How to raise and manage female donkeys during breeding period is more reasonable?

In recent years, raising donkeys is a popular breeding project, if you want to save costs, breeding female donkeys is also a good choice. In the breeding process of female donkey, the breeding period is very critical, so how to raise and manage more reasonably at this stage?

What is the stage of breeding female donkeys?

Breeding female donkeys refer to the female donkeys who can reproduce normally, and they generally have the dual tasks of both servitude and reproduction. The signs of raising and breeding female donkeys are: medium fat, empty female donkeys can estrus on time, normal estrus, easy mating; normal fetal development after pregnancy, no abortion; strong postpartum lactation.

Second, how to raise and manage female donkeys during the breeding period is more reasonable?

1. Feeding and management of empty female donkeys.

The feeding level should be improved 1-2 months before the beginning of mating in the current year, feeding sufficient amounts of protein, minerals and vitamins, appropriately reducing the intensity of forced labor, and for over-fat female donkeys, we should reduce concentrate feed and increase high-quality hay and succulent food. strengthen exercise to keep the female donkeys moderately fat. One month before mating, the empty female donkey should be examined and those found to have reproductive diseases should be treated in time.

2. Feeding and management of pregnant donkeys.

Within the first month after conception, the embryo is still in a free state in the womb, and it is easy to die young and be absorbed when it encounters bad stimulation, so it is best to stop the forced labor. After 1 month of pregnancy, you can use the service as usual. During the 6 months after pregnancy, the fetal weight gain is actually very slow; from 7 months later, the fetal weight gain is significantly accelerated, and 80% of the fetal weight is completed in the last 3 months. Therefore, after 6 months of pregnancy, female donkeys should reduce forced labor, strengthen nutrition, increase the amount of protein feed, and choose high-quality roughage to ensure the nutritional needs of fetal development and weight gain of female donkeys. If there are grazing conditions, grazing and raising as much as possible can not only strengthen exercise, but also absorb all kinds of necessary nutrients. In the later stage of pregnancy, due to the lack of green feed and poor forage quality, if the concentrate is too little, the variety is simple, plus no service, no exercise, often lead to liver dysfunction, the formation of hyperlipidemia and fatty liver, the production of toxic metabolites can not be excreted, the emergence of pregnancy poisoning, the performance of prenatal do not eat, the mortality rate is quite high. In order to prevent the occurrence of this disease, starting from the second half of pregnancy, the diet should be properly adjusted as early as possible according to the large amount of protein, minerals and vitamins needed for the development of the fetus, the variety should be diversified, the green succulent feed should be supplemented, and the energy feed such as corn should be reduced. feed feed that is easy to digest, has the effect of light diarrhea, and has soft texture. For a few days before delivery, the total amount of forage should be reduced by 1 to 3, drink more warm water and walk around every day.

During the whole pregnancy period of the female donkey, the management should pay great attention to the work of protecting fetus and preventing abortion. The early abortion of female donkey mostly occurs in the busy season of three autumn and heavy agricultural work; in the later stage, it is easy to cause abortion because of cold winter and spring, eating frost grass, drinking ice water, mechanical injury, driver playing cold whip, head beating, donkey eating moldy and deteriorating feed and so on. One month before delivery, more attention should be paid to protection and observation. A small female donkey with a small pelvic cavity is more likely to have dystocia when she is pregnant with a mule colt, so she needs a veterinarian to give birth. Therefore, when you begin to find prenatal symptoms, it is best to send them to a nearby veterinary hospital for delivery.

3. Management of female donkey during childbirth.

After giving birth, the female donkey does not lick the mucus of the newborn foal. After severing the umbilical cord and disinfecting the broken umbilical cord, the midwife should dry the mucus and assist the colostrum after the donkey foal stands. Welcome to follow: contemporary donkey industry, official account of Wechat. If it is a mule colt, in order to prevent the possible occurrence of mule foal hemolytic disease, in the absence of veterinary personnel, it is best to stop eating colostrum, squeeze out the colostrum, a few days later when the breast secretes normal milk, and then let the foal milk. During the forbidden period of colostrum, the foal can be supplemented with sugar water and milk powder.

Female donkey postpartum weak, thirsty and hungry, increased appetite, if overfed, easy to cause indigestion; if stimulated by cold wind and damp, it is easy to get sick. Postpartum, should first give the donkey some warm bran water or millet soup, not only quench thirst, but also promote milk. Within 1 ~ 2 weeks after delivery, the feeding amount of grass and feed should be controlled, and then gradually increased, and returned to normal in about 10 days. Barn should be dry and warm, sunny, 3-5 days after delivery, if the weather is good, you can put the donkey and foal outside in a shelter to move freely. Start with a few hours a day, and then gradually increase the time for outside activities. The forced labor shall be stopped within one month after delivery.