Breeding techniques and points for attention of stone money tortoise selection method of stone money tortoise seedlings

Stone money tortoise, there may be many people are not very familiar with this animal, do not know what it is. In fact, the stone money turtle is the yellow-throated water turtle, also called the water tortoise. At present, this kind of animal is farmed in many places. Farmed stone money turtles have many characteristics, such as fast growth, low incidence of disease and high economic benefits, which are loved by many people. What are the breeding methods of this kind of animals?

Culture techniques and matters needing attention of stone money tortoise

I. Culture technology

1. Site selection. Turtle breeding sites should choose places with sufficient water sources, good water quality, good soil water retention (such as clay loam or loam), convenient drainage and irrigation, quiet environment, leeward and sunny, and avoid raising turtles in places with great external influence, such as transportation lines and factories. Different turtle ponds should be built for turtles at different stages.

2. Feed preparation. Stone money turtles are rich in feed sources, so they can take measures according to local conditions, planting green plants such as banana trees around the turtle pond, which can not only shade the sun, but also can be used as plant feed for turtles; where conditions permit, they can breed longevity snails, and snail meat is one of the meat feeds that turtles like to eat. When the turtle-raising place is close to the slaughterhouse, the offal such as animal offal can be used to feed the turtle. If compound feed is used to feed turtles, raw materials and processing equipment and production techniques should be fully prepared.

3. Select turtle species. Stone money tortoise has strong disease resistance and is easy to raise, but improper introduction can easily lead to unnecessary losses. The requirements for turtle species or seedlings are: naked eye observation of their no disability, exuberant activity, sensitive response; avoid long-distance transportation to prevent crushing injury.

II. Points for attention

1. The stone golden tortoise is omnivorous and has a wide range of food. Under the condition of artificial feeding, it can be fed to the meat of small fish, poultry offal and other animals, or mixed feed, but it takes a period of adaptation.

2. Diligent inspection and record should be achieved in daily management. Inspection can understand the activity growth and eating of turtles. Once a day in the morning and evening, randomly check the health of 2-3 turtles, and record the air temperature, water temperature, activity, illness, eating and so on.

The selection method of stone money tortoise seedling

1. Try to buy stone money turtle seedlings with good physique, and choose turtle seedlings that are flexible, responsive, sound and healthy. Generally speaking, the body requires good health, sound body shape, and type A requires symmetry and beauty.

2. From the arrangement of the vertebrae shield of money tortoise seedlings. The five vertebral shields must be arranged neatly, so that the money tortoise seedlings will not be deformed when they are raised and grown up.

3. After picking type A, see whether the figure is thick or not. In fact, the so-called thick can be understood as whether it is strong or not. The thick money tortoise shows that it has enough nutrients in its body, which provides enough energy for the tortoise to hibernate in the cold of nature.

The breeding prospect of stone money tortoise

1. Edible value: the meat of stone money tortoise is tender, nutritious and delicious. Tortoise meat and blood are rich in protein, cutin, animal glue, vitamins, phosphorus, calcium, blood sugar and other essential elements, which are high-level nutritional tonics and excellent food for preventing metallurgical diseases. Regular consumption of turtle meat can enhance disease resistance, beauty and longevity.

2. Medical value: stone money tortoise meat has the effects of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, removing dampness and detoxification, preventing cancer, tonifying liver and moisturizing, tonifying yin and tonifying blood, etc., and can treat bone steaming, chronic cough, hemoptysis, dysentery, hemorrhoids, muscle and bone pain, etc., and has obvious curative effects on venereal diseases, nephritis, stomach diseases and odd and difficult diseases. Turtle blood can treat prolapse of anus and injury, while tortoise plate is the main raw material of proprietary Chinese medicine. Such as the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and the adjuvant treatment of cancer "broken plate turtle injection".

3. The breeding cost is low: the breeding cost of stone money tortoise is low, so it is suitable for family breeding. At present, other industries are generally depressed, and the way for families to raise money turtles is simple. They only need a balcony or room of a few square meters and feed fish, shrimp or poultry viscera or insects or melons and fruits every 1-2 days. It can be said that all families are suitable for raising turtles.

Feeding method of stone money tortoise

1. Newly hatched juvenile turtles: the newly hatched young turtles still carry a yolk sac. Within 2-3 days, the nutrition of the young turtles is supplied by the yolk sac, so there is no need to feed the young turtles. 2-3 days later, feed small fish, shrimp, earthworms and a little rice and vegetables.

2. Young turtles and adult turtles: the feed mainly includes fish, shrimp, snail, clam meat, earthworms, pumpkin, vegetable leaves and commercial feed, etc., depending on the season, water temperature and the growth of the tortoise. Generally, the daily feeding amount is about 5% of your body weight. Adhere to regular, quantitative and qualitative feeding, so that the tortoise has enough to eat. During hibernation, the money tortoise has no feeding behavior and does not need to be fed.

Breeding stone money tortoise is a new aquaculture industry rising in recent years, and it is also one of the larger breeding projects at present. The market prospect of stone money tortoise has always been very good, both medicinal value and edible value are quite high. However, after all, there are certain risks in the aquaculture industry, so we must consider carefully before breeding.