[breeding experience] Technical points of breeding and management of species snakes

The quality of breeding and management of breeding snakes is related to the reproduction rate, egg hatching rate, survival rate, disease resistance, growth rate and venom volume of venomous snakes. Next, let's talk about the key points of snake breeding and management.

I. feeding and management during the breeding period

According to the physiological characteristics, we should take the following measures:

1. Arrange a certain isolation area in the snake garden, or keep it in the snake room, snake pond or snake box, and raise the female and male snakes together, which is conducive to breeding. The ratio of female to male in each group is generally 5:1-8:1, which ensures that the female can mate without wasting the male. The number of female snakes depends on the physical condition of males and their ability to breed. Because a male snake can mate with several females successively, and a female snake can no longer mate after mating once, and can produce fertilized eggs for 3 years in a row, but the quality of such fertilized eggs is relatively poor. Before mating, neither female nor male snakes eat much. During this period, they can put their favorite food, but the quantity should not be too large. During this period, there can be no shortage of water, be sure to ensure adequate drinking water, drinking water is best to add 0.5% of a little salt water. At the same time, the indoor temperature should be kept at 20 ℃, the relative humidity should be 50%, and the relative humidity should be kept quiet. Only in this way can the breeding be successfully completed.

2. after mating, the female and male snakes are raised separately, because the male snake is generally larger and ferocious than the female snake. if the female and male snakes are raised together, the male snake not only competes with the female snake for food, but also sometimes eats the female snake. In addition, it will interfere with the rest of the pregnant female and even eat the eggs laid. At this time, the male snake should be put into another unmated but estrous female pond (or box), let the male and another female mate, mate enough to put the male back to the snake garden.

3. Mating and pregnant female snakes had better be kept alone in snake boxes and ponds to avoid interference with each other. Every day to provide its favorite feed, to provide adequate nutrition, artificial feed especially to increase animal protein, calcium and vitamins to meet the needs of embryonic development. Feed must be pollution-free, clean, clean, not moldy, not corrupt, etc., keep the environment quiet, so that embryos have good conditions for development, so that preterm delivery will not occur.

4. Female snakes that mate and become pregnant in the same year will not be able to produce fertilized eggs until the second year. With the development of the embryo, the abdomen of the pregnant snake begins to expand, and the fertilized eggs continue to move towards the cloaca. At this time, the uneven eggs can be felt according to the abdomen. When the eggs are 2mi 3cm away from the cloaca, eggs can be laid within a day. At this time, we should pay attention to observe the situation of the female snake laying eggs, do not need to feed, but to feed water, do not interfere with the female snake casually.

Female snakes that have laid eggs have the habit of protecting eggs and generally do not eat during this period, which consumes a lot of physical strength and affects the recovery of physical strength. At this time, we should pick up the eggs laid, concentrate on artificial hatching, and wait for the female snake to go through a period of careful breeding and management before putting the female into the snake garden.

2. Feeding and management during non-breeding period

Species of snakes should be raised in groups according to different breeds, genders and ages, so as to reduce snakes biting or devouring each other, because some species of snakes eat each other seriously.

During this period, you should feed more small animals that snakes like to eat, so that snakes have enough to eat, replenish the nutrients consumed by spawning, restore physical strength as soon as possible, and prepare for the next reproduction. At the same time, the elimination work should be carried out according to the breeding ability, physique and age of the snakes, and those old, weak, and low fecundity snakes should be used for meat or medicinal treatment, and the young and strong snakes should be added to ensure that the snakes have an exuberant breed.

The general feeding and management work can establish a set of perfect management system according to the measures of adult snake feeding and management. The establishment of snake archives is particularly important, because only by establishing sound files can we have a specific understanding of snake species and do a good job in breeding and breeding in a planned way.