Culture techniques of toad (toad)

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 breeding techniques do toads have? Let's get to know it together.

1. Site construction

Toads like to hide in mud holes, wet rocks and grass, and they lurk during the day and come out in the evening and evening, so the site is built as close as possible to these places and hidden for them to hide during the day, and in order to prevent them from escaping, fences or nets should be built in the breeding area, and breeding ponds, spawning ponds and hatching ponds should be built, and lighting equipment should be set up to attract moths to prey at night.

2. Reproduction

Toads are egg-laying animals with strong fecundity. Each female toad can lay 4000-5000 eggs at a time. The eggs are placed in water at 10-30 degrees Celsius and can be hatched in about 3-4 days. At the beginning of breeding, the wild, healthy and disease-free toads can be caught for breeding, and the eggs laid by toads can also be brought back to hatch on their own.

3. Feeding

Toads mainly feed on beetles, moths, snails, fly maggots, etc. The newly hatched toad tadpoles lived on the residual nutrition of eggs two days ago, and began to feed outside on the third day. At this time, they can feed cooked egg yolks, water fleas and other bait. Young toads can feed fly maggots, earthworms and yellow powder insects, while adult toads eat more, and it is more expensive to feed fly maggots, earthworms and yellow powder worms. Bean cakes, flour, fish meal and other ingredients can be used. Then let them prey on mosquitoes, leave open space in or by the pool to grow lawns or vegetables, and feed an appropriate amount of aquatic plants.

4. Culture management

Attention should be paid to the feeding density of tadpoles after hatching. at the beginning, the number of tadpoles per square meter is less than 4000, and after half a month, it becomes less than 1000 tadpoles per square meter, while the young toads should be raised in groups according to different growth stages, the water depth in the tadpole pond should be between 20 and 40cm, and the water temperature should be between 18 and 28 degrees. Toads will enter dormancy when they are cold in winter, which can increase the site temperature to prevent them from dormant. In addition, we should also pay attention to pest control, toad disease is less, we should pay attention to insect pests, especially in rats and snakes, to prevent this kind of creatures from entering the farm to eat toads, affecting economic benefits.

In addition, when raising toads, we should pay attention to prevent frost injury. Toads will sleep in winter. Mastering the technology of overwintering is the key for toads to survive the winter safely. The editor will explain it in the next article.

The above is the breeding technology of toad arranged by Xiaobian. I hope I can help you!