How to open a rabbit farm from scratch. We open a business - breeding giant rabbits

In the last decade, the creation of farms has become one of the popular options for starting an entrepreneurial business. Food production on a farm can bring a good income. The main thing is to choose the right direction of development. Breeding rabbits as a business can be such a good financial help.

Rabbit meat is highly valued as a dietary product, especially in the nutrition of children and people suffering from food allergies and metabolic disorders. In addition, rabbit meat is very tasty and well digestible. Income from the commercial keeping of rabbits can be obtained from the sale of not only meat, but also animal skins.

Organizational and legal forms of doing business

Starting a rabbit raising business from scratch requires a relatively small initial investment. So a rabbit farm with a population of up to 1000 individuals can be placed on an area smaller than a standard summer cottage of 6 acres. And cages, feeders and drinkers, made on their own, will significantly reduce the cost of keeping rabbits.

As in other types of business, before raising rabbits, you need to decide on the form of registration of the farm. When creating a mini-farm, the most rational options for keeping rabbits are maintaining a personal subsidiary plot or obtaining the status of an individual entrepreneur. The choice will depend on the possible options for marketing products.

If there is confidence that all the meat can be sold through acquaintances or at agricultural fairs, then personal subsidiary farming will be an excellent business option, since it allows you to not pay taxes. You can fully reveal all the advantages of raising rabbits for sale by obtaining the status of an individual entrepreneur. The price to pay for a significant expansion of sales options will be an increase in the cost of setting up a business and obtaining the necessary permits.

	private household plot	IP
Documents required to open a business	documents confirming the rights to the site; sanitary book of the owner; veterinary health certificate of rabbits; meat safety certificate issued by a veterinary laboratory. If the delivery of products to consumers will be carried out by private car, then you must also purchase a health book for it.	rabbit farm certificate; declaration of conformity GOST R; phytosanitary certificate.
Taxation system	Taxes are not paid	Single agricultural tax
Bodies controlling activities	Rural or city administration	Rosselkhoznadzor

Preferred method of keeping rabbits

Among the various options for keeping rabbits, the shed system is able to automate the processes of caring for animals as much as possible. Shed usually consists of two batteries of cells, united by a common roof. The frame of the shed is built of wood or metal, the passage between the cells and the floor under the lower tier of the cells are sheathed with boards or poured with concrete. Placing cells in 2-3 tiers will maximize the use of available space.

Construction of a mini-farm

Before proceeding with the construction of a shed, it would not be superfluous to clarify with the local administration the requirements for the remoteness of the agricultural farm from the residential sector, so as not to subsequently run into an administrative fine and the requirement to demolish all buildings

It is preferable to choose a place for construction on hillocks, so that in the spring when the snow melts and in the summer-autumn season during the period of prolonged rains, the cages with rabbits are not flooded. In general, rabbits do not like high humidity, so the farm cannot be built on wetlands. It is advisable, if possible, to pave the entire territory of the rabbit farm and equip a drainage system from the water area.

The considered option of shed keeping of rabbits will make it possible to place a complex of facilities on an area of ​​1 acre, which allows growing up to 1 thousand heads per year:

• 3 sheds 20 m long, 2.4 m high, 2.8 m wide;
• barn for storage of mixed fodder and grain;
• the room where the inventory will be stored;
• slaughterhouse and refrigeration equipment;
• manure storage pit.

In one shed with two-tier placement, 60 cages can be installed (length - 1.3 m, width - 0.7 m, height - 0.55 m). The best material for making cells is galvanized welded mesh with a mesh size of 18 * 18, 20 * 20 and 16 * 48 mm. The rear wall of the cage is built 15-20 cm lower than the front. This will allow you to arrange a sloping floor in the cells of the second level to facilitate the cleaning process. The roof of the first tier will also be a tray for the excrement of animals living on the second tier. In the lower cells, you also need to equip a double floor.

Feeding and nesting compartments in cages are separated by hay mangers, also constructed from mesh. The best cell size for these purposes is 35*35 mm or 25*50 mm. Feeders and drinkers are placed under the nursery for a more compact keeping of rabbits.

A separate room must be allocated for the storage of concentrated feed - grains and compound feed. Bulk purchases of concentrates will be cheaper. In the feed shop, storage conditions must be created to maintain a certain humidity and prevent the formation of mold and spoilage of the feed.

For convenience, the slaughterhouse for rabbits is equipped with a blood drawer and a special oven where waste from the slaughter can be burned. The installation of refrigerators for storing meat directly near the place of slaughter and butchering of rabbits will help to simplify the processing cycle of the received products and reduce time costs.

To collect and store manure obtained from rabbits in large quantities, a pit at least 3 meters deep is equipped at a distance from the main production facilities. The walls of the pit should be concreted and a canopy should be arranged to protect against precipitation.

Organization of feeding and breeding

Separate cages are isolated for uterine rabbits and a breeding male, usually on the second tier of the shed. In other cells, young animals are placed in 7-8 individuals. Females are allowed to mate 3-4 times a year. The suckling period in rabbits for optimal development and maintenance of immunity should take at least 60 days. For one round, 6-8 rabbits are born. Thus, when keeping 14 females in one shed, 250-350 offspring can be obtained per year. A rabbit farm of three sheds, respectively, will grow about 800-1000 carcasses.

