When rabbit breeding farms are not well managed they do not generate profit for owners. Feeding rabbits is not enough for breeding rabbits, to generate profits, one needs to keep monitoring sheets.
To ensure good management of rabbit farms, one needs monitoring or a book used to record financial details that will help you earn better returns.
Monitoring sheets
Tools such as ear tags, number tags to are used to mark the rabbits. Monitoring sheets contain number of the rabbit and number of it‘s cage.
Monitoring sheets for females contain the date the doe joined the breeding group, date of her first mating, estimated date she would give birth, the number of young rabbits she has given birth to, number of surviving and dead young rabbits, number of young rabbits that have survived until weaning and the origin of the doe to avoid breeding rabbits from same parents.
Monitoring sheet of the bark contains information on the matings and name of the female and their corresponding births. Monitoring sheets contain the mating dates, names of female they have been mated with and number of young rabbits the female has given birth to.
Update importance
Information recorded on the monitoring sheet is used to asses the value of the rabbits on the farm. Whether the rabbits are prolific, death rate, amount of feed consumed by the rabbits
Monitoring sheets should be updated on a regular basis and stored safely to help make decisions. Vaccination of rabbits should be done after a month and recorded on monitoring sheets to ensure good returns.
Proper financial management should be maintained for the success of the farm. All breeding expenditures and revenues should be recorded in a book and a financial report is made.
