

Succulent and herbaceous food (grasses, hay, straw, etc.) in the diet of rabbits in terms of nutritional value is only 15-20%, the rest is grain flour feed. At the same time, there are a huge number of diets for feeding rabbits, as well as the characteristics of the feed given to them. In order not to confuse you in all sorts of comparisons, below I will provide a table of the combined type of feeding. Be aware that succulent and grassy foods in this table are interchangeable.

Table No. 1: Maximum daily yields of basic feed for rabbits in grams.

Stern	Adult rabbits	Young animals aged, months.
		from 1 to 3	from 3 to 6
Grass of natural meadows	1500	200-500	500-900
Grass legumes	1200	150-400	400-700
Green branches of deciduous trees	600	50-200	200-400
Beet tops	200	50	50-100
Feed cabbage	600	100-150	250-400
Cabbage leaf	300	100	100-200
Carrot	600	100-250	250-400
Fodder beet	200	100	100-200
Sugar beet	600	100-250	250-400
Turnips, rutabaga, turnips	400	50-100	100-200
Boiled potatoes	400	50-150	150-300
Raw potatoes	150	50	50-250
Silage	300	20-80	80-200
Hay	300	100	100-200
Cereal grain	150	30-60	60-100
Legume grain	50	10-20	20-30
Pancake week grain	20	5-10	10-15
Bran	100	5-20	20-80
Cake and meal	100	5-20	20-80
Meat and bone meal	15	5-10	10
Salt	2.5	0.5-1	1
Chalk	2	0.5-1	1

But the following table will help you understand not only the annual feed requirement for each category of rabbits, but also calculate the feed requirement for each day.

Table No. 2: The annual feed requirement of rabbits with a combined type of feeding.

Physiological state	Annual count kormodny	Feed in kg.
		concentrates	hay	roots	green stern
Female rabbit and male during the non-mating period	33	3.46	1.19	3.23	4.48
Female rabbit and male during breeding period	32	4.16	1.44	3.84	5.6
The female rabbit is pregnant	120	16,8	6	15,6	23,1
Lactating rabbit	180	62,4	21,1	57.2	83,35
For one head of young animals from 45 to 120 days	75	10,14	3,14	-	11.97
In total for 24 heads of young animals	-	243,36	75,36	-	287,28
Annual requirement of replacement young stock	42	5,25	1,89	5,67	8,19
Male annual requirement	365	47,50	16,40	44	64
Male share per female rabbit	-	5,93	2,05	5,5	8
For one female rabbit with offspring (24 heads up to 4 months of age)	-	341,36	109	91	420

In the morning, rabbits are given succulent feed and greens, and in the afternoon and evening - concentrates (compound feed, grain). At the same time, rabbits must be provided with clean drinking water around the clock.

Rabbit breeding

When breeding rabbits, I use the following scheme. Shed has 60 cells, the upper tier of cells is occupied by females (14 cells) plus one male (1 cell). The remaining 45 cells are used to raise young animals. From each rabbit I get 3 litters: spring, summer and autumn. I keep young rabbits with a female together until they are 2 months old, and sometimes more (in late autumn). One female produces about 25 rabbits per year, which in total amount to 300-350 young animals (14 females multiply 25 rabbits).

It is impossible to determine the exact number of young animals, since mortality among rabbits is inevitable, so we will take a minimum of 300 pieces. This number of young animals is freely placed on the remaining tiers with cages (7-8 pieces per cage). As a result, we have the following data: 3 sheds multiplied by 300 pieces. rabbits and at the end we get 900 rabbit carcasses per year.

But I would not advise you to keep a separate herd for purebred breeding. If you calculate the maintenance of such a herd in terms of time and money spent on feed, then it will be easier to buy breeding replacement young stock every two years.

How to save on feed

As you understand, the main expense item in rabbit farming as a business is feed. It is very expensive to feed rabbits with purchased feed, it is impossible to grow grain on your own, and it is also impossible to reduce the amount of feed given, as this will lead to a sharp decrease in productivity. That's why the only way reduce this expense item - start your own feed production.

All you need is a powerful grain crusher and a feed granulator, since rabbits are reluctant to eat ground grain. And, of course, raw materials in the form of grain and grain waste. This is precisely the essence of saving, because grain waste costs two times less than compound feed.

Below I will give 3 recipes for concentrated feed for rabbits of all ages.

1) Recipe No. K-92-1 concentrate feed for adult rabbits.

2) Recipe No. K-91-1 concentrate feed for young animals.

3) Recipe for concentrated feed for rabbits of all ages.

Do not try to prepare such succulent food for the winter yourself as silage and root crops. It’s one thing when you keep 20-30 rabbits, and a completely different thing when their number exceeds 1000. Procuring and growing such food will not only take a lot of time, but will also require significant investments in paying hired workers. The only exception is hay, since it is quite difficult to buy well-leafed and vitamin-rich hay.

Try as much as possible mechanize the whole manual labor . A good option in this case is a mini-tractor, which can be used to transport feed to the shads and remove manure. Also take care of automatic water supply for rabbits.

Ways of implementation

So we come to the main component of our rabbit business - the sale of meat. And here you need to consider all possible ways.

Own customer base

Creating your own customer base can be a good start. That is, acquaintances, relatives, acquaintances of acquaintances, and so on. This category of people should not be underestimated. There were times when I lost almost the entire batch of rabbits right from the yard. Some took live ones, others took ready-made carcasses, but something else is important, how to quickly and efficiently create this database?

With friends and relatives everything is clear, they called, came, bought, but strangers are attracted through advertising. Use any advertising: ads in newspapers, on the street, etc. The main thing is an acceptable pricing policy. Don’t raise the price of meat to the skies, make it affordable for all categories of buyers, and those who want to taste tender, homemade rabbit meat won’t have to wait long.

You can sell meat directly from the farm without any permitting documents. The exception is resellers who need a regular certificate from the veterinarian about the presence of rabbits.

Sales of rabbit carcasses through restaurants

Selling rabbit carcasses through restaurants seems very attractive at first glance. However, be prepared for the fact that almost every restaurant will refuse you. And all because most restaurants do not have rabbit dishes on their menus.