Breeding rabbits as a business involves rational costs for feeding animals. Optimal for raising rabbits in a small farm is the use of compound feed, in which all components were selected by experts, taking into account the nutritional requirements of the diet. In summer, the mixed fodder is supplemented by grass properly harvested for green fodder (from proven pastures and well dried), and in winter - high-quality hay. For pregnant and lactating rabbits, the diet is made more diverse, including juicy food and various vitamin and mineral supplements.

Sample business plan for organizing a rabbit farm

A rabbit breeding business plan includes a breakdown of the initial financial investment, fixed costs and annual income, as well as additional income options. Since the range of prices in different regions of the country is quite extensive, it is very difficult to give specific expenditure figures. Therefore, the final financial result from the maintenance of a mini-farm for raising rabbits may differ from the figures given in the business plan.

Initial investment

• acquisition of a building site. You can use the dacha plots that you own or rent them;
• the cost of paperwork for the farm;
• improvement of the site - the device of the entrance and the system for the removal of storm drains;
• materials for the construction of sheds and cages - galvanized mesh, wooden blocks, metal sheets and metal profiles, roofing materials;
• equipment and inventory necessary for keeping rabbits. It is cheaper to make feeders and drinkers on your own from improvised materials, but refrigeration equipment and equipment for forage harvesting will have to be purchased at the store;
• purchase of rabbits for breeding purposes - about 45-50 heads.

When hiring workers to build a farm, their wages must be taken into account in the costs.

The rabbit breeding business plan for the initial investment item will differ depending on the materials available and their cost in a particular region.

fixed costs

The fixed costs of keeping rabbits include:

• veterinary care;
• stern.

As a production unit, a female with rabbits is usually taken. In a year, one rabbit brings an average of 24 rabbits. Rabbits are slaughtered approximately 3 months after birth. One female with offspring requires 340 kg of feed per year. The average price of a kilogram of compound feed in Russia is 8-9 rubles. Thus, the cost of 1 production unit per year will be about 3 thousand rubles. Green fodder and hay can be harvested by yourself in order, firstly, to be sure of a set of herbs, and, secondly, to reduce feed costs.

With a shed keeping of rabbits in 2 tiers of 15 cages (14 females) for three sheds per year, you will need:

3,000 rubles * 14 females * 3 sheds = 126,000 rubles - feed costs;

14 females * 3 sheds * 300 rubles = 12,600 rubles - the cost of veterinary care

Total fixed costs: 126,000 + 12,600 = 138,600 rubles.

Permanent income

With an established marketing system, the income from the sale of meat will be a permanent income from rabbit breeding. The average carcass of a rabbit weighs 2 kilograms. Three sheds can produce up to 1000 young rabbits per year. In total, we get 2,000 kilograms of rabbit meat, the cost of a kilogram of which varies between 250-300 rubles per kilo.

The annual revenue from the sale of rabbit meat will be:

2,000 heads * 250 rubles = 500,000 rubles.

Annual income:

500,000 rubles - 138,600 rubles = 361,400 rubles or approximately 30,000 rubles per month

Additional income

A rabbit breeding business plan is incomplete without mentioning the opportunities for additional income from raising rabbits for meat. The skin obtained during the slaughter of an animal can be sold, thereby increasing your income.

One skin without dressing can be sold to a fur studio or a factory for 20-30 rubles, depending on size and quality. The skin with dressing is already 5-6 times more expensive - 100-150 rubles. Having sold 1000 skins a year, we will get about 100-150 thousand rubles of additional profit. The main thing is to find markets.

The main indicator of a rabbit breeding business is ultimately the profitability of production. In our case, excluding initial costs, it will be at least 300%. Agree - a good result for an enterprise operating in the field of agriculture.

A small business for raising rabbits is a very interesting topic that requires painstaking calculation. After all, the majority breeds small livestock near their place of residence, and rarely, for example, individual entrepreneurs dare to place bulky cages in the area of ​​​​industrial zones. But if there is demand, then why not?

Location is a secondary matter. More importantly, the rabbit itself its breed, fertility and disease resistance.

Business plan

There are not many business ideas or plans for breeding rabbits in cages, pits or sheds. After all, for rural areas (and rabbits have always been bred in personal subsidiary plots), it is difficult to formalize a loan or credit for development. This often happens in practice.

But legally there are only two options. Let's put it in the form of a table:

Factors	Personal subsidiary plot	Individual entrepreneurship
Papers required for registration	1. Documents for land; 2. Sanitary book of the owner; 3. The conclusion of the veterinarian on the general condition of the rabbits; 4. Papers for meat (issued in the laboratory at the veterinary clinic); 5. Delivery issue: a health certificate is required for the vehicle.	1. Certificate for a rabbit farm; 2. Compliance with GOST; 3. Phytosanitary certification.
taxes	Not held	ESHN
Control	District or city administration	Agricultural supervision

Rabbits as a business: pros and cons

Let's put it in order. Pros:

• Meat of any breed is dietary (lack of fat in the carcass). For a similar food demand all year round;
• Now it is possible to obtain consumer loans working citizens to start a rabbit breeding and marketing business;
• If you try, then the sale of rabbit skins will also bring profit. Well, downy breeds pay off in a season. The approximate price of processed rabbit down (grade 1) starts from 100 rubles;
• You can sell some individuals alive(if there is a demand);
• The fastest payback with minimal investment.

