Cuniculture course at Granja Jordán
Industrial rabbit farming specialisation course where you will start with the basic meat farming techniques in order to acquire the minimum skills for caring for and breeding your rabbits, and artificial insemination techniques.
There are theoretical sessions with the help of videos explaining the tasks to be performed during the practical sessions.
Depending on needs of students, courses on the following subjects can be delivered:
- Genetic improvement
- Climate control
- Technical / Economic Management
- Bio-safety
- Nutrition
- Health
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In-person rabbit farming course programme
Rabbit Farm Management
- Management in bands / organisation of farm work.
- Managing re-breeding of future breeding does.
- Receiving animals from selection farms.
- Preparing females for artificial insemination.
- Checking does and hormone treatment.
- Artificial insemination.
- Palpation for pregnancy testing.
- Preparing and caring for kindling.
- Preparing and caring for nesting.
- Controlled lactation.
- Weaning
- Managing fattening / sales to slaughter houses and sale of animals for further life.
Other farm tasks
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- Injecting: subcutaneous, intramuscular…
- Deworing by mouth.
- Applying sprays to legs.
- Cleaning: sweeping, cleaning cages, nests…
- Disinfection: using different types of machines.
- Receiving visits at your farm.
- Sexing young animals.
Insemination techniques
- Procedure for handling bucks
- Health programme
- Checking animals.
- Bio-safety Regulations.
- Semen handling procedure
- Semen collection.
- Diluting and macroscopic inspection of ejaculate.
- Microscopic inspection, preparing the pool and sperm count.
- Packaging of semen.
Pathology, prophylaxis and therapy
- Diagnosis
- Autopsies
- Sample taking for laboratories. Laboratory diagnosis
- Medical and hygiene prophylaxis
- Methods of administration
Technical / Economic Management
- Data compilation on individual doe and buck datasheets
- Band control sheets / lactation and fattening period control
- Management of specific meat farm software
- Production indicators: Units of measure – control frequency – reference value. Production costs
- Individual objectives. Production control. Corrective / preventive measures.
Genetic improvement
- Importance of genetic improvement
- Differences between genetic lines: meat lines and breeding doe lines. Heterosis.
- Three-way cross-breeding.
- Selecting breeding does.
- Managing data from cross-breeding, weighing individuals in meat lines. Software for genetic selection.
Bio-safety
- Preventive measures to minimise health risks in:
- Farms
- Animals
- Food and water
- Personnel and health rules
- Materials
- Medication
- Biocides and phytosanitary products
- Waste management
- Cleaning and disinfection
Managing nutrition
- Distributing food
- Fodder
- Rationing
- Growth curves
- Feeding programmes
The training sessions for in-person rabbit farming courses are delivered by Vets or Agricultural Engineers specialising in each subject, whereas the rest of the sessions are delivered by Granja Jordán staff at our facilities and/or other collaborators.