A Detailed Guide to the Costs, Profits and Disease Prevention Methods of Black Guinea Pig Farming
Black guinea pigs are not only a delicious delicacy on the table, but can also be used as medicine for health care, and are often used to treat physical weakness, postpartum anemia, kidney deficiency in the elderly and other diseases. Moreover, because few people currently raise them, the market price of black guinea pigs is relatively high and the profit margin is large. So what are the costs and profits of black guinea pig farming? How do you prevent and treat diseases during farming?
I. What are the costs and profits of black guinea pig farming?
1. The cost of black guinea pig farming
The cost of raising each black guinea pig is about 7-10 yuan, and the current market purchase price is 20-30 yuan each, but there is a price without a market; farmers still mainly supply breeding guinea pigs at 120-150 yuan per pair.
2. The profit of black guinea pig farming
If a farmer raises 50 pairs of black guinea pigs, based on the average current situation of each pair breeding 40 black guinea pigs, 2000 black guinea pigs can be marketed each year, and the annual income can be more than 100,000 yuan; after deducting farming costs, the profit can also reach more than 80,000 yuan.
II. How do you prevent and treat diseases in black guinea pig farming?
1. Emaciation disease in black guinea pigs
Emaciation disease in black guinea pigs is mainly caused by malnutrition, such as a long-term single diet, or too little drinking water leading to indigestion and stopped eating. Sometimes, due to poor care, stomach diseases in black guinea pigs cannot be discovered and treated in time, so they gradually begin to lose weight.
Prevention and control measures:
Farmers can feed black guinea pigs suffering from emaciation disease cod liver oil or egg yolk, or cooked soybeans, mixing them into the feed and feeding continuously for about 10 days. Poultry multivitamins can also be added at the same time. If body temperature rises, 20,000-30,000 units of penicillin can be injected intramuscularly, twice a day, for 3-5 consecutive days.
2. Bloat disease in black guinea pigs
Bloat disease in black guinea pigs is mostly caused by eating moldy or spoiled feed, drinking contaminated water, or ingesting green vegetables that are not yet dry from dew or vegetables with too much water content during farming, leading to indigestion. This then causes symptoms of bloat such as abdominal swelling, listlessness, reduced or stopped feeding, pale lips, and abundant, loose or watery, greenish, foul-smelling feces.
Prevention and control measures:
Once it is found that a black guinea pig is infected with bloat disease, it must be isolated immediately. Then try feeding the sick black guinea pig drugs such as chloramphenicol or oxytetracycline. The herbal medicine Andrographis paniculata can also be boiled in water and fed for 2-3 consecutive days, once each morning and evening. In addition, there is also a folk measure of washing and drying Centella asiatica and feeding it raw to relieve bloat disease in black guinea pigs.
3. Hair loss disease in black guinea pigs
Hair loss disease in black guinea pigs is mainly caused by malnutrition or skin-related factors. Symptoms of hair loss caused by malnutrition include a weak physique, listlessness, and localized patchy hair loss. Skin-related hair loss mostly occurs in nursing female guinea pigs; the hair loss is not very concentrated and usually starts from the back and gradually spreads outward.
Prevention and control measures:
If it is nutritional hair loss, you can try increasing the proportion of protein and minerals and feeding high-quality forage grass; generally it can be gradually cured after 1 month.
If it is skin-related hair loss, medical camphor oil can be applied to the affected hair loss areas once a day; usually the spread of hair loss can be controlled in 2-3 days, and health gradually restored.