With the decline in popularity on the reference Agriculture there is much less natural and edible products. Everything that is sold in stores, as a rule, is of dubious quality. In addition, it becomes more and more difficult to buy any delicacy every time. That is why, in new form and with increased intensity, private farms began to revive, the hallmark of which is the production and sale of completely natural products. Today we will talk about one of the areas of farming, rabbit breeding, as a business: is it profitable or not to start this enterprise, and whether it is profitable.
Of course, every agricultural business has as its goal the production of some basic product. Let's see what we are talking about in the case of rabbit breeding.
Table 1. What makes money on a rabbit business?
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| In every business there is a main product that is planned to be implemented. In the case of rabbits, it is undoubtedly meat - a dietary food product with pleasant specific taste qualities. Since rabbit meat is not found in supermarkets, people who prefer to eat this type of meat are happy to turn to farmers to buy it. |
| In addition, they give rabbits and skins, which are used for the production of such products as: Purchases of skins are carried out by various companies that are engaged in tailoring the above products. |
| Not only that, you can sell not only the final product, but also live individuals, which, due to the fact that rabbits breed very quickly and actively, also bring excellent profits. Depending on what breed of rabbits you choose, the price of rabbits will also vary. You can earn really good money on them. |
However, like any other business, raising rabbits comes with its own challenges. What exactly we are talking about, we will talk further in the presented material.
So, you have decided to become a livestock breeder, and come to grips with the issue of studying the business of breeding rabbits. The most important thing to remember is to take your time. To begin with, let's find out what living conditions you need to provide with ears so that they help your business develop.
1. Dry rooms- the first and most important thing you should equip for rabbits. These creatures cannot stand the cold and humidity, so if you do not want your entire livestock to die overnight, try to provide them with a decent shelter from the very beginning.
In this case, a worthy shelter will be understood as a structure:
In the room you have chosen, before the entry of the eared, you will have to carry out repairs:
2. Comfortable houses. As you know, you can breed rabbits:
Table 2. Advantages and disadvantages of breeding rabbits in cages
| Advantages | Flaws |
|---|---|
| Content in cells, like any phenomenon in the world, has its pros and cons. So, the positives are: |
Table 3. Advantages and disadvantages of breeding rabbits in pits
| Advantages | Flaws |
|---|---|
| Keeping in pits is a style of breeding close to the natural way of living for rabbits, which has many supporters. Here are the main points that are considered an advantage regarding it: | However, the pit also has serious disadvantages that should also be considered: However, all the disadvantages listed above can, with proper skill, be stopped and reduced to nothing. |
In addition to deciding how you will keep your rabbits, you will also need to decide on the creation of a special room in which your rabbits' food will be stored:
By the way, harvesting hay, as well as the purchase of all other types of food, lie on your shoulders.
In addition, it is also necessary to have a separate room for slaughtering rabbits. That's what it's called - the slaughter shop. To equip this workshop, according to sanitary rules, it is necessary:
All surfaces of this room, i.e. floor, walls, ceilings, must be covered with materials that:
Materials such as:
In addition, the slaughterhouse must be equipped with refrigeration units in which you will keep skinned animal skins.
To be able to trade also the fur of these animals, you will need to acquire a room for:
Note: the activities associated with the breeding of rabbits also involve working with the waste remaining from them. So, they can be partially burned in special furnaces, and rabbit manure can be stored in a special pit, the dimensions of which will be approximately 3 by 3 meters. The contents of this hole can be independently used as garden fertilizer, and you can also sell it, earning money on almost everything that one way or another a person can get from a rabbit.
Be sure to also take care of finding the contact of an intelligent veterinarian, since farming is closely associated with such a phenomenon as the fight against livestock diseases. Very often, even very successfully starting enterprises for breeding these animals become bankrupt, because they did not take into account earlier that the death of animals occurs very quickly: one got infected and after a few days they all died. Therefore, regular check-ups and the help of an intelligent veterinarian, like nothing else, can help your business.
It doesn’t matter what you choose, a pit or a cage, as the main territory for keeping rabbits, in addition to a veterinarian, to prevent diseases, you will need to acquire a cage-zone for quarantine, in which diseased animals will be resettled for a while.
Any, even the best business, implies that the product must find its buyer. On the territory of our country, rabbit meat, as the main product of this business, unlike the same European countries, in which it is sold in almost every supermarket, is not so popular, but, nevertheless, shops selling products from private farmers are ready to buy or sell meat.
However, you can sell carcasses yourself by opening a point of sale or standing behind the counter in the market.
As for the skins, this product is already a by-product. It can be used like this:
Most likely, workshops or major manufacturers similar products, of which there are many today, but you still have to look for them.
As for the young, it is perhaps the easiest way to sell young rabbits. This direction is very, very profitable, since with an average price of a rabbit of 400-600 rubles, the female is able to produce 40 pieces per year. We multiply, and we get a good annual profit from one rabbit, and provided that you have, for example, 40, very soon you will start earning about half a million rubles.
