Raising rabbits and ducks
Tshala Mwengo, of Musokatanda Agriculture and Family Health Project in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, writes to share an innovation with readers of Spore. 'We specialise in integrated small animals, crop, fish culture and animal traction to increase protein, vitamin and mineral intake in the diet of the local population. We had a problem with our rabbits wasting much of their concentrate through the bottom of the cages and onto the floor of the rabbit shed. There it would spoil and attract flies and create a strong odour. We like to leave the rabbit droppings, urine and forage droppings to decompose under the cages before removing the compost to the gardens. We solved the problem of feed waste by keeping a family of ducks under the cages. They eat the dropped feed as well as all the insect larvae. We now have a clean-smelling rabbit shed without flies, as well as the benefit of fast growing ducks.' We hope that this idea will help some of your readers to raise rabbits without the added problem of disease-carrying flies or strong odours which can cause problems in the village.'
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| Language: | English |
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
1998
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/48109 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99615 |
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