How to raise and manage the female fox during pregnancy?

Fox breeding is difficult, it is a new breeding industry, and they are very smart, and their value in the market is also very expensive. In addition to the daily management work, the feeding and management of female foxes during pregnancy is particularly important. Let's take a look at the relevant key points.

Pregnancy refers to the whole period from mating to pre-parturition and embryo growth and development, which is the most important stage of feeding and management throughout the year. Pregnancy is like the moisture preservation period of crops, once the feeding and management is wrong, the loss caused is the population loss of female fox embryos, rather than individual loss, so it is the most critical production period to determine the breeding performance of foxes.

II. Work tasks during pregnancy

Meet the nutritional needs of female foxes and fetuses, adjust the body condition of female foxes, in order to produce strong young foxes and create good nutritional conditions for postpartum lactation of female foxes.

III. Diet during pregnancy

Pregnancy diets are required to have fresh feed quality, complete nutritional value, strong palatability and appropriate quantity.

Fourth, increase the amount of daily grain at the right time.

Only after 1 month of pregnancy can female foxes properly increase their daily food intake and nutritional level according to their pregnancy and physical condition, which should not be premature. The increase in daily grain volume is mainly due to the supply of concentrate feed.

5. Proper control of physical condition

The body condition control of the female fox during pregnancy can not be ignored, the body condition of the mating period should be maintained in the early stage of pregnancy, the body condition of the female fox should be raised to a medium or slightly higher level from the late stage of pregnancy to before giving birth, and never rise to a good condition before giving birth.

VI. Strictly prevent the occurrence of diseases

Pregnant female foxes have reduced resistance and are prone to various diseases. Prevention should give priority to the prevention of diseases. Once diseases occur, they should be treated in time and progesterone drugs should be used to protect the fetus. In case of intestinal disease, it is necessary to find out the cause and adjust the feed in time.

VII. The arrangement of incubators

It is an important work to keep the litter alive before giving birth, which must be carried out seriously and can not be ignored.

① heat preservation cushion grass drying disinfection: heat preservation cushion grass should choose more flexible and non-fragile hay according to local conditions, put it in the place of direct sunlight to dry and disinfect, and the rough straw should also be beaten by rice beater or crushed and softened by wheels.

② cage box disinfection: give birth mother fox cage box prenatal (mid-April) to carry out a disinfection, birth box cage net had better use blowtorch flame disinfection, can also use environmental protection disinfectant disinfection.

③ box floc grass: it is best to adopt the method of iron mesh pressing grass, that is, the mat grass is rolled into grass and laid at the bottom of the box about 5-10 cm thick, with a piece of barbed wire mesh on it, so that the female fox can give birth on the iron mesh. When you go directly to the production box, shake off the grass into a crisscross sheet and press it into the box. The grass at the bottom of the box and the four corners should be compacted, and the grass on the four sides is bent and pressed in the box, so that the female fox can make a nest in the middle gap.

④, don't abuse hormone treatment.

The process of fox reproduction is self-regulated by its own neurohormones, and there is no need for human interference. Exogenous hormone treatment will inhibit the secretion of endogenous hormones, but will cause disorders and affect normal pregnancy.