Of the minuses:

• The small living body of the rabbit is very sensitive, needs a balanced diet. This is especially true for females on the ovary and young animals (up to 2 months inclusive);
• Not without vaccines, although there is a lot of resentment in this regard. But veterinary visits to rabbit farms are routine;
• There are no points or bases for receiving meat at the population. This practice took root perfectly in the USSR, where they accepted any skins, furs and, of course, fluff. Some regions are trying to catch up, but most mini-farms sell slaughter by appointment, selling meat in small batches to the city dweller and rarely to retail.
• Earnings on the breed can drive into serious spending. The fact is that an adult rabbit (half-year-old) should be sold as soon as possible, otherwise it will have to be fed every day in vain. Such cultivation is unprofitable.

Business on rabbits - myth and reality?

Animal business without investment is definitely a myth. It is not difficult to organize a small income comparable to a regional salary.

But the desire for profit is why it has a detrimental effect on living organisms. Rabbits as a financial instrument are extremely unstable.

Suppose a middle-class businessman has received a contract for the supply of 200-250 kg. rabbit meat per month. This is cool. However, now precautions are needed so as not to miscalculate, and the entire livestock is stably pierced with an antibiotic. This is how everything works, otherwise the contract will not survive. This is a real reality about the business of rabbits and other animals.

Therefore, the purchase of natural and dietary meat should not be made from a large distribution network, where the carcass harmoniously flaunts on the substrate, but ideally a meter from the place of slaughter. Where the subsidiary farm is in plain sight, and it is clear what they feed, how they care.

What do people with experience say?

There are general final reviews among former and current rabbit breeders:

1. Forget stability. Exactly there is no guaranteed income. It also happens that in a few days the entire monthly litter dies from poor-quality food, infection or an ordinary fly. All this hits on the nerves and pocket!
2. Business for an amateur. Rabbits even with automation (water supply, heating) take up a lot of time. A simple example: selling, and you need to score some 5 units. Treat one rabbit for at least 40 minutes. And here are five pieces! And if the volume is good, and you need to score 20-30 per day?
3. The most important thing in this business is the equipment! It's about the quality of the cells, the premises. It is not important to spend money on them or not. Everything that is created for comfortable conditions always pays off, with rabbits for sure. Therefore, you can not skimp even when choosing a wire for a cage. And, of course, to test all feed purchased from new suppliers.
4. Routine occupation. The first year, maybe two years is interesting. But experience makes itself felt, and even with a population of 200-300 rabbits, you constantly need to carry heavy bags of feed, supply water and clean up. Is it worth it? And all the processes are on schedule, otherwise there will be illnesses.
5. You can keep for yourself, relatives and regular good customers. If there is a profitable way to feed - another matter! You can organize space and purchase equipment.
6. Increasingly, rabbit breeding has become an outlet for housewives. A few dozen, a maximum of 50 goals at home is enough for the hassle. And the whole point is that more and more often they are trying to extract profit in a speculative way: they buy breed for brood at exhibitions, and then they sell it as an elite species many times more expensive. Also a business, but not on a product.
7. In the countryside, where there are petty customs, rabbit breeders try to cross the blood by inviting a female in hunting, for example, to a neighbor. And for this it is necessary to pay, give food or help with the housework.
8. Owners who have kept rabbits for more than a dozen years will say whether it is profitable to keep only for themselves. Rather yes than no. A real, high-quality product for home consumption.
9. Can only be bred in the warm season. As a business, it's very good. Minimum feed costs. Plentiful feeding with hay or pasture. But here you need a guaranteed seller of teenagers for every spring, otherwise nothing will work. Regions with problematic climate often practice this kind of breeding.

Is it profitable? conclusions

There is always a benefit. The first is experience. Breeding can cost several thousand or millions. But the essence is the same: organize the fertilization process in time, save the young and save the breed. And with responsible care, the offspring will be every season. If you are engaged in small, but business, without selling live weight, there are more prospects. And live rabbits from private household plots are rarely sold, for a big pull. This is a risk to the owner.

What is the beauty of a rabbit is its unpretentiousness to the weather. This animal can get along well in a wide aviary (shed), in a hole (breeding rabbits in holes) or in a classic cage. Now there are many rabbit breeds that require special care (a warm room, vitamins from pet stores, etc.). It is better not to take such people to the meat business.

Our outstanding rabbit breeder Aleksey Alekseevich Tsvetkov learned from his own experience all the subtleties of working with a rabbit. From the choice of breed to the slaughter system, he has personally tested it all. Yes, and this man leads his unique farm himself, not allowing outsiders. Could this be the secret to success?

According to Alexei himself, pigs, for example, are more difficult to keep. They are noisy. The rabbit is calm, quiet until a certain time. Of course, cleaning cages with rabbits is a daily routine, but even here you can think about how to make your farm even more autonomous, since there are a lot of fantasy materials on the markets.

Tsvetkov's mini-farm device

The experience of one of the most experienced rabbit breeders in the country.

Experience of Tsvetkov A. A.

