Pets in my house

Greetings friends

Many of you have known me to be a lover of pets and rabbits, to be precise; if possible, I would have gone with the moniker "the rabbit guy," or a better description of me would have been an attachment of rabbits to my original name. I will never object to your decision to call me that because truly I am in love with this wonderful piece of nature, and many characteristics have made me love them. My research on these pets began in 2018, when I became an animal sitter. I didn't acquire this pet at that moment, but my boss travelled and left me with this responsibility. I had to transport them to my apartment, which was very close by, and the fostering work began.

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The responsibility of feeding them was tedious; there was no right farm tool to utilise. What I mean here is that after rain you find it very difficult to go into wet bushes to get your rabbits fed, and there was no boot to wear. I don't like entering buses with an exposed foot; it needs to be covered. No gloves, and wearing short sleeves means I will be scratched by those spear grass, and my skin will be itching. These things were not available. I learnt to foster them the hard way; nevertheless, with time, it became normal to me that I had to go fetch their food every day.

Feeding my rabbits with bitter gourd and cover crops

Who knew that in the long run, I would own a rabbit? It wasn't gifted to me as an appraisal for fostering them, but I acquired them with money; they would have gone too soon, ma'am; my boss wanted to use them as meat since her endeavour to multiply them proved abortive. She tried the best she could and bought the best drugs for them, but a disease, which I later discovered to be coccidiosis, was dominating them.

DND; She is eating

When I adopted these rabbits, I aimed to see more beautiful suckling, which was possible, but the problem here was they die after 2 months of birth or after weaning.

Rabbits' gestation period is 1 month, and I get so excited when my rabbits give birth but become suddenly depressed because I can't find a solution to their sudden death.

It made me burn most of my weekend surfing the internet to find a solution. I read many blogs on this, and they asked the questions the way I experienced it with my rabbits, but I tried many answers given. Most recommended drugs were not found in my country, so I decided to read journals from African Nigerian writers, but pet shops/pharmacy didn't have them, but I later discovered a drug, which I will share soon, that helped my rabbitery and made it increase greatly in number, up to 35. I became proud of this research. I desire to grow a bigger and more modernised farm like what I see the Chinese do, inculcating technology and innovation into rabbiteries to increase production.

I have only this one left and a female, which means there is hope of getting more rabbits soon; she is eating well as the only one dominating; I am making plans to make a better cage so that when she gives birth, I can have a place to put her litter.

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