Milk substitute for hare-like and early-age baby hares (Lepus timidus L.) in a nursery
https://doi.org/10.32634/0869-8155-2025-392-03-83-89
Abstract
The problem of restoring the declining numbers of the white hare in many regions of Russia will partly be solved by improving the technology of keeping and reproducing this species in artificial conditions with subsequent release into natural biocenoses, while special attention should be paid to the feeding system. It is especially difficult to keep and feed young hares left without a mother-nurse or with a lack of milk from the mother.
The purpose of the study is to develop a domestic milk substitute for the female white hare and a method of artificial feeding of baby hares.
The article presents the results of the research: the composition of the mixture of a substitute for mother’s milk of the hare for the hatching of newborn hares and hares of early suckling age during their maintenance and reproduction in artificial conditions in proposed and the results of comparative study of the effect of the proposed hare milk substitute on the growth rate and survival of hares during artificial hatching under experimental conditions are presented. The suggested substitute for hare doe’s milk can be used as a main feed for suckling kits as well as an additive to their milk feeding by a doe. The proposed approach of the white hare kits’ artificial feeding at their early age can be used when they are grown in a nursery. It ensures steady balanced growth and development of the kits, increases their disease resistance thus securing progeny-viability.
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Supporting agencies: The study was carried out as part of a government assignment No. 1023030200006-7-1.6.20-1.6.20.
About the Authors
I. S. Tkacheva
Federal Research Center for Development of Game Management
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Irina S. Tkacheva - Candidate of Biological Sciences, Department of Scientific Research in the Field of Hunting.
13 Volnaya Str., Moscow, 105118
M. K. Chugreev
Federal Research Center for Development of Game Management
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mikhail K. Chugreev - Doctor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Scientific Research in the Field of Hunting.
13 Volnaya Str., Moscow, 105118
M. A. Senchenko
Federal Research Center for Development of Game Management
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marina A. Senchenko - Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Monitoring and Experimental Work in the Hunting Industry.
13 Volnaya Str., Moscow, 105118
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Tkacheva I.S., Chugreev M.K., Senchenko M.A. Milk substitute for hare-like and early-age baby hares (Lepus timidus L.) in a nursery. Agrarian science. 2025;(3):83-89. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32634/0869-8155-2025-392-03-83-89
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