Let’s clarify the terms. Mini-farm includes one or two female rabbit’s tiers. Female rabbit’s tier includes a nesting place. A nesting place is a box of a definite structure with electric heating, switched on when the temperature outside falls to +10 — +11oС.Arrangement of a nesting place is indicated in zoological technical plan. Information is taken from a diary.
For example, service took place. Breeding is supposed to take place on the 31st day. We indicate this date in a diary. Two days earlier there should be indicated switching on of heating or in summer period – before breeding check up. Then we step back 13 or 8 days (depending on the type of service) and indicate this date as a nesting place date arrangement.
A diary record is as follows: «Maniunia’s nesting place”. Then we find out Maniunia’s “flat” and indicate in zoological technical plan: «Maniunia’s nesting place — 7а». Then employee responsible for this operation finds 7th mini-farm and arranges nesting place in tier “a”, covering it with a big amount of hay. He also prepares heating for using.
There are two types of nesting places arrangement. If it’s the 1st breeding of a female rabbit or it lives in a tier alone, a nesting place should be arranged 15 days before the breeding time. If a female rabbit still feeds her female infants then we use another type of nesting place arrangement. We make children hide in their nesting place. Then we resettle them in an empty space of upper tier of a mini-farm. The record is rather long in such a case: «Maniunia’s nesting place — 7а (7д № 4к), resettlement 7д— 126». Numbers 7д № 4к mean: seven females of № 4к breeding, and 126 stands for the empty space for Maniunia’s children. After female’s resettlement we indicate it in zoological technical plan.
Then we need to clean a section, arrange a nesting place and heating system, close the door and open an entrance. Curious female rabbit will start making a new nest. Hay is put in the same way as it was put in the previous case. That’s why a female rabbit will be very busy with work.