If you breed rabbits only to sell them, you can save yourself from the need to participate in the brutal killing of animals, and at the same time from the expenses that were originally planned to be made due to the need to equip the workshops:
In addition, if you do not sell meat, then you do not need to rack your brains about obtaining approval certificates of quality. However, you will have to understand the following subtleties:
The sale of grown rabbits is carried out at the age of 2-3 months. At this age, an individual, with proper care, will have a weight of 2-3 kilograms, and the achievement of puberty occurs, as a rule, somewhere around 4 months.
It is very important to determine the purpose of breeding and future distribution channels even before you start breeding, since it is on them that the choice of the breed that you will begin to grow should depend. In total, three categories of breeds can be distinguished.
| name of category | Category Description |
|---|---|
| Meat | This category represents a breed of rabbits whose wool is not suitable for sale and use, however, at the same time they are heavy individuals and give a lot of tasty meat, for which, in fact, they are bred. |
| Meat and selfish | Representatives of this category can equally serve as a source of both meat and skins, since both their flesh and fur are highly valued. Representatives of such breeds are especially profitable, however, you need to carefully monitor them, avoiding, for example, fights, since a damaged skin immediately becomes a marriage and depreciates. |
| skins | Skinned breeds offer long, soft and thick fur, however, their meat is not highly valued. However, they are often indulged in, as fur is not cheap, and is usually required in large quantities to create fur coats and other products. |
So, for example, the following breeds of rabbits are highly valued by livestock breeders:
To begin with, you can take several individuals, for example, two or three breeds, and, experimenting with them, understand which one is right for you. Remember that only cages are suitable for raising animals for skins, pits are perfect for meat, and you will also need to acquire equipment appropriate for the breed.
The better the rabbit is, the better the livestock breeder lives - remember this rule once and for all. There are several groups food products that are suitable for your eared pets.
Table 4. What are rabbits fed?
| Group | Description |
|---|---|
| Green feed | This category is literally represented by green fodder, that is: It is forbidden to give wild herbs to rabbits, therefore, they are fed, as a rule, with seeded crops, for example: |
| Roughage | This category also includes plant foods, however, coarser, such as: Hay is usually produced from the same plants that are part of the green fodder category. According to available data, one female rabbit per winter period time eats 40 kilograms of hay! As for tree branches that are used as food for rabbits, as a rule, we are talking about garden trees, however, they can also be used: |
| juicy | This category includes foods such as: The following root crops are used as food for rabbits: Silage is a mixture of vegetable waste and grass. |
| Concentrated | This category is represented by such nutritious foods that are suitable for feeding rabbits, such as: |
It is also important to give rabbits additional vitamins and other supplements, for example:
In addition, it is important that animals always have access to a large amount of water, since it takes about half a liter per individual per day.
Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of a rabbit business.
Table 5. Positive and negative sides rabbit breeding business
At right approach the costs that you have made to organize the business will pay for themselves in about 10 months after the start, and then you will already be gaining momentum. However, this will only happen if:
As you can see, there is a lot to learn.
Breeding rabbits is a business for the stubborn. Despite its apparent simplicity, it is associated with a large number of different risks that seem to appear out of nowhere. If you can adequately handle them, be sure that the business will go up. However, we advise you to think about the fact that this business, one way or another, is built on exploitation and cruelty to animals. Not every person can handle this. Perhaps you should think it over and choose another direction of activity. But if you decide to go all the way, start studying the relevant literature.
Small business development involves many nuances. First you need to decide on the type of activity, agree on all legal issues. is the key to success and profit.
Breeding rabbits a good option profitable business. The meat and wool of these animals are always in demand.
First of all, you should register your company. If we are talking about rabbit breeding, then it is better to register your business as a peasant farm. This form of management will give many positive factors.
First of all, taxes will be reduced, benefits will be provided. But to open such a form of business will require a lot of effort. Less problematic discovery individual entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, privileges will not be distributed here.
For breeding rabbits, you will need a piece of land, which should be located in a non-residential area. The site must be spacious. To begin with, it is better to rent a plot, if things go well, you can think about buying land.
On the site where rabbit breeding will be carried out, there should be:
Before you breed rabbits, you need to decide on the purpose of their further marketing, whether it will be meat or skins. If the main profit will be the sale of meat, then you should choose rabbits meat breed.
These include:
These breeds quickly gain the required mass, literally in 2-3 months.
Fluffy breeds include:
When buying animals, ask for a passport that confirms the breed. Observe the ratio of rabbits to rabbits, it should be - 1: 5.
In order for rabbits to grow well, gain weight, they must receive everything the right vitamins. Grass and hay should make up 1/5 of the daily diet, and there should also be vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, beets.
Occasionally it is necessary to add wood fodder, meat meal and chalk. Feeding should be regular so that there is no inhibition in the development and deterioration of health. Mandatory supply of clean water.
Approximate daily allowance for rabbits in their various states:
Males and females at rest, pregnant females, lactating females, daily allowance in grams per pet.
