METHOD FOR PREPARING FEED FOR RABBITS Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: production of combined feed. SUBSTANCE: method involves providing mixture of preliminarily ground components balanced to the amount of dry cellular tissue of 12-13% by weight of dry substance, with this mixture being used as basic ration; introducing 6-7% of water having temperature of 10-60 C and rabbit dung, from which urine had been preliminarily separated, in an amount of 5% of total weight of combined feed; extruding at temperature of 125-135 C, under pressure of 1.4-1.5 MPa for time interval not exceeding 60 sec till obtaining particles of 3-5 mm size; applying vitamin-mineral components solved in molasses or fat. Ground straw, cereal postharvest treatment wastes, groats production wastes, wood-working production wastes, such as wooden saw dust, ground bark, leaves and branches of foliated kinds of trees may be used as combined feed components. Method allows rabbits of different age and sex to be fed with balanced full-ration, extruded feeds including nonstandard components facilitating intensified development of rabbits. EFFECT: reduced rabbit keeping costs, increased nutritive qualities and improved feed assimilation. 2 cl, 4 tbl, 1 ex