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Feeding Pigs Extra at Night Makes Them Gain Weight Faster
In the hot summer weather, feeding pigs at night makes them gain weight faster than feeding them during the day. This is because the cooler night weather and fewer outside disturbances help pigs eat more, sleep more, and reduce their daytime activity. To increase feeding at night, keep the following points in mind: feeding times can generally be 19:00, 23:00, and 4:00 in the early morning, for 3 feedings; during the day, give each pig 0.5% lightly salted water once at 10:00 a.m. and once at 2:00 p.m. Feed formula: wheat flour 20%, corn flour 20%, wheat bran 26%, cottonseed cake 30%, fish
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Secrets to Fattening Old and Cull Cattle: Master the Method for Fast Weight Gain
Fattening old and cull cattle is an effective measure to give full play to cattle's production performance and improve the economic benefits of cattle farming. Before fattening, first deworm the cattle and give preventive vaccination, then adopt intensive fattening, that is, achieve the fattening goal within a short period (80 days to 100 days). The secrets I have mastered for fattening old and cull cattle are introduced below: The secret of fattening with rice-washing water plus rice bran. Each day per head of cattle use 20 kg to 30 kg of rice-washing water, add 2 kg to 3 kg of rice bran, mix and feed to the cattle, with other conventional
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Adding seasonings to pig feed can make pigs grow faster
Pigs have a well-developed sense of taste, with more than 15,000 taste cells in the oral cavity. Adding seasonings (flavoring agents) to feed can promote the secretion of the salivary glands, gastric glands and pancreas, increase feed intake and promote growth and development. The following seasonings are currently used more often.
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How to prevent and control rice red blight? These 4 methods work fast
After good early growth, rice enters the reproductive growth stage of the middle and late periods. Strengthening field management at this stage has a great relationship with the yield and quality of rice. So, how can field management in the middle and late stages of rice growth be done well? 1. Timely field drying. Field drying should generally be carried out when rice is not sensitive to water reaction, that is, it is more suitable from the late tillering stage to the early young panicle differentiation stage. The following principles should be followed during operation: fields with sufficient and vigorous seedlings should be dried appropriately earlier; where the mud foot is deep and there is excessive growth, drying should be heavier, otherwise lighter; fields with poor water retention should not be dried heavily; saline-alkali paddy fields generally cannot be dried.
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Fast-Track High-Yield Cultivation Techniques for Oyster Mushrooms in the Hot Season
High temperatures are extremely detrimental to the normal growth and high yield of oyster mushrooms. If conventional cultivation methods are still used, not only will the cost of oyster mushrooms be high, but the yield will also be low. However, if fast-track high-yield cultivation techniques are adopted, high yield and high efficiency can be achieved. Summarizing our years of experience, fast-track high-yield cultivation of oyster mushrooms in the hot season mainly involves the following key points: Selecting suitable spawn There are many varieties of oyster mushrooms. Pure high-temperature-type varieties have poorer quality, so it is advisable to choose wide-temperature-type varieties that are relatively tolerant of high temperatures, such as Suping, Aikang 558, Xide 33, Yaguang No. 1, as well as Gaoping No. 1, Sanxia 13
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Cultivation Techniques for Shiitake Mushrooms Intercropped in Fast-Growing Plantations in Beijing
In order to protect and improve the ecological environment of the capital, artificial fast-growing plantations in the suburbs of Beijing have developed rapidly in recent years. Because the time required to grow timber is relatively long, there is a contradiction between farmers' short-term benefits and the long-term benefits of afforestation, which has affected farmers' enthusiasm for planting trees and establishing forests. Therefore, effectively using idle land resources between the trees to develop edible mushroom production is an effective way to accelerate the prosperity of afforestation farmers. Taking shiitake mushrooms as an example, this paper introduces cultivation techniques for intercropping edible mushrooms in fast-growing plantations. 1 Selection of cultivation site The fruiting body development stage of shiitake mushrooms intercropped in woodland occurs in the forest, and moderate scattered light is
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Fast bud-forcing method for shiitake mushrooms, helping shiitake mushrooms fruit early
For bag-cultivated shiitake mushrooms, using water injection or soaking bags to force buds will make the water content inside the mushroom logs too high, affecting yield, quality and benefits. A fast bud-forcing method is introduced here. 1. Piercing holes: use 4 iron nails 8 cm to 10 cm long, nail them onto a board 1.5 cm thick, 45 cm long and of a suitable width for gripping, and use the prepared "nail row" to pierce 8 holes in the mushroom log. 2. Soaking: place the pierced mushroom logs into a soaking pool or large barrel, preventing the logs from floating up. Afterward, soak the mushroom logs in a 0.3% urea solution. Mushroom logs that have
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Key Management Techniques for Fast-Growing, High-Yield Shiitake Mushrooms
In fast-growing, high-yield shiitake mushroom production, the supporting management techniques are crucial and directly affect the yield and quality of the mushrooms. 1. Management during the spawn-running stage: Move the inoculated spawn bags to the culture room, control the room temperature at around 25°C, and keep the relative humidity below 75%. During the spawn-running period, the heat released by mycelial respiration makes the temperature inside the bags 2-4°C higher than outside. During this period, attention must be paid to preventing excessively high temperatures; especially in the middle and late stages, the room temperature should not exceed 25°C. After 15-20 days, when the mycelium grows to a colony circle
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Key Points of Fast-Growing, High-Yield Cultivation Techniques for Lion's Mane Mushroom
Lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus) is a kind of edible fungus, and its fruiting body is fresh and meaty with a delicate fragrance and pleasant taste. In recent years, as the area under artificial cultivation of lion's mane has expanded year by year, the yield has also been continuously increasing. The fast-growing, high-yield cultivation techniques for lion's mane are summarized and introduced as follows. 1. Material selection and mixing Select fresh, clean sawdust or cottonseed hulls as the raw material. If the raw material is not fresh, it should be exposed to strong sunlight for 2-3 days before use. For large-scale production, sufficient raw material should be prepared all at once and stored in a moisture-proof, well-ventilated site. When mixing, first mix 65% sawdust (if the sawdust is too fine, add an appropriate amount of wood shavings), 30%
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Are triploid large-leaf black locust and large-leaf fast-growing locust the same variety?
1. The tetraploid large-leaf black locust is an excellent variety selected through years of dedicated research and experimental comparison from among several superior polyploid black locust clones introduced from abroad. The tetraploid large-leaf black locust is an artificially induced tetraploid plant, with the characteristics of fast growth, large leaves and high biomass. Its leaf width is more than 2 times that of the common black locust, and its compound leaf dry weight, single leaf dry weight and total leaf dry weight are each 1.5 times or more than those of the common black locust. Compared with the common black locust, the tetraploid large-leaf black locust has a denser crown, thicker branches and a stronger photosynthetic capacity.
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