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How do you choose among eight types of turtles? Mastering these selection tips is important
Turtle: The male should have a blackish carapace, a thick, solid tail base, and a long, deep concave plastron; the female should have a short, thick body and a short, thick tail. It is best to choose turtles aged 8 years or older, with the female weighing 350 grams; the male need only have reached the age of gonadal maturity, and the male-to-female ratio is 2:1 to 3:1. Golden coin turtle: When selecting, hold it in your hand and turn it over; its head will extend very long, be even in thickness, and its eyes will move flexibly and look lively. The skin is glossy, the temperament is docile, the gap between the upper and lower shells at the tail is large, and the cloacal opening is broad. Turtles aged 6 years or older are required, with the female weighing 1250 grams to 15
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How can the disease prevention system be improved in soft-shelled turtle farming?
1. Build farming facility conditions that meet ecological requirements, including farming engineering facilities, water source and water quality management, and other aspects. 2. Implement scientific feeding management and daily operations, and use high-quality, complete, diversified feed free of pathogen contamination. 3. Select healthy seedlings for farming. As far as possible, breed hatchlings and young turtles locally, and at the same time try to avoid introducing seedlings from other places, especially imported seedlings, to prevent secondary infection by pathogens. Even if they are introduced, strict quarantine and isolation observation must be carried out.
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How to Select Stone Turtle Hatchlings? Detailed Guide to Selection Methods and Tips
I. Try to select stone turtle hatchlings with relatively good constitutions. Hatchlings with good constitutions and strong disease resistance have a lower probability of falling ill; hatchlings with poor constitutions and weak disease resistance have a higher probability of falling ill. The constitution of a hatchling depends on the quality of the turtle breed. Analyzing from the perspective of turtle breeds, hatchlings hatched from wild and semi-wild stone turtle breeds have the best constitutions, with very strong growth and development ability and disease resistance, and a relatively low probability of falling ill. Therefore, try to select hatchlings hatched from wild or semi-wild stone turtle breeds. In reality, wild
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A Detailed Explanation of Healthy Soft-shelled Turtle Breeding Methods and Technical Key Points
As the fishing proverb says: "Good stock produces good fry, and good fry yields high output." When selecting superior stock, keep the following points in mind: ① Ask the supplier about the age and weight of the parent turtles; generally, 2-year-old turtles weighing over 1 kg are normal parents, while 3-year-old turtles weighing 2-3 kg are even more ideal. ② Uniform size. For breeding stock turtles, use hatchlings of about 10 grams; for commercial turtles, use stock turtles of about 100 grams. The weight difference between individuals must not be too great, so as to avoid competing for food and biting each other, which would affect survival and growth.
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How to Raise a Chinese Box Turtle? A Detailed Guide to Keeping Methods
For raising Chinese box turtles, it is best to buy turtles between April and August each year. During this period there are more turtles, prices are lower, and they are easier to tame and keep. From January to March, turtles are hibernating or about to hibernate, so it is difficult to observe their activity, feeding, droppings, and other conditions. It is hard to judge the survival rate of the turtles. Adult Chinese box turtles are mainly obtained by purchasing wild-caught turtles. Wild-caught turtles are thin and weak, timid, with many wrinkles on the skin of the limbs, and when handled the turtle feels light. Selecting turtles can begin with two aspects: the turtle's appearance and its droppings. A healthy turtle has bright eyes, with no white spots on the cornea, no blood at the mouth or nose, and no mucus secretion. The skin, carapace, and plastron have no damage or ulceration. When crawling, the limbs can lift the body up. After being startled, it can immediately flee. The droppings of a healthy turtle are lump-shaped and wrapped in a white membrane. Droppings that are pale blue, blood-red, light green, etc. are all abnormal.
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Detailed Explanation of Prevention and Treatment Methods for Gastrointestinal Diseases in Turtles
Gastrointestinal disease in turtles, also known as gastroenteritis or enteritis, is a common and frequently occurring disease in late spring and during the high-temperature seasons of summer and autumn. 1 Symptoms When turtles first develop gastrointestinal disease, they are listless, move slowly, and their appetite declines until it is completely lost; they only like to drink water. The feces are loose and unformed, yellow-brown, dark brown, or liver-colored. There is abdominal bloating and qi stagnation; in severe cases, there is watery diarrhea with a foul odor, and the pH value is strongly alkaline. In the later stage, the eyeballs sink in, and the skin is dry, loose, inelastic, and lusterless, finally leading to exhaustion and death. Necropsy reveals congestion and inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. 2 Prevention
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Causes and Prevention of Penile Prolapse in Turtles
[Cause]Excessively high male hormone levels in the turtle's body.[Symptoms]In a normal turtle, a sexually mature male exposes its penis to mate with the female during the breeding season, and after mating ends, the penis retracts into the cloaca. In some male turtles, the penis is occasionally exposed and can immediately retract again. In abnormal male turtles, after the penis is exposed, it cannot retract in time, and the exposure lasts a long time; it may be bitten by other turtles or scraped by foreign objects, or prolonged exposure may cause tissue necrosis, leading to infection and complications from other diseases that result in death.
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Detailed Explanation of the Soft-shelled Turtle-Rice Rotation Ecological Farming Model
Generally, after 2 to 3 years of raising soft-shelled turtles, one season of rice is planted. In mid-May, juvenile soft-shelled turtles are stocked, with a size of about 180 g body weight and a stocking density of 500 to 1000 turtles per mu. They are fed soft-shelled turtle compound feed together with live fish, and are caught before the end of July the following year. After catching the turtles, late rice is planted from late July to early August. During the rearing process, aside from using quicklime and other drugs to clear and disinfect the pond, no antibiotics, chlorine preparations, or other chemical drugs are used. For disease prevention, Chinese herbal medicines such as Banlangen (Isatis root) are mostly used. Regarding rice cultivation techniques,
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Control Methods and Technical Key Points for Soft-shelled Turtle Diseases
Soft-shelled turtles have strong adaptability and resistance, and diseases rarely occur in farming production; however, improper feeding and management can also lead to disease. Common soft-shelled turtle diseases include: Red Neck Disease, caused by Aeromonas bacteria. The main symptoms are loss of appetite, sluggish movement, red and swollen congested neck that extends and cannot retract, red spots appearing on the abdomen, sometimes floating on the water surface, sometimes crouching on sandy ground. In severe cases, bleeding from the mouth and nose, intestinal inflammation and putrefaction, generalized redness and swelling, cloudy white eyes with blindness, enlarged liver and spleen, and
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How to choose common turtle species? A detailed guide to practical selection methods
Turtle: The male should have a pitch-black shell, a thick and solid tail base, and a long, deep concave plastron; the female should have a short, thick body and a short, thick tail. It is best to choose turtles aged 8 years or older, with the female weighing 350 grams; the male only needs to have reached the age of gonadal maturity. The female-to-male ratio is 2:1 to 3:1. Golden coin turtle: When selecting, hold it in your hand and turn it over; its head will extend very long, with even thickness, and its eyes will move flexibly and look lively. The skin is glossy, the temperament is docile, the gap between the upper and lower shells at the tail is large, and the cloacal opening is wide. Turtles aged 6 years or older are required, with the female weighing 1250 grams to 150
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