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This rural wild grass relieves phlegm and stops coughs, sells for 50 yuan per jin and has become a cash crop for farmers. Do you know it?
This wild grass in the countryside has the effect of relieving phlegm and stopping coughs, sells for 50 yuan per jin and has become a cash crop for farmers. Do you know it?
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How do you prevent disease when farming eels? There is real know-how involved
Every year in July, August and September, the weather is hot, and farmed eels are prone to serious diseases. The main signs are: 1. Gill rot disease caused by parasites or bacteria. 2. Liver-kidney syndrome caused by feed or management factors. These two diseases have a high mortality rate and are difficult to treat, and they are the biggest headache for many farmers. Based on follow-up surveys in recent years, I would like to offer some humble observations on this issue. 1. Focus on prevention to avoid disease outbreaks. The specific steps are as follows: 1. Regularly use insecticides,
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Are Snake Diseases Widespread? What Farmers Need to Know
Everything should be examined from two sides. After snakes are moved from the wild into captive breeding, skilled keepers who know the techniques and management can raise snakes to be even plumper and stronger, but those who do not understand these methods raise snakes that are thin, weak and prone to illness, and this situation is still not uncommon today. To raise snakes well and reduce the occurrence of disease, the principle of "comprehensive prevention, timely treatment, and prevention over treatment" should be actively carried out. As long as snake farm management is strengthened, cleanliness and hygiene are kept up, the snakes' constitution is improved, the patterns of snake disease occurrence are understood, and comprehensive
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Five Essential Elements Every Pig Farming Beginner Must Know
Traditional pig farming emphasizes the four major elements of "epidemic prevention, feed, disinfection, and management," while current pig farming, in addition to the above four major elements, also requires a good health care system, which is the fifth major element. Regarding the arrangement of these major steps, the previous traditional arrangement had major flaws. Based on the actual situation of the current pig farming industry, we need to have a new understanding of the arrangement of pig farming elements.
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What are the benefits of giving pigs more exercise? What farmers need to know
Proper exercise for pigs is indispensable, and it is especially needed for piglets and breeding pigs. What are the benefits of exercise for pigs? 1) Exercise can promote the body's metabolism, strengthen the pig's constitution, increase appetite, help with the digestion and absorption of feed, and thereby promote the pig's growth and development. Increasing the exercise of breeding boars can improve mating ability. Exercise for pregnant sows can prevent difficult births and reduce stillbirths. 2) Through outdoor exercise, letting pigs bask in the sun, the 7-dehydrocholesterol contained in pig skin, under ultraviolet radiation
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What are the common diseases of geese? Goose farmers should know them in advance
1 Infectious diseases 1.1 Gosling plague is an acute septicemic infectious disease of goslings. Affected geese are depressed, have complete loss of appetite, severe diarrhea, and sometimes show neurological symptoms. This disease mainly affects goslings aged 4 to 20 days. In the early stage of illness, appetite decreases, the bird is listless, the neck is drawn in, the feathers are fluffy, it stays apart from the flock, and walking is difficult; then appetite is completely lost, severe diarrhea occurs, and thin droppings mixed with bubbles or watery yellow-white or yellow-green feces are passed; nasal secretions increase, the head is shaken, fluid is flung from the corners of the mouth, and the beak and webs become cyanotic. Prevention is mainly disinfection
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How to Rescue a Poisoned Pig? First Aid Methods Every Farmer Must Know
1. Rapeseed cake poisoning. Grind 300 grams of soybeans into soy milk, take the egg whites from 5 eggs, mix the soy milk and egg whites and administer in 1 dose, once a day, for 2 to 3 consecutive days. 2. Salt poisoning. 80 grams of vegetable leaves and 350 grams of chrysanthemum flowers, decoct in water and administer, twice a day, for 3 to 4 consecutive days. 3. Moldy corn poisoning. 150 grams of Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia divaricata), 25 grams of licorice, and 250 grams of mung beans, decoct into a soup, add 80 grams of white sugar, and administer in 1 dose. 4. Furazolidone poisoning. Decoct 400 grams of licorice into a juice, 1 piglet
