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Sharing Spring Breeding Experience in Toad Farming
When you start farming toads, you can catch adult toads from the wild around Qingming each year to keep as breeding toads. After they emerge from hibernation each spring, the breeding toads call frequently and males and females begin amplexus behavior. At this time, male and female toads should be paired promptly in a ratio of 1:2-3 and moved into
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A Detailed Guide to Snake Rearing Experience and Techniques in Autumn
As the saying goes: When the autumn wind rises, the three snakes grow fat. This accurately reflects the growth situation of snakes. In autumn and winter, snake farms should pay attention to the following points: 1. September to October is the peak predation season for snakes. Snakes use this to store up large amounts of fat, safely get through the severe cold of winter, and maintain
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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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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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Sharing Experience and Key Points on Raising Peafowl in Spring
In spring, as temperatures rise and daylight hours increase, the activity level of blue peafowl flocks increases and their metabolism becomes vigorous. This is the season when blue peafowl lay the most eggs, and also the best season for hatching, brooding, and raising new blue peafowl flocks. At this time, feeding management should be strengthened by
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Sharing Breeding Experience of Racing Pigeons in Winter
Light not only plays a very important role in chemical processes, but is also a major factor in physiological life processes. Because the days are long and the outside temperature begins to climb, behavioral patterns of living forms also change. This can be proven from the activating effect on the reproductive cycle.
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Practical Experience Sharing on Cage Culture of Grass Carp
Grass carp mainly feeds on grass. It often inhabits places with lush aquatic plants and is a middle-to-lower-layer fish. Its optimum growth temperature is 20-30°C, and it has a large food intake. Above 32°C or below 15°C, its growth rate slows markedly and its food intake decreases. When the water temperature is below 10°C, it stops feeding and enters a state of winter dormancy,
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Key Management Techniques for Beekeeping in Late Autumn
Experienced beekeepers always treat late autumn management as the beginning of the beekeeping year. The main task of late autumn management is to lay the foundation for the colony's overwintering and the following early spring breeding, achieving more young bees, a strong colony, sufficient food, and fewer diseases. Management should focus on the following tasks
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Summary of Four-Season Management Experience for Raising Scorpions in a Greenhouse
Raising scorpions in a greenhouse is a new artificial high-efficiency scorpion-raising technique created on the principle of the complementarity of respiration between animals and plants and the common basis of their growth. It has the advantages of a high survival rate of young scorpions, extensive management, low investment and high returns. The four-season management methods are as follows: Spring
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How to store chicken vaccines? Practical storage experience shared
Nowadays, many specialized chicken farmers and chicken farms buy vaccines from manufacturers or veterinary departments to vaccinate their chickens for disease prevention, and this practice should be encouraged and vigorously promoted. However, many breeders or chicken farms mistakenly believe during the transportation and storage of vaccines
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