Rabbits are bred to be kept in cages or in pits.
This method of keeping makes it possible to give a full supply of food, to properly distribute it. Breeding work and treatment-and-prophylactic work are being carried out better.
Cells are stationary or portable, they are kept in the open air. In areas with a cold climate, indoor keeping is used.
For the manufacture of cages, plywood, wood, slate, brick are suitable, an alternative to combining materials is possible.
Pros:
Minuses:
A pit measuring 2 by 2 meters can contain more than 200 animals.
When organizing a farm, it is necessary to have special-purpose equipment.
In order for all the expenses and troubles associated with the development of rabbits to pay off, you should draw up the right business plan with financial calculations. This industry is profitable based on the fact that the resulting products are always in demand.
Before you start raising rabbits, you need to choose the right region where production will be launched. Analyze the sales market, as well as the competitive situation. In the business plan, it is necessary to note the consumers who are interested in this product.
A brief description of the costs and income of rabbit breeding:
Expenses:
We get from 265,000 to 329,000 rubles for the first year of production.
Income:
We get meat for sale 1500 kilogram that can be sold 200-250 rubles per kg, we get from 300,000 to 375,000 rubles in year.
Such figures are taken from the approximate calculation that 40 females can bring 20 rabbits per year. The weight of which is 1800-1900 grams. It turns out that 800 individuals will go on sale with a weight of 1500 kilograms.
Skins can be donated for 200 rubles (800 * 200 = 160,000 rubles)
As a result, income can range from 460,000 to 535,000 rubles per year.
These calculations show the profitability for the first year of operation. In the future, rabbits that are born are sent to the development of the economy and the cost of their purchase will decrease. Further income will increase.
The business plan should foresee where the meat will be sold.
Sales options:
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The topic of rabbit breeding is revealed by a successful Russian entrepreneur who has been professionally engaged in various areas in agribusiness for more than 15 years. Participated in the creation and development of both his own and third-party projects. He has extensive knowledge in many areas of agricultural production. The article contains a brief but very capacious business plan for breeding rabbits (up to 1000 heads per year) with specific figures for income and expenses.
You probably know the saying: The surest way to throw money away is to invest in agriculture". Well, the time has come to completely refute this saying and forget about it once and for all. After all, we are talking about one of the most stable and profitable directions- 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 these properties of rabbit meat can be played well. Agree that there are more than enough people who are on a diet for one reason or another.
Secondly, the market for rabbit meat is practically not busy, and it will not be difficult to wedge 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, that is, this niche is actually empty. Yes, and ask yourself, how often do you see an abundance of domestic-made rabbit carcasses on the shelves of supermarkets?
Before opening a mini-farm, we will consider the two most acceptable forms of doing business: peasant farms and individual entrepreneurs.
In fact, the activity of a peasant farm is the same as an individual entrepreneur, but with only one difference: it can include citizens who jointly own the property of an enterprise and have the right to exercise any economic activity. At the same time, the KFH does not have its own statutory documents, memorandum of association and own name. Having registered KFH on given name, you become its head, or rather, an ordinary individual entrepreneur.
But whether it is worth accepting new equity holders into it or not depends on the situation, but I would answer this - no. Since in case of success, problems with partners (shareholders) will inevitably arise, which can lead to complete elimination enterprises. In addition, according to the law, you have the right to manage the peasant farm in one person. The advantage of a peasant farm is that it can count on state support in the form of various subsidies and tax benefits.
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 KFH has no clear boundaries, and constant disputes have been going on around this for a whole decade. And the so-called advantage of peasant farms in obtaining state benefits and subsidies is completely broken against a bureaucratic wall.
For example, to get a preferential loan for agricultural producers, you need to apply to the local district administration. As part of the commission considering such applications, there will be good uncles and aunts who are vitally interested in obtaining these same loans. Now guess who will win the soft loan tender?
As a taxation system for this type of activity, it is worth choosing from two forms of taxation: Simplified tax regime, income minus expenses or the Unified Agricultural Tax.
OKVED with encoding - A.01.25.2 is suitable for you. What does it mean: breeding rabbits and fur-bearing animals on a farm. This group has restrictions prohibiting the production of skins and skins of animals obtained as a result of hunting and catching them.
In order to mechanize the entire process of growing and keeping rabbits as much as possible, it is best to use a shed system. A shed is a wood or metal framed shed that combines cages with rabbits under one roof.
No special permission is required to build a mini-farm. All you need is to have a piece of land outside the city, owned or leased. The only catch is the allowable distance of the mini-farm from residential buildings. Things like this are regulated. local authorities self-government, so ask in advance where you can put the farm, and where it is unacceptable.
The place for the farm itself should be on a hill or on a plot of land with a slight slope.
Try to avoid lowlands, as rabbits do not tolerate high humidity. Ideally, the entire area under the farm should be asphalted, concreted or gravel, as well as arrange a storm sewer and water drainage system.