According to approximate calculations for the volume and technology worked out by Alexei Alekseevich, you need to follow the following rules so that the rabbit farm is in the black:

• 2-3 employees on a permanent basis. We need people to carry feed, unload and load. Otherwise, the back will not last long;
• Cells of individual development(project by A. A. Tsvetkov);
• For a livestock of up to 2 thousand, at least 40 acres of land are needed for the installation of the entire subsidiary farm. According to Aleksey Alekseevich, even the light cycle can affect the growth and development of the rabbit's immune system. Light should penetrate into the areas intended for this from dawn to dusk;
• Only local breed can be taken into work. It is not desirable to cross with European species. "Soviet chinchilla" - ideal for breeding. It has good performance in terms of weight gain, resistance to climate change;
• The sales market in the central region of the country is developed, the demand is high. But the cost of meat in winter can be more expensive, because in the summer more hay is fed. It's cheaper;
• Waste removal. From such a mini-farm, there is exactly as much waste as feed is imported. Therefore, it is better to immediately either export the waste products of animals or organize a special site for compost. An interesting fact is that rabbit droppings are equivalent to horse droppings, which means it is the best natural fertilizer for the garden.
• You can not run a cycle with cell cleaning, vaccination of young animals. Young individuals need to be fed with natural supplements (like calves on a farm). Even flour will do;
• Food and drink are plentiful all year round. It is necessary to balance the amount of hay with feed so as not to cause disorders in the rabbit's food system;
• It is better not to invest heavily in breeding rabbits, but to start gradually. Haste does not solve financial problems, and even more so without experience, it is risky to rush into a medium-sized business.

Is it profitable to keep, with daily worries, to decide only for those who set themselves a specific goal!

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Today I want to bring to your attention an article: “Breeding rabbits - profitable or not. Let's calculate the profitability of rabbit breeding.

Lately, I've been getting a lot of questions: “How is my progress with rabbits and their breeding? Are there any disappointments in rabbit breeding? Many readers are also interested in: “Is it profitable or not to breed rabbits? What is the profitability of rabbit breeding?

I would like to answer a number of questions right away, and then dwell on the answers in more detail. He refused to breed rabbits. On the contrary, I am more and more entering into the study of the topic of rabbit breeding, I plan to devote part of my further village life to this direction.

Is it profitable to breed rabbits? I think that rabbits are profitable to breed and cost-effective. You will always be with meat. I advise everyone who still has doubts in this matter, take it and try it. You definitely won't regret it.

Now on to the extended answers.

Why did I hesitate to breed rabbits for a long time?

The main reason why rabbit rearing was constantly delayed was because of my constant doubts and inquiries of the local village population about rabbits. Did you keep it or not? For what reason did they refuse? What are the difficulties of rabbit breeding? Almost everyone said that rabbits are not profitable, they constantly get sick and die, they need to be constantly vaccinated, they only cause losses. And if other rabbits die and it is not profitable to grow them, why do I need it.

The problem of slaughtering rabbits was also very important. I could not even imagine that I would take a cute fluffy animal by its hind legs, hit it on the head with a stick, pull off its skin and then try to eat it again. Horrible! It is unpleasant to think about it, not to perform and do it, and even personally, with your own hands. Brrr…. From the imagining of the forthcoming massacre, goosebumps began to run over the skin in a large crowd, sweat profusely came out from the experiences.

The following events helped me to dispel all doubts.

The first is a local newspaper with an article that tells how an ordinary village boy has been raising rabbits for 12 years and he succeeds. I mentioned this in the article:

Rereading the newspaper article several times, I couldn’t understand for myself how it turns out that a 12-year-old boy from an ordinary village has rabbit breeding on stream, everything works out, but adult villagers don’t. Something is wrong here. What is the mystery? Why am I an adult worse than a 12 year old boy? How?

The second event happened by chance. A year ago, in winter, I bought nails in the regional center. And the owner of a small shop asked where I was from, why I needed so many different nails. Word for word, and in fifteen minutes he knew what village I was from and was very surprised that I did not keep rabbits in my household. When I expressed my doubts to him and referred to the experience of the local villagers of my village, this 60-year-old man laughed for a very long time, tears came to his eyes, his eyes reddened from laughter. I made him laugh, apparently great. In his pleasure, laughing and wiping his eyes, he said: “Listen less than everyone else. Rabbits are good to keep. You need to be aware of them, have an idea how and what to feed. It is necessary to understand how these animals live, to know more about them. Study and read books, listen to the advice of others, while not forgetting to think with your own head, discarding everything superfluous. The main thing is to try, learn from your mistakes, do not stop and everything will work out. He also gave me some advice, which I listened to and realized that my random interlocutor was right. What did the stranger tell me?

Rabbits should not be located with other pets: chickens, pigs, cows in the same common room. Try to allocate a separate clean shed for them. Rabbits grow better in aviaries than in cages. In the summer, do not put the cages outside in a sunny place. Find a cool, cold spot for them. Try to avoid contact between rabbits and other animals, especially birds. Make a rule for yourself, when entering a dedicated shed with rabbits, always change shoes and clothes, do not bring dirt to them. Do not take other rabbits for mating and do not give your own. By doing this, you will significantly reduce the likelihood of carrying diseases. When buying rabbits, check very carefully how and under what conditions they are kept, at what level the seller is engaged in rabbit breeding. Whether he is a professional or just a hobbyist.

The third event was my constant thinking about which animals in the village are the most profitable to raise. And again, all streams of doubt disappeared, and preferences, sympathies were reduced and closed on rabbits.

Thus, having been in thought and hesitation for more than two years, I came to the conclusion that it is necessary to start breeding rabbits in my personal subsidiary plot, it is not worth pulling further. Your personal experience will dot the "i" correctly. What I do now with great pleasure.

Profitability of rabbit breeding.

Now I will share my thoughts and considerations regarding the benefits and profitability of rabbit breeding.