Therefore, you should not directly contact the administration of such establishments with an offer to buy rabbit meat. It’s better to contact the chef, and not with an offer to buy meat, but simply cook it and present him with 2-3 rabbit carcasses. For many, this approach will seem ridiculous, but believe me, it works great. Of course, not all restaurants will become your clients and at first you will lose some profit, but those who agree will become a stable sales channel.

However, here, unlike selling meat from the yard, you Veterinary certificate form No. 2 will be required. In addition to the local veterinary department, be sure to contact the local SES, regional center for standardization and metrology. The fact is that all sorts of regulations governing the sale of meat are constantly changing, so you should get advice from the authorities described above.

The shops

Wholesale centers, shops and supermarkets are not an option within our project. It’s just that everything depends on the volume of meat produced, and our volumes are small - 2 tons of meat per year, which are made up of the following indicators: 1 rabbit carcass - 2 kg, 1000 carcasses - 2000 kg. It's all about certification of the farm itself, the slaughterhouse, the processing shop, etc. The annual registration and confirmation of all these documents will eat up the bulk of the profit. But if you decide to use this option, then I advise you to contact the sales points directly and resolve such issues individually.

Trying to sell rabbit meat through retail chains, you will encounter large wholesale suppliers, and these are extremely low prices for your product. And they are low to such an extent that they can completely ruin your enterprise. Such a sales route is appropriate only when the volumes produced exceed 5-6 tons of meat per year and additional sources of income are added to this.

Additional sources of income

Let's look at how to use by-products to obtain additional income.

Rabbit skins

For the majority of the population, rabbits are not only tasty and dietary meat, but also fur. However, the situation with the sale of skins is terrible, but not a dead end.

When slaughtering rabbits, be sure to preserve the skins, and it does not matter what they are, summer or winter, since there is a buyer for each product. It’s just that the price for them is quite low, about 30-40 rubles. a piece. They are purchased mainly by large enterprises producing leather and fur products. Therefore in free time Be sure to look for those in your area. Of course, on this income item you won’t earn much, but at least you’ll pay back part of the same feed.

Litter

Natural organic fertilizers have always been and will be in price, but you can’t make a lot of money from manure due to the small volumes. Vermicompost is another matter. Biohumus is a liquid, highly concentrated fertilizer obtained as a result of fermentation of manure in special biogas plants. Surely you have heard about this, when natural methane gas is obtained from animal waste, but vermicompost is a by-product of processing. I saw a similar fertilizer, bottled in plastic bottles, in stores for summer residents, and people readily bought it. So no one is stopping you from doing this kind of business, and vermicompost has a long shelf life.

Inventory

Hopper feeders, rabbit watering systems and cage batteries are always in demand. Many owners of country houses prefer to raise small animals for their own needs in the warm season. For example, a 3-cell cell battery made of galvanized mesh and metal. profile, as well as equipped with feeders and drinkers, costs about 5-8 thousand rubles on the market.

Income and expenses of a business raising rabbits

Initial investment.

But here, dear rabbit breeders, I cannot give exact figures for the initial investment, even if I wanted to. And I won’t take them from the ceiling to paint a beautiful picture (as is done everywhere), looking at which one gets the impression of easy and multimillion-dollar earnings. After all, everything depends on the specific situation.

Firstly, prices for building materials are different in each region. Secondly, someone already has necessary equipment, supplies of building materials, the same mini-tractor, etc., and someone will have to start from scratch. Therefore, I will simply provide a list of the necessary equipment and building materials, based on which you can easily calculate the initial costs for yourself.

• Building materials - metal profiles, galvanized mesh, roofing and lumber.
• Preparation of documents for a land plot. Owning it is expensive, renting is almost free.
• Improvement of a mini-farm - storm drainage, water drainage, asphalt, concrete or crushed stone.
• The costs of building a farm are payments to hired workers or your own labor costs.
• Equipment - mini-tractor, freezers, grain crusher, feed granulator.
• Breeding rabbits - at least 50 pieces at the age of 3-4 months.
• Possible expenses include purchasing equipment (I don’t recommend it, it’s better to do it yourself).

Income per month and per year

Annual expenses.

• Feed consumption per 1 production unit is 340 kg, multiplied by 5 rubles. per kg, we get 1700 rubles. and add 300 rubles to this amount. for other expenses: paperwork, fuel, etc. As a result, one unit of production costs us 2 thousand rubles. in year.
• In a mini-farm of 3 shads, we have 42 production units (14 females in each shad), multiply 42 units by 2000 rubles, and the annual expense will be 84 thousand rubles. But, as you know, everything is beautiful on paper, but in reality it’s different, so let’s add a couple of force majeure events to this figure and round it up to 100 thousand rubles. in year.

Annual income.

• One production unit is 50 kg of rabbit meat (25 carcasses of 2 kg each). Let's be realistic, since most of your customers will not pay any attention to the dietary and beneficial qualities of rabbit meat. For them, the main thing is the price of the product, so we will set it within 200 rubles. per kg. And we get the following figure - 10 thousand rubles. from one production unit.
• Then everything is simple, from 10 thousand rubles. we take away our expenses - 2000 rubles. and we get net profit - 8 thousand rubles, which we multiply by 42 production units - 336 thousand rubles. in year. This is about 30 thousand rubles per month.

Of course, these are not petrodollars, but also not a meager salary at some municipal enterprise. This income will be fully consistent with your labor costs on the mini-farm, which will be 3-4 hours a day.

Last argument: no one is stopping you from expanding production over time. As soon as the system works and proves itself, and you realize that you are capable of more, then boldly move forward, exploring more and more new markets.

Every rabbit breeder will be glad to learn from our article the basics of rabbit breeding as a business. We also attach one of the popular and effective business plan options that can ensure your success in this endeavor.

Prerequisites for breeding rabbits

Many people like rabbit meat, because it is tasty, tender and dietary, completely justifying its cost. Rabbit fur is a wonderful raw material for making warm, cozy winter clothing, from fur coats to hats and children's mittens. It can also be imitated as the fur of rare breeds. The down of this animal is in great demand in the production of velor, suede and knitwear.