So, the mini-farm project will allow you to get 700-1000 rabbit carcasses per year, and the farm area will be about 800-1000 m² of land.
Sheds for rabbit breeding
Due to the fact that cages in sheds are located in one place, this significantly saves building materials and time for their maintenance. Cages in sheds are set in two tiers, on both sides of the covered passage. In order to get more light and fresh air into the cages with rabbits, they rear walls make windows 20x100 cm in size, with removable planks on hinges. The length of the shed can be arbitrary (in our case, it is 20 m), height - 240 cm, width of the passage - 120-140 cm. The floor in the passage is concreted or asphalted with a slope towards the 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, and a rear wall of 35-40 cm. upper layer cells. A similar pallet should be for the cells of the lower tier.
Everything cells are best made from galvanized welded mesh(cell size 18X18, 20X20, 16X48 mm).
Cages in sheds are divided into two compartments - feed and nesting, and a mesh nursery is placed between them (cell size 35X35 or 25X50 mm), but feeders and drinkers are placed under the nursery, which significantly saves space. Thus, one shed contains 60 cages, in which up to 400 young animals can be grown per year.
A feed shop is a room where an impressive stock of concentrated feed (compound feed, grain) will be stored, which should be enough for 2-3 months. If desired, the feed workshop can be equipped with a professional grain crusher (production of at least 500 kg / h) and a granulator in order to independently produce compound feed and save on this cost item.
Also on the territory of the mini-farm there should be a room for spare equipment (feeders, drinkers, etc.) and building materials (netting, boards, fasteners, etc.).
With the 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 drainer and special. an 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 scored, butchered, immediately packed and froze.
The manure collector is an ordinary pit with concrete walls and open roof (canopy). The depth of the pit is not less than 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 sheds, feed shop and refrigeration equipment.
Consider business processes for raising rabbits for meat.
Since the main product of a rabbit-breeding mini-farm is meat, the breeds of rabbits must be meat, respectively. There should not be any downy, meat-skin, and even more so crossbred rabbits. At first glance, there is no difference in weight between adult rabbits of meat and meat breeds, however, by the age of 3 months, the latter reach a live weight of up to 3.5 kg. There are only three of them: New Zealand red, New Zealand white and Californian.
My advice to you: do not buy breeding stock in bird markets. The best place purchases are specialized agricultural. Exhibitions. Here you can find good suppliers of pedigree rabbits, evaluate their products on the spot and compare the offered rabbits with breed standards.
I very often heard the opinion that rabbits are herbivores and on grass alone you can get tons of rabbit meat. Believe me, but it's not.
Juicy and grassy feeds (grass, hay, straw, etc.) in the diet of rabbits make up only 15-20% in terms of nutritional value, the rest is grain meal. At the same time, there is a huge number of rations 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 give a table of the combined type of feeding. Be aware that the succulent and grassy foods in this table are interchangeable.
Table No. 1: Maximum daily allowances of basic feed for rabbits in grams.
| Stern | adult rabbits | Juveniles aged, months | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 3 to 6 | ||
| Grass of natural meadows | 1500 | 200-500 | 500-900 |
| legume grass | 1200 | 150-400 | 400-700 |
| Green hardwood branches | 600 | 50-200 | 200-400 |
| beet tops | 200 | 50 | 50-100 |
| fodder 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 |
| Turnip, swede, turnip | 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 |
| Shrovetide grain | 20 | 5-10 | 10-15 |
| Bran | 100 | 5-20 | 20-80 |
| Cakes and meals | 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 rate for each category of rabbits, but also calculate the need for feed up to each day.
Table No. 2: Annual feed requirement for rabbits with a combined type of feeding.
| Physiological state | Annual count feed day | Feed in kg. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| concentrates | hay | roots | green stern | ||
| Rabbit and male in not random period | 33 | 3.46 | 1.19 | 3.23 | 4.48 |
| Rabbit and male during breeding season | 32 | 4.16 | 1.44 | 3.84 | 5.6 |
| Baby rabbit | 120 | 16,8 | 6 | 15,6 | 23,1 |
| Rabbit lactating | 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 |
| Total for 24 heads of young animals | - | 243,36 | 75,36 | - | 287,28 |
| Annual need for replacement young animals | 42 | 5,25 | 1,89 | 5,67 | 8,19 |
| The annual requirement of the male | 365 | 47,50 | 16,40 | 44 | 64 |
| Share of male per female rabbit | - | 5,93 | 2,05 | 5,5 | 8 |
| For one rabbit with offspring (24 heads up to 4 months of age) | - | 341,36 | 109 | 91 | 420 |
In the morning, rabbits are given juicy food 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.
In breeding rabbits, I use the following scheme. At 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 births: spring, summer and autumn. I keep rabbits with a female together up to 2 months of age, and sometimes more (in the late autumn period). About 25 rabbits come out of one female per year, which in total amount to 300-350 units of young animals (14 females multiply 25 rabbits).
It is impossible to determine the exact number of young animals, since a waste 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 are multiplied by 300 pieces. rabbits and at the output we get 900 rabbit carcasses per year.
