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Prevent poisoning when feeding potatoes to pigs: these points need attention
Improper storage of potatoes can cause sprouting and rotting, and pigs are highly prone to poisoning after eating them. 1 Clinical symptoms: mental excitement and restlessness, random squealing, and running and bumping around the pen. After a long time, the pig becomes depressed, sways while walking, has weak hindquarters, and in severe cases has paralysis of the limbs, lies on the ground unable to stand, has difficulty breathing, and has cyanotic conjunctiva. If rescue is not timely, it will die of heart failure. In mild or chronic poisoning cases, the main changes are drooling, vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation or diarrhea, and bloody stools. 2 Treatment methods: suspected hors
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How is chicken gout diagnosed? It is mostly caused by feeding high-calcium feed
In recent years, the phenomenon of chicken gout caused by high-calcium feed has occurred from time to time, with a long disease course and high mortality. Two cases of gout diagnosis are reported as follows. 1. Incidence situation In May 2000, a chicken farmer in Jinhu Town raised 1000 chickens. After 30 days of age, believing that the content of calcium hydrogen phosphate was insufficient, the amount was increased from 1% in the original formula to 3%. After 20 days of feeding, chicken deaths were found, and a total of 210 chickens died successively, with a mortality rate of 21%. After changing the feed, there was improvement. Through testing, it was confirmed
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During the piglets' peak feeding period, add more feed to stretch their bellies and speed up weight gain.
After weaning, the amount of feed piglets consume gradually increases with age in days. Generally, at around 35 days of age, they begin to show greedy eating and scrambling for food. This vigorous feeding phenomenon is called "peak feeding." Between the start of the peak feeding period and 60 days of age, piglets can double their body weight, with daily gains reaching more than 0.5 kg. The main measures for rapid weight gain during the piglets' peak feeding period are: feed on a fixed schedule, feed small amounts frequently. Starting from 30 days of age, the number of feedings should be increased, generally 5-6 times a day, and at fixed times,
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How to feed finishing pigs so they grow faster
--Environmental conditions cannot be ignored. The role and influence of environmental factors on pigs are increasingly valued by people. Only by creating good living and production conditions for pigs can the effect of obtaining more and better-quality products with the minimum amount of feed input be achieved. Environmental factors include temperature, humidity, density, ventilation, harmful gases in the barn, lighting and noise, etc. 1. Temperature: Pigs have a poor ability to regulate their own body temperature; only very few sweat glands can regulate it in hot weather, and only very few bristles resist the cold of winter
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Scientific Feeding Methods and Technical Key Points for Growing Sheep
Whether the feeding of growing sheep is reasonable plays a decisive role in body conformation and growth rate. Improper feeding can cause sheep to be too fat, too thin, or experience stunted growth at a certain stage, resulting in undesirable conformations such as long legs, short body, and pendulous belly. Formula for growing sheep concentrate supplement Feed type Roughage type High-quality hay type Corn silage type Dry corn stalk type (%) (%) (%) Corn 60.00 58.50 58.50 Wheat bran 15
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What to do about damp-heat in pigs? Adjusting the feed formula is a key measure
1. Adjust the feed formula to increase pig feed intake. 1. Under high-temperature conditions, in order to reduce heat increment and reduce the burden of heat dissipation, feed intake will inevitably decrease, causing insufficient intake of energy, protein and other nutrients in pigs. Making necessary adjustments to the feed formula has become one of the effective measures to overcome heat stress. ① The greater the heat increment of nutrients, the more severe the heat stress after feeding. Oil and fat have a small volume, high net energy value and low heat increment, making them an ideal energy source for pigs under high-temperature conditions. Oil and fat can be added to the feed within 5%
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Rabbit Care: Which Plants Should You Not Feed Rabbits?
Rabbits are small in size and have weak resistance. When cutting grass to feed rabbits, some toxic grasses may be mixed in with the forage. If not noticed, rabbits that eat them accidentally can suffer poisoning or even death. Common toxic grasses include: plantain (Plantago), morning glory, barley and wheat smut fungus, Gelsemium elegans, meadow-rue (Thalictrum, also known as manyflower rhubarb), mountain pepper, poison hemlock, Sophora flavescens, Chinese pulsatilla, Ranunculus chinensis, jujube-like tuber, sorrel (Rumex, sour sorrel), Arisaema, Pinellia ternata, cocklebur, coptis, stone dragon yellow, big tobacco root, oleander, lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana), garden balsam, datura,
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What are the characteristics of snakes' feeding habits?
1. What are the main feeding habits of snakes? Snakes are carnivorous animals and mainly prey on live food, though some snakes also eat dead animals. Because snakes live in different environments, differ in body size, and are at different stages of growth, the food they prey on also varies greatly. The main food prey of snakes includes frogs, rodents, birds, insects, lizards, earthworms, loaches, rice field eels, fish, and small mammals. When tormented by hunger or lacking food for a long time, the vast majority of snakes will devour
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Potato pulp waste turned into treasure, can be processed into protein feed
Recently, researchers at Harbin Institute of Technology have made encouraging progress in research on using discarded potato pulp to produce single-cell protein feed. The researchers not only screened out an excellent strain combination for producing cell protein, but also designed and formulated a complete process route for producing single-cell protein feed from potato pulp. Adding juice to the pulp and using liquid fermentation to produce cell protein is the first proposal and application of its kind both in China and abroad. China produces more than 70 million tons of potatoes annually, and starch processing leaves behind more than 3.4 million tons of potato pulp. The pulp is rich in fiber
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How to identify the quality of fish feed? These practical tips are a must-know
The quality of pelleted feed for fish is closely related to farming profitability and should be given great attention. Its quality is mainly judged by five aspects: "look, smell, twist, soak, and chew," introduced as follows: First, look. Pelleted feed for fish is made by uniformly mixing and pelletizing several main raw materials such as fishmeal, soybean meal, cottonseed meal, rapeseed meal, wheat middlings, and meat-and-bone meal in a certain proportion. If there is more fishmeal and soybean meal, the feed color is slightly yellow; when there is more miscellaneous meal, the feed color is dark red; when there is more wheat middlings, the feed color is slightly grayish white, and so on.
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