A simple mix of a charcoal suspension and a raw egg can save rabbits that have been poisoned by feed, by making them vomit. Brian Otwori, a former Kisii University animal production technology student now managing the institution’s rabbit farm, said cutting the supply of the toxins in time would save these delicate non-ruminants. “After …
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A Machakos farmer who adopted crossbreeding to boost the weight of his rabbits from three to five kilograms in three months is now making more per rabbit than he used to earn two years ago. Ng’atu Mbaluto, 20, started rearing rabbits three years ago and selling them for meat. However, he noticed that some breeds …
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The rise in commercial rabbit farming has driven prices for rabbit feed,up from Sh1,800 per 50kg five years ago to now Sh2,500, setting farmers on a search for alternative, lower-cost feeds for their rabbits. Without such savings, the food price rises have resulted in a higher overall cost in rabbit rearing that is reducing farmers’ …
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In 2017 Jamal Ochieng, a graduate from University of Nairobi decided to take up animal rearing as a source of income as a result of unemployment. Immediately after graduating in September 2015, Jamal went job hunting and was not able to get anything promising for two years and at that point he decided to look …
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Moses Mutua, founder and owner of Rabbit Republic Ltd holding a rabbit at his Kamulu farm. Photo, scoopernews.com. Rabbit Republic Ltd, a company which deals in rabbit farming and products in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda is contracting willing farmers in Kenya to rear and supply it with rabbits three years after it exited Kenya due to financial …
