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Two Essential Technical Points for Ground Beetle Farming
(1) Rearing equipment can be designed according to the scale and purpose of rearing. Here only the rearing equipment used to provide a source of medicinal insects is introduced. The standard rearing pit makes use of old houses, temporarily unused livestock sheds with roofs and walls, toilets, and so on, by digging about 67 cm deep underground.
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Key Technical Points for the Management of Artificial Breeding of Pit Vipers
The pit viper is a type of venomous snake, mostly inhabiting mountainous areas or plains, often coiling into a disc shape or twisting into a wavy form. Every part of it is valuable: the skin, bones, gallbladder, fat and shed skin can all be used as medicine, the venom is especially expensive, and the meat is also a delicious dish on the table. Artificially breeding pit vi
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How to Raise the Red-Headed Giant Centipede? Key Points of Feeding and Management Techniques
The Chinese red-headed giant centipede is an excellent centipede variety bred through genetic mutation, characterized by a large body, fast development, stable food intake and very strong immunity, and its medicinal value is more than ten times higher than that of wild centipedes. Generally, wild centipedes can only sell for 0.5----1 yuan each on the market
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Key Technical Points for Mixed Culture of Snails and Earthworms
In order to improve the economic benefits and biological conversion of snail farming, many places are now adopting the method of mixed culture of snails and earthworms. Using this rearing method can increase the production of both earthworms and snails at the same time. This is because the excrement of the giant African snail (Achatina fulica) is rich in
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Selection Pairing Methods and Technical Key Points for Autumn Mating of Tibetan Mastiffs
In order to promote the breeding, purification and quality improvement, it is not enough to only pay attention to the selection of Tibetan Mastiffs; attention must also be paid to and the mating of Tibetan Mastiffs must be strengthened. But it is not the natural mating of Tibetan Mastiffs in their place of origin, but rather people purposefully and meaningfully selecting male and female dogs with certain distinctive features in terms of trait expression, performance characteristics and even kinship for mating. Selection pairing can not only consolidate the trait inheritance of the sire and dam Tibetan Mastiffs in certain aspects, but can also create and cultivate excellent Tibetan Mastiff individuals. This mating method or mating form is called selection pairing of Tibetan Mastiffs. Selection pairing of Tibetan Mastiffs has the following types.
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Four Must-Dos for Duck Farming: Getting These Four Points Right Is Crucial
Duck disease is the greatest threat to large-scale meat duck production. Therefore, duck farmers must do a good job of duck disease prevention and control to ensure the healthy development of duck production. Do a good job of disinfection. Disinfection scope: inside and outside the duck houses and duck sheds, all duck production equipment, exercise yards, manure storage areas, etc. must be thoroughly disinfected, leaving no dead corners. Disinfection methods: the inner walls and spaces of duck houses and duck sheds can be disinfected by ultraviolet lamp irradiation and chemical fumigation; duck beds and exercise yards can be disinfected by spraying with strong disinfectants such as 2-4% sodium hydroxide solution; production equipment such as feeders and drinkers can be soaked, washed and disinfected with low-toxicity, strong-effect medicinal solutions; duck manure can be disinfected by piling it up for fermentation and spraying disinfectant liquid on the surface of the manure pile. Disinfection timing: some duck farmers do not promptly clean up manure and tidy the environmental sanitation after the ducks are sent to market, but instead hurriedly clean up the environment and carry out disinfection work just before a new batch of meat ducks is about to be brought in. This is a very bad habit. The correct approach is: immediately after the meat ducks are sent to market, clean up the environmental sanitation and do a good job of disinfection, leave the house or shed empty for 20 days, and only after disinfecting again can a new batch of ducklings be received and brought in. In addition, disinfection work should be done well during the duck-raising period. Duck-raising equipment should be frequently washed and disinfected. After clearing manure and bedding material from the duck bed, disinfect the duck bed immediately. Do a good job of immunization. Large-scale meat duck production involves large numbers, high density and frequent sending to market, making infectious diseases extremely likely to occur. To ensure the safety of duck production, it is necessary to systematically and purposefully inject vaccines into duck flocks not infected with disease, also called preventive inoculation. Which vaccine to use should be determined according to the epidemic situation in the local area and neighboring areas. For any duck infectious disease that has occurred locally or in neighboring areas, the corresponding vaccine must be injected. Expired vaccines or vaccines stored improperly cannot be used; inject vaccines strictly according to the dosage and method specified on the vaccine label. If an infectious disease occurs in the current flock or neighboring duck flocks during the meat duck raising period, emergency vaccination or injection of hyperimmune serum should be carried out. Through these measures, the epidemic of the disease can be rapidly controlled. Do a good job of handling dead and sick ducks. Some duck farmers do not isolate and raise sick ducks, and throw dead ducks around at will. This practice is not good for their own duck production and may also harm ducks raised by others. This phenomenon must be eliminated. When sick ducks are found, they must immediately be picked out from the flock, raised in isolation, and a veterinarian should be asked to diagnose and treat them or they should be handled according to requirements; dead ducks must be deeply buried or incinerated, and must not be processed and sold or eaten on one's own. Do a good job of scientific medication. Scientific medication is an important means of doing a good job of duck disease prevention and control. In the practice of duck production, drugs used can be divided into preventive medication and therapeutic medication. Preventive medication refers to adding a certain drug to feed or drinking water before the duck flock becomes ill, so as to effectively prevent or reduce the occurrence of duck disease in advance. For example: feeding gentamicin to a duck flock can control the occurrence of colibacillosis; feeding anticoccidial drugs can prevent the occurrence of coccidiosis, and so on. Therapeutic medication refers to targeted feeding of drugs after the duck flock has become ill and has been definitively diagnosed, so as to achieve the purpose of treating the disease and controlling the disease situation.</p>