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How to identify high-quality fish fry? Selection tips every farmer must know
"Good seed is half the profit, good seedlings are half the grain." Robust, high-quality fish fry are not only an important factor in improving the survival rate of fry, but also an important foundation and guarantee for increasing fish yield and boosting economic returns. High-quality fish fry should have: appropriate and uniform size, robustness without injury, lively movement, and strong feeding competitiveness. Specifically, identifying high-quality fish fry can be summarized as "three looks and one sampling." First look: the size of the fry. The harvested size of the same fish species from the same pond should be neat and uniform, with little difference in body length and weight. In contrast, inferior fry with large individual differences and unevenness, due to reasons such as food competition, mixed germplasm, and poor feeding, often have a very low overall survival rate. Second look: the body color of the fry. High-quality fry have bright and glossy body color. Different species and different feeding methods produce fry with different body colors. Generally speaking, high-quality silver carp fry should have a silver-gray back and silvery-white sides and belly; high-quality grass carp fry have a light golden-yellow body color, with gray-black net-like scales relatively obvious, and the more robust the fish, the more prominent the light golden-yellow; high-quality bighead carp fry mostly have a light golden-yellow body color, with black markings all over the body not very obvious. If the body color of the fry is darker, or even blackish, it indicates that the fry are weak or diseased. The gloss on the body surface of the fry is caused by the mucus layer covering the body surface, which is rich in proteases, lysozymes, etc., and has the function of protecting the scales and skin of the fry from invasion by diseases and pests; fish or weak fry lack a mucus layer, so the body surface has no gloss. Of course, when fry are attacked by external diseases and pests, they will also secrete a large amount of mucus and lose their gloss. For example, when fish are attacked by Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, the body surface will be covered with a thick layer of mucus, which is a stress response made by the fry to external invasion. Third look: the activity of the fry. High-quality fry are lively in movement, strongly gregarious, quickly gather in groups and dive to the bottom when startled, have strong feeding competitiveness and strong upstream swimming ability. When crowded, the fry heads point downward, and only the tails can be seen constantly fanning; while weak or diseased fry with poor constitution move slowly, do not form groups, swim alone, have weak feeding competitiveness, and poor upstream swimming ability. One sampling: randomly sample fry to check their quality. High-quality fry jump violently when out of water, are plump, with small heads and thick backs, glossy body color, moist muscles, intact scales and fin rays, gill covers not open, tails not bent, no parasites or wounds on the body surface, and normal body shape without deformities. In contrast, weak or diseased fry jump weakly, have incomplete scales and fin rays, congestion, emaciated bodies, large heads and small tails, backs as thin as a knife edge, and even those with "no belly" or that "stick to the net" are considered inferior fry.
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Feeding pigs dry feed has many benefits; these advantages are something farmers should know
The traditional method of feeding pigs with watery feed is not conducive to the growth and development of pigs. Because adding too much water to the feed will prevent pigs from chewing the feed thoroughly, affect saliva secretion, dilute gastric juice, be unfavorable for digestion, and cause frequent urination, creating an extra physiological burden and consuming nutrients. According to measurements, when pigs eat 200 grams of dry feed, they secrete 335 milliliters of saliva; if 200 grams of water is added, saliva secretion drops to 196 milliliters; when 600 grams of water is added, saliva secretion is only 115 milliliters. Therefore, when pigs eat watery feed, it will seriously affect digestion and absorption, leading to dry feces
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How to prevent chicken plague? Simple prevention methods every farmer must know
Take one head of garlic, mash it, put it into 0.5 kg of feed and mix well, feed each chicken 50 grams per day, 10 days is one course of treatment, stop for 3 days and then feed again. Soak the garlic in liquor for 24 hours, feed each chicken 1~2 garlic cloves per day, for 8~10 days in a row. Soak rice in 2%~3% salt water for 3 days, then scoop it out and feed it to the chickens, for more than 7 days in a row. Add a small amount of white alum and ginger to the feed, feed once every 10 days; if diseased chickens appear, feed once every 7~8 days. Soak with pig bitter gallbladder
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