But I would not advise you to keep a separate herd for purebred breeding. If we recalculate the maintenance of such a herd for the time and money spent on feed, then it will be easier to buy breeding replacement young animals every two years.
As you understand, the main expense item in rabbit breeding as a business is feed. It is very expensive to feed rabbits with purchased compound feeds, it is impossible to grow cereals on your own, it is also impossible to reduce the norms for giving feed, as this will lead to a sharp decrease in productivity. Therefore, the only way to reduce this item of expenditure is to do own production compound feed.
All you need is a powerful corn crusher and a feed pelletizer, as 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 savings, because grain waste is half the price of mixed fodder.
Below I will give 3 concentrate feed recipes for rabbits of all ages.
1) Recipe No. K-92-1 mixed feed concentrate for adult rabbits.
2) Recipe No. K-91-1 mixed feed concentrate for young animals.
3) Recipe for compound feed concentrate for rabbits of all ages.
Do not try to prepare for the winter such juicy food as silage and root crops. It's one thing when you keep 20-30 rabbits, and quite another thing when their livestock exceeds 1000 pieces. Harvesting and growing such feed will not only take a lot of time, but will also require impressive investments to pay hired workers. The only exception is hay, since it is rather difficult to buy well-leafed and vitamin hay.
Try as much as possible mechanize the whole manual labor . A good option in this case is a mini-tractor, on which you can bring feed to the sheds and take out manure. Also take care of the automatic water supply for rabbits.
So we come to the main component of our rabbit business - the sale of meat. And here it is necessary to take into account all possible ways.
Building 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 almost the entire regular batch of rabbits left me right from the yard. Someone took live, someone finished carcasses, but something else is important, how to create this database quickly and efficiently?
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. You should not raise the price of meat to the sky, make it affordable for all categories of buyers, and those who want to taste tender, homemade rabbit meat will not be long in coming.
You can sell meat directly from the farm without any permits. An exception is resellers who need the usual certificate from the veterinarian that you have a livestock of rabbits.
The sale of 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 the menu.
Therefore, you should not directly contact the administration of such establishments with an offer to buy rabbit meat. It is better to contact the chef, and with a proposal not 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 customers and at first you will lose some profit, but those who agree will become a stable distribution channel.
However, here, unlike selling meat from the yard, you a veterinary certificate form No. 2 is required. In addition to the local veterinary administration, be sure to contact the local SES, the regional center for standardization and metrology. The fact is that all kinds of norms governing the sale of meat are constantly changing, so you should get advice in the above instances.
Wholesale depots, shops and supermarkets within our project are not an option. 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 the certification of the farm itself, the slaughterhouse, the processing plant, etc. Annual registration and confirmation of all these documents, will eat the bulk of the profits. But if you decide to use this option, then I advise you to contact the points of sale directly and resolve such issues on an individual basis.
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 way of realization is appropriate only if the produced volumes exceed 5-6 tons of meat per year and additional sources of income will be added to this.
Consider how to use by-products to generate additional income.
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 doesn’t matter what they are, summer or winter, as there is a buyer for each product. It's just that the price for them is quite low, somewhere around 30-40 rubles. a piece. They are purchased mainly by large enterprises for the manufacture of leather and fur products. Therefore, in free time Be sure to look for them in your area. Of course, on this income item you won’t earn much, but at least pay back part of the same feed.
natural organic fertilizers have always been and will be in price, but you can’t raise a lot of money on manure, because of the small volumes. Biohumus is another matter. Biohumus is a liquid, highly concentrated fertilizer obtained as a result of manure fermentation in special, biogas plants. Surely you have heard about it, when they get from animal waste natural gas methane, but biohumus is a by-product of processing. I saw a similar fertilizer bottled in plastic bottles in stores for summer residents, and they were willing to buy it. So no one bothers you to do such a business, besides, biohumus long term storage.
Bunker feeders, rabbit watering systems and battery cages are always in demand. Many owners of country houses prefer to grow 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, the market costs about 5-8 thousand rubles.
And here, dear rabbit breeders, I can’t give exact figures for the initial investment with all my desire. And take them from the ceiling to draw beautiful picture(as it is done everywhere), looking at which one gets the impression of easy and multimillion-dollar earnings, I will not. After all, it all depends on the specific situation.
Firstly, the prices for building materials in each region are different. Secondly, someone already has the necessary equipment, supplies of building materials, the same mini-tractor, etc., while someone will have to start from scratch. Therefore, I will simply give a list of the necessary equipment and building materials, based on which you can easily calculate the initial costs for yourself.
Annual expenses.
Annual income.
Of course, these are not petrodollars, but not a meager salary on some municipal enterprise. Such an income will fully correspond to your labor costs on a mini-farm, which will amount to 3-4 hours a day.
Last argument: no one bothers you to expand production over time. As soon as the system works and justifies itself, and you realize that you are capable of more, then boldly go forward, mastering more and more new markets.
