Culture technology of king snake

The king snake, the scientific name Wang Jin Snake, is a large snake that is common in the temperate zone. It is non-venomous and prey by its strong body and strong winding force. It gets its name because it has a pattern like the word Wang on its head. The snake has many advantages, such as cold resistance, strong adaptability, fast growth, short feeding cycle, easy feeding and hatching, and so on. Many snake farms or snake farmers, especially in the northern provinces and regions, use it as the breeding object of non-venomous snakes. The following editor will share with you the breeding techniques of the king snake.

The living habits of the King Snake

The king snake eats a wide range of food, preying on frogs, birds, mice and all kinds of eggs, and even devours its own young snakes or its own kind when food is scarce. Because the king snake has the habit of eating snakes, some places call him the king snake. Although the king snake does not specialize in eating snakes like the king cobra, it needs to be kept in columns in time to avoid the tragedy that the big snake eats the little king snake. In our daily management, we need to pay attention to their food and add food to the king snake in time to ensure the adequacy and diversity of its bait, which is also the main reason why the king snake must be raised alone and cannot be mixed with other non-venomous snakes.

The teeth of snakes generally grow on the teeth of the maxilla, palate and mandible, and there are also teeth on the premaxilla of lower snakes, which are generally conical and can help bite food. The non-venomous snake has two or four rows of sharp solid teeth, which can be hooked after biting the food and send the food to the pharynx with the rotation of the mandible. All snakes do not have the function of chewing, but swallow directly. In addition to solid teeth, venomous snakes have a pair or pairs of growing canal teeth or groove teeth at the front or back of the maxilla. When preying, these snakes inject venom into the wound of the bitten object and slowly swallow it after being poisoned and killed by the bite.

With the exception of lower burrowing snakes, most snakes have the ability to swallow food several times larger than their own diameter or four or five times larger than their heads. For example, a python can swallow a whole pig, lamb or calf. It turns out that the snake's lower jaw is a movable square bone, and the left and right mandibles are connected by ligaments in the chin. Therefore, the snake's mouth can not only open up and down very wide, can reach 130. A person's mouth can only be opened by 30.) It can also enlarge the mandible to the left and right, which is a special function that many other animals do not have.

The breeding density of King Snake

The suitable feeding density is good for the growth of Wang Jinhe. The young snakes that have just come out of their shells are smaller, their body length is between 25cm and 35cm, and their mobility is poor. At this time, the breeding density can be a little higher, about 80,000 per square meter of snake room. After 15 days of feeding, pick out 1x5 of the total number of young snakes and appropriately reduce the density to 60,000. When the young snakes shed their skin three times, the density can be reduced to about 45 eggs per square meter; when the young snakes grow to about 50 grams, the stocking density can be further reduced to 10 snakes per square meter; for some snakes that grow very fast, when the body weight is about 800 grams, it is appropriate to have about 5 snakes per square meter. Under the condition of three-dimensional culture, the density of stocking can be greatly increased, for example, it is appropriate to raise about 20 snakes per square meter if the weight is 500 grams.

It should also be noted that although the king snake is non-venomous, it is ferocious, aggressive and aggressive, and dares to compete with the five-step snake and the cobra among the venomous snakes, and more importantly, it has the habit of eating the same kind or other snakes, so the king snake can only be bred alone, not mixed with other non-venomous snakes. It is not advisable to mix several kinds of snakes together simply to improve the breeding density.

In short, the breeding density of Wang Jinhe should be determined according to the management experience of the breeders, the environment of the farm and the supply of bait, and the density can be increased a little under the premise that the conditions can be met, and the space utilization rate can be improved; if the conditions are not ripe, the density must be reduced to prevent the tragedy of big snakes eating small snakes and strong snakes eating weak snakes, and to reduce the loss of breeding as far as possible from the means of management.

III. Daily management of serpent breeding

1. Temperature control

It is very important for Wang Jinshe. In late autumn and early winter each year, Wang Jinshe goes into hibernation when the outside temperature drops to about 10 ℃. When Wang Jinshe hibernates, the temperature in the nest should be kept at 5: 10 ℃, and the upper and lower deviation should not exceed 2 ℃. If the temperature is too high, when it reaches more than 10 ℃, it will increase the energy consumption of the snake, which is disadvantageous to the hibernation of the snake and the occurrence of stings in the coming spring; if the temperature is too low, such as below 3 ℃ for a long time, the phenomenon of freezing to death will often occur. Therefore, the focus of temperature management is to do a good job of temperature control during hibernation.

As the baby snake's physique is relatively weak, it is very sensitive to the changes of the external environment, so the temperature control is also very particular about the care of the baby snake. In general, the suitable temperature for young snakes is basically the same as that for adult snakes, but the temperature requirements for young snakes are higher. When the snake eggs hatch for 40-50 days, the young snakes come out of their shells, which is from August to September, and the surrounding natural environment temperature is 23-28 ℃, which can basically meet the requirements of their life and growth. If the temperature in the snake farm is lower than 20DC for 3 consecutive days, measures should be taken to keep warm or warm up; on the contrary, if the temperature is higher than 35 ℃ or higher than 32 ℃ for 3 consecutive days, shading or cooling measures should be taken.