Considering that there are no more prolific animals in the world than rabbits, their breeding business can bring you a large income, paying off in the first year. Just one female in a year can give you half a centner of meat and about three dozen skins from her offspring. If this is a downy female, you get a whole kilogram of down. Just one, and that’s not the limit! But on a rabbit farm more than a dozen of these animals can be bred.

Video about rabbit breeding

You need to be a serious business person to raise rabbits. Don’t start starting a business without first taking care of knowledge about this craft, its pros and cons, and also without being armed with a business plan and the necessary funds. What kind of animal is a rabbit, how does it feed, reproduce, what illnesses it suffers from, how to treat it - all this needs to be known before breeding begins and taken into account in the process.

The simplest scheme in case of an acute shortage of the family budget may be several purchased cages, or even simple homemade ones. However this is not The best way get rich, because you can’t breed enough rabbits this way. Although, unlike industrial rabbit breeding, private farming is usually not so automated, and feed is used, as a rule, cheaper and easier, purchased cages, building materials and the rabbits themselves for breeding will not soon pay off.

Many people like rabbit meat, because it is tasty, tender and dietary, fully justifying its cost

Having a sufficient area of ​​land, you can breed animals in a pit. A small hole can accommodate up to two hundred rabbits, and they dig holes for themselves and multiply there without your special attention. There may be several holes. A major disadvantage of this method is that rabbits from the pit are not suitable for the subsequent sale of skins, only for the sale of meat. However, this is a very profitable method; several carcasses a day are easily sold out at the market.

Breeding rabbits as a business is especially important with good financial investments. The more you invest, the more you get. Good money helps keep animals in decent conditions, best conditions. But the better the yield from them, the better the conditions that determine health, growth, reproduction rate, quality of skins, and marketing opportunities. This means that carcasses, skins and down can be sold more expensively and more often.

• Animal breeding work is properly organized;
• You can choose the ideal time for prevention, mating, and litters;
• Feed is consumed more economically;
• It is much more convenient to carry out breeding work.

Cages can be placed both indoors and outdoors, it depends on climatic and weather conditions

Cages can be installed both indoors and outdoors, depending on climatic and weather conditions. In the summer they are taken out into nature, and the rabbits wintering takes place indoors. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the constant change in the microclimate in the rabbitry - regulate the content of water and ammonia vapor, ventilate the room. If the winter in your area is warm, not frosty, the cages can be left outside in winter.

What cells should be like:

• The farm uses cages made of different materials - wood, metal, adobe, and even brick.
• Galvanized metal mesh is recommended.
• For cells to be easily transported, they must be mobile. Thanks to their lightweight and simple design, which makes them easy to clean and inspect the rabbits themselves, they can be installed in several tiers, saving space.
• When placing cages in tiers, provide a slight slope and waterproof roofs so that the urine and feces of rabbits do not fall on the “lower floors”.
• The floor should consist of mesh or slats based on oak, maple or beech. This allows you to maintain cleanliness. To eliminate dermatitis on rabbit feet (pododermatitis) and swelling, an additional wood floor is installed under the mesh.

The choice of design for rabbit hutches is very wide.

The choice of design for rabbit hutches is very wide. They can have a square or round shape, be short or long, accommodate one rabbit or many, and have a single or multi-tiered design. There are even specialized “houses” for males, young rabbits or females with offspring. In order to walk young animals, it is recommended to cover the walks.

Gaining increasing popularity shad rabbit breeding system. It differs from the external cage in its increased convenience regarding working conditions, such as, for example, simple mechanization that allows you to quickly remove manure and deliver water and food to rabbits. At the same time, labor productivity increases incredibly. A single worker can serve up to one hundred and thirty females with over a thousand rabbits in their litters - twice as many as when using conventional cages. Having spent once on sheds, you free yourself from paying salaries to a second employee.

Advice to rabbit breeders raising rabbits for fluff and skins: provide the animals with the opportunity to constantly live in the open air. The quality of the product becomes much higher.

Breeds of rabbits are classified according to their yield: downy, meat and meat-skin breeds

Breeds of rabbits are classified according to their output: downy, meat and meat-skin breeds. The latter includes not only the famous chinchilla, but also the butterfly, giants (gray and white), silver and black-brown. Valuable breeds produce, accordingly, valuable fur, but not everyone can afford to breed them. However, among the variety of breeds, you can definitely choose the one that would be most convenient for you to breed based on your means, conditions and goals.

Breeding downy breeds of rabbits is currently not very relevant, since it is not possible to sell fluff and skins everywhere, which were booming in popularity in Soviet times. Therefore, for novice businessmen, we recommend starting rabbit breeding with meat breeds.

You can breed rabbits either by crossing individuals of different breeds or by mating individuals of the same breed (purebred). The first option helps to improve such qualities as: early maturity, fertility, vitality, economy in feed consumption without compromising the weight and quality of meat. Since these qualities appear less and less with each new generation, crossbred rabbits are usually sent to slaughter immediately after fattening. Using the second option, rabbits develop new valuable qualities that are preserved from generation to generation, and, if necessary, then enhanced by the first method.

You can breed rabbits either by crossing individuals of different breeds or by mating individuals of the same breed.

To make your business grow faster, you can increase the fertility of females and the number of litters per year. This is achieved very simply - immediately after the birth of the cubs, the female meets the next male. This comes out without any problems, but you need to take into account that in this case the female ages faster if she is not fed properly. This is done with the help of a sufficient amount of varied and concentrated green food, which replenishes the high energy expenditure of females during simultaneous pregnancy and lactation.

A healthy female rabbit gives up to 8 litters of about a dozen rabbits per year. Monitor the consistency of the females' productivity - over time it decreases, and the females have to be culled.

As we have already mentioned, the importance of proper rabbit nutrition for the prosperity of your business is enormous. Any food used must contain the entire set of nutrients and additives necessary for the growth and development of animals - carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. Rabbits should not need clean water either. What feeds are used for this?

Rabbits should not need clean water either.

