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Several points to note when turtle keepers collect turtle eggs
The turtle egg-laying season is from May to October each year. Turtles mostly lay eggs in the early morning, at dusk and at night, with a few also at noon, so the best time to collect eggs is after 3 pm. Before collecting eggs, first clean the egg-collecting tools, and the person collecting eggs should change into clean shoes before entering the egg-laying
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What to pay attention to when keeping ground beetles for breeding stock
When ground beetles (Eupolyphaga sinensis) are taken from the wild and switched to artificial rearing, there is the problem of keeping breeding stock. Although artificial rearing has not been carried out for long, because the issue of keeping breeding stock was not given attention in the early stage, problems of stock degeneration have also appeared, showing as deformed bodies, reduced egg production, weakened vitality, etc., so
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What issues should be noted when introducing toads for breeding?
Introduction When the breeding scale is very small, breeding toads are mainly obtained by catching. Adult toads mostly leave their hibernation burrows one after another in late March or early April, slowly crawling out of the water area. Toads prefer warm, dark, and humid environments, usually resting during the day in grass along ditches, earthen burrows
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What aspects need attention when choosing a site for a chicken farm?
When building a chicken farm, the first thing to consider is the site selection, and site selection must be determined according to the farm's rearing scale and rearing purpose (whether raising commercial broilers, commercial layers, or breeding chickens, etc.). Whether the site selection is appropriate affects sanitation and disease prevention, the growth of the chickens
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How to prevent diseases when raising chickens? These practical tips you should know
Adding grit to chicken feed works well. Adding about 3% grit to chicken feed has the following benefits: it can effectively improve the chicken's gizzard ability to grind feed; it can slow down the passage speed of food through the chicken's gastrointestinal tract; it can make digestive juices more easily enter the chyme,
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How to Select Breeding Stock When Raising Partridges? Key Points for Purchasing Breeding Stock Explained
The purpose of raising breeding partridges is to obtain superior partridge breeding stock that is numerous, of good quality, healthy and easy to raise. To raise breeding partridges well and achieve ideal results, the following points should be considered before purchase: 1. Master advanced partridge rearing techniques, understand the
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What should farmers pay attention to when shearing sheep?
1. Sheep should fast for 12-24 hours before shearing, that is, do not eat or drink before shearing, and shear on an empty stomach. Sheep soaked by rain should be shorn after the wool dries. Wet wool is difficult to shear, and the shorn wool is hard to store. 2. The shears should be kept close to the skin, and the wool should be cut off evenly in one pass, with the stubble left low. If the stubble is too high, do not shear again, so as to avoid causing second-cut wool and affecting the use of the wool.
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Practical Tips for Selecting Young Fry When Keeping Koi
After hatching, koi fry are raised for about 20 days to 1 month, and when the fish body reaches about 3 cm, selection must be carried out. The purpose of selection is to remove the inferior and keep the superior, strengthen the growth rate, and thereby protect the genetic traits. Therefore, selecting young fry is the
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Four key points to grasp when raising chickens in summer
1. Effective ventilation Many farmers use improper methods for effective ventilation of chicken coops, for example, installing electric fans inside the coop to blow air directly onto the chickens. In fact, this practice has little cooling effect. Because chickens themselves have no sweat glands, merely blowing air without sweat evaporation
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Seven diseases to focus on preventing when raising sheep in spring
1. Acute bloat. In spring, green grass grows thickly, and sheep will overgraze while grazing; after eating, acute fermentation occurs in the stomach, producing a large amount of gas, which impairs rumination in sheep, and the rumen rapidly expands. If rescue is not timely or the rescue method is improper, it can cause the sheep to die. The method is
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