How to improve the birth rate of hedgehog in breeding hedgehog

Hedgehogs can give birth to two babies a year in areas with a short period of false hibernation and one child a year in areas where the period of false hibernation is long. In order to ensure that domestic hedgehogs give birth to two babies a year, a breeding farm (household) for raising nests should be set up indoors. In February, hedgehogs will begin to heat up the indoor stove. When the room temperature rises to more than 15 ℃, the hedgehog will release the false hibernation and come out for activities and foraging. Release the false hibernation in advance, prolong the activity and feeding period of hedgehog, which is beneficial to its gonadal development and reproduce ahead of time in spring. If the female hedgehog removes the lactation period early, it can enter the physical recovery period before the next reproduction, which is beneficial to the gonadal development of the next reproductive cycle and ensures the reproduction of two babies in this year. Therefore, for the farms (households) that set up outdoor houses, in February, the hedgehog nest can be covered with plastic film to increase the temperature in the nest and release the false hibernation as soon as possible.

After the hedgehog released the false hibernation, the food intake was small when the room temperature was not too high, and gradually increased with the increase of room temperature. From the day when the false hibernation begins to eat, the species of hedgehog should be fed with nutritious feed. That is, the protein content in the feed is more than 16%, and it is matched with part of the animal feed to make the amino acids in the feed full price. At the same time, vitamins and trace elements were added to the feed. Vitamins in addition to multivitamin B group, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E should be guaranteed to reach a certain amount. Vitamin E is tocopherol, the lack of it affects reproduction, the daily dosage of each should not be less than 5 mg. Vitamin An is necessary to maintain the normal and sound epithelial tissue of hedgehog. When vitamin An is deficient, it can cause epithelial tissue dryness, degeneration, proliferation and keratinization, and has the most obvious effect on genitourinary organs, that is, it can affect ovarian epithelial tissue to form follicles and affect reproduction. The amount of feed added to each species of hedgehog should not be less than 500 international units per day.

There are two kinds of vitamin D, vitamin D2 and vitamin D3, which can promote the absorption and deposition of calcium and phosphorus in bone tissue respectively, especially the female hedgehog can not lack calcium and phosphorus. During pregnancy and lactation, they have a large amount of calcium and phosphorus transferred to the fetus and the baby hedgehog, so the hedgehog should pay attention to supplement vitamin D after eating, in order to promote the absorption and deposition of calcium and phosphorus in the hedgehog. This is beneficial to future lactation and parturition, with a daily dosage of 50 international units per species of hedgehog. Vitamin C is a necessary substance for the activity of some enzymes in hedgehog, which can protect the enzyme and participate in the process of substance metabolism and cell respiration, which is beneficial to the recovery of physique. Hedgehog sleep recovery process should ensure the supply of vitamin C, the daily supply of vitamin C per hedgehog is 5 mg 10 mg. After the implementation of the above two measures, most female hedgehogs can be in estrus from March to April, and the mating rate and pregnancy rate are very high, which laid a good foundation for pregnancy and childbirth in that year.