Анализ научных исследований по кормлению крольчих в России и за рубежом

Abstract

Rabbit industry, being an advanced and highly profitable branch of animal industry, is one of the business barometers for a country. Though 78,5 % of rabbit meat is produced in Russia is produced by individual farmers, intensity of industrial rabbit breeding is growing. Feeding management underlies any branch of animal industry, since the cost of feeding takes 60–70 % of all branch expenses, and, what is more, over 90 % of animals diseases are the result of the errors in their feeding. At the end of 2020, rabbit meat production in Russia amounted to 19,6 thousand tons. During the 2016–2020 period it increased by 8 %. All over the world, scientists pay special attention to the nutrient and energy requirements of rearing, pregnant and lactating rabbits, since just these animals determine the reproduction process and, finally, production output. The review analyzes the results of scientific research on feeding rabbits during the reproduction period with complete granular compound feeds with different ratios of nutrients and energy. The authors note that the digestible energy and protein levels of the pregnant rabbit diets in Russian and foreign experiments are the same, while the fiber level differs significantly. Since researchers all over the world are concerned about the same problems of optimizing the rabbit feeding, the joint discussion of research results, especially when the scientists belong to different scientific schools, opens up new horizons for achieving goals and practical use of the new knowledge gained.