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How to fatten donkeys in winter? These fattening key points you need to master
Donkeys are herbivorous animals with strong disease resistance, are easy to raise and manage, reproduce quickly, can be kept either free-range or confined, and require little investment, making them very suitable for small-scale raising by farming households. After short-term winter fattening, the body weight of young donkeys can reach 150-200 kg, and that of adult donkeys can reach 250-300 kg. Based on current market conditions, raising one donkey can yield a profit of 600-1,000 yuan. 1. Selecting donkeys for fattening Guanzhong donkeys and Dezhou donkeys are the first choice. Guanzhong donkeys are mainly produced in the Guanzhong Plain area of Shaanxi Province, and after fattening their body weight
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How to choose a Japanese Chin? These tips you need to know
(1) When choosing a Japanese Chin, do not mistake a Pekingese for a Japanese Chin. These two breeds share many similarities. For example, both have relatively flat faces, neither has a pointed nose, and both have very full fur on the tail. But compared with the Pekingese, the Japanese Chin has a longer back, thinner and longer legs, a shorter muzzle, more protruding eyes, ears shaped like a "V", and a lighter, more delicate build. (2) Check each part of the dog you plan to buy to see whether it matches the morphological characteristics a Japanese Chin should have; it is best to require that all aspects basically conform.
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How to choose koi? These purchasing tips you need to master
1. How to choose koi. The selection of koi can follow certain standards. Since ancient times, the judging standard for koi has always used a 100-point system: body conformation 50 points, color 30 points, pattern 20 points. Recently it has developed into the 3-2-2-1-1-1 system: conformation 30 points, color 20 points, pattern 20 points, quality 10 points, taste 10 points, style 10 points. Among these, conformation includes swimming posture and body shape, with genetic factors playing the dominant role; for beautiful color and pattern, the koi's own quality accounts for 70%,
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Which parts need attention when spraying cotton?
Practice has shown that for cotton to yield well, management is key. In the growth and management of cotton, spraying pesticide is an important part of that management. The pests that commonly occur on cotton include: aphids, red spider mites, mirids (plant bugs), pink bollworms, cotton bollworms, diamondback moths, and so on. These pests lay eggs and cause damage in different places, so when spraying you must pay attention to the location. During the cotton seedling stage, aphids, red spider mites and others cause damage on the underside of the cotton leaves, so when spraying pesticide, the spray solution must be applied to the underside of the leaves. The pink bollworm that occurs in the middle and late stages of cotton lays eggs on tender tips, tender stems and the underside of tender leaves, and after bolls form
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How to control cotton aphids in summer? These methods you need to master
Control of cotton aphids in summer. 1. Rotate the use of pesticides. Rotate the use of conventional field pesticides such as acetamiprid, imidacloprid and chlorpyrifos to reduce the likelihood of aphids developing resistance. Once aphids develop resistance to a certain chemical pesticide, even if you increase the number of applications and raise the pesticide concentration, you will not achieve the desired control effect. 2. Spray the affected parts evenly and thoroughly. Cotton is now in full bloom and the plants are tall, so when spraying you must be careful and thorough, focusing on spraying the undersides of the leaves in the middle and lower parts of the cotton plant, strictly preventing missed spraying and missed coverage, and truly
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How to store dried shiitake mushrooms? These four steps you need to master
1. Choose appropriate packaging materials: Choose packaging materials with good moisture resistance, airtightness and sturdiness. At present, it is best to choose polyethylene as the inner packaging and a thick cardboard box as the outer packaging. Polypropylene can also be used as a packaging material, but polyvinyl chloride must not be used, to prevent chloride ions from penetrating into the shiitake mushrooms. 2. Place desiccant: In the container used for sealed storage of dried shiitake mushrooms, place desiccants such as quicklime, anhydrous calcium chloride or silica gel (after packaging treatment), which can prevent the dried shiitake mushrooms from absorbing moisture and becoming moldy, and stop oxidation reactions from occurring. 3. Store at low temperature away from light: sealed
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To grow tree-stump bonsai well in winter, you need to master these methods
Based on years of experience, the author believes that as long as the following three aspects are done well, tree-stump bonsai will have no trouble overwintering safely. 1. Moderate water, no fertilizer. In winter, watering should follow the principle of preferring dry over wet; do not water until the soil turns white. Water at noon, and it is best to water thoroughly in one go; do not water in the evening, otherwise it is prone to freeze damage. For coniferous types, wax-leaf types, and landscape trees with thick, dense, lush and graceful foliage, spraying water to rinse the leaf surfaces is also very beneficial. Bonsai trees should not be fertilized in winter, but 15 days before the start of winter, along with weeding and loosening the soil and killing pests and diseases,
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Do artificially farmed sick snakes need to be isolated?
Once a sick snake is found, it should be taken out promptly for separate feeding and isolated treatment, to prevent infection of the other healthy snakes. This is especially true for snake diseases caused by pneumonia and stomatitis, which should be isolated and treated as early and as quickly as possible, and the sick snake's habitat should be given focused disinfection. If several sick snakes are found every day, then in addition to taking out the severely symptomatic or abnormally behaving snakes early for isolation, a thorough disinfection of the whole facility should also be carried out, and all the snakes in the facility should be gathered together for drug immunization, to prevent the disease from spreading and spreading further. Dead sick snakes should not be casually discarded
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Autumn fishing has its finer points: these key tips you need to master
1. Pay attention to weather conditions: Autumn seine fishing must be done on a sunny day, when the weather is cool, around dawn before the pond fish surface for air, because at this time the impact on the pond fish is smallest, and the freshly caught fish can be supplied to the morning market in time. Hazy, muggy weather is not suitable for seine fishing, to avoid causing a large number of dead fish. In addition, when the pond fish are surfacing for air or there is fish disease, etc., it is also not suitable to seine and catch them. 2. Restrict feeding before catching: After fish eat their fill, their oxygen consumption increases, and when the net is drawn to catch them they will be startled, jump and dart away, which easily causes death
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Plum rain season has arrived, cotton needs early prevention and control of the "three harms"
Currently, cotton seedlings have entered the squaring stage, and at the same time have stepped into the annual plum rain season. According to meteorological data, from May 30 to 31, in some major cotton-producing counties, cities and districts of Wuhan, Xiaogan, Suizhou, Ezhou and other cities, rainfall reached over 100 mm, causing some cotton fields to be flooded by heavy rain, and in some low-lying sections of cotton fields the cotton seedlings were completely submerged. While cotton seedlings suffer from waterlogging damage, diseases and weed damage also follow one after another. The "three harms" of cotton have struck cotton farmers simultaneously. According to surveys, some cotton fields now have
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