Rabbit breeding ?

Question

i need 300 rabbits a year. how many pair do i need to have to get that many each year?

Answer 1

divide by 2 &u get 150

Answer 2

Easy

Take the female one's off the pill

Answer 3

I raise meat rabbits, and meat goats.

First it does not sound like you know much about rabbits.

You only need one buck (male rabbit) to cover many does (female rabbit).

Does need to be taken to the bucks pen for breeding.  Rabbits are territorial animals.  A doe may kill a buck if he is taken to her pen.

What kind of rabbits are you raising, and for what market?

For my meat rabbits, I expect to get 5-6 litters of 6 rabbits raised to market size (8-10 weeks) from each of my does.  That means each adult doe is producing at LEAST 30 marketable rabbits for me.  

This does not mean the doe only has 6 baby bunnies when she gives birth.  You can expect a 10% loss with any livestock opperation.  Since rabbits some rabbit will die, before they reach market size, the doe needs to give birth to more than 6 babies.

Female rabbits WILL adopt the young of other rabbits.  So if you have a doe that gives birth to 12 babies, and another that only gives birth to 4 babies, give some of the 12 to the doe who only had 4.

Does raise 6-8 babies quiet well.  More than that, and the losses are too high, and the overall growth rate for the entire litter is too slow.

A commercial breeding operation can get 8 litters of rabbits from each doe, each year.  A beginer should not even think of attempting to do this.

Shoot for 30 live, marketable rabbits from each doe in one year.  

Since you are a beginer, you should get 12 breeding does, and two bucks.  Only one buck is needed to cover 12 does.  However if your one and only buck dies for some reason, you will be missing breedings, while you try to find a replacement.

You also need to know rabbits do not breed well in the heat of summer.  Rabbits do breed in the winter, however babies can freeze.  Adult rabbits do very well in very cold temperatures.  A rabbit left in the sun will will die in about 10 minutes.  Rabbits do NOT tollerate heat, or sun well at all.

So the short answer to your question is 12 does, and 2 bucks.  You need to learn a great deal about rabbits however before it is sucessful.

Doe you also know that rabbits are suprisingly expensive to get into raising?  The cages, watering system, feed trays, and shelter to raise them are suprisingly expensive.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 4

rabbits breed like: each month

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i would say about 5 pairs of rabbits

Answer 5

Medium Breeds, a doe should raise 16 young per year. Meat Type does should raise 20 young per year. Going with the meat type to raise 300 rabbits you should have 15 does. You don't need a pair or 1 buck for every doe, a buck can service 6 does so you should keep 3 bucks. That combination should give you a minimum of 300 rabbits each year.