• Green, consisting of a variety of non-poisonous herbs, fresh tree branches, and other fresh greens;
• Rough, represented by hay and dry branches;
• Juicy, represented by cabbage, silage and tubers, among which the most popular are beets, Jerusalem artichokes, carrots and turnips;
• Mineral, consisting of bone meal, table salt, old slaked lime and chalk;
• Concentrated, which includes various feeds, legumes and cereals, as well as food waste.

As you can see, rabbits are not very picky about food, they simply require variety. However, females during lactation and cubs additionally need animal feed rich in proteins and a spectrum of B vitamins. They include: fish meal, meat and meat and bone meal, milk (both fresh and dry), as well as skimmed milk.

In parallel with the topic of nutrition, attention should be paid to the prevention of diseases in animals. By nature, rabbits have very weak immunity, and there are many diseases to which they are susceptible, including those that affect people. In order to protect broods from diseases, you should not only keep the cages clean at all times, but also consult with a competent veterinarian and vaccinate all rabbits against the most common infections.

In parallel with the topic of nutrition, attention should be paid to preventing animals from diseases

Being in any way connected with business activities in the countryside, you can seriously think about how useful it will be for you to also start breeding rabbits. Is such a business profitable for you personally? Finding the answer to this question is best started by reading the business plan for rabbit farming. We present one of the best examples for this endeavor below.

Business Plan Review

This business plan describes all the intricacies of the rabbit business, allowing you to assess the degree of profitability of such a project in business. To call this project exclusively rural would be incorrect. After all, rabbit breeding can also be done in partnerships organized by gardeners and gardeners, or in urban suburbs. Therefore, a closer definition of the category for breeding rabbits, the business plan for which we present, is a livestock business. The easiest way is to start with breeding meat breeds in order to then sell rabbit meat, so below we will focus on this.

Of the organizational and legal forms of doing business, the optimal form for rabbit breeding is individual entrepreneur. It involves significantly lower taxes, a simplified form of accounting, as well as mutual settlements with end consumers.

The easiest way is to start with breeding meat breeds, and then sell rabbit meat.

Since the demand for rabbit meat, firstly, is not too high, and secondly, it depends on the sales region, this project is considered moderately successful, and also highly dependent on your ability to find end consumers.

To determine the profitability of rabbit breeding specifically in your region, you should analyze the local market in the field of livestock farming, and rabbit farming in particular. This will allow you to identify potential buyers, wholesale and retail, and determine their needs. The latter will help you not to waste more than necessary financial resources on starting a business.

In our example, your enterprise will be a rabbit breeding farm for 60 heads, which subsequently has the opportunity to expand its specialization, in addition to meat, also selling skins and liver.

Having settled the rabbits in cages, hire a worker to take care of your farm

Production plan:

1. Select a suitable plot of land, as per natural conditions, and in terms of rent. You should choose a plot of at least five acres in area. On a smaller one it will be impossible to arrange all the cells and the necessary utility rooms.
2. Buy cages for rabbits. If financial resources allow, it is best to buy ready-made ones - they are more functional, stronger, and the rabbits themselves are more comfortable in them. However, if you are not free enough financially, you can make the cages yourself.
3. Buy the rabbits themselves. The initial livestock is purchased immediately in the quantity indicated above. Of the 60 heads, 40 are females, and only 20 are males. The choice of breed depends on the factors that we have already touched on above.
4. Having settled the rabbits in cages, hire a worker to take care of your farm. At the same time, take care of purchasing feed, having previously calculated the required quantity based on the number of animals, the frequency of purchase of feed, and the recommendations of experienced rabbit breeders.

The easiest way to sell meat is by locating the farm near district or regional centers

Even before all these operations, a sales plan should be formed in order to eliminate the factor of overproduction and make the sales itself more efficient. The easiest way to sell meat is to locate the farm near district or regional centers where large supermarkets are located. Other significant buyers may also be meat markets and stores, meat counter owners, and private individuals. If, in addition to selling meat, you also sell skins, it will matter how far away private fashion designers and fur studios are located.

Financial plan

Speaking about the financial plan, we have come close to the question of exactly how much money you can earn in a year by engaging in private rabbit breeding. Below we will outline all the main columns of expenses and income.

How much will you need to spend:

• For renting a plot – 20-80 thousand rubles. annually. This spread is determined by the difference in rental costs in different regions of the country and specific locations in the regions.
• Purchasing or creating rabbit cages – 10-40 thousand rubles. one-time. We recommend that you do not skimp on quality and buy functional and durable cages in specialized stores.
• Purchase of rabbits – 18-30 thousand rubles. for sixty heads. The cost depends on the region and breed.
• The cost of compound feed is 50-100 thousand rubles. annually. Costs also vary by region.
• The employee's salary is 10 thousand rubles. per month, total - 120 annually.

As you can see, rabbits are not very picky about food, they simply require a variety of it.

Total costs in the first year: 218-370 thousand rubles.

How much will you receive:

• For the sale of meat - 300-370 thousand rubles. in the first year. This is an approximate figure, based on the calculation that each of forty female rabbits will bring about twenty rabbits per year, each weighing almost two kilograms, in total - one and a half tons of meat from 800 rabbits annually, with a meat cost of 200 to 250 rubles per kg.
• For the sale of skins - 160 thousand rubles. This is if we take into account the average price for a skin - 200 rubles.

Total income for the first year: 460-535 thousand rubles.

Thus, the net profit for the first year of operation of the enterprise will be from 90 to 235 thousand rubles, on average – 160 thousand rubles.

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You can increase your profits even further. To do this, send the most active and healthy rabbits not to the cutting room, but to mating, while simultaneously increasing the total number of cages. This will involve additional expenses, but your income will increase proportionally.

When breeding rabbits, it is important to consider the main thing - once you start a business, do not stop halfway, treat the matter with all the attention, and you will undoubtedly be rewarded with a decent, stable profit!

Rabbit breeding as a business is becoming increasingly popular today among those interested in starting their own business.

However, in order to build a truly profitable business, you need to understand the specifics of rabbit farming. The features of rabbit breeding will be discussed in this article.

The main types of meat that can be found on store and supermarket shelves today are beef, pork and lamb. Thus, assessing all the benefits of rabbit meat both in terms of taste, quality, and usefulness for the human body, we can say with confidence that this market niche is still practically free.