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Key Points of Summer Pond Fish Farming Management Experience
Summer is the season when fish grow most vigorously, and it is also the peak period for outbreaks of various fish diseases. At this time, the quality of feeding and management directly affects fish yield and economic benefits, so the daily management of fish ponds must be strictly carried out. 1. Patrol the pond frequently
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Tibetan Mastiff Calcium Supplementation Requires Care: A Few Points Breeders Should Know
Calcium supplementation is an issue that cannot be ignored. If you want your beloved mastiff to grow healthy and imposing, with a beautiful physique and strong, agile limbs, you must supplement calcium at the right time and in the right amount. The following suggestions are for reference only: When is calcium supplementation needed? For large dogs like the Tibetan Mastiff, the larger the breed, the faster it grows, and the greater its calcium requirement. For puppies, the calcium contained in ordinary puppy food can hardly meet their growth needs. If you feed your mastiff homemade food, then you should pay even more attention to supplementing calcium in a timely manner. In addition, if your mastiff has long been eating animal liver or has meat as its staple food, then it should also be given an appropriate amount of calcium supplementation. This is because such foods not only have a very low calcium content, but also contain high concentrations of vitamin A. Long-term intake of high concentrations of vitamin A by dogs can inhibit calcium absorption. Therefore, you should immediately stop the long-term habit of feeding liver and promptly supplement calcium for it. After a mastiff enters adulthood, if it is fed dog food, there is no need for separate calcium supplementation. This is because during this period, the growth and development of the dog's bones and other organs have basically stopped, and its calcium requirement is very small. If it is a stud dog or a female dog during pregnancy and lactation, it still needs a large amount of calcium supplementation, because semen, fetuses during the embryonic stage, and milk will all cause a large amount of calcium to be lost from the body. If it cannot be replenished in time, calcium from the body's calcium pool will be drawn upon, causing osteoporosis. How should calcium be supplemented for mastiffs? There is no obvious difference between the methods of calcium supplementation for dogs and for people. Generally speaking, calcium products for human use are also suitable for dogs. In addition, drinking more milk or eating some dairy products and cartilage foods in daily life, and reducing the intake of foods high in vitamin A such as liver, are also beneficial for calcium supplementation. If a mastiff has already shown symptoms of calcium deficiency, then medication should be used. It is recommended to choose relatively inexpensive calcium carbonate and calcium lactate while injecting vitamin D3 and orally taking vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. Of course, if conditions permit, you can also choose some imported-brand pet calcium products, because these products are relatively more professional. Methods for supplementing calcium for young mastiffs Some people believe that feeding all meat can make puppies grow strong, but this is actually the wrong approach. Eating only meat not only cannot make puppies strong, but instead, due to indigestion and difficulty absorbing it, can cause most puppies to develop diarrhea. Although meat contains a lot of protein, it has relatively little vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and iodine. At the same time, meat has little calcium and much phosphorus. Long-term meat eating can easily cause an imbalance in the calcium-to-phosphorus ratio in puppies' bodies, resulting in skeletal disorders and making lameness likely. For large dogs, it is even more inadvisable to feed large amounts of meat too early, otherwise it may cause the front limbs to become bent. Puppies' feed should be supplemented with calcium powder and vitamins, which are necessary for the growth of teeth and bones. Especially for purebred dogs with larger frames, calcium is even more needed during the puppy stage. Usually, for growing puppies under one year old, the daily amount of calcium powder supplementation is about one teaspoon per 2 kg of body weight. As age increases, the amount of calcium powder and the dosage should be increased proportionally. After one year of age, because the puppy has entered maturity and the growth of teeth and bones has stabilized, the required amount of calcium powder is relatively reduced, and the dosage is about one teaspoon per 15 kg of body weight. However, there should be an appropriate amount of outdoor exercise every day, with exposure to ultraviolet rays, so as to facilitate calcium absorption.
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Key Points of Winter Fattening and Breeding Technology for Meat Donkeys
Donkeys belong to the herbivorous category of animals, and donkey meat is tender and delicious, a high-protein, low-fat health food. Donkeys have strong disease resistance, tolerate coarse feed, are easy to raise, easy to manage, and reproduce quickly; they can be kept either free-range or penned, and require little investment, making them very suitable for small-scale raising by farming households. Therefore, breeding
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Four key points to master in partridge farming
1. Breeding characteristics: adult male partridges weigh 0.75 kg, females 0.6 kg. Artificially raised partridges can lay more than 80 eggs per year, with a fertilization rate of 85%, an incubation period of 18 days, and a hatchability of up to 90%. 2. Selection of breeding partridges: female partridges used for breeding must
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