Ways to reduce feed costs by raising turtles

In turtle culture, the following five feed cost management methods are adopted according to different seasons and conditions, the feed cost can be saved by 20% to 40%, and the breeding benefit can be increased by about 20%.

1. Select bait according to the season when there are few other baits in spring, contact the cold storage field (factory) and restaurant, and buy one or two yuan a barrel of chicken head, chicken intestines, mutton leftovers and leftovers to feed the tortoise at a low price. Raising maggots and earthworms with very low cost or free in summer and autumn, catching or buying oyster clam and small miscellaneous fish can reduce feed investment by 30% and 40%. 2. Change the feeding method to change the bait in the water to the bait on the shore, so as to prevent the bait in the water from sinking into the bottom of the water, causing waste and polluting the water quality and endangering the health of the tortoise. Throwing bait on the shore and allowing the turtle to climb ashore to eat is helpful for breeders to observe and understand the feeding habits and food intake of turtles, which neither pollutes the water quality nor wastes bait, forming a good cycle of saving food, water and medicine, which can save 5% and 15% of the bait investment. 3. There are four culture methods: turtle-fish mixed culture, tortoise-frog-Loach co-culture, tortoise-earthworm co-culture, turtle-mandarin duck culture in the same pond, reliable ecological chain to naturally solve 20%-40% bait and save 50% of pool facilities. 4. incandescent lamps can be installed on the pool surface in summer and autumn to induce all kinds of insects to fly into the pool water continuously for turtles to feed. This method must be adhered to for a long time to make turtles develop the habit of feeding at night, which can reduce the amount of feeding during the day by 20% to 50%. 5. Making ecological ingredients according to statistics, 20% of earthworms, 20% of fly maggots, 40% of clam meat and 20% of small miscellaneous fish are mixed and fed with the best effect. Slaughtering leftovers with livestock and poultry 75%, bone meal 1%, rice (corn meal and cooked sweet potatoes) 24%, antibiotics and conventional livestock and poultry auxin in an appropriate amount, minced meat with a meat grinder, put it on the shore or on the bait table for turtles to feed, the daily weight gain rate of young alligator turtles reached 2.8%, and that of young turtles reached 1.5%. This method saves more than 10% of concentrate than feeding a single variety of bait.