Analysis on the feeding and management of hedgehog

Hedgehog is a mammal hedgehog with a body length of 22 cm, a tail length of 2 cm, a wide head, a pointed snout and short ears (no more than the length of spines). Hedgehog skin can be used as medicine, has the effect of reducing qi and relieving pain, cooling blood and hemostasis, mainly for nausea vomiting, abdominal pain, hernia, intestinal hemorrhoid leakage and so on. Its heart, liver and kidney can also be used medicinally.

Hedgehogs live in bushes and near villages on the outskirts of the city. Xi Jing, afraid of light and noise, day and night, sensitive sense of smell. The hibernation period is as long as half a year, with a large amount of food in spring, summer and autumn, and rapid weight gain. The food is mainly insects, but also eat young birds, bird eggs, frogs, lizards and melons.

Raising hedgehogs can simulate the wild living environment and build indoor and outdoor connected gardens. Indoor summer heat prevention and cooling, winter snow frost anti-freezing, indoor nests for hedgehog quiet habitat. There is a shading shelter outdoors, and shrubs and weeds can be planted on the ground, mounds or rockery to allow hedgehogs to feed and move. The feeding room is about 4 square meters and the outdoor room is about 10 square meters.

When the hedgehog is wild, it is mainly animal food, and artificial breeding should turn it into a combination of animal and plant food. You can use crushed rice, flour, cornmeal, green vegetables, melons and fruits and other plant feed mixed with a certain amount of animal feed cooked, add a little salt to feed. Small hedgehogs can be raised separately after weaning for about 40 days, and each hedgehog can gain weight to about 310 grams after 90 days. The food intake of hedgehog varies with the stage of growth and development. Small hedgehogs weighing about 100 grams eat 50 grams, and hedgehogs weighing more than 300 grams eat 100 grams.

To identify whether the hedgehog is strong, one is to see the luster of the hedgehog thorn, the second is to see whether the hedgehog's body is plump, and the third is to see the tightness of the hedgehog. The diseases of hedgehog include enteritis, dermatosis, parasites and so on. Some diseases are related to the ecological environment of feeding and the choice of food. The hedgehog suffering from enteritis has dull thorns, weak walking and diarrhea. Can be fed with fresh feed, oxytetracycline 3 times a day, 0.25 grams each time. When the hedgehog suffers from dermatophytosis, it can be seen that its face, legs and back are whitened and broken, which can be treated with tinea ointment. Hedgehog suffering from ascariasis, it can be seen that its loss of appetite, drowsiness, weakness, you can use insecticide net treatment, 2 times a day, 2 tablets each time.

Hedgehogs can be caught all year round. Because of their slow movement, hedgehogs curl up into a prickly ball when they encounter an enemy, which is easy to catch. The captured hedgehog can be crushed to death with stone, separate the flesh, or step on it with its feet. When its four feet open slightly, use a sharp knife to cut longitudinally from its abdomen to the anus, press it tightly with its feet, protrude its internal organs, claw meat and grease from the wound, cut off 4 claws, step on it with its feet, squeeze out all the fat, peel it and turn it open to make the prickles match inward, scrape off the residual meat and grease, and use bamboo pieces to support the skin and hang it in the ventilated place to dry. Or nail it to the board to dry. To prevent moth, sprinkle a thin layer of furnace ash or lime on the skin and dry it in the shade. Do not expose yourself to the sun.