What do I know for sure? The rabbit bears the rabbits for 30 days. At birth, one rabbit gives birth to offspring from 5 to 9 rabbits. You can breed one rabbit 5-6 times a year. In this case, the total number of offspring will be at least 25 animals (I took into account the most minimal values, we reduce them 5 times a year and each time the offspring should be 5 rabbits). If you feed all 25 rabbits born, given that the net weight of the meat will be 3 kilograms from each carcass. You will end up with at least 75 kilograms of rabbit meat per year from one rabbit. Almost like a pig carcass.

Having grown this amount and slaughtered the rabbits, you yourself can decide where to put the meat. Keep or sell. Set any selling price.

The information I provide is minimal. Reality allows you to get much more rabbits and meat.

I will immediately answer a number of questions that may arise from readers of the article.

Why did the net weight of the meat of one carcass of a rabbit turn out to be 3 kilograms?

Here in the calculations I take my data, which took place during my little experience in breeding rabbits. The rabbits in my farmstead are outbred, the so-called village ones. No one knows their pedigree, where they came from, what kind of blood flows in their rabbit veins. (Why are these rabbits on my farm? Details in the following articles on the site). The net weight of meat after slaughter is 2.9 - 3.4 kilograms. The age of rabbits at the time of slaughter is 6-7 months.

Why do I take into account the number of born rabbits in the amount of 5 pieces?

I want the story to be believable, without exaggeration and embellishment, it is better to take some parameters as minimal as possible. Although my rabbits were born 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 rabbits. Less than 6 was not. Mostly 7 or 9. Now I'm starting to cull rabbits for the best and not so good. Thanks to this, I hope to increase the offspring from one rabbit and get more rabbit meat.

With meat, I think, figured it out.

Now let's calculate the cost of keeping rabbits.

I will not take into account the costs of cages, aviaries, drinkers. These investments at the first stage are one-time and each has its own individual. It all depends on the conditions of keeping rabbits in cages or aviaries, the knowledge of the rabbit breeder himself, his wishes and financial capabilities. You can do it yourself or buy cages at different prices, investing huge amounts of money, or make it yourself modestly in a rustic way. Like this? Details in other articles heading Rabbits. Subscribe to new articles, subscription form at the very end.

Let's move on to feeding the rabbits. Rabbits are not known to be rodents. Eat: grass, vegetables, fruits, tree branches, oats, hay, straw. Almost all the products for feeding rabbits can be prepared in the forest yourself or grown in your garden, which I did in the spring and summer. I only buy oats. How much does it come out? I'll give you an example. Now I have one rabbit on the farm, nine adult rabbits, twelve rabbits at the age of 4 months, fifteen rabbits at the age of 2.5 months and newborns from three rabbits. The total number of rabbits of different ages eating oats is currently 37 individuals. In the winter month, up to 2 bags of oats costing 180 rubles per bag and weighing 28 kilograms are spent on feeding them. All other products collected and grown by their own labor are simply not possible to calculate. My total expenses for feeding rabbits in winter are 360 ​​rubles per month. These data are approximate due to the growth of the rabbits themselves, the birth of new ones and the slaughter of adults.

What are the other costs of keeping rabbits? I want to say that in the summer, gasoline is a significant expense for me. Car trips for grass, branches, hay. It is very difficult to calculate how much it was spent due to the combination of trips. Like this? I have always combined business with pleasure and vice versa. You go for firewood, be sure to mow the grass and cut branches for rabbits. I went to pick cherries, apples, currants, sea buckthorn or mushrooms, again you bring a trailer of grass and branches. I went to the district center, on the way back the same grass and branches. If he was specially chosen to harvest hay and branches, he traveled short distances from the village up to 2 kilometers due to saving gasoline. Yes, and it makes no sense to go far when everything is nearby.

So is rabbit breeding profitable or not? Of course it's cost effective. Firstly, I am always with dietary meat, without chemicals and additives. Real, useful. In any season. In any quantities. And most importantly - not purchased, but your own. You know exactly what you're eating! At what cost can this be assessed? What money? I think this is not calculated, you definitely cannot save on yourself and your health.

Secondly, the surplus can always be sold. There are no problems with the sale of rabbit meat in my village. Rabbits are not bred by many locals, only a few. The market exists. There are dealers who take rabbit meat at 260 rubles per kilogram. There are also willing villagers. The price for the local rural population at the moment is 300 rubles per kilogram of the purest rabbit meat. There are no big lines. But there is not much rabbit meat on sale, but very little. Those residents who breed rabbits in the village keep them mostly for themselves. Meat is rarely sold. And this pleases me, a novice rabbit breeder.

I want to sum up the article.Breeding rabbits is beneficial to me personally at this time and in this place, in my village. I will continue to do this in the future. I definitely won't quit. In this direction of animal husbandry, I see only one pluses and further prospects. The positive aspects can be expressed in two words: rabbits reproduce themselves quickly, constantly and a lot, you can feed by preparing food on your own, on your own, spending money within reasonable limits. In the near future, I only need to increase the livestock and start selling meat on an ongoing basis, monthly. Consider purchasing meat breeds of rabbits. At the moment, there are still many mysteries of rabbit breeding that are not clear and have not been verified by me, requiring experimentation, trial and error. After all, there is simply no limit to the perfection of proper breeding of rabbits.

Are there any problems? Of course, there are and there are many mistakes, there were and will be. About many that had to be overcome and comprehended, solved and corrected, read in the near future, new articles are expected to be released.

