How to make hay for your rabbits
How to make hay for your rabbits B. Tembani (Senior Animal Scientist) R. Kofi (Agribusiness Consultant) Many farmers make hay for their livestock or for income and this has been happening for years. The process of making good quality hay is far from just cutting and baling. Efficiently processing hay results in good quality feed available for livestock-rabbits in this case. This module was developed to specifically for rabbit farmers, on how to make or purchase good quality hay for feeding their rabbits to achieve good selling weights. The objective when making hay is to capture and preserve nutrients in a storable form with minimum expenditure. This is mainly so because hay is the main feed in rabbitries, pellets being a supplement. Rabbits are fed nutritious hay to reduce; feed costs and incidence of enteritis/ diarrhoea. What is hay? In this module, we define hay as grass, legumes or other nutritious pl...
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