Artificial culture techniques of soft-shelled turtle

Soft-shelled turtle, also known as turtle, soft-shelled turtle, water fish, is not only a delicacy, but also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. So, what are the artificial culture techniques for soft-shelled turtles?

1. Build a pool

Soft-shelled turtle is an egg-laying animal living in the water. It lives in cool places under the water, and it has certain requirements for the culture environment, afraid of wind, fear, and dirty mess. So in a robust culture pond, you should choose areas that are leeward to the sun, close to water sources and convenient for drainage and irrigation. Stay away from the driveway, so as not to frighten it by sirens. The size of the pond depends on the scale of the culture, and the pond is required to be built into a slope with stones and cement. To facilitate the crawling of soft-shelled turtles, it is necessary to spread a layer of fine sand on the pond ground and on the edge of the pond, to build places for activities and spawning, and to build barbed wire around the culture pond to prevent the soft-shelled turtle from escaping. If possible, the soft-shelled turtle can be cultured in separate ponds, and the parent soft-shelled turtle, juvenile turtle and adult turtle can be raised for easy management.

2. Seed selection and stocking

When selecting the species, you can choose the flat and thick soft-shelled turtle, the back is brown or dark green, the abdomen is milky white or light red, this kind of soft-shelled turtle is easy to raise and has strong fecundity. if it is the mode of self-breeding, it is necessary to choose the soft-shelled turtle with a body weight of 2kg, strong weight, disease-free and injury-free soft-shelled turtle, disinfect the pond before stocking, empty the pond water first, and then disinfect it with disinfectant. Can be used strong hydantoin plus water sprinkling disinfection, if it is an outdoor soil pool, can be used lime solution sprinkling disinfection, stocking should also pay attention to density, generally 2-3-year-old soft-shelled turtle 100-150kg per mu, no more than 200kg, are later along with the gradual decrease of soft-shelled turtle culture density.

3. Feeding management

Soft-shelled turtles are omnivorous animals and like to eat animal bait. Soft-shelled turtle seedlings generally eat insects and earthworms in the water. Adult soft-shelled turtles like to eat fish, shrimp, field snails and other animals, as well as some vegetables, fruits, grains and other plant feeds. Generally, an appropriate amount of corn meal, bean dregs, melons and fruits and trace elements are added to the feed, which can achieve business balance and make the soft-shelled turtle grow rapidly. There will be no nutritional problems, and the freshness of feeding should be ensured when feeding. Animal bait had better be fed after disinfection, and the four principles of quality, fixed point, timing and quantity should be followed when feeding, feeding 3 times a day, once in the morning, once in the morning, once in the evening, according to the growth and food intake of soft-shelled turtle, feed less many times, and increase slowly.

4. Disease control

Soft-shelled turtles are afraid of dirty animals, so it is necessary to keep the breeding sites hygienic and clean, as well as regular disinfection, especially outdoor culture, which is more likely to be exposed to germs and susceptible to diseases, and at the same time, the management of water quality and bottom quality should be strengthened. the remaining bait and excreta of soft-shelled turtles in the breeding water will cause deterioration of water quality and substrate, and they accumulate and ferment, produce toxic substances and affect the growth of soft-shelled turtles. Therefore, it is necessary to check regularly and find that the water quality and the bottom quality are getting worse, so it is necessary to change the water and improve the bottom quality in time.

The above is the artificial culture technology of soft-shelled turtle, I hope it can help all the farmers!