Unlike pig or cow meat, rabbit meat is absorbed by the human body much better. The digestibility rate of rabbit meat is 90%, versus approximately 60% in our usual meat. In addition to this, rabbit meat has excellent dietary qualities due to its low fat content.

So, having a product that is excellent in taste and benefits for humans and a relatively free market niche that can be filled with it, we can confidently say that raising rabbits at home is a potentially highly profitable business.

Raising rabbits as a business - features

When planning to start a rabbit breeding business, you need to understand what features it has.

One of them is actually the high reproductive capacity of rabbits.

So, bearing cubs for thirty days, the female rabbit is capable of the next fertilization the very next day after giving birth. In one year, an adult female rabbit can produce about 200 rabbits, which is 500 kilograms of meat.

Depending on the purposes of rabbit breeding, the following types of breeds can be distinguished:

• meat rabbits: gray and white giants, rams;
• fur rabbits: rex, butterfly, white downy;
• decorative breeds.

Some breeds, such as rams, gray giants or Soviet chinchillas, can be used as both meat and fur breeds.

Rex rabbits

Proper nutrition and care are also extremely important processes in rabbit breeding:

• The quality of mating and the health of the offspring themselves depend on comfortable living conditions.
• A minimal amount of stress results in a greater number of matings.
• A balanced diet directly affects the health of animals.

Advantages and disadvantages

Let's look at the pros and cons of the rabbit breeding business.

Compared to other types of livestock farming, rabbit breeding has a number of advantages:

• short term payback;
• high profitability;
• lack of high competition;
• presence of constant demand.

Thanks to these factors, rabbit farming becomes attractive for starting a business. At the same time, you should remember some of the disadvantages of this enterprise:

1. High cleanliness of rabbits requires daily cleaning of cages to prevent disease.
2. Accustoming to the owners and timidity of animals requires the constant creation of a calm atmosphere without the slightest stress.
3. Rabbits require very close attention. So, there were cases when, due to the lack of water in the rabbit’s bowl, she ate her babies.

Forms of doing business

Opening a rabbit breeding business is possible in two main forms:

1. Individual entrepreneurship. The most popular solution for starting a business literally from scratch. The advantage is a reduction in the tax base and a simplified accounting scheme.
2. Peasant farming. In addition to the simplified accounting and taxation system, the advantage of this form is the possibility of receiving government subsidies.

At the same time, no matter what organizational form it was not decided to register, the success of the business being started primarily depends, in fact, on a well-written business plan.

Setting up a rabbit breeding business

The first step that anyone who wants to start should take is own business on rabbits, there should be an analysis of the future market according to the following characteristics:

• market saturation;
• proximity of potential buyers;
• intensity of competition;
• possibilities for transporting products.

The next step is to select a suitable plot of land. It must have a sufficient area (about fifteen hundred square meters) and be located at a distance from residential buildings.

Once the land has been purchased or rented, you can begin setting up your business. Despite the need for significant initial financial investments, thanks to the high profitability of the business, they all pay for themselves fairly quickly.

An additional advantage of rabbit breeding is the ability to increase business capacity due to the high reproductive capacity of animals.

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What do you need to have on site?

When developing a development plan for a site for breeding rabbits, it is necessary to plan the buildings that must be on it:

• Premises for living and reproduction rabbits - shads. They are made of wood, the windows are closed with welded mesh. The quality of breeding of rabbits, as well as their health, will depend on the convenience of the shads. It is advisable to build at least three sheds.
• Feed shop- a supply of feed for several months can be placed here. Additional benefits will come from equipping the workshop with a grain crusher and granulator.
• Slaughterhouse- be sure to equip the premises with a spacious refrigerator and a stocked meat shop. To maintain high hygiene of the room, the best materials for it will be tiles, plastic and metal.
• Saraichik for construction materials, equipment or tools.

In addition, it is necessary to plan to place a spacious pit for manure outside the farm territory. As it fills, the manure can be sold to farmers as fertilizer.

Where to start breeding rabbits?

To start breeding rabbits, you must first of all determine for yourself the tasks of raising them, whether it will be meat, skins, or a combination of these two products.

Depending on this, a suitable breed is selected.

The most advisable option for beginners is to purchase purebred local breeds - they have a lower price, are easier to buy, exchange breeding stock and get advice from experienced rabbit breeders.

After defining the breeding objectives, important step It involves drawing up a business plan with planning for future expenses and income, as well as registering your business.

Having drawn up a business plan, you can search for a suitable location for the farm, build all the necessary buildings and purchase equipment.

Rabbit farm location

When choosing a suitable site for placing a rabbit farm on it, it is necessary to analyze it from the point of view of the convenience of transporting the finished product to the nearest markets and the proximity of such markets.

The main requirement for the location of the farm is its distance from residential buildings.

Rabbits in a holding room

An important decision that a future rabbit breeder needs to make is whether to purchase or rent a plot. This, of course, depends on the level of possible initial investment that is available to the aspiring businessman.

If you plan to run a rabbit breeding business for a long time, it is better to buy land for the farm rather than rent it.

If you plan to rent a plot, monthly expenses for rent should be planned in the business plan.

Sanitary requirements for maintenance

Rabbit breeding is regulated nearby sanitary requirements. The main purpose of these requirements is to prevent the emergence and spread of diseases.

Thus, the design of premises for keeping rabbits, the slope of their roofs and the construction of floors are regulated.

In addition, there are a number of requirements for the placement of buildings on the site. The point for slaughtering animals should be located no closer than 50-60 meters from the cages.

The isolation room and quarantine should be no closer to each other than 100 meters, and be 100 meters away from the cells in the direction of the prevailing winds.

The manure storage facility should be located 100 meters from the farm in the direction of the prevailing winds.

Feeding and keeping rabbits

Compared to other farm animals, rabbits can be called one of the most demanding in nutrition. Their diet must necessarily combine the following foods:

• greens such as herbs, legumes or cereals;
• juicy, for example, root vegetables or vegetables;
• silage;
• rude;
• concentrated, namely grain, bran or mixed feed.

To calculate the need for feed, you can start from the fact that for a rabbit to gain four kilograms, it needs about ten kilograms of hay and fifteen kilograms of feed.

