Key Points of Meat Dog Farming Techniques and Scientific Feeding Management Methods

The meat dog is a very cute animal, and sometimes it can also be very fierce. Many families keep them as pets, but the meat dog is also a nutritious and delicious delicacy, deeply loved by food lovers. Due to market demand, meat dog farming has become a relatively good entrepreneurial project. Below we introduce meat dog farming videos for everyone, to understand meat dog farming methods more intuitively!

Meat Dog Farming Technique Videos

1. Site selection: For large-scale dog housing, choose sandy soil land with relatively high terrain, dry, flat and slightly sloped, sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, shaded and ventilated in summer, and warm with full sunlight in winter. The groundwater level of the dog housing should be low, avoiding low-lying and damp areas. The dog housing should face south or southeast, and should be downwind of residential areas, in a relatively secluded place, with sufficient water sources, good water quality, convenient transportation, easy power supply, and at a certain distance from residential areas, main traffic roads, livestock and poultry farms, sewage pits and chemical plants.

2. Seed selection and introduction: Meat dog breeds should preferably be large in body size, low in food consumption, high in meat production rate, and delicious in meat quality. Adult dogs should weigh more than 25 kg, be gentle in temperament, have poor sensitivity to external stimuli, have low activity levels, not be fierce, be suitable for confinement, and grow quickly. For fattening dogs, hybrid puppies are best used, with confined rearing.

3. Dog housing construction: The dog housing should be built to be sturdy and durable, and must conform to the dog's living habits and hygiene conditions. Each dog housing unit should have a separate exercise yard. The dog housing should use brick, tile and cement structure, and doors and windows can use steel and wood structure. The exercise yard ground is best made of cement or lime-sand mixture, with a slight slope for drainage. Partition walls are enclosed with angle iron, steel pipes and wire mesh, which is both sturdy and durable, prevents biting and tearing, and is easy to clean, wash and disinfect. The area is determined according to use and the dog's needs. The area should be no less than 10-12 sq m, with a height of no less than 2 m. The dog living room is 2-3 sq m, the breeding female dog's living room is 3-4 sq m, and the puppy housing, due to group living, must have a living room area of no less than 6-8 sq m.

4. Puppy rearing: Divide self-bred or purchased puppies into groups by size and strength, with no more than 30 per group. First feed them with congee for 10-15 consecutive days. As the days of age increase, the congee changes from thin to thick, until it is made into dry rice or steamed corn bread. Use meat, vegetables and vitamin additives to make meat and vegetable soup, fed 3 times a day, with 1 additional feeding at night. After the puppies adapt to the new environment and eat normally, they can be dewormed. Use 100 mg of piperazine per kg of body weight, fed once, for 3 consecutive days. It is best to administer the medicine in the morning before feeding.

5. Reasonable castration: Male dogs should be castrated in a timely manner. The best time for castration is within 1 month after reaching full month age, injecting 0.5 ml of “castration spirit” into the testicles.

6. Reasonable feeding: For commercial meat dog farming, compound feed should be used. The formula is 35% rice, 25% cornmeal, 10% sorghum flour, 10% soybean cake, 10% wheat bran, 7% fishmeal, 2% bone meal, or 20% rice, 25% wheat bran, 8% cooked potatoes, 20% cornmeal, 10% soybean cake, 1% bone meal, 10% fishmeal, 5% animal offal. Add 5 g of multivitamins, 15 g of copper sulfate, and 10 g of zinc sulfate per 100 kg of feed. The feed should be made into dry rice or steamed corn bread. For 1-month-old puppies, in addition to the above compound feed, appropriately increase protein feed such as animal offal. For 2-month-old puppies, appropriately increase fatty feed such as livestock and poultry offal, beef tallow, and lard residue to promote fattening. For 3-month-old dogs, in addition to the above ingredients, supplement 25 g of meat and 250 g of green feed per dog per day, while ensuring sufficient clean drinking water. Dogs should not be fed raw feed. Animal-based feed is essential every day. Supply 20-25 g of feed per 1 kg of body weight per day. Dog food must be high quality and fresh, prepared just before feeding, and leftover food should not be fed.

