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Miniature bonsai are petite and exquisite, revealing the beauty of nature within a tiny space.
For the selection of small stumps, choose plants with strong vitality that are easy to tame into trunks and twisted, varied forms. Also pay attention to selecting varieties with small leaves, strong sprouting ability and shade tolerance. 1. Seek out old trunks and small branches of varied forms on a certain tree stump for air layering (that is, sleeve propagation), mostly carried out in early to mid-March during the plum rain season. 2. Seek out tree stumps with well-developed bare roots, and near their root area select crooked, ancient-looking, robust ones with small branches and bare roots, and separate them from the tree stump (best done in late autumn), but do not transplant them immediately; wait until the following spring when the separated plants sprout and grow branches.
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Why do pet dogs shed hair? These reasons are something dog owners should understand
First, seasonal shedding. Most dogs shed and change their coat in spring and autumn, such as Shetland Sheepdogs, Chow Chows, Pekingese, and so on. In summer they need less fur, so when the weather turns warm they shed part of their old coat to regulate body temperature. As winter approaches, they shed the coarse hair and replace it with downy fur to get through the cold winter. These are all normal phenomena. Second, if a dog suffers from diseases such as folliculitis or eczema, or is infested with dog lice and fleas, it can also cause heavy shedding. Because of the itching, the dog uses its paws
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4 Things to Note When Introducing Pet Rabbits
As the pet rabbit market grows increasingly prosperous, more and more people are introducing pet rabbits, but all kinds of problems have followed. Some people spend a lot of money to buy so-called pet rabbit breeding stock, only to find that when the breeding season arrives, the rabbits do not come into heat. After inquiring carefully, they learn that the rabbits have been sterilized and simply cannot reproduce, so half a year has been wasted for nothing. Some buy rabbits home but the rabbits cannot survive at all, because no breeding techniques were provided, and they just feed them like ordinary rabbits. The result is that the sudden change in living conditions, combined with the abrupt switch in feed, causes the young rabbits to fall ill and die one after another.
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Reasonable flower and fruit thinning of bayberry (Chinese bayberry, Myrica rubra) promotes stable and high yields
Bayberry (Chinese bayberry, Myrica rubra) bears fruit mainly on short and medium fruit branches. Because on these two types of bearing branches only the terminal bud is a leaf bud, while the rest mostly differentiate into flower buds, if they are allowed to set fruit naturally, they often bear excessively, the fruits are small and of poor quality, and it easily causes alternate bearing. To achieve stable and high yields, fruit thinning should be carried out. (1) The thinning period is generally in mid-to-late April, after fruit set is determined and before the fruits rapidly swell. (2) Thinning method: out of every 6 bearing branches, keep 3 to bear fruit and thin out 3, and each fruit-bearing branch keeps 2 fruits. (3) Thinning principle: keep fewer on the upper part of the canopy and more on the lower
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Ten Practical Recipes for Fattening Thin Rabbits in Autumn and Winter
After enduring the hot summer, most domestic rabbits are weak and thin, so as soon as autumn begins you must quickly increase feed to fatten them up, in order to improve the rabbits' physical strength and production performance. The following methods can be used to fatten thin rabbits in autumn and winter. 1. For rabbits with rough, messy fur and poor spirits, take an appropriate amount of tea leaves, plus 15 grams each of Boschniakia rossica and honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), decoct the juice for oral administration, 2 times a day, 10-15 milliliters per rabbit each time, for 3-5 consecutive days, with marked effect. 2. Dissolve 5-7 grams of white sugar per rabbit per day in warm water and let the rabbit drink it freely. Generally, after 15-2
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Detailed explanation of the specific operation techniques for flower and fruit thinning in pear trees
1. Master the timing of flower and fruit thinning. Flowering, fruit set, and the number of cells in young fruit are mostly determined by stored nutrients. Remove as many excess flowers and fruits as possible to reduce wasteful consumption and concentrate all nutrients on the flowers and fruits that should be retained, so they can grow into large fruits. Therefore, from this reasoning, earlier thinning is better: thinning flower buds is better than thinning flowers, and thinning flowers is better than thinning fruits. However, decide whether to thin buds, thin flowers, thin fruits, or combine all three according to the year's flower quantity, weather during the flowering period, tree vigor, fruit-setting ability, and other conditions. For pear orchards with a large flower quantity (an "on" year), good weather, and a heavy workload, you can
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Technical Points and Management Methods for Pasture Fattening of Thin Cattle
Pasture fattening of cattle is a fattening method that mainly uses natural pasture. The pasture fattening method has the advantages of low feeding cost, good fattening results, and easy promotion in vast agricultural and pastoral areas. During the pasture fattening period of about 150 days, thin cattle of local breeds gain 0.5-0.7 kg per day, beef crossbred cattle gain 0.8-1.2 kg per day, each head of cattle gains a total of 100-180 kg, increasing economic benefit by 300-400 yuan. The pasture fattening technique for cattle is introduced as follows. 1. Selection of fattening cattle
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Three things to avoid when feeding vegetables to rabbits; rabbit keepers need to know this in advance
First, avoid using vegetables that have been piled up and turned yellow. Feeding rabbits with vegetables that have been piled up and turned yellow will cause nitrite poisoning in rabbits, and in severe cases can lead to death. Therefore, when feeding rabbits with vegetables, always make sure they are fresh, and do not feed too much at a time; it is best to feed them together with other feed. Second, avoid cruciferous vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables contain sinigrin, which can produce some toxins that promote thyroid enlargement and severely damage the rabbit's liver and kidneys. Third, avoid vegetables damaged by pests. Feeding rabbits with vegetables infested by aphids, cabbage caterpillars, and the like
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Six steps to bathing a small dog: learn the correct steps in one go
Bathing a dog removes parasites from its skin, helps care for its skin, and washes away the dirt it picks up rolling on the ground. When bathing a dog, you can use a medicated shampoo recommended by a veterinarian, or an ordinary shampoo, but be sure to rinse the soapy water off thoroughly during washing, otherwise soapy residue left on the skin will cause skin inflammation. Here is how to bathe a smaller dog: Step one: while bathing, hold the dog's collar with one hand to keep it from jumping out of the tub. You can spread a layer of something on the bottom of the tub to prevent
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What technical principles should be followed when thinning flowers and fruit on pear trees?
Thinning flowers and fruit is, on the basis of winter pruning, the regulation of flowers and fruit on trees that still have too many flowers or have set too much fruit; this is a means of achieving a reasonable crop load; its main functions: first, to overcome biennial bearing and stabilize both yield and tree vigor; second, to ensure that the current year's fruit is large and uniform, so that every fruit left on the tree develops into a qualified, high-quality marketable fruit and few culls are produced; third, to form a sufficient number of flower buds for the following year's crop and maintain strong vigor. Trees that are not thinned or that carry an excessive fruit load very easily develop biennial bearing. The essence of biennial bearing is that the fruit
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