When planning the arrangement of premises for keeping rabbits, you should remember that they chew everything they can reach. In this regard, it is important to choose high-quality materials for constructing cells.

Three-tier cages

Rabbits need more comfortable conditions than nutria or birds. For their life, the acceptable temperature range is from +2 to +30 degrees, but for better weight gain and reproduction, the temperature should be maintained in the range from +13 to +26 degrees Celsius.

Equipment and arrangement of cages

A novice rabbit breeder can choose one of the popular methods of equipment and arrangement of places for their breeding.

Breeding method	Features of the arrangement
Yamochny	Rabbits are kept in one or more dug pits with carefully reinforced walls and floors. The least expensive method, applicable only for meat breeds.
Cellular	The cages are constructed from wood planks and metal mesh. Queens and young animals are kept separately from males. The most popular method for home breeding.
Shadow	A system of several batteries of cells, which are arranged in several tiers. The advantage of this method is its compact placement even in a small area.
Mikhailov system	Construction of special mini-farms for 3-4 cells, equipped with feeders, ventilation, drinking bowls and a manure collector. The most effective method, but requiring the highest initial costs.

Sales of products

Directions for implementation finished products, naturally, depend on the volumes that the farm is capable of producing.

For small volumes (about 500 rabbits per year), you can either sell the meat for sale or sell it yourself, subject to sanitary and epidemiological inspection.

With an increase in volumes, it will be necessary to obtain additional certificates such as phytosanitary and farm certificates, as well as GOST-R declarations.

With all these documents completed, it will be possible to sell meat through supermarkets and shops with parallel trade on the market.

Rabbit farming business plan

So, rabbit breeding as a business: is it profitable or not? In order to imagine the attractiveness of a future business and plan expenses, it is important to draw up a competent business plan. Here is an indicative business plan for a small farm of 100 rabbits.

Profitability and payback

Obviously, rabbit breeding is a very profitable and profitable business.

Even based on the results of such an approximate business plan for a small farm, the profit for the first year will be about five hundred thousand.

In subsequent years it will be even greater, since there will no longer be an item on the construction of cells and there will be a gradual reduction in expenses with increasing income. The profitability of such a business can reach from 60% to 80%.

Of course, the business plan drawn up is approximate and may differ depending on the size of the initial investment, the number of rabbits purchased and their breeds, as well as the area in which the business is conducted. In addition, it does not take into account rental costs, which may also vary depending on the region and area of ​​the site, as well as depreciation of equipment. However, it does provide a general idea of ​​how profitable rabbit farming is.

So, rabbit breeding as a business confidently proves its profitability and attractiveness. At the same time, it has its own difficulties and peculiarities, so you should only start it if rabbit breeding is truly interesting.

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A business based on breeding rabbits requires the farmer to organize optimal conditions for keeping animals, depending on the preferred place for their breeding - in an enclosure or a pit, as well as the correct preparation of a business plan for a rabbit breeding enterprise.

To date, the development of rabbit breeding in Russia has far from reached the peak of popularity and production efficiency. Although it should be noted that in rural areas, raising rabbits at home - as part of the household - is quite common.

However home breeding rabbits, as a rule, does not occur in large quantities. People do not need large-scale production to meet their needs for rabbit meat. Rabbit meat has a number of beneficial properties (compared to the meat of other animals). People are mainly interested in rabbit meat due to its high calorie content, its digestibility by the body is 90%, and its content of lecithin, nicotinic acid, and proteins. At the same time, the level of cholesterol in rabbit meat is very low, so it is recommended for people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and cardiovascular system.

Raising rabbits: features and subtleties

Despite the fact that rabbit meat has a number of advantages over any other, rabbit farms throughout Russian Federation can literally be “counted on one’s fingers.” Experts argue that the problem lies neither in the lack of climatic conditions and environmental conditions suitable for rabbits to live (moreover, it is believed that these animals are the most unpretentious to living conditions, the most prolific), nor in the low demand for meat (according to a social survey, more than 60% of people claim that they are ready to regularly consume rabbit meat, but do not always find it on store shelves). What then is the problem of domestic rabbit breeding? After some thought, only one assumption remains: inability, an approach without proper responsibility and preparation.

In fact, raising rabbits is considered far from difficult. But this does not mean that you need to take on it without having any idea what rabbit breeding is. Before starting any business, it is recommended to read literature about it in order to confirm your decision, or, conversely, to lose faith.

Rabbits are unpretentious to their living conditions - they can live either in specially equipped sheds or rabbit hutches, or in specially equipped premises, even in cages or enclosures installed on open space. Rabbits are unpretentious when it comes to food: it is enough that the rabbits’ diet contains three main types of food: coarse (hay, straw, tree branches), juicy (various herbs and root vegetables) and concentrated (nutritious food: fish or meat and bone meal). Concentrated feeds are more effective in winter. It is also possible to feed rabbits with vitamin complexes in winter.

It is important to carry out prevention against diseases. In practice, this is often expressed in the fact that from time to time farmers give rabbits “silver water”, which disinfects the animal’s body. As a rule, it is obtained by passing it through silver electrodes placed in water poured into a dielectric (non-conducting) glass container, for example. As a result of the passage of current, a deposit remains in the form of silver ions Ag +. Water with silver ions has a bactericidal effect and is absolutely non-toxic to animals.

To achieve maximum profitability of the product, it is recommended to buy exclusively meat breeds of rabbits. Rabbits of such breeds reach marketable weight already at the age of four to five months, while a female rabbit is capable of giving up to 10 litters, each of which has at least four young rabbits, per year. However, of course, these are approximate numbers. Depending on the conditions and breed, a female rabbit can give, according to statistics, from 4 to 12 litters per year. Thus, according to approximate calculations, one female and her annual offspring produce approximately 100 kilograms of marketable meat.

Is rabbit breeding business profitable?

The profitability of such a business is calculated quite simply. For example, if rabbits are slaughtered at four or five months of age (with an animal weighing about three kilograms). On average, one kilogram of rabbit meat costs 300 rubles. A three-kilogram rabbit usually produces one and a half to two kilograms of meat. Thus, the wholesale price of one rabbit meat is approximately 450 rubles. But it is recommended to calculate the costs.