7. Epidemic prevention and disease control: Meat dogs generally have few illnesses, but group farming should take preventive measures. Therefore, the dog housing and dog bodies should be regularly rinsed with medication. Breeding dogs are required to be injected with rabies vaccine. In summer, dog housing is prone to producing odors, which can be dealt with using an ozone electronic sterilizer. Sufficient drinking water utensils should be set up to supply ample clean drinking water, ensuring cleanliness and hygiene. The dog housing and exercise yard should be cleaned every day, feeding utensils should be washed every day and disinfected regularly, and bedding straw should be frequently replaced and dried in the sun. To prevent dog infectious diseases and parasitic diseases, such as canine distemper, rabies, canine enteritis, canine hepatitis, etc., canine pentavalent vaccine can be used for mixing, combined with intramuscular injection of immunoglobulin, with good results.

How to select meat dogs?

(1) Selection of young dogs. Most new farms introducing dogs for breeding introduce young dogs, generally at the time of weaning and separation. The main basis for selection is pedigree, parental traits, puppy birth date and growth and development status. The pedigree is required to be clear, the parents' coat color good, the number of same-litter pups large (German Shepherd more than 6, Soviet Red more than 8), survival rate high, and birth early (born before mid-April), because puppies born later have a 20%-30% chance of not coming into heat the following year, so such dogs cannot be used for breeding. In addition, the body shape should be well-proportioned and the coat smooth. The breeder should be required to provide the pedigree, so as to understand the production performance of the breeding dog's parents, grandparents and maternal grandparents, which is beneficial for organizing production after returning to the farm.

(2) Selection of adult dogs.

Adult female dogs must be selected for breeding with consistent coat color, early estrus (estrus before mid-March), many offspring (more than 8), and high survival rate; at the same time, female dogs are required to have high lactation ability, strong maternal instinct, and no bad habits. In addition to requiring good coat color, male dogs must have strong mating ability (more than ten matings per year), and those whose mated female dogs all have high litter rates and survival rates are used for breeding. The age requirement is within 5 years old, as breeding dogs that are too old have decreased reproductive ability. The body size requirement is 12 months, with male dogs weighing more than 40 kg and having a body height of more than 75 cm; female dogs weighing more than 35 kg and having a body height of more than 65 cm. In practice, it is relatively difficult to introduce good adult dogs, unless they are sold off or the owner changes business and stops raising them, otherwise good adult breeding dogs will not be bought. Most are culled female dogs of poor quality or old female dogs.

Precautions for farming dog meat

1. Farming techniques: Have skilled fattening techniques and experience, with confined fattening for 4.5 months, reaching a body weight of 20 kg.

2. Reasonable sales: Minimize intermediate sales links as much as possible, and sell directly to restaurants or meat dog processing plants as much as possible. If selling to dog

3. Select good breeding dogs: Use synchronous estrus and repeat mating techniques to ensure that female dogs produce 2 litters per year and 12 survive.

4. Artificial insect breeding: Artificial insect breeding techniques are up to standard, ensuring that meat dogs obtain sufficient cheap high-protein feed.

How to prevent and control mange in meat dog farming

1. The frequency of bathing dogs should be appropriate. In hot weather, generally bathe once every 2-3 days, in warm weather once every 4-5 days, and in cold weather once every week or more. The washing liquid can be human shampoo or body wash, or dog-specific washing liquid. Never use soap, scented soap, laundry powder, or dishwashing liquid, etc. This is different from reports that dogs should be bathed frequently.

2. Do not contact, play with, or especially crowd together with other dogs suffering from mange (especially in winter).

3. Keep the dog housing and exercise yard dry, ventilated, and exposed to light, clean them frequently, frequently change bedding or padding, and disinfect regularly.

4. If dogs are found with symptoms of mange, such as scratching, rubbing, excessive dandruff in the coat, red spots on the skin, pustules, yellow scabs, obvious off-season hair loss, etc., they should be isolated in a timely manner and thoroughly treated.

5. Frequently playing on lawns makes it easy to contract mange, because lawns have a large amount of dust and dog feces, among which there are no shortage of parasite eggs. In addition, there are many dogs playing on lawns, and some already have mild mange that has not been discovered in time, but they have already spread mange mite eggs and mites on the lawn.

6. When accepting new dogs, while paying attention to other diseases, mange cannot be ignored. After clinical observation, or after microscopic examination, if mange is found, isolate and treat it, and only after full recovery can it join the group.

7. For drug prevention, regularly (generally once in spring and once in autumn) administer avermectin tablets to dogs or subcutaneously inject ivermectin, with the dosage being half of the therapeutic dose.

When farming meat dogs, corresponding mange prevention and control must be done well. Only then will the meat dogs be healthy. The above are some technical guidance on meat dog farming summarized by the editor, and we hope it can be of some help to everyone.