How to raise turtles in winter

Many people know that turtles hibernate in winter, but most people still don't understand how to deal with turtles' hibernation and how to raise turtles in winter. here's a brief introduction to how to raise turtles in winter.

Turtles in the wild usually dive into the bottom of the mud or hibernate under rocks or fallen leaves on the shore.

For domestic turtles, there are several hibernation measures to choose from:

1. Bury them in the damp sand and make sure the sand is moist.

two。 Cover their bodies with damp gauze.

3. Put them in shallow water (semi-aquatic turtles such as yellow box turtles are not recommended).

4. Put them in a wooden box covered with wet straw (the experience of Wuhan Tortoise Youshunzi).

Hibernating water turtles should also be checked irregularly. Weak turtles or sick turtles do not let them hibernate. They do not have enough fat to consume during hibernation.

Stop feeding a week before hibernation and soak in warm water, otherwise the accumulation of food and feces in the body during hibernation can easily cause gastroenteritis. Be sure to keep a higher humidity, or you will die of lack of water (both the labourers and I had such a painful experience when we were young).

The ambient temperature during hibernation should not drop below 5 °C, otherwise it will be frozen to death. Heating can also be adopted to keep them from hibernating, but they eat less often and less in winter.

But for some closed-shell turtles, the process of not hibernating can be fatal, and they must hibernate.

What should we pay attention to when raising turtles in winter?

1. Is it difficult to say that the breeding method of turtles is not simple? Its living habits, like many natural animals, need to hibernate. So in winter, it won't eat or drink. Turtles need to eat a lot of food before winter. If the turtle doesn't eat enough food, the tortoise may starve to death in winter.

However, in winter, the tortoise does not eat or drink, it has been sleeping, we do not know whether it is alive or not. What are we going to do? If you want to judge whether the tortoise is alive in winter, you need to increase the water temperature. You can soak the little turtle in 30 degrees water to see if the tortoise can move. If he can't move, he's probably dead.

3. When the tortoise wants to hibernate, you also need to give the tortoise a very warm and comfortable "bed" so that the tortoise can hibernate well. The "bed" that allows the turtle to hibernate well must be a container containing a certain capacity of river sand. Then put some paper balls on it. It's best to cover the whole sand with a ball of paper, and then you put the tortoise on it, and it will get into the sand and sleep.

In fact, we just need to pay attention to whether the turtles are still alive in winter. You don't have to worry about anything else.