Thus, the costs of purchasing or renting land, registration, marketing and other organizational expenses can amount to up to one million rubles. Expenses also include the purchase of food and the cost of repairing equipment and premises. Basically, this is what constitutes the expense. Let's say there are 1000 rabbits on a farm. Of these, 500 are rabbits. With proper care, a female can produce from 25 to 60 heads of offspring, which will amount to from 40 to 120 kg of meat.

So, in a year you can get, on average, 80,000 rubles, which in the second year of work will cover the costs of starting production. Of course, it is worth considering that some of the young animals will die due to many factors, the main of which are illness and uncomfortable conditions. You should not forget that in order to effectively increase the number of young animals, it is necessary to change females producing new individuals. If one individual continuously produces offspring for a long time, it will quickly lose its fertility.

Once the female's fertility wanes, she is slaughtered and another female produces offspring. As a rule, males are replaced every two years, females - once a year. If you follow all the rules for caring for rabbits, you can get about seven tons of rabbit meat just from the offspring of 100 females. Therefore, it is very important for an enterprise to establish sales channels and a market for its products. It turns out that the rabbit breeding business is profitable if you follow a few simple rules.

Rabbit farming as a business: from start to finish

The first thing you need to do when creating any business is to settle the regulatory side of the issue. To do this, you need to at least register your business. This is where the question arises, how. How exactly is a business registered? Rabbit farming can be set up in three ways:

Optimal conditions for keeping rabbits

Plot of land:

1. Location of the site: suburban areas, at a distance from residential buildings up to 2 kilometers.
2. The area of ​​the plot should not be less than fifteen acres.

Premises:

1. It should be possible to maintain a constant warm temperature in the room when the environment drops.
2. The walls, floor and roof of the room must be made so that there are no cracks in them: the room should not be damp, there should be no drafts.
3. There must be electricity in the room.
4. There should be a large reservoir of water in or near the room.

Breeding rabbits in enclosures

Breeding rabbits in enclosures is carried out in open space. An aviary is a space enclosed along the perimeter by a fence. It is not recommended to keep more than 30 individuals in one enclosure, and most often a female and her offspring are kept in enclosures. At the same time, males are not kept in enclosures: they are kept separately from all individuals in a special room, and they are placed in enclosures only during the mating period.

Enclosures are placed on a hill to protect them from flooding. The walls of the enclosure are made of any materials, and one should be made of mesh. The height of the wall can reach one or two meters. They should be buried an average of half a meter into the ground. The floor in the enclosures is usually earthen, which allows the owners to rarely clean it, and the rabbits to dig holes and develop physically.

Breeding rabbits in a pit

Algorithm for constructing a pit:

1. Buy a plot of land for constructing a pit.
2. When choosing a site, look at the number of hills, because it is on them that the pit is built.
3. The pit should be dry, there should be no rivers or swamp lakes nearby, and there should be no groundwater.
4. Keeping large numbers of rabbits in pits is undesirable. Maximum permissible dimensions pits - 3x3 meters. Up to 300 rabbits can live in such a pit.
5. The pit should be square, its three walls should be covered with durable material.
6. The fourth wall should have a recess at a height of up to 15 cm. This recess should be wide enough to accommodate at least two rabbits.

Rabbit breeding as a business has long been popular among rural farms, therefore, novice entrepreneurs ask themselves the question: is such production profitable or not?

Rabbit farming as a business is profitable only if the entrepreneur takes into account possible risks, thought out a business plan in advance and offers high-quality products, explaining in detail to the consumer what the advantage of rabbit meat is and why it is so important to eat it.

Statistics show that a rabbit business can bring quite a good profit, but you should not expect that big money will appear immediately after the sale of the first batch of the product. As a rule, payback is achieved in a period of two to four years, and in different local regions this period can vary significantly.

Prospects

Foreign consumers have long understood the value of rabbit meat, which is why this product is in high demand on the Western market. In the United States of America, constant developments are being carried out, the goal of which is to obtain new breeds, the meat of which will bring even greater benefits to humans, while reducing the cost of the product to a minimum.

Several decades ago, Russia was actively developing rabbit breeding; the state supported farms as much as possible. However, already in the nineties, most of these farms went bankrupt and disappeared forever, the consumer lost purchasing power, and many organizations went bankrupt.

As a rule, the average citizen simply cannot afford the rabbit meat that is on the market, but the business is still starting a new stage, gradually the consumer will understand the value of this meat, and the increase in the number of farms providing similar products will normalize the cost and return interest .

Profitability today depends on many factors:

1. Temperature conditions in which animals will be raised.
2. Low labor productivity associated with their slow growth.
3. Infectious diseases to which they are exposed if left untreated and untreated.

The prospects for breeding rabbits are determined by the fact that the animal is capable of reproducing offspring with high speed, due to which natural growth ensures an increase in production volumes.

Advantages and disadvantages

The positive features of entrepreneurship include:

• Fast payback compared to other types of meat.
• High profitability of this industrial process.
• Obvious benefits for humans from the product.
• Lots of opportunities available to a household owner.

Negative sides:

1. Animals require constant care and attention - the cages must be kept perfectly clean; this is the only way to achieve population growth and high-quality meat.
2. Rabbits are very shy and get used to a specific owner. The same person must handle the animals, otherwise there is a risk of the animal dying from fright.
3. The rabbit population depends on human attention - if there is no water in the bowl, the mother rabbit can eat her own babies, jeopardizing the entire business.

Peculiarities

A thousand individuals will fit on a standard summer cottage, while a separate branch in budget savings is occupied by the independent creation of conditions for the life of animals, including the manufacture of cages, drinking bowls and other necessary paraphernalia.

But before creating your own farm, it is important to determine the legal norms of entrepreneurial activity - in the future this will help avoid a huge number of problems and allow the business to quickly gain a foothold in the market.

Note! When setting up their own enterprise, farmers, as a rule, choose from two types of activity - it can be either individual entrepreneurship or personal subsidiary farming. The form directly depends on the capabilities of the farmer and the goals he pursues.

