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Detailed Explanation of Key Technical Points for Artificial Breeding of Guinea Pigs
The guinea pig is native to the mountainous regions of Yunnan. It is a herbivorous mammal with a small body size (1.0-1.5 kg) and is used both as medicine and food. After 3-4 months of rearing, it reaches a body weight of 0.75 kg and is ready for market. Guinea pig meat is delicious and tender, easy to digest and absorb, and is regarded among the people as a treasured tonic
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Key Technical Points for Egg Incubation in Gecko Farming
Currently there are two methods: natural incubation and artificial incubation. Small-scale breeders generally use the natural incubation method, while large-scale farms generally use the artificial incubation method. 1. Natural incubation: Select the collected gecko eggs, remove the damaged, deformed, and infertile ones, and place them in a mesh box made of fine gauze. Keep the indoor temperature at 30-33°C and the relative humidity at 70%-80%. After about 90 days, young geckos will hatch. Eggs laid before July 15 of the same year should be incubated promptly in batches as they are collected, so they hatch as soon as possible and still have some time to grow while the temperature is suitable. Eggs laid in the second half of the year should be collected and stored at 12-13°C, then incubated the following year when the natural temperature reaches 30°C.</p><p>2. Artificial heated incubation: There are two methods. One is to place the mesh box containing fertilized eggs into a small room and heat the room, keeping the indoor temperature at 30-33°C and the relative humidity at 70%-80%. If a coal stove plus an electric heater is used for heating, the incubation temperature can also be controlled at 33-35°C. The method is to use a coal stove to provide the base temperature for the incubation room, and use an electric heater to supply the temperature the coal stove cannot reach. The electric heater must be connected to a thermostat controller to keep the indoor temperature constant.</p><p>The other artificial incubation method is incubation using an incubator. The incubator is a large box made of wood or metal materials, equipped with a device that can control temperature and humidity. The incubation temperature can be controlled at 36°C and the relative humidity at 75%. Be careful to keep the air inside the incubator fresh. When artificial incubation is adopted, eggs in autumn can also be incubated. The hatched young geckos are raised indoors with heating, and when the outdoor temperature reaches above 25°C, they are moved out of the greenhouse for rearing, which is more favorable for their growth.</p><p>Rearing of Juveniles</p><p>Newly hatched young geckos are 0.5-0.6 cm in body length and 3.5-5.3 g in weight. They cannot be released freely or allowed to run around at will; otherwise, because they are weak and cannot catch feed insects, long-term starvation and reduced resistance will cause death. Therefore, newly hatched young geckos should be kept in mesh boxes for concentrated rearing for a period. When they grow to have a certain ability to catch food, release them to move freely.</p><p>For young geckos kept in mesh boxes, sufficient small live feed insects should be provided, such as yellow mealworms, silkworms, flies, etc., so that they can catch them easily. Eggs incubated in spring hatch into juveniles in August, when the temperature is exactly suitable for growth and development, so heating need not be considered; only attention should be paid to providing sufficient feed insects and adequate clean drinking water. However, eggs incubated in autumn hatch into juveniles by late October, when the temperature is already low and unsuitable for growth. To ensure the survival rate of the juveniles, the room should be heated, keeping the rearing room temperature at 26-30°C and the humidity at 70%-80%, so that they can safely overwinter in such an environment.</p><p>Young geckos hatched in October should not be allowed to hibernate during their first hibernation period, because such juveniles are not strong in vitality. If they enter hibernation without storing more nutrients in their bodies, and then consume part of their body nutrients during overwintering, their constitution will be even weaker after emerging from dormancy the following year, causing mass death.</p>
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How to breed geckos? A detailed explanation of the key technical points
The quality of management in artificial rearing of geckos directly affects production results. With good management, growth and development are good and reproductive capacity is high; conversely, growth and development are slow, reproductive capacity declines, and economic returns are poor. Therefore, the following aspects of management should be done well: 1.
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Artificial Rearing Methods and Technical Key Points for the Tokay Gecko
The suitable environmental temperature for the growth, development and reproduction of the tokay gecko is 28-32°C, and the relative air humidity is 65%-75%. Under such environmental conditions, the tokay gecko has a strong appetite, a large food intake, strong digestive capacity and a high metabolic rate, so it also grows and develops quickly. In
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A Detailed Guide to Cicada Farming Methods and Key Technical Points
Because the cicada has a unique flavor, is rich in nutrients, and also has good health benefits, market demand is growing and prices are rising higher and higher. However, wild resources alone cannot resolve the contradiction between supply and demand, so the prospects for artificially farming cicadas are broad. Successful cicada breeding
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Artificial Breeding Methods and Technical Key Points for Golden Cicadas
When it comes to the golden cicada, everyone also thinks of the idiom "golden cicada sheds its shell," meaning to use a stratagem to escape so that others cannot discover it in time. This shows that the golden cicada is a very cunning and very clever insect. In fact, this understanding of the golden cicada is still far from enough; in many places
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Pangolin Artificial Breeding Methods and Technical Key Points
With the continuous rise of the breeding industry today, all kinds of breeding operations are springing up like bamboo shoots after rain, and many of them are things we have never heard of or seen before. Yet they have great market demand. So to be a successful investor, you must have
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Experience and Technical Key Points in Grasshopper Rearing and Management
1) Biological Characteristics of Grasshoppers. Grasshoppers are insects used both as medicine and food. They are oviparous and belong to the class Insecta, order Orthoptera, family Acrididae. According to statistics, the family Acrididae contains a total of 859 species of grasshoppers, but only two can be used medicinally and for food, namely the East Asian migratory locust grasshopper and the rice migratory locust grasshopper. Grasshoppers are rich in protein
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Detailed Explanation of Key Technical Points for Farming the Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria manilensis)
I. Introduction to the East Asian Migratory Locust. The East Asian migratory locust belongs to the class Insecta, order Orthoptera, family Acrididae. According to statistics, the superfamily Acridoidea has a total of 223 genera and 859 species. It is one of the better varieties among locusts. The East Asian migratory locust grows under natural temperature conditions, with two generations per year. The first generation is called
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Hedgehog Rearing and Management Methods and Technical Key Points
The hedgehog is an animal of the class Mammalia, family Erinaceidae, with a body length of 22 cm, a tail length of 2 cm, a broad head, a pointed snout, and short ears (not exceeding the length of the spines). Hedgehog skin can be used as medicine, having the effects of descending qi and relieving pain, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and is mainly used to treat counterflow vomiting of food, abdominal pain and hernia, intestinal wind and hemorrhoids and fistulas, etc. Its heart, liver, and kidneys also
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