Culture technique of five-step snake

The five-step snake is a poisonous monotype snake under the viper subfamily Agkistrodon halys subfamily. It lives in the mountains or hills at an altitude of 100 to 1400 meters, mostly lives near the valleys and streams of 300 to 800 meters, and occasionally enters mountain villages. haunt in the kitchen and bedroom, closely related to the forest, with high breeding value, let's take a look at the five-step snake breeding technology!

Life habits of five-step snake

1. Environment: Baibu snake mainly lives in evergreen and deciduous mixed forests at an altitude of 400 to 700 meters above sea level. It likes to move around the ditches of Shanwu in summer. The requirements for habitat conditions are cool, ventilated, trees and water, as well as in tea gardens, farmland and firewood piles. They can climb trees and enter human rooms. In winter, they often spend the winter in natural holes formed by tree roots or in old rat holes.

2. Activity: the annual activity cycle of Baibu Snake is about 9 months from the Waking of Insects to heavy snow. The main factors affecting the activity are temperature, humidity and food. When the air temperature is 20-30 ℃, the activity is the most frequent. When the air temperature is as high as 35-38 ℃, the activity is concentrated in many directions. It is sensitive to use pine handle lighting at night and has reaction to torch attack. When using flashlight, there is almost no obvious trend of temperature.

3. Food: the hundred-step snake found social rats, canine foot rats, yellow weasels and thorn-breasted frogs by gastric section, and the distribution in the mountain dock was related to the distribution and number of thorn-breasted frogs. Yellow-breasted rats were also found by gastric section, indicating that Agkistrodon acutus entered the human room, and bird feathers were identified as green woodpeckers, feeding frogs and mice in snake ponds, and young snakes were seen catching Orthoptera insects as food.

Culture technique of five-step snake

1. Snake farm construction: snake farm construction generally sits north to the south and inclines to a certain degree to the south to prevent Rain Water from accumulating. The wall requires cement masonry structure, the wall height is about 2.5 meters, the inside of the wall must be polished, dark is appropriate, the corner of the wall is curved, the wall foundation is 1.5 meters deep underground, cement pouring. Some snake nests suitable for snakes are built in the snake farm, such as drawer-type snake nests. The snake nest opens to the south or southeast, allowing the snake to move in and out. The snake farm also needs to plant some small shrubs that are not easy to grow tall for snakes to climb and shade, and pay attention to regular pruning. The field is equipped with pools and ditches 0.3 to 0.5 meters deep, with entrance and exit screening baffles, and the mesh should be less than 5 mm to prevent young snakes from drilling and escaping.

2. Bait feeding: the five-step snake is carnivorous and generally eats live or fresh dead bodies. Frogs, snakes, birds, rats, earthworms, insects, lizards and so on are its food. Artificial feeding is dominated by live rats, frogs, earthworms and insects. The feeding times and amount varied with seasons. Generally, there were 3 times of feeding in April in spring, 3 times in May to August, 10 times in September to October, and 6 times in November. The feeding amount of each time reached at least 1/3 of the snake's body weight. At the same time, some frogs are kept in the snake farm to make it easy for snakes to catch at any time, and black lights can also be installed to lure insects to snakes or frogs as feed. If there is a shortage of food, or if you need to be fed before winter, you can feed it with refined meat. There is a constant supply of water