How to raise and manage young hedgehogs

The body surface of the newly born hedgehog has soft thorns but no hair, and the soft thorns stand up in about 20 hours, and send out "squeak." Squeak. " The scream of. The newborn hedgehog weighs 1315g, and the soft thorn hardens at 3 days after birth, gradually increases, opens its eyes at the age of 10 days, grows teeth and can walk at the age of 20 days, can find food on its own for about 30 days, the lactation period is 40 days and 50 days, and the weight of the young hedgehog at 3 months is 320g 350g. The average monthly weight gain is about 100 grams. During the lactation period and within 100 days after weaning, it is the fastest growing stage, during this period of time, the feeding and management is good, the early growth is fast, the individual is large, the future hedgehog skin will be big, the price will be high, and the economic benefit is good.

During the breastfeeding period of the hedgehog, the mother hedgehog should be fed with feed with high protein content, rich vitamins and trace elements. The feed fed that night was eaten very clean by the mother hedgehog the next morning, indicating that the feed was not enough, and when it was fed again the next night, the amount of feed should be increased, until the inspection every morning, it was found that the feed in the feed basin was basically finished and there was a little surplus. The feed for the mother hedgehog should be fresh. If there are moldy raw materials in the feed, the mother hedgehog will have diarrhea after eating, and there will be a lack of milk. The feed nutrition level is high, fresh, the quantity is sufficient, the mother hedgehog milk quantity is sufficient, the son hedgehog is healthy, the growth and development is fast. The hedgehog should be replenished as soon as it begins foraging on the 30th after delivery. After 20-25 days of birth, the lactation of the female hedgehog reached the peak, and then decreased. However, with the increase of age, the hedgehog needs more and more nutrients, and feeding alone can not meet the nutritional needs of the body, so it is necessary to supplement feed to the hedgehog in order to meet its nutritional needs and be conducive to growth and development. The method of supplementary feeding is not only to feed the mother hedgehog, but also to prepare a wide-mouth container with small depth for the hedgehog, in which some liquid feed is put. Liquid feed with milk (or milk powder), starch to make paste, and then add some salt, vitamins and trace elements, or to the mother hedgehog feed to add some, the mother hedgehog can eat some. Practice has proved that the growth and development of son hedgehogs fed with supplementary feeding is much faster than that without supplementary feeding.

The 45-50-day-old hedgehog is weaned, and the little hedgehog after weaning is called the baby hedgehog. Young hedgehogs grow and develop fastest, and a lot of nutrients are needed to ensure the growth and development of hedgehogs. Therefore, the feed at this time should be rich in nutrition, palatable and easy to digest. Feed frequently, less each time, a small number of times, such a feeding method is suitable for the digestive characteristics of young hedgehogs. The wall of the digestive tract of the baby hedgehog is thin, and the digestive function is still relatively poor, but at this time, due to the nutritional needs of the baby hedgehog, it is more gluttonous, often with good palatability feed, eat a lot at a time, can not digest, and appear indigestion. in severe cases, gastrointestinal diseases occur. Therefore, each feeding should be regular and quantitative, so that it is only 80% or 90% full at a time, and feed 3 times a day. When the son hedgehog is weaned, take out the mother hedgehog and put it in another nest, the son hedgehog does not move, and do not separate the son hedgehog, so that they still live together, are very familiar with each other, and are the original nest house, which will not produce stress phenomenon, which is beneficial to growth and development.