About animals

Dairy breeds (White and Brown short-haired, Anglo-Nubian, Alpine and Saanen), meat breeds (Boer), combined breeds (Valais), fibre-producing breeds (Cashmere, Angora) and dwarf breeds (Dwarf Dutch) are all kept in the Czech Republic due to their range of use.

The African ostrich was domesticated during the second half of the previous century in South Africa. Domesticated ostriches have been reared on Czech farms for their meat, leather and feathers since 1993. How egg laying and hatching take place? And what are the most frequent issues affecting ostriches?

Just twenty five years ago no one would have believed that there would be ostrich farms in this country. Which species of large flightless bird are suitable for farming and what should you feed them?

The rabbit belongs to social animals with a medium-term lifespan. This aspect should be taken into account when purchasing the rabbit as a pet animal.

Feeding mixtures with various structures are available on the market, each with its own advantages. We will explain these to you in the following text and it will be up to you to decide whether granulated or loose form will suit you better.

The breed gene pool of domestic rabbits in the Czech Republic is represented by purebred breeds of rabbits and their hybrids. Their expansion is dependent on the breeding direction. At present, the domestic breeding of rabbits is divided into 5 basic directions – traditional (unorganized) small stud, organized small stud, farm breeding, laboratory breeding and…

Achieving optimum fitness is the goal of all breeding practices and care for pets. By condition we mean the actual preparedness of an animal for a particular purpose conditioned by many external and internal factors. In particular, the level of nutrition and care, as well as the health condition of the individual, are inseparably linked…

The feeding and watering technology needs to be protected against adverse weather conditions throughout the year. Poor care for the technology may lead to health problems and/or reduced effectiveness of rabbit breeding.

Enterocolitis in rabbits is a disease detected for the first time in West France around 1996. The disease spread rapidly to other European countries during 1997 and 1998. Currently, it is present in 90-95% of farmed rabbit populations in various intensity of the manifested clinical symptoms.

As guinea pigs are unable to create vitamin C in their bodies similarly to humans, this vitamin must be provided in the fodder.