How to breed organic toads? Practical tips shared

The organic toad has a parotoid gland on each side of its head, containing a white liquid known in medicine as “toad venom”, which is a precious medicinal material. As organic toad farming increases, here are the key technical points for breeding organic toads.

Seedling breeding: from late March to late April is the peak spawning period for organic toads. There are three ways to solve the seedling problem: first, after rain during the spawning season, go to still water to look for organic toad egg masses, scoop them out and put them in a pond to hatch or place them directly in a breeding pond without organic toads, placing 2500 eggs per square meter; at a temperature of 18°C~25°C, small tadpoles can hatch in 3 days. With this method, the eggs must be placed all at once, otherwise the hatching time will be uneven and the tadpoles will vary in size, affecting the survival rate. Second, after Awakening of Insects, when the temperature stabilizes above 10°C, go to moist places in the wild to catch overwintering toads, select individuals, and place them in a spawning pond at a female-to-male ratio of 3:1 to breed, allowing them to mate, spawn, and fertilize naturally; the fertilization rate can reach more than 90%. The eggs laid each day should be collected and stored in another pond to hatch naturally. Organic toads that have finished spawning should also be stored in another pond, while those that have not spawned continue to be kept for spawning. Caring for seedlings: newly hatched small tadpoles often cling to egg shells or aquatic plants, do not feed, and rely on their own yolk sac for nutrition. After 2~3 days, the small tadpoles begin to eat algae or other feed in the water. The breeding pond should be fertilized with a small amount of fermented pig and cow manure one week in advance to breed plankton. After the tadpoles enter the pond, manure and urine must not be sprinkled again, so as not to harm the tadpoles. The water depth of the spawning pond and tadpole pond is generally kept at 20 cm~40 cm. Chopped vegetable leaves, fish intestines, pig blood, and rice-washing water can be fed, 1~2 times a day. After half a month of cultivation, when the body length reaches 3 cm, they can be scooped out and put into a young toad pond for breeding. From eggs hatching into tadpoles to young toads takes about 40 days, at which point they need to be transferred to an adult toad pond for breeding. The above are the key technical points for breeding organic toads introduced for everyone, and we hope they can be helpful.