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Looking for a profitable business idea in the countryside? You found her! This is rabbit farming!

Rabbits are animals that breed well, give tasty dietary meat and fur. They do not require special technologies to grow them. Home cultivation differs from industrial cultivation only in scale, so if you are a little familiar with the keeping of these animals, you can easily increase production to the size of a farm.

What is the relevance of the rabbit breeding business

Sanctions and the crisis situation in the economy affected the domestic meat market. This, as well as the program of state support for small and medium-sized businesses, contribute to an increase in the volume of domestic meat production, cattle breeding, pig breeding and rabbit breeding.

Rabbit meat is a dietary, easily digestible meat, the taste of which will satisfy the needs of the most sophisticated gourmet. Most rabbit farms are small private farms oriented towards small wholesalers and retailers.

Having opened your own business in this segment, you will quickly find your buyer, subject to well-established management and active advertising.

Benefits of a business idea:

• quick payback;
• high profitability;
• diversity of business (sale of meat, fur, young offspring);
• stable demand for products.

Flaws:

• labor-intensive production;
• the need for regular cleaning of cages, animal care;
• susceptibility of animals to stress, disease.

Market prospects and level of competition

In a year, one rabbit reproduces a mass 50 times greater than her own. Using meat hybrid breeds, farmers increase this figure several times more. Rabbit breeding is a promising industry in which production volumes can be quickly increased.

Its weaknesses are dependence on temperature fluctuations and morbidity of livestock, but they are overcome by the right approach to the production and organization of the farm, as well as timely disease prevention.

The level of competition varies by region. In some (for example, in the Urals), the majority of rabbit farms are concentrated. In the Central, Volga, North-West regions, the breeding of these animals occupies only 5-10% of the market.

Bearing offspring in females lasts only 1 month. At one time, she gives 5-7 individuals of a young offspring. After 4-5 months, the rabbit reaches adulthood and can be slaughtered for meat.

Marketing plan

The success of any business is the well-established sales of products. Look for ways to sell meat and fur even at the stage of building a rabbit farm. Start active advertising a month before you are ready to sell the first batch of meat.

Most buyers consider rabbit meat to be an expensive dietary product that you can treat yourself to during the holidays. When advertising products, focus on the beneficial properties of meat.

Do not forget about the possibilities of advertising on the Internet. Create your own website dedicated to your farm, tell about yourself on social networks, invite acquaintances and friends to spread the word about your business. Post photos and videos about your pets and their conditions.

When selling meat at the market, decorate a showcase, offer customers not only raw meat, but also rabbit stew, spices and seasonings for meat dishes. Make a bright signboard, car stickers.

Production plan

To open your own rabbit farm, you need to choose a suitable land plot, purchase cages for animals, hire staff, and buy young livestock.

Let's dwell on each stage of the production plan in more detail.

Selection of land

For a rabbit farm, you need a dry, flat piece of land. For convenience and cleanliness of the territory, concrete the space between the cells. To create a mini-farm, a plot of 16-20 acres is enough. In the first couple, use your own personal plot. Shed system of building cages in two or three tiers will allow you to increase volumes over time.

If you are renting a site, make sure it is not damp and not flooded with water during floods, as these animals do not like dampness. For a large-scale farm, you need a plot outside the village.

The leased area must include:

1. Cages for animals.
2. Utility room for storage of feed, inventory.
3. Equipped pit for storing manure.
4. Slaughterhouse.
5. Storage room for skins.
6. Refrigerator for storing fresh meat.
7. Staff quarters or lodge where you can spend the night.

Purchase of cages for animals

Shed cage system - safe and convenient keeping of rabbits

Cells at the initial stage of production can be made independently. To make them, you will need wood, brick, fine mesh netting, slate. If you order the production of cages to order in a carpentry workshop, it will cost more than purchasing ready-made sheds.

For a large farm, purchase prefabricated stationary tiered cages, as well as carriers for moving animals to the slaughterhouse, selling live, transferring individuals from one shed (tiered cage system) to another.

Recruitment

If you organize a mini-farm in your own backyard, you can easily manage on your own and with the forces of your family members.

For a large-scale farm, you will need staff. 6 people are enough to perform the duties of maintaining cleanliness in the production area, feeding animals, cleaning cages. We also need one slaughterer and one driver to deliver the carcasses to the place of sale.

Buying rabbits

For maximum farm productivity, choose several breeds for breeding.

Be careful, not all breeds are suitable for growing for meat

The optimal ratio of livestock breeds presented in the table will provide you with meat, skins and down:

When buying young animals from farms, make sure that there is a veterinary certificate confirming their health.

For more information on the topic of rabbit breeding, see the articles Breeding rabbits as a business And .

Sales plan - to whom to sell finished products

The main directions of product sales are retail and small wholesale trade.

Sales ways:

• sale to small wholesalers;
• local market;
• delivery to restaurants and other catering establishments, supermarkets;
• ads on the Internet (Avito, other sites), own website.

For free trade, register your farm with the tax authorities, receive a veterinary certificate on compliance with animal welfare standards and a certificate from the laboratory confirming the quality and safety of products.

The ideal sales option is the search for stable wholesale buyers.

Offering cooperation to restaurants and supermarkets, demonstrate the quality of meat, documentation confirming its safety, leave a small trial batch. You should have a certificate from the SES, a phytosanitary certificate, as well as a GOST-R declaration on hand.

