小学校でもできるウサギ人工哺育の試み

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Rabbits are one of the most pupular animals among children in Japanese elementary school. To give the more tameable animals to children in the elementary school, an efficient and simplified method for hand-rearing of rabbits was devised. A newborn rabbit was reared in a paper box by hand- feeding with 23% concentration of milk diet composed of only commercial milk powder for dogs (Esbilac). The milk feeding was started on the next day after birth. The artificial milk was feeded to the rabbit through the very short silicon tube fixed at the tip of a glass syringe as a nipple. Although weight loss was observed in comparison with natural feeding, it may be associated with the use of only the commercial milk powder without additives. However, the rabbit reared artificially had maintained the good condition of health during the experiment. The number of milk feeding per day and the amount of milk feeding per one time based on the results of this study and BERNARD (1962) were proposed.
横浜国立大学の論文
1993-03-27