How should snake farms be managed in different seasons? What are the technical points?

Snake breeding is a kind of characteristic breeding industry that has emerged in recent years. Many people who keep snakes know little about the technology of raising snakes. Unreasonable management of raising snakes often leads to problems such as snake disease in snake farms. So how should snake farms be managed in different seasons? What are the technical points of snake farm management? Next, the editor will take you to understand.

1. How should snake farms be managed in different seasons?

1. Spring management (February to April)

Generally speaking, snakes for breeding are introduced in spring. During transportation, there is no need to worry about the weather being too cold or too hot, and the farm will soon enter the spawning period. Before introducing the snake into the snake farm, you should clean up in advance and do a good job of cleaning and disinfection. Newly stung snakes basically do not eat for the first two or three weeks, but only begin to eat a small amount of food in April, and their food intake increases greatly in May. Sufficient and hygienic feed should be put in regularly, and clean drinking water should be provided in snake farms. At the same time, snake owners should often observe the activities of snakes and record their predation, drinking water, molting, mating, mating, reproduction, diseases and insect pests and death in time.

two。 Summer management (May-July)

Summer is not only the main mating and breeding season for snakes, but also the peak season for predation, activity and growth. We should take good care of female snakes, collect snake eggs in time, and prepare for breeding and hatching. Separate the female snake from the male snake and ensure that the food is adequate and diversified. It is necessary to carefully observe the female snake that lays eggs. For example, when eggs are seen 3cm or 4cm away from the cloaca, they can lay eggs after about a week. Pay attention to collecting snake eggs and do a good job of artificially hatching young snakes. The hot summer should do a good job in cooling the snake nest, and the snake farm should have clean drinking water and clean faeces in time.

3. Management in Autumn (August to October)

Autumn is the peak predation season for snakes, so the feed supplied to snakes in autumn requires high quality, which makes the snake store a large amount of fat for overwintering and dormant consumption in the coming year. At this time, individual snakes with small food intake should be artificially fed to make them safely through the winter. Due to the large amount of prey of wild snakes in autumn, they often come out of the hole to find food, so it is also a good time to catch snakes.

4. Winter management (November to January of the following year)

Winter is the key season for artificial breeding, which is related to whether snakes can survive the winter safely. In particular, snakes with poison or weak physique should strengthen management during the overwintering period. Snakes should be fed and drunk enough before overwintering, with high quality and diversified feed, so as to accumulate enough fat to meet the needs of overwintering. Snakes should maintain a proper temperature during the overwintering period (the indoor temperature of the young snakes is 2: 6 ℃), and strictly prevent the indoor temperature from high and sometimes low, so as not to cause the young snakes to wake up in hibernation, which is disadvantageous to overwintering. The temperature and humidity of the snake farm should be checked regularly in winter. the snake overwintering pool should be covered with plastic sheet. when the temperature rises, the plastic film should be lifted to let the snake out of the hole to have enough sunlight in the snake farm, and the sick snakes should be isolated or executed in time to prevent the whole group from infecting the whole group. Because snakes are particularly concentrated in overwintering, infectious diseases spread quickly, which is very harmful.

Second, what are the technical points of snake farm management?

1. The snake farm should be kept clean and hygienic. Snake farms and nests must be inspected every day (except in winter). Dead snakes or dead food bitten by snakes but not swallowed should be picked out in time, so as not to cause decay and environmental pollution caused by high temperature. The drinking water in snake pond or snake ditch should be changed at the right time. When cleaning the pool, brush off the moss attached to the edge of the pool or ditch to ensure that the water source is clean and fresh. In addition, the vegetation in the field should be pruned regularly, so that it can not only protect the sun from summer heat, but also afforest and beautify the environment.

2. Always check the wall, wall base and drain (hole) around the snake farm, and find that there are rat holes and cracks should be repaired in time. The trees near the fence of the snake farm should be pruned at the right time to prevent snakes from climbing and escaping along the trees.

3. If you raise poisonous snakes, you are not allowed to drink alcohol before entering the human snake farm, and you are not allowed to catch poisonous snakes directly with your bare hands after drinking. The staff of the people's court should wear high-waist boots and protective clothing and hats. Generally, two people should go together to take care of each other in order to avoid being bitten by poisonous snakes. When catching snakes, you should use pliers and special snake hooks and other snake catching tools, grasping must be gentle, rapid, do not slow. When patrolling the snake farm at night, the lighting equipment should be far away from the side or use a variable flashlight, and pay attention to the foot or grass. If there are no special circumstances, it is best not to enter the snake farm directly at night, just watch on the wall.

4. The feeding staff of the snake farm must love the work of raising snakes and have the potential consciousness and good concept of caring for animals in order to establish a positive attitude of being "friends" and "happy" with snakes, which is also a reliable guarantee to reduce snake injuries. Although artificial snake breeding does not require a lot of manual work, it requires long-lasting patience and confidence due to the influence of its activity law and obvious seasonal law.

5. Breeders should strive to combine breeding experience with scientific research work, so that it has both economic benefits and scientific achievements, and truly achieve the combination of "theory and practice". No matter which kind of snake is raised, you should keep a detailed diary of raising snakes, such as the living conditions of snakes in the field or nest, temperature and humidity of the four seasons, mating conditions, date of breeding and laying eggs, times of molting, habits of catching and removing, feeding rules, growth of young snakes, hibernation process, disease prevention and so on, so as to lay a solid foundation for raising snakes on a large scale in the future, gradually improving the survival rate of snakes or the survival period of snakes in breeding.

6. it is necessary to isolate and treat sick snakes, injured snakes and thin snakes in time to avoid further spread of the disease and minimize the chance of transmission to other healthy snakes. At the same time, we should develop the good habit of regular disinfection. "Human diligent snake does not get sick" is applicable to every snake farm (household).