What are the living habits of toads? What are the points for attention in artificial breeding of toads?

Toad, also known as toad, is an amphibian with bumps on the surface of the body, and the toad extracted from the body is also a rare traditional Chinese medicine. So, what are the living habits of toads? What are the points for attention in artificial breeding of toads? Let's get to know it together.

First, the living habits of toads

Toads like to hide in mud holes, moist rocks, grass and ditches, and toads' skin is easy to lose moisture, so they are often hidden during the day and come out at night and dusk. Adult toads often hibernate in underwater sediment or under land moist soil, stop eating during the winter, store sugar in the liver in the body to maintain the lowest metabolism, and end hibernation when the temperature rises to 10-20 degrees the next year. Toads generally hunt and move at night, and feed on beetles, moths, snails, fly maggots and so on. It is easier to breed in captivity than other frogs.

II. Matters needing attention in artificial breeding of toads

1. How to distinguish between male and female toads

How to distinguish between male and female toads in artificial breeding is very important, and it is also the basic knowledge that every farmer must master, which is related to the breeding of toads. Generally speaking, female toads are larger than male toads. Moreover, the skin of female toads is flatter, while the skin of male toads is rougher. One of the most obvious features is that there is a small meat pad on the toes of male toads, but not on female toads.

2. Enemy damage prevention

When breeding, we should pay attention to the prevention and control of the natural enemies of toads. The main natural enemies of toads are rats, snakes and birds, which will attack toads. Ground enemies such as snakes and rats can be protected by building guardrails around the breeding site, and usually pay attention to observation and manual capture, while the enemies of birds can be frightened by noise, such as setting off firecrackers several times a day, or using the old rural method to put several scarecrows in the field. When breeding, we can take precautions in the construction of the site.

3. The method of taking toad clothes

It should also be noted that many wild toads often eat their molted skin, and artificial breeding should pay attention to this, while some farmers use violent means to speed up toad molting, which often leads to toad injury and death. it is best to use water molting method for molting, which can completely prevent the toad from eating its skin, and the removed skin is both beautiful and smooth, unlike other molting methods. Shrink into a ball, the sale is not good, water slough method of toad clothing price is about 1000-3000 yuan higher than the normal toad clothing.

4. The method of taking toad cake

When taking toad venom, toads can be fed with white wine and garlic, both of which can stimulate toads and accelerate the secretion of white serous fluid of retroauricular glands and skin glands. In this case, the dose of venom secreted by toads is 1/3 more than normal. Generally, an adult toad can take 0.06g toad venom, and the toad venom can be sold only after processing. 3kg fresh toad venom can generally make 1kg dried toad bufonis, while the price of 1kg dried bufo bufonis is more than 15000.

The above is the toad's living habits and breeding notes that the editor has arranged for you. I hope it can help all the farmers!