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How to Choose a Site for a Masked Palm Civet Farm
When choosing a site for a masked palm civet farm, attention should be paid to the following five aspects: (1) A Huaguoshan-style environment. The environment of a masked palm civet farm should simulate its wild habitat, planting fruit trees, tall trees and shrubs so that the farm is filled with the fragrance of flowers and fruit, and it should be more than 300 m away from residential areas and main traffic routes, so that the farm has a quiet environment.
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Key Technical Points for Feeding and Management of Nutria During Lactation
The focus of feeding and management during lactation is to ensure normal milk secretion in the female nutria and normal growth and development of the young, and to improve the survival rate of the young. (1) To promote milk production in the female nutria, manual plucking of the mammary hair and the use of Chinese herbal galactagogues can be adopted to promote mammary gland milk secretion. Manual
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Daily Care and Disease Prevention Methods for Alpaca Farming
Daily Care One acre of grassland can graze up to 10 alpacas. They do not pull grass or other plants up by the roots, so they are considered better suited to pasture farming than most livestock. As long as there is a designated pasture and hay for the winter, alpacas can be raised. And
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High-quality and efficient breeding and management experience for maggot farming
1. Maggot breeding tools. Maggots can be bred in trays, jars, ponds, etc., according to actual needs. Breeding trays can be made of plastic or bamboo and wood into a square shape, with a tray height of about 20 cm, and the size should be based on convenience for management; breeding jars use ordinary shallow-bottomed clay jars with a mouth diameter of more than 60 cm
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Which species should you choose for artificially farming earthworms? These six are all suitable
1. Pheretima guillelmi. Generally 90-250 mm long and 5-10 mm wide, with a bluish-yellow, grayish-green or grayish-blue dorsal side and a grayish-blue dorsal midline. It is currently farmed more in the Jiangsu and Shanghai areas. 2. Pheretima hupeiensis. The body is slender, 70-220 mm long and 3-6 mm wide, with the whole body
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How to defend against external enemies and pests in ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis) farming?
There are many enemies and pests of the ground beetle, such as rats, ants, flour mites, spiders, chickens, ducks, cats, etc. Rat control should be paid attention to at all times; they not only eat the ground beetles but also carry them away, causing great losses. Use rat poison or keep cats, but when using poison, strictly guard against the ground beetles eating it by mistake.
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How to Improve Chick Survival Rate? These Are the Methods Poultry Farmers Must Master
Chicken brooding is the key to success or failure in the poultry industry; it directly affects the health status, survival rate and feed-to-meat ratio during the growing and finishing stages. Most rural specialized farming households do not pay enough attention to the success or failure of the brooding stage. Barn disinfection: before introducing chicks, the brooding house must be thoroughly and completely disinfected
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What to do about coughing and wheezing in weaned piglets? Experience sharing on traditional Chinese medicine prevention and treatment in pig farming
Coughing and wheezing in piglets from 10 days after weaning to 30 kg body weight is usually associated in Western veterinary medicine with porcine postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (i.e. circovirus) infection, with an incidence rate ranging from 20 percent to 45 percent; the mortality rate of affected piglets is generally 30 percent, and can reach as high as 80 percent, with body temperature of 40.5°C to 41.5°C. Piglets show rough and disheveled coat, affected pigs have diarrhea combined with respiratory symptoms and neurological symptoms, severe emaciation, and death from exhaustion. This disease poses a very great threat to the pig farming industry. It is most severe in the three seasons of spring, autumn and winter. In traditional Chinese veterinary medicine theory, this disease belongs to warm disease symptoms; the cause is external contraction of wind pathogen invading the lung, and cold, summerheat, dryness, warmth and the like can all combine with it. The main site of the lesions is in the lung. In traditional Chinese veterinary medicine theory, lung qi governs respiration and opens into the nose, externally corresponding to the skin and hair, and governs the opening and closing of the interstices. When lung qi is sufficient, the opening and closing of the skin and interstices is normal, and external pathogens are not easily able to invade; otherwise the pig body is plagued by disease. Using Qingfei Zhike San combined with Maxing Shigan San with modifications, this formula can pungent-cool diffuse and vent, clear the lung and calm wheezing, clear and purge lung heat, and resolve phlegm and stop coughing. Add it to piglet feed as a powder at 0.6 percent, continuously for 2 to 3 weeks. In Western veterinary medicine theory, this formula is believed to have fairly strong antibacterial and inhibitory effects on Actinomyces pleuris, Staphylococcus aureus and Pneumococcus; this formula also has effects such as anti-influenza virus action, and also has obvious antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects, and can improve the immune function within the animal body.
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How to Regulate Dissolved Oxygen in Fish Ponds? A Full Breakdown of Practical Measures
Regularly add fresh water. Under high-density farming conditions, fish ponds contain more leftover bait and waste, and anaerobic fermentation produces harmful substances such as ammonia nitrogen and hydrogen sulfide, deteriorating the water body. This is especially true in high-temperature seasons, when water quality deteriorates faster. Therefore, regularly adding water is one of the most commonly used and most economical and applicable methods for regulating water quality.
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How to Improve Hatchability in Ostrich Farming
(1) Scientific feeding and management 1. Full-price balanced nutrition. The nutritional level of ostriches is a fundamental factor affecting hatchability. During the breeding period, the metabolizable energy requirement in ostrich feed is 11.3 kJ/kg, crude fat should be limited to 6%-8%; protein should be 18%-24%, while paying attention to the supply of several amino acids (%): arginine 1.04, lysine 0.86, methionine + cystine 0.73, phenylalanine 0.95, valine 1.02; the suitable crude fiber content is 10%, calcium 4%-4.5%, available phosphorus 0.4%, sodium 0.3%, magnesium 0.25%, vitamin E 80 IU/kg. Attention should be paid to the quality of green feed, with appropriate supplementation of pantothenic acid and other trace elements. Research has found that during the breeding season, adult ostriches fed a diet with low energy, high protein and high fiber, and with meat-and-bone meal and blood meal replacing fish meal, can achieve higher hatchability.
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