Personal subsidiary farming involves reducing the cost of documentation and is chosen if the owner plans to sell the products within one region. In this case, control is carried out by local governments, and taxation tends to zero.

If you want to expand your own capabilities, then an individual entrepreneur becomes the best option. Here you will have to spend additional funds on paying taxes, preparing documentation for sales and storage, while the possibilities for selling the goods become an order of magnitude greater.

Where to begin?

Experienced experts say that the first step is to obtain the necessary knowledge to optimize the process, make greater profits and minimize production, advertising and costs.

The first step will be to study the characteristics of rabbits, the conditions of their keeping and nutrition, and their tolerance to climatic conditions. An important point will be the study of possible animal diseases, since such a risk remains even among entrepreneurs with extensive experience.

It is important to choose a breed in advance, become familiar with its distinctive features and study the additional needs of animals - this way you will save yourself from many problems in the future.

For animals, it is necessary to prepare a site and specialized cages that will be equipped with everything necessary.

Breed selection

One of the key features that determines the benefit is the breed of the animal. The profitability of this process is directly related to the following points:

• The quality of meat that the consumer will receive.
• The rate at which each individual gains weight.
• Accurate calculation of the amount of feed for each kilogram of animal weight.

Hybrid breeds of rabbits are very popular today, allowing for the highest possible quality of product, weight gain and increase in the number of rabbits in the family. It is necessary to select the right females that will bear offspring - the growth rate of the farm depends on this.

In Ukraine and Russia it is almost impossible to find centers that specifically engage in the selection of rabbits, so you will have to turn to a foreign manufacturer. At the same time, you can easily choose a suitable breed, especially since today there is a large choice, and the quality of the product will fully meet any, even the most serious, expectations.

Equipment

Today, there are several systems that provide work and profit in rabbit farming. Among them the following can be noted:

1. Cellular system.
2. Aviary system.
3. Semi-aviary system.

Despite the obvious convenience of each farming system, the main attention should be paid to the cellular system. Most farmers are confident that only in such conditions it is possible to obtain high-quality meat and ensure rapid reproduction of animals.

The rabbit breeding plan, based on keeping animals in cages, allows you to independently distribute the actions of the animals. This makes it much easier to ensure that animals are fed on time, to simplify the cleaning of cages and to send animals for mating.

It is important to think through the plan of a rabbit farm in advance - you should pay close attention to double cages in which the animals will feel comfortable. The animal houses themselves should be at a height of eighty centimeters from the ground.

Most quick way set up production - purchase ready-made cages for keeping animals. This way you will provide all the conditions for rabbits and avoid possible mistakes that beginners often make. If you wish and have the skill and knowledge, you can build the cells yourself.

Purchase

You can avoid mistakes at the stage of purchasing animals by adhering to the following simple recommendations:

• Close attention should be paid to the ears of animals - they should not have wounds or scabs. The presence of such damage indicates an unpleasant and dangerous disease that can harm the entire brood. Ear mites cause females to refuse to feed their young, which requires a lot of effort to raise the animals.
• Animals for breeding must be selected from different litters - this is the only way you will get healthy offspring capable of full reproduction.
• Pay attention to the appearance and health of the animal - only a full-fledged rabbit will be able to produce healthy offspring and will not jeopardize your business.
• The weight of the animal should be normal; overweight individuals lose their ability to reproduce.
• Choose the right rabbits from the mass of offers - an adult or pregnant animal may turn out to be sick and old, since an experienced farmer is unlikely to sell a healthy, full-fledged individual.

Implementation

For successful development of the product, it is necessary to first secure a customer base among those individuals and organizations that will purchase meat on a regular basis.

Here it is possible to use all available resources - for starters, tell close relatives and friends about your product, who, in turn, will inform this information to your surroundings. At the same time, it is recommended to describe in detail the benefits of rabbit meat, discover its benefits and leave your contact information for further communication.

If you have all the necessary veterinary documents, you can make deliveries to restaurants. At the same time, the establishment will certainly determine whether such a purchase is profitable, so you should not inflate the price - be sure to pay attention to pricing policy competitors.

Pay attention to the products that remain after slaughter - it is recommended to preserve rabbit skins for subsequent sale, however, the cost of such sales is quite low.

Calculation of profitability and payback

If all conditions of care and maintenance are met at the maximum level, one female can give birth about ten times a year.

At the same time, the number of animals on farms of different sizes will be different, as will the profit:

It should be understood that approximately half of the profit will be regularly spent on production costs, which include:

1. Purchasing feed for adequate nutrition of animals.
2. Transport and meat transportation costs.
3. Electricity costs.
4. Wage for employees (if available).
5. Cell content.
6. Veterinary services, vaccinations.

Costs can be significantly reduced if you have the necessary skills - it is quite possible to independently create cages for keeping animals, care for them and vaccinate them.

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Business plan

The schedule and plan for such a sale should be thought out in advance, so you will avoid a lot of troubles in the future.

A separate point is the peculiarities of a certain region - there may be unique prices, high competition and low purchasing power, and it is recommended to calculate possible losses in advance. The list of initial costs should include the following:

• Acquisition of land on which the farm will be located. The choice should depend on the number of rabbits purchased; often the area is not large in area.
• A separate financial cell is occupied by the registration and further maintenance of documentation for the sale of products.
• Registration of a plot of land for the life of rabbits, creation of amenities.
• Purchase of specialized inventory and equipment.
• Materials for creating cells yourself or the cells themselves with additional equipment.
• Consumables.
• Buying baby rabbits.

Costs can either increase or decrease depending on the region in which business activities are planned, the demand for products, and climatic conditions. The experience of the farmer is also important - if there are other animals on the farm, and the plot allows for the introduction of additional business, expenses are significantly reduced.

Creating a rabbit farm is a process that requires time and effort. With certain efforts and skills, you can make a big profit in a short period of time, while spending only a few hours a day on work. If desired and there are buyers, it is quite easy to expand production due to the fertility of rabbits.

Gradually, the consumer will understand how many positive qualities there are in rabbit meat. The vitamins in tender meat make the dish not only tasty, but also incredibly healthy, which is why this business is very promising and can take the farmer to a new level in a short time.

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