Possible forms of organization

Breeding rabbits as a business requires mandatory registration with the state and tax control authorities.

There are several forms to choose from: personal subsidiary farming, individual entrepreneurship or peasant farming. Let us dwell on each of the legal forms in more detail.

Individual entrepreneur

Registering an individual entrepreneur will provide you with more opportunities in the rabbit meat trade, finding customers, wholesale buyers. For registration, you need a passport, IND, payment of the state fee, an application for registration, certified by a notary.

When you become a self-employed person, you are obligated to pay taxes. Choose a simplified system or a single agricultural tax, as a representative of a small business in the agricultural industry.

OKVED code 01.25.2 is the same for all forms of management: "Breeding rabbits and fur-bearing animals on a farm."

Peasant farming

This is a simplified form of IP without statutory documents, names, contracts. Having issued a peasant farm, you can apply for state support in the form of a grant, subsidy, and loans on favorable terms. You also have the right to associate with other peasant farms for mutual benefit. Your farm is eligible for preferential taxation.

Personal subsidiary plot

Personal subsidiary farming is the best form of farming if you manage with your family members without involving hired labor, and also if you intend to breed rabbits on the territory of your personal plot. LPH claims to receive state support. Selling products grown on a personal farmstead, you have the right not to pay taxes.

For a novice entrepreneur, it is preferable to use private household plots or peasant farms. You will be able to issue an IP when the volumes of production and sales become steadily large.

How much money is needed to start the project - financial plan

The costs of opening a rabbit farm must be calculated at the project launch stage. To do this, find out the cost of cages, breeds of rabbits, feed, renting a plot of the area you are interested in.

An approximate list of costs for opening a farm is presented in the table. It displays the mandatory costs that you will face regardless of the scale of your production and the chosen business legal form:

№	Nature of costs	Amount in rubles
1.	Plot rental	30,000 (average)
2.	Buying cells	50 000
3.	Purchase of 100 young animals	30 000
4.	Primary feed purchase	70 000
5.	Veterinarian services + utility costs	20 000
6.	Purchase of equipment (drinkers, feeders, small inventory)	20 000
Total:		220 000

For regions with a harsh climate, add the cost of building a facility for keeping animals to the list.

Risk factors

Difficulties await the novice rabbit breeder. However, having a good business plan and sufficient theoretical background, he can easily overcome them.

Risk factors include:

• difficulties in caring for livestock;
• sensitivity of rabbits to the conditions of detention, diet;
• infectious diseases, from which many individuals die;
• weak demand for products;
• high competition in the region.

To overcome the difficulties associated with raising animals, regularly consult veterinarians for preventive measures for the incidence of infectious diseases. Keep livestock indoors without drafts and dampness.

Carefully inspect breeding individuals so as not to bring new diseases with them. Monitor the quality of the feed so that there is no mold or rot in it.

Download business plan

The development of a detailed business plan with a summary of the project and calculations of income and expenditure is your insurance against unnecessary expenses and failures. The more you develop it and prepare a presentation of your project, the more chances you have to receive state support for the peasant farm.

Download a free sample business plan. Take one or more of the examples as a basis for writing your own document.

Any ready-made sample from the Internet is just a typical project that does not reflect the features of your idea. Do not use a project identical to yours without modification. Develop your own. In the course of its preparation, you will deal with many aspects, gain the necessary knowledge about raising animals and marketing.

To help novice farmers, a video from the famous rabbit breeder E. Maklyakov:

Conclusion

Interest in healthy, dietary food is growing, which means that the demand for rabbit meat will be consistently high. Rabbit breeding is a legal and predictable type of business. By gradually increasing the scale of production, you will come to the fact that the cost of production will become lower, and the size of the net profit will be higher.

According to experts, the profitability of rabbit breeding at the initial stage ranges from 60-65%. For the next year of keeping a rabbit farm, you will increase profitability to 80-87%.

The most costly and difficult part of your journey is the start. Overcome difficulties and you will have an asset that gives a stable increase and good profit.

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The amazing fertility of rabbits and their enviable ability to produce their own kind into the world have long been noticed by the people and even immortalized in folklore. If you think about this physiological feature of the long-eared, you can easily come to an inspiring conclusion: rabbit breeding as a business can bring huge profits, because, in fact, the product for subsequent sale - the rabbits themselves - appears by itself! And the speed of such impromptu "deliveries" staggers the imagination, instilling hope in the soul for the coming enrichment.

Seriously though, raising rabbits for sale can be a great income-generating activity for those who live in rural areas. The main thing is not to forget anything at the start-up stage and to properly organize the business.

Point one. We calculate profitability

So, it's decided. We raise rabbits and sell their meat. With the money we get, we get even more rabbits, they multiply exponentially, automatically enriching their owner. But is such a business plan for raising rabbits really flawless, or are there many nuances, the neglect of which will ruin our entrepreneurial initiative? Worth sorting out.

For preliminary calculations, let's imagine that we purchase 60 rabbits (of which 40 are females). It will cost us about 30 thousand rubles. Rabbits will need cages (50 thousand rubles) and food (100 thousand rubles per year, if you count together with the purchase of vitamins and medicines). Total 180 thousand rubles - our costs at the initial stage.

