Construction method of nest room for breeding hedgehog

In life, we see that there are still very few people raising hedgehogs, perhaps many people do not know the value of hedgehogs, they only feel that hedgehogs have spines all over their bodies, and there is no good-looking appearance to watch them, so now people who eat hedgehogs may still be a minority, so hedgehog farming may not be very common.

Construction method of nest room for breeding hedgehog

Hedgehogs have strict requirements on the caves where they live. In the south, caves are required to be warm in winter and cool in summer, and the average temperature in the cave is kept at about 15 ℃. The depth is 80 cm to 100 cm; in the north, the winter is cold and the temperature is very low, and the hedgehog overwinters in a hole 120 cm deep. When hibernating, the temperature is between 0-8 ℃. Because its body has no villi, it will freeze to death if the temperature is lower than 0 ℃. It is afraid of extreme heat in summer. According to this characteristic, artificial nests can be built for hedgehogs.

Some people observed the marks of hedgehogs and found that hedgehogs inhabit and breed in a family community, and a family lives in a collusive, multi-open cave. With the increase of the number, the cave deepens and lengthens, and the opening increases. Artificial breeding should build a nest indoors, which is divided into two parts, namely, the inner room and the outer room. In addition, a shared playground will be built. Both the inner room and the outer room are 60 cm × 60 cm × 60 cm. There is a door hole of 12 cm × 12 cm between the inner room and the outer room, and between the outer room and the playground. The playground depends on the size of the feeding room. Generally, the side wall of the shelter extends 1.5 meters forward, and a low wall with a height of 60 centimeters and 70 centimeters is built. The inner wall of the wall is smooth with cement mortar to prevent hedgehogs from escaping.

Make a movable cover of cement sand on the top of the inner chamber, which is 2 cm thick and 60 cm × 60 cm in the periphery, with a square hole in the middle and a hole of 10 cm in size, which is convenient for observing the activity and capture of the hedgehog in the inner chamber. Outside the room without the top cover, you can put the feed box outside the room, ration supply, and form the habit of eating their own food. The square hole on the top cover is covered with bricks to keep warm in winter and removed in summer to dissipate heat. Each nest has a hedgehog for both male and female. In order to form a fixed spouse, one male and one female can be locked up in a unit after introduction, blocking the outer chamber door, not letting them out, forcing the spouse to be ripe after a period of time, and their respective smells are also used to smell. At this time, they can open the door hole of the outer room, and they will naturally return to their own chamber after going to the playground.

When the breeding scale is large, you can also build a nest outside the house, and the scale of the nest is still only a row of houses with a wall with a height of 1 to 1.2 meters, forming a small courtyard-style breeding area, in addition to the yard space provided for hedgehogs as playgrounds, you can do some rockery, plant some flowers and plants to beautify the environment, or plant some grapes, and when the grapes grow up, set up grape racks for harvest in summer. It can also shade the hedgehog's nest and create a cool environment. Winter grapes after falling leaves do not affect the lighting of the nest, it is a very economical way.

What kind of food does hedgehog eat?

Hedgehog belongs to mammalian insectivorous order, omnivorous, staple food can be fed by cats and dogs: some people say that cat food is more in line with the nutritional needs of hedgehogs, while others say that dogs are omnivorous and cats are carnivorous, so feeding dog feed is better. and the seafood ingredients in cat food are easy to cause hedgehog skin allergy.

The author asked the veterinarian about this point, and the answer was that both kittens and dogs could be fed together, and it was also a good choice to mix the two; but the nutrients of the puppies' feed were on the high side for hedgehogs, and it was best to feed adult cats and dogs with less fat when hedgehogs grew up.

In order to maintain the hedgehog's good appetite, you can occasionally feed insects, fruits or cooked meat to satisfy its diversified eating habits. Insects, especially its favorites, bread worms and wheat parasites are supreme magic weapons that owners use to lure hedgehogs. Crickets are also said to be the favorite of hedgehogs.

However, it is forbidden to feed onion and citrus food, and there are also cases in which the owner died after feeding the celery bread worm to the hedgehog. In short, it is advisable not to give it too irritating food.

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.

Prospect of hedgehog culture

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. 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.

Can be a new type of pet in the UK, keeping this palm-sized and prickly creature as a pet has become a fashion for office workers. 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.

From the above analysis, it is not difficult to see that hedgehogs have high requirements for its nests, so before raising hedgehogs, we must first understand the living habits of hedgehogs and build an environment suitable for hedgehog growth, which is the first step in breeding hedgehogs.