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We offer the original cage design of the famous rabbit breeder and inventor Igor Nikolaevich Mikhailov, who gave a guarantee: in the first year the construction of the farm will pay off and it will be profitable.

A few words about Mikhailov himself. He is a very interesting person. During the Great Patriotic War he was an aircraft mechanic. In peaceful years he graduated from the theater institute, starred in more than a hundred films. He became interested in sports - he entered the correspondence department of the Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education. He played for the national team in clay shooting, became a master of sports, then a coach. And - it must be emphasized - in all these so different occupations, he achieved success not only thanks to his abilities, but also to a special research, moreover, inventive approach to any subject of his hobbies.

The same thing happened with the rabbits, which he began to breed first at his dacha. Studying the special literature about these animals with fine skin and tasty, tender meat, Mikhailov read with particular attention those places where one author contradicted another. As a result, he uncovered several biological paradoxes inherent in the physiology of rabbits. And then he found the best way to keep them, turning it into a two-tiered cage design (protected by copyright certificate No. 782773).

What are the features of raising rabbits "according to Mikhailov"? First of all, not to be afraid of frost. One astute author noted back in 1913 that "the frost is only beneficial for the rabbit breeder." And this paradox is revealed simply: the rabbit has very weak lungs. They weigh only 35 g, while, say, a hare of the same size - 500 g. In a warm room, the rabbit does not have enough oxygen, which is much more in the cold.Besides, in the cold, the animals are not annoyed by insects - carriers of diseases.

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Proceeding from this, Mikhailov developed the design of the cell. He decided to insulate only one nest (mother liquor), placing the cage itself in an open area. The device of the mother liquor is extremely simple. This is an ordinary box without a lid, the bottom is made of galvanized iron. An EG-1 medical heating pad is pressed from below with five-layer plywood, and a little hay is placed on top. 10-15 days before birth, the mother liquor is placed in a cage, and two days later, a heating pad is turned on through a transformer to a reduced mode, which is maintained for 5-18 days, depending on the temperature: before childbirth, she insulates the nest, tearing fluff out of her skin . Under such conditions, not a single newborn rabbit (and they are born naked and blind) does not die, although the experiments were carried out even in the hardest frost, down to -47 °.

The instinct of the female, directing her to the hole, is also taken into account. Obeying him, the rabbit settles only in a low place, so the mother liquor is located below the general level of the floor.

In order for the rabbits to grow faster, the inventor created a device for heating (in winter) water, taking an ordinary three-ruble boiler for 220 V and a step-down transformer. And one more trick: Mikhailov turns the canister with water upside down and fixes it in this position between two planks. So in winter, rabbits can drink warm water all year round, and a bowl filled from an inverted canister will always be full.

In his own way, the inventor solved the problem of feeding animals. He provided in the design of the cage bunker feeders for feed, feeders for root crops - and all this with the expectation that the rabbits could eat at any time of the day. Indeed, unlike other animals, their stomach resembles a plastic bag: there are no muscles in it at all, so only new portions of it can push food. Therefore, rabbits eat little by little, but often - up to 70-30 times a day. And this need must be met.

Mikhailov took into account such a fact. Almost half of the rabbits, separated from their mother too early, die. Therefore, he separates the animals from the female not at 30-45 days, as usual, but at 80-90. As a result, however, the female has only three or four births instead of eight, but this is more profitable, since all the rabbits survive.

“A year has passed since the farm was organized in Nevskaya Dubrovka,” says Igor Nikolayevich. We can draw some conclusions. On average in the country, 1 kg of feed is consumed per 16 kg of weight gain, and on our farm - 3,5 kg. It usually takes eight months for a rabbit to reach a weight of 4-5 kg, but we only have 120 days. Losses of young animals, as a rule, amount to almost a third, while in our country they are practically excluded.

Author: V.Orlov

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