24-years-old citizen of Ternopil Oleg Mulyk grows accelerated rabbits. During one year he received 320 rabbits from 4 indaviduals.
It can't be seen nothing after a high fence in the village of Mislova, that is situated on a verge of the Ternopil and Khmelnitsk oblast. Here is only a few old houses.
"We specially have hidden a farm from noise, for not scared away the rabbits", — Oleh sayes. At a gate he makes a call. Gates are carefully opened by Olehs' partner — Dmytro Malaschuk, 24 years-old.
After a gate there is two old clay houses. After them cages with rabbits that owners name mini-farms and which are look like enormous beehives. A fellow goes near one, from which peeks out the 7-kilogram white rabbit.
A rabbit obediently jumped in a basket which Oleh brought. But when Oleg put it on a grass, a rabbit began to sniff around, and after that to eat high green stems.
"Bo-o-odik, what are you doing, it is forbidden for you", — Oleh pulls up a stem from the teeth of white albino. Explains: animals are not instilled, that is why feed them only by a hay and mixed fodder. — For all the time that I breed rabbits no one died. I try not to allow strangers approach them, because then rabbits are frightened they lose their weight.
At first an idea of boys to breed rabbits made everybody laugh. Oleh parents did not understand why a son, who has an education of lawyer, decided to go in agriculture. He found in the Internet an information about Ihor Mikhaylov - a selectionist from Saint Petersburg who breeds rabbits-accelerates. A rabbit of Mikhaylov reaches 4,5–5 kg of living weight in four months. The meat is ecologically clean, due to the special feed and cages with ventilation. Therefore a price on such animals is more high - at about 45–50 UAH/kg. Alive rabbit costs to 500 UAH.
Last year the citizens of Ternopil brought four impregnated doe-rabbits from Saint Petersburg. Presently boys have 33 mini-farms. Each farm includes 4 cages in which females with small rabbits or male live.
Log cabins for rabbits were done by the Ternopil joiner on the special chart. Each costed $500. A floor in cages looks like a grate. Tailings of meal and excrements fall through cracks between wooden small planks in the special mine. And from there — in pelvises. There is no smell from animals. The electricity is brought to every rabbit log cabin. In winter water for drink is warmed up.
"There is no farm and businessman registered in the Ternopil area, which is engaged in breeding of rabbits", notices Oleh Kolyasa — the main specialist of stock-raising department of Main administration of agroindustrial development of Regional State Administration.
"Only peasants grow rabbits in their economies. A chinchilla, grey giant and white giant, are most widespread breed in the Western region."