Now we turn to the calculation of income. On average in the country, a kilogram of rabbit meat can be sold for 250-300 rubles. From the 60 rabbits we bought, you can get about one and a half tons of meat, or, if you convert it into money, 300-380 thousand rubles. Thus, even just by growing and fattening the purchased rabbits, we recoup the costs and remain “in the black”.

However, the rabbit breeding business would not be called a business if one could stop there. Not at all! Rabbits need to breed. As a rule, 20 rabbits can be born from one rabbit per year. The weight of each young rabbit is up to two kilograms. In total, through the sale of offspring, you can get revenue in the amount of 375 thousand rubles. In addition, if the skins are sold at a price of 20 rubles per piece, then we will be able to receive additional revenue in the amount of 160 thousand rubles. Total - half a million per year at a cost of 180 thousand. Not bad, isn't it?

Point two. Starting a business

Unfortunately, all the above calculations, which clearly demonstrate how profitable the rabbit raising business is, are very arbitrary. They do not take into account the most important components of the expenditure part - overhead costs. If you really want to get into rabbit breeding, these mistakes should not be made.

And what is really possible and necessary is to register as a business entity. At the initial stage, the ideal option would be registration with a choice as a tax regime. As an alternative, you can consider the possibility of registering a KFH (peasant farm). In essence, this form is no different from ordinary individual entrepreneurship, however, the owner of a peasant farm has the right to accept equity holders into it. One way or another, after an entry appears in the USRIP that you are now - no less than - an entrepreneur, you can start breeding rabbits.

Point three. Starting preparations

However, no. Before the actual breeding of rabbits, a lot still needs to be done so that the long-eared ones have the physical opportunity to breed. In particular, it is necessary to find a suitable land plot and equip it properly. On average, renting a plot that is large enough to accommodate a rabbit farm there costs 70-100 thousand rubles per year (a plot of 6-7 acres). It is not required to obtain a special permit for raising rabbits, however, certain norms are prescribed in the legislation, according to which the distance limit from the farm to residential buildings must be observed. The specific parameters of this limit are set by municipal governments, and therefore it is advisable to get advice on this in advance.

After a suitable site is found, it must be equipped. The best option for creating a mini-farm, if you start raising rabbits as a business from scratch, is to use the so-called shed system. Shed is an ordinary barn with a wooden or metal frame. It contains cages with rabbits - all under one roof. It is best to build such a barn on a hill, since high humidity can form in the lowlands, which is harmful to the long-eared.

The floor in the shed is best concreted. The cells themselves are optimally built in two tiers. They are made from galvanized mesh. Each cage must be made "two-room": with a feed and nest compartment. In addition to the shed with cages, a warehouse with compound feed should be located on the site. You should not spare a place for him: rabbits are distinguished not only by their fertility, but also by their enviable appetite.

In order for your rabbit mini-farm to function successfully, it is necessary to install utility rooms on your site (for building materials and equipment), as well as a building with refrigeration equipment. Attached to this building is a slaughterhouse equipped with an incinerator and a blood drawer. This will ensure a continuous production process: after slaughter, the rabbit carcass is immediately cut and frozen.

The last thing you need to equip your farm is a manure collector. It is the most common pit, the walls of which are concreted. Of course, such a pit should be located as far as possible from the main farm, in a remote part of the farm. By the way, if you find distribution channels, you can sell rabbit excrement as fertilizer and thus receive additional income.

Point four. Sales market

Finding the places where you will subsequently sell the meat of the rabbits you have raised is perhaps the most important part of the business plan. Even some unique technology for raising rabbits does not play such an important role as having ample opportunities for marketing. That is why you need to take care of who will buy your rabbit meat long before even registering as an individual entrepreneur. In principle, there are three main options for marketing: meat processing plants, restaurants and supermarkets. You can, of course, sell meat to private individuals, but their search is a rather laborious and lengthy process, the profitability of which, alas, is usually low.

Since in our country, unlike enlightened Western Europe, rabbit meat is not very popular, it is very likely that at the initial stage you may incur some losses. You need to be prepared for this: illiquid assets, at least at the beginning of the journey, will certainly be. There is only one way out: to search - and to search again! You should constantly be on the lookout for new opportunities for marketing products, even consider non-standard options, for example, export to other regions. Ultimately, the profit will not keep you waiting.

Point five. Summing up

So, breeding rabbits on rented land can really become a good business that brings a good income. However, this type of activity cannot be called easy. In addition to hard work and the notorious entrepreneurial acumen, the owner of the farm must have a noticeable thirst for learning. In particular, it is very useful not only to know how to breed rabbits, but also to constantly improve in this direction. Otherwise, long-ears can become victims of a general epidemic, and their owner will receive not only moral trauma caused by the loss of a source of income, but also a lot of problems associated with disposal.

It is reasonable to assume that running such a farm alone is at least irrational. The farmer needs help. Animals must be under constant supervision and receive proper care. Accordingly, at least two assistants will have to be hired (if your family members are not suitable for such a role, of course) and pay their wages. This item of expenditure must also be taken into account when calculating future profits from rabbit breeding.

And finally, another important point is certification. It is easy to guess that your future customers will want to have a guarantee of the quality of your products. It is very likely that in some cases (for example, when selling meat to private individuals), you can be taken at your word, but this is more the exception than the rule. One way or another, it is unprofitable to totally certify all manufactured products, as well as production itself, especially at the stage of entering the market. It's easier to talk to buyers privately: get familiar with the requirements put forward by them and get only those certificates that a particular buyer needs.