Meat is the most favorite food product for humans, and the dietary products of rabbit farms are in great demand.
And although the store shelves are full of a variety of meat products, the creation of animal breeding farms seems to be a cost-effective idea for starting your own business.
Despite the fact that the number of farms has increased significantly over the past ten years, Russia still has significant potential for the development of many livestock industries.
Among the most promising areas for the development of this area, leading positions are occupied by the idea of opening a farm for breeding rabbits. There are a lot of rabbit lovers in our country, but it is not so easy to find the meat of this animal in the city.
In addition, it should be mentioned about the features of the products of the rabbit farm:
Rabbits breed very well. During the year, one female brings offspring 5-6 times, and in each litter there can be 8-15 cubs, so their breeding, with proper organization economy, can become very cost-effective view business.
A novice entrepreneur will be pleased with the fact that in this field they will meet little competition and a great demand for manufactured products.
For the effective implementation of the project, it is necessary to take the planning process seriously, conduct a market analysis and draw up a step-by-step business plan for creating a rabbit farm. When making a plan you need to pay attention to the following points:
Let's look at some of these points in more detail.
To organize a business, you need a plot that you can both buy and rent.
The land for the farm should be away from residential premises. The ideal option will rent suburban area located in the countryside.
Cannot build farms in swampy areas and places with high humidity. The area around, if possible, needs to be asphalted.
When organizing a farm, the site should provide the following types premises:
The main habitat for rabbits will be cages. Depending on your budget, you can buy materials and build the cages yourself according to the drawings, or purchase ready-made cages. It is better for beginners to invest in industrial structures, the design of which takes into account many factors.
There must be a feeder and a drinker in the cages.
The cage room must be provided with water supply, electricity, heating and climate control.
Also in the process of drawing up a business plan it is worth considering the purchase of special equipment.
Today, about 200 breeds of rabbits are known, which are usually divided into 3 groups:
Among the whole set, a maximum of 15 breeds are suitable for breeding at home.
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Better for a budding entrepreneur opt for breeding meat-and-skin rabbits.
The most famous representatives of this group are:
Big Mikhailov's method is popular among rabbit breeders. Based on the physiological nature of animals, a scientist from St. Petersburg has developed a special technique for breeding rabbits in cages.
This breeding system, considering all key features breeding animals, allows you to bring the average weight of young animals to 4-5 kg within 4 months.
Thus, the offspring of one female ensures the receipt of 30 kg of meat products within one year. You can get detailed information about the opening of Academician Mikhailov at the link http://fermerskii-dvorik.ru/25-mini-ferma-mihaylova.html .
For the success of the enterprise, it is worth paying attention to the following factors:
What expenses should be included in ? The minimum profitability of the project.
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Rabbits reach puberty relatively quickly. It takes them a maximum of 4 months. However, experts categorically prohibit allowing young animals to mate during this period. The mating with the male is arranged for the female only after reaching full maturation.
The process should be repeated at intervals of 1 week. When fertilization occurs, the female will no longer allow males to approach her, which means it's time to transplant her into a separate cage, where she will take care of the new offspring.
The young will feed on their mother's milk for 60 days.
In conditions of auxiliary breeding of rabbits, they should be fed with special compound feed. It contains the nutritional components necessary for animals and meets all the requirements of the diet. In addition to feed in the summer, it is advisable to give animals peeled green grass from pastures, in winter you can limit yourself to hay.
For pregnant females, the diet should be diversified - this will allow you to get strong and healthy offspring. As additions to the main feed, it is necessary to use special vitamin and mineral supplements, including succulent feed.
To optimize costs and ensure food security, you need to stock up on feed for 2-3 months in advance.
The rabbit, during the year, brings offspring in the amount of 24 cubs:
Total 1 female with offspring accounts for about 0.34 tons of feed per year. The maximum price for it is 9 rubles per 1 kg.
An example of organizing a rabbit farm, see the video:
We give approximate calculations for creating a subsidiary farm.
Expenses- 493 050 rubles. (at the beginning of the business and the first year of operation)
Investment - 164,000 rubles.
Current costs - 329,050 rubles. (in year)
Income- 863 400 rubles.
On average, by breed, by slaughter age, rabbits weigh 5.1 kg.
From one animal, an average of 2.9 kg of meat will be obtained (58% of the total weight).
Also, from one carcass, you can get fat up to 0.07 kg. Animal fat is actively used in medicine and perfumery.
We do not take into account the sale of manure and internal organs.
Based on this:
Profit before taxes will be - 863,400 rubles. - 493 050 rubles. = 370 350 rubles per year or 30,862.5 rubles per month.
Animal husbandry is considered one of the most complex, resource-intensive and at the same time profitable areas of agriculture. However, this type of business is not necessarily characterized by multimillion-dollar investments in the purchase or construction of huge farms. For example, you can start rabbit breeding practically from scratch - it is enough to build several cages and purchase young animals of a suitable breed.
