The method of breeding hedgehog in estrus

Hedgehog is a kind of precious animal, it not only has rich nutritional value, delicate and delicious meat, but also has a lot of medicinal effects, so hedgehog is loved by many people, and some people in foreign countries even raise hedgehogs as pets.

The method of breeding hedgehog in estrus

The most obvious feature of hedgehog sexual performance of estrus mother is the change of vulva and strong restlessness. The male hedgehog in estrus shows prolapse of the scrotum, the testes are very obvious in the scrotum, the scrotum is pink, and the penis is often exposed, while the female hedgehog shows redness of the vulva, redness and swelling of the vulva, and mucinous secretions. Both male and female hedgehogs showed decreased appetite, reduced appetite, mania, and chasing each other for the opposite sex.

Hedgehog reproduction is natural mating, male and female hedgehogs who mate well chase each other before mating, play and then mate. After a few days of mating, the mood of male and female hedgehogs tends to calm down, the redness and swelling of female genitals fades, and food intake recovers. At this point, the female hedgehog turns into pregnancy. After mating, the female hedgehog begins to give birth in about 60 days of pregnancy. There was a negative correlation between the length of pregnancy and the number of births, that is, the pregnancy time of those with more births was shorter, and that of those with fewer births was longer. In general, the fetus gives birth to 4 to 6 babies, with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 8 per birth. The weight of the female hedgehog increased significantly about 35 days after mating, and the abdomen was plump; on the 45th day of pregnancy, the female hedgehog was bulky, slow in action and mild perineal edema. Before giving birth, the mother hedgehog has the behavior of making a nest with grass. The nutrition level of feed during pregnancy should be high, the protein content of feed should be high, and the supply of vitamins, trace elements and mineral feed such as phosphorus and calcium should be guaranteed, which is beneficial to the development of fetus. During pregnancy, if the proportion of starch and other calorie feed is too large, more acidic substances are produced after metabolism, which is easy to cause abortion, especially in the mildew of feed supplied during pregnancy and gastrointestinal diseases after the mother hedgehog eats. If gastroenteritis diarrhea for 3 days, it is possible to cause abortion.

The role of hedgehog

1. For epigastric pain. This product has the effect of relieving qi and relieving pain, so it can be used for epigastric pain caused by disharmony between liver and stomach. This product can be used blindly, bake, grind, swallow one money each time, twice to twice a day, and can also be used with Atractylodes macrocephala, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Cyperi, rafter bark, etc.

2. For hemorrhoids, hematochezia, prolapse of anus and other diseases. Hedgehog skin can remove blood stasis and stop bleeding, has expertise in the treatment of hemorrhoids, often with Huaihua, Sanguisorba, etc.; if used for prolapse of anus, it can be used with Qi-tonifying medicine Huangqi.

3. For spermatorrhea, enuresis and other diseases. This product also has the effect of solidifying essence and reducing urina. it is used for spermatorrhea and enuresis. It is often compatible with kidney-strengthening and astringent essential medicines such as Yizhiren, oysters, Euryale seeds and so on.

4. Stomachache and vomiting. This product can remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Treat stomachache for a long time, qi and blood stasis and vomiting. It can be served with baked rice wine alone, or with Rhizoma Corydalis, Rhizoma Cyperi and other medicines.

5. Remove blood stasis and relieve pain, restrain and stop bleeding. Hedgehog skin has the effect of removing blood stasis and relieving pain and astringent hemostasis.

Culture techniques of hedgehog

1. Introduction from nature should be domesticated to make hedgehogs domesticated. The number of wild hedgehogs is decreasing every year. Therefore, artificial culture can not only solve people's medicinal and edible needs, but also protect the natural resources of hedgehogs. In addition, artificial breeding equipment is simple, feeding and management is simple, and the economic benefit is good, so it is a promising breeding project.

2. Domestic hedgehogs should have a male and a female litter, and generally mate naturally from April to May, giving birth to 1 to 2 births a year, and hedgehogs at the age of 2 to 4 have the ability to reproduce. The female hedgehog is restless during estrus and has vaginal secretions. The pregnancy period is about 60 days. Each fetus gives birth to 4 babies, with a maximum of 8 babies. Hedgehog gain weight after 35 days of fertilization, slow movement after 45 days, mild perineal edema, looking for grass to make a nest before delivery.

3. Attention should be paid to the elimination of parasites in vivo and in vitro during introduction. External parasites, mainly hard ticks, itch mites and scabies mites and so on. Hard ticks are dark brown and can be caught manually; itching mites make the skin appear powdery white spots and dandruff; scabies mites make the skin form yellow scabs. Treatment can be treated with 0.05% "propargite" bath, 3-5 minutes each time, 7 days apart, 3 times in a row, or regular intramuscular injection of ivermectin with a dosage of 0.2 ml per kilogram of body weight, which is effective not only for killing mites, but also for ticks and pterygoid nematodes.

Breeding prospect of hedgehog

1. Provide meat

Hedgehog meat has high protein content and low cholesterol content, strong nourishing function and a lot of medicinal uses. Because hedgehog has rapid reproduction, wide drug dosage and low meat production, the development of hedgehog breeding is of great significance to enrich farmers' economy. With the improvement of the living standards of residents in open coastal areas and inland large and medium-sized cities. The demand for hedgehogs is increasing, hedgehogs are hunted and killed in the Yangtze River basin, the number is extremely rare, overfishing in the northern region is increasing year by year, and wild resources are increasingly scarce.

2. Provide medicinal raw materials

Hedgehogs are covered with treasures. Hedgehog needles, skin, fat and meat are all valuable traditional Chinese medicines, which have the effects of reducing qi and relieving pain, treating stomach disease, kidney disease, breast disease, hemorrhoids, burns, scalds, hemostasis and leakage. Hedgehog's brain, heart, liver, gallbladder, kidney and fat can be used as medicine. Hedgehog (also known as Yixiang) its meat is a rare delicacy, with modern scientific and technological detection, its meat contains protein, fat, sugars, amino acids, glutamic acid, serine and other amino acids and manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu) trace elements and K, Ca, Na, Mg macro elements. The main pharmacological effects promote appetite, improve digestive ability, improve the utilization rate of protein, stimulate the hematopoietic system, and significantly increase hemoglobin, hemoglobin and red blood cells. it is not only the best health food for patients with chemotherapy, post-operation, parturient, anemia and gastric dysfunction, but also the best nutritional food for middle-aged and elderly, weak children and children. it is a medicinal product for the treatment of various long-term diseases. We will develop the economy to earn foreign exchange through export. Raising hedgehogs will become an important part of special aquaculture, which can not only meet the market and drive one-party economy, but also export and export to earn foreign exchange.

3. Can become a new type of pet

In the UK, it has become a fashion for office workers to keep this palm-sized, prickly creature as a pet. For those British office workers who are busy all day and love keeping pets, they are more and more inclined to buy a hedgehog as a pet. Because the animals lie dormant during the day and come out at night, when their owners come home from work, they happen to wake up from their sleep and regain their vitality. And can be raised with cat food, eating only 1/3 of the food of a domestic cat, the cost is even less. This is very much in line with the tastes of professionals. Thus it can be seen that hedgehog pets may detonate a new round of pet fever.

For the breeding of hedgehogs, its estrus mating is very important, so that hedgehogs can reproduce the next generation well and create more profits. Secondly, its breeding technology is also very important, only when we have a clear idea of these, can we better breed hedgehogs.