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Fast Breeding Methods and Key Technical Points for the Golden Coin Turtle
The three-striped box turtle (Cuora trifasciata), also known as the golden coin turtle, is a national second-class protected animal with high medicinal value. As wild turtles are becoming increasingly scarce, our farm carries out artificial breeding to protect wild resources. The techniques are as follows: 1. Construction of the turtle pond. Depending on the type of turtle pond, one may choose the burrow style or the land-and-water combined style. Since the latter is convenient to manage, it is more readily adopted. It consists of a water pool, land area, egg-laying pool and turtle nest. The turtle nest must be shaded from light and must prevent escape, prevent predators and be easy to clean and replace. The rearing density for adult turtles is about
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How to keep turtles safe through early spring? Key points for turtle care management
In early spring, turtles have just woken from hibernation and are very weak in activity. In addition, temperatures during this period are unstable, often fluctuating between high and low, making it a critical time for turtle care. So how can you care for turtles well during this period? (1) According to the turtle's physical condition, if heating is needed, raise the water temperature to about 25°C. (2) For feeding, follow the principle of small amounts and high quality. The amount for the first feeding should not be too much; 1% of the turtle's body weight is suitable, and feed twice a week. (3) When changing the water, the temperature difference between the new and old water should not exceed 5°C,
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How to Select Breeding Softshell Turtles? Master the Selection Techniques to Choose High-Quality Breeding Softshell Turtles
Breeding softshell turtles refers to softshell turtles used for reproduction. Under natural conditions, due to the influence of climate and the harm caused by natural enemies, softshell turtles not only grow and develop slowly, but also have a low survival rate. In addition, after years of indiscriminate hunting and capture, wild resources are almost on the verge of extinction. Therefore, using artificial methods to intensify the cultivation of breeding softshell turtles is the main key to solving the source of softshell turtle seed and developing softshell turtle farming production. The selection of breeding softshell turtles should pay attention to the following issues. 1. Age: In the Jiangsu area, generally female and male softshell turtles aged over 3 years, that is, weighing more than 0.25 kg, will engage in mating behavior,
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What are the disinfection methods for sand used in turtle and soft-shelled turtle incubation
In recent years, with the rise of artificial turtle and soft-shelled turtle farming, how to increase the hatching rate of turtle and soft-shelled turtle eggs and hatchlings has become an urgent matter. Because some turtle and soft-shelled turtle farms still use the traditional old method, using untreated sand as the carrier for incubating eggs, they do not realize that untreated sand contains a large number of pathogens and pests, which often contaminates and ruins the eggs during incubation, and some farms fail because of this. In my 21 years of turtle and soft-shelled turtle farming practice, I have worked out methods for disinfecting sand and improved the hatching rate. Now I will introduce several very practical disinfection methods
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What to Do When Alligator Snapping Turtles Kill Each Other? Five Methods to Help You Prevent It Effectively
Alligator snapping turtles are native to North America and Central America. They are physically strong and highly aggressive, making them a relatively unique species among turtles. Alligator snapping turtles are famous for their high reproduction rate, fast growth, large meat yield, and delicious meat, and are now favored by many farmers. They have been promoted for breeding in many regions, with considerable economic benefits. However, in high-density artificial breeding, due to their nature as well as environmental, feed, and mating factors, alligator snapping turtles kill each other, resulting in a low survival rate. To solve this problem, Zhejiang Province
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How to Prevent Sand-Shelled and Soft-Shelled Eggs in Three-Lined Box Turtles
Three-lined box turtles mate and fertilize in March-April each year, and lay and incubate eggs from May to July. A single sexually mature female turtle lays 3-9 eggs per year; the three-lined box turtle has a relatively low egg production among turtles. Improper feeding and management or the influence of other factors can also cause some three-lined box turtles to lay 1-2 eggs, or even a whole clutch, of sand-shelled eggs (with a sandy, non-smooth shell surface) or soft-shelled eggs, affecting the hatch rate and causing certain economic losses to three-lined box turtle farming. 1 Causes of three-lined box turtles laying sand-shelled or soft-shelled eggs a) Lack of eggshell-producing
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Detailed Explanation of Key Points for Polyculture Techniques of Soft-Shelled Turtles, Crabs, Shrimp and Fish
1. Pond conditions: The pond area is 3.5 mu, the pond bottom is flat, the silt is about 15 cm thick, and the water depth is 1.5 m. A 40 cm wide glass fence is installed around the pond, equipped with one 1.5 kW paddlewheel aerator. 2. Pond clearing and water fertilizing: After clearing the pond by the dry method with 75 kg of quicklime per mu, expose it to the sun for 5 days. One week before releasing the seedlings, fill with water to a depth of 80 cm, and use Feishuibao and EM original liquid to fertilize the water quality, so that the water transparency is about 30 cm and the water color is tea-brown or yellow-green. 3.
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Prevention and Treatment Methods and Technical Key Points for Abscess Disease in Turtles
Turtles in nature are relatively disease-resistant and are also long-lived animals. Common turtles can live for decades, and some can live for one to two hundred years. When turtles are kept in captivity, factors such as deteriorating water quality or insufficient nutrition can easily lead to invasion by various pathogens and cause abscess disease. In recent years, with the promotion of artificial turtle farming, abscess disease has also become prevalent, and in some places the incidence rate has been rising year by year. In the early stage of the disease, a pus-filled swelling appears locally under the turtle's skin, and afterward the pus-filled swelling gradually hardens and forms a raised tumor-like mass. It can be moved when touched by hand, but the inside is hard.
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Detailed Introduction to the Classification and Common Varieties of Softshell Turtles
Introduction to the Classification and Common Varieties of Softshell Turtles With the improvement of people's living standards and the growth of market demand at home and abroad, softshell turtles have gradually moved from hotels, restaurants and eateries into ordinary households. As a nutritious food, softshell turtles' dietary therapy and medicinal therapy functions can meet the needs of consumers at different levels. Market demand has stimulated production, and China's softshell turtle farming industry has developed rapidly, with the scale of farming continuously expanding and output increasing accordingly. Large-scale farming urgently needs a large number of softshell turtle hatchlings. Due to the rapid development, the breeding of seedlings, the classification, distribution and basic biological research of softshell turtles, as well as hatchling cultivation, species identification and disease prevention in farming production, cannot adapt to the needs of production development. Aquaculture operators and merchants in our province have purchased many softshell turtle hatchlings through different channels from abroad, Taiwan, China and other provinces in the mainland. Because these hatchlings come from different sources, their seed stock quality is unclear and it is hard to tell the genuine from the fake. Some farmers and aquaculture operators have paid a lot of "tuition fees," causing losses of varying degrees to production. Therefore, studying the classification and common varieties of softshell turtles and breeding superior softshell turtle varieties with good germplasm are urgent issues that must be solved for the sustainable development of the softshell turtle farming industry.
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Chinese Box Turtle (Yellow-margined Box Turtle) Breeding Methods and Key Points of Daily Feeding Management
The yellow-margined box turtle (Cistoclemmys flavomarginata), also known as the broken-plate turtle, snake-eating turtle, clamp-plate turtle, and yellow-plate turtle. Its taxonomic position is the family Geoemydidae, genus Cuora, species Cistoclemmys flavomarginata. Within China it is distributed in Anhui, Henan, Macao, China, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, China, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and elsewhere. Outside China it is distributed in Japan. [Morphological characteristics] The head is smooth, the front of the snout is flat, and the upper beak has a distinct hook-like curve. The top of the head is olive-colored, with a yellow "U"-shaped arc stripe behind the eyes. The carapace is dark reddish-brown and rather
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