Culture techniques of Cobra

When it comes to cobras, we must "talk about snake color change", but with the rise of the economic value of cobras, more and more people begin to breed cobras. Let's introduce the breeding techniques of cobras.

1. Feeding technology

The main results are as follows: 1. Cobra mostly lives in caves in spring and autumn, with rats as the main food, while in summer and early autumn (May-September), it is scattered to the foot of the mountain, field, riverside, ditch, rice field, vegetable garden, wall foot, etc., and even climb into the house, eating widely, feeding on rodents, birds and eggs, lizards, snake frogs, Loach, eel Loach and other small fish.

2. Cobra has a strong tolerance to hunger, and it can often be seen that it does not eat for several months or even a year, but the food supply can not be ignored when raising snakes, and try to feed them well and well as far as possible. generally, you can feed the snake once a month or so, or once a week in the season of frequent snake activity.

3. The food fed by the cobra is live animals for snakes to hunt. For some young snakes that cannot be hunted, artificial feeding should be carried out if necessary. Snakes generally eat a large amount of food, such as the black brow snake, which can eat 4-5 mice at a time. While feeding the snake food, clean drinking water should be provided at the same time, because snakes are generally addicted to drinking water. When there is water but no food, the hunger time is longer, if the snake is short of food for a long time and lack of water. It will make the snake weak and easy to get sick.

Second, the hatching technology of cobra

1. Prevent natural enemies

Although the cobra is ferocious, there are still some animals that are the natural enemies of snake eggs. Rodents, domestic dogs, weasels, ants and other animals will eat snake eggs in humans, so they should be covered or protected with gauze to prevent snake eggs from being infringed.

2. No mixed hatching

The incubation time of different kinds of cobra eggs is obviously different. Even for the same species of snakes, due to the difference of living environment or physique, the laying time is also different, and the hatching time is also different. Artificial hatching snake eggs mostly put the same kind of snake eggs in the same incubator or vessel, which is easy to grasp the hatching temperature and humidity, and is conducive to the hatching of snake eggs. It is bound to make the hatching technology and human hatching conditions difficult to control.

3. Temperature and humidity

In general, the hatching temperature of snake eggs is 20-30 degrees Celsius. For the convenience of temperature measurement, a thermometer can be hung on the edge of the cylinder. If the temperature is too high, the lid can be opened to dissipate heat. If the temperature is too low, hot water bags can be hung to remedy, but the snake eggs can not be touched. In the process of artificial incubation of snake eggs, according to practice, due to the different incubation temperature, it will directly affect the male and female ratio of young snakes.

4. Control male and female

Artificial hatching can completely change the sex of young snakes. If you want to increase the proportion of female snakes, you only need to control the hatching temperature at 20-24 degrees and the relative humidity at about 90%. Most of the hatched snakes are females. When the hatching temperature is higher than 27 degrees and the humidity is less than 70%, most of the hatched snakes are males. If the temperature is controlled at 24-27 ℃ and the environmental relative humidity is controlled at 50% 70%, the hatched young snakes are hatched. The proportion of female and male is about half.

5. Anti-mildew of snake eggs

Once mildew spots are found on the eggshell, gently wipe it off with a velvet cloth, smear with a little griseofulvin in the place where mildew spots appear, and put it back to the same place after it is completely dried. Do not use antibiotic ointment, otherwise the grease will block the stomata on the eggshell, causing the embryo to suffocate and become stillborn.

6. Select coverings

In order to adjust and maintain the appropriate humidity of snake eggs in the incubation period and improve the hatching rate of snake eggs, fresh and clean lotus leaves, sycamore leaves or moss vegetation should be selected to cover the snake eggs, which should be replaced every 2-4 days. some farmers are used to covering snake eggs with wet straw and wet cotton wool, which often fail to achieve the ideal effect, and a little carelessness will lead to mildew and deterioration of snake eggs, affecting normal hatching, and should not be used.

7. Timely egg test

In the process of hatching, unfertilized eggs or dead eggs will be dilated and ruptured due to deterioration and pollute other fertilized eggs. In order to avoid this phenomenon, timely egg testing measures can be taken to ensure that the fertilized eggs hatch normally. During egg testing, a wooden box with a built-in light bulb can be used to open a hole slightly smaller than the snake egg in the box, and the egg can be placed in front of the hole to illuminate the egg. If it is difficult to choose between individual snake eggs for a while, you can put it on the other side and re-examine it later.

8. Learn to record

In the process of artificial hatching, detailed records of hatching should be made every day. After the baby snakes come out of their shells, the snake name, body length, weight, feeding, molting and other relevant data of the young snakes should also be recorded. This is conducive to the continuous improvement of hatching techniques and feeding methods.

The above is the cobra culture technology that Xiaobian arranged for you. I hope I can help you!