How to divide male and female when buying turtles? How big do you lay eggs? How to raise it so as not to die?

Turtles are also called grass turtles, grass turtles, mud turtles and mountain turtles. Belongs to the turtle family, tortoise genus, is a long-lived animal, often domesticated. How do you divide the purchase of turtles into male and female? How big do you lay eggs? How to raise it so as not to die?

First, how to divide male and female when buying turtles?

The tortoise is a hermaphroditic animal and there is a distinction between male and female. But many turtle owners have kept turtles for many years, but they don't know whether they are male or female, so here's how to distinguish between male and female turtles.

1. Judging by the distance between the turtle's cloaca and the back end of the ventral nail, the male turtle is far away, while the female turtle is closer.

two。 Judging by the thickness of the tail and the size of the base, the male tortoise has a slender tail and a thick base, while the female tortoise has a thick tail and a thin base.

3. Judging by the depression with or without ventral armour, the male tortoise is sunken in the ventral nail, while the female tortoise is flat without depression.

4. In addition, for the mature tortoise, the belly nail of the tortoise can be raised, the thumb of the left hand and the second middle finger of the index finger respectively shrink the forelimb and head of the tortoise into the shell, and the right hand straightens the tail of the tortoise. If there is a black penis sticking out of the cloacal hole of the tortoise, it is a male tortoise; if the cloacal hole of the tortoise releases bubbles or thin mucus, it is a female tortoise.

How old is the turtle to lay eggs?

1. The turtle usually begins mating in the second half of April and usually takes place in the evening; from May to August, the spawning period is three or four times a year, with 5-7 eggs per hole; before spawning, the female turtles use their hind limbs to dig holes in the loose soil on the sunny and shady bank, lay the eggs in the holes, and cover the eggs with loose soil. The egg is long, oval, hard, gray-white, 27 mm 38 mm × 13 mm 20 mm in diameter.

two。 Under natural conditions, young turtles are hatched in about 50 to 80 days, and after coming out of their shells, the young turtles can go into the water and live independently. The sex of turtles hatched is controlled by temperature. Males hatch when the temperature is 25 ℃, and female turtles hatch when the temperature is above 28 ℃.

Third, how to buy turtles and raise them so as not to die?

1. Pay attention to the cleanliness of the little turtles at all times: the water for raising the little turtles must be kept clean and often changed to keep the water clean, otherwise it is easy to cause the little turtles to get sick, but usually do not let water, the water is shallow.

two。 Pay attention to feeding small turtles live food: small turtles are relatively easy to keep small pets, feed it small fish, shrimp can, turtles are more interested in living things. It is best not to feed the turtle raw pork, which can easily cause eye disease.

3. Pay attention to the living water quality of small turtles: the water temperature of raising turtles should be more stable, and the tap water should be dried in the sun for more than 10 hours before giving it to the turtles, in order to remove chlorine and bleach from the water.

4. To be clear about the habits of little turtles: each turtle has a different character, some are afraid of life, some are gluttonous, you will know after you are familiar with your little turtle.

Special attention should be paid to basking in the sun for little turtles and regularly putting multivitamin tablets in the water of turtles if they are not afraid of trouble. this is helpful to improve the immunity of small turtles.

How much is a turtle?

1. At present, the price of meat turtles eaten on the market varies from place to place. From the agricultural products wholesale market in Xishui City, Hubei Province, we know that the price is about 69.6 yuan / kg.

two。 If you buy pet turtles, the price varies with variety and size. The price of Brazilian turtle is 3-9 yuan per tortoise, 15-30 yuan for sub-adult, 150-300 yuan for yellow tortoise, 500-1000 yuan for sub-adult, 5-10 yuan for tortoise and 30-40 yuan for sub-adult. In addition, some kinds of turtles can sell for thousands of yuan.