Breeding rabbits as a business - profitable or not? If the entrepreneur has a free plot, a personal subsidiary plot and access to feed base the answer will definitely be positive - even taking into account the fact that in this case it is possible to sell products only to private clients, acquaintances and buyers in the agricultural market. If we are talking about creating a large rabbit farm and keeping a herd of several thousand heads, then such a project requires careful calculations, an analysis of the market capacity and the development of a full-fledged business plan.
Rabbit meat is used not only for cooking in restaurants or at home, but also in the production of canned food, sausages, semi-finished products, as well as for catering for recovering patients. Therefore, the clients of the rabbit farm can be:
Rabbits breed and grow very quickly. After birth, the female is immediately ready for a new mating, and due to the possibility of combining periods of pregnancy and lactation, she can bring offspring up to six times a year. By the age of four months, representatives of meat breeds reach a marketable weight of 4–5 kg sufficient for slaughter, as a result of which meat production becomes almost continuous.
When considering where to start raising rabbits, you should first determine priority livestock activities:
As a business, breeding rabbits for meat due to its high profitability is the most popular among entrepreneurs. The most common meat breeds include:
To obtain rabbit fur or down, breeds with beautiful thick wool of the original color are chosen. Despite the fact that fur rabbits have a lower body weight, their meat tastes in no way inferior to other varieties. Suitable for industrial breeding:
In the business plan for breeding rabbits with calculations, the costs of forming a breeding herd must be taken into account. You should buy young animals only in nurseries or at special exhibitions after a mandatory examination by a veterinarian: the probability of acquiring sick animals with an unknown pedigree on the "bird" market is quite high. The cost of each copy is determined by its age: meat and meat-and-skin breeds are estimated at 420-450 rubles for each month of keeping on the farm.
Despite the apparent simplicity of the technology, the rabbit breeding business has many subtleties that are sometimes unknown even to an experienced farmer. To assess the prospects of this type of activity, any entrepreneur can download a rabbit breeding business plan template for free and make their own calculation of the main economic indicators: a project presented in numbers is more visual than an abstract concept.
The rabbit farm business plan consists of standard sections (overview, production and economic), however, such initial data as the cost of feed, breeding herd, land, market prices for products are purely individual and depend on specific regional conditions.
It should be noted that downloading a rabbit breeding business plan and adapting it for your own purposes is much easier and cheaper than ordering project development from third-party organizations for 50–60 thousand rubles. An additional advantage in this case will be the acquisition by the entrepreneur of some experience in conducting economic calculations, without which even the most profitable business becomes risky and unpredictable.
Ways to legalize the activities of the farm also require consideration in ready business rabbit breeding plan. The simplest organizational form is a personal subsidiary farm - in this case, the entrepreneur may not pay taxes, but has the right to sell products only to acquaintances or private buyers on collective farm markets.
In addition, in some regions, the size of the breeding herd is regulated for private household plots. To get rid of such restrictions and be able to supply meat to Retail Stores, in the business plan for breeding rabbits at home, it is necessary to provide for registration with the tax authorities as individual entrepreneur or peasant farming. In this case, you must choose suitable system taxation: for a rabbit farm the best option is ESHN at a rate of 6%.
In general, individual entrepreneurs and peasant farms are identical in terms of taxation and accounting - the main differences are that a peasant farm can have several owners, and the entrepreneur who created it has the right to receive a state grant under the agricultural industry development program.
A significant disadvantage when raising rabbits at home is the limitation total adults on the farm, depending on the distance to residential premises. So, in 20 meters from the house it is allowed to keep no more than 20 animals. Therefore, in accordance with sanitary standards, for the construction of a large rabbit farm, a site protected from the wind is used, located at a distance of more than 300 m from the nearest houses, other farms, wetlands and landfills.
The area required to implement the business idea of rabbit breeding depends on the scale of the enterprise: all the facilities necessary to maintain a herd of 1000 heads will be located on a plot of 10–12 acres. However, if a few hectares are purchased or rented, the remaining area can be used to grow fodder crops - alfalfa, corn, beets or barley, which will ultimately lead to significant savings in the purchase of feed.
Raising rabbits at home from scratch involves the use of one of four common technologies:
The technology of growing rabbits in a pit. At the same time, there is no need to build a farm - it is enough to choose a dry, elevated place and equip a brick-lined pit 1.6–2 m deep with several holes there. In addition to the advantages in the form of the simplicity of rabbitry equipment and the minimum requirements for start-up capital, breeding rabbits in pits as a business also has significant drawbacks: under such conditions, animals of fur and meat-and-skin breeds cannot be kept, and close contacts of individuals provoke an instant spread of diseases among them. In addition, when grown in a pit, rabbits become smaller and run wild due to the impossibility of carrying out selection work with them.
The territory of the future farm needs to be landscaped: to clear the site for construction, to ensure connection to electrical networks and an uninterrupted supply of water from a well, well or water supply. In addition, according to sanitary requirements, the area with cages must be fenced with a solid or mesh fence 1.5 m high. In general, rabbit breeding as a business requires the construction of several structures, including:
Manure collector. A manure pit equipped with an open canopy with a depth of at least 3 m with concrete walls is located at the maximum distance from the slaughterhouse and rabbitries (according to sanitary standards- at a distance of at least 100 m).
| Name | Amount, rub. |
| Land plot 5 hectares with registration | 110000 |
| Drilling and well construction | 130000 |
| Electrical connection | 5000 |
| Device mesh fencing farm 50x50 m | 62000 |
| Purchase of 40 Mikhailov cages | 480000 |
| Feed shop hangar 12x12 m | 160000 |
| Arrangement of a manure collector | 25000 |
| Service room 3x6 m | 80000 |
| Slaughterhouse | 125000 |
| Cutting room equipment | 50000 |
| Low Temperature Meat Cabinet | 48000 |
| Gas waste cremator for 50 kg | 115000 |
| Mini tractor Belarus | 287000 |
| Hand tools (shovels, pitchforks, rakes, wheelbarrows) | 25000 |
| Cell Repair Tool | 15000 |
| Buckets, forage shovels, drinkers | 10000 |
| Total: | 1727000 |
V home business breeding rabbits involves the inclusion in the diet of animal food waste, cabbage, various cereals and self-harvested hay. However, with industrial maintenance, the entrepreneur will not be able to afford such a variety of feed, and therefore will be forced to purchase or procure:
The cost of a ton of hay is 5,000 rubles, root crops - 12,000 rubles, grain - 6,000 rubles, complete feed - from 8,000 to 12,000 rubles. Taking into account the daily feeding rate given below, in the business plan for breeding rabbits for a farm of 1000 heads, at least 500 thousand rubles a year must be allocated for the purchase of feed.
Can you feed the rabbits? plain water from a well or well, provided that it is odorless and free of impurities. Drinking water is changed every day.
Meat and meat-and-skin breeds usually comfortably withstand changes in air temperature in wide range, thanks to which they can be kept outdoors throughout the year. However, there are some factors to consider when breeding and raising rabbits:
In a breeding herd, there are four to eight females per male, which reach reproductive age at five to six months. The rabbit is kept separately and during mating they are alternately planted next to the rabbits. After 28–30 days, offspring of 6–8 rabbits can be expected from each.
The female is ready for a new mating immediately after birth, however, given that she must feed the offspring with milk for 5–7 weeks, it is recommended to mate once every three to four months. When kept outdoors, the first mating is carried out in early April, and when breeding rabbits in heated cages, throughout the year. Thus, after 12 months, the offspring of one rabbit will have 40–70 goals.
Any involves the maximum involvement of all the resources available to the entrepreneur. When considering, one should study the available material base and think over options for its use: for example, in a personal subsidiary plot, a slaughterhouse is set up in a summer kitchen, a feed workshop in a barn, sheds are built from improvised materials, and hay is harvested on a pasture on their own. In general, the cost of setting up a farm is determined by the location of the available land, the presence of buildings, water and power lines on it, the size and cost of the breeding herd.
A business such as raising rabbits at home also comes with ongoing costs, which can be calculated in terms of the year of operation of the farm, taking into account constant fluctuations in livestock sizes:
The income from rabbit breeding can only be calculated approximately, within the bounds, since neither the number of rabbits in litters, nor the percentage of survival of young animals, nor the final cost of meat on the market can be predicted in advance. The following minimum values can be used as initial data:
Thus, in the first year it is quite realistic to sell 960 carcasses weighing 3 kg each. The total income from their implementation will be 1,224,000 rubles. Considering, we should also not forget about the sale of rabbit skins at 350 rubles apiece and manure at 1000 rubles per ton.
Therefore, the total annual income of the farm can be estimated at 1,580,000 rubles, which, after deduction of taxes and operating expenses, is equivalent to 495,640 rubles of net profit. The profitability of the rabbit breeding business in this case will be 45% with a payback period of 3.5 years.
Building your own rabbit farm is a rather responsible step that requires a balanced approach. Most of the pros and cons of the rabbit breeding business are well known to farmers and owners of subsidiary plots, however, a novice entrepreneur should definitely familiarize himself with them in order to clearly understand the specifics of agricultural activity. Among the main advantages of rabbit breeding are the following factors:
The attractiveness of the rabbit breeding business is fully due to low competition, the availability of technology and the ability to scale quickly. At the same time, working with animals requires some preparation - without practical experience it is difficult to create optimal conditions for animals, choose the most efficient mode of operation of the enterprise, and even just butcher a rabbit carcass. In the following video, raising rabbits in terms of keeping and breeding technology is shown more clearly:
We must not forget that the efficiency and profitability of an enterprise is determined primarily by the presence of distribution channels. As such, you can use not only agricultural markets, but also wholesale companies, supermarkets, butchers. Of course, by concluding cooperation agreements with them, the entrepreneur assumes certain obligations regarding the volume and timing of deliveries, however, there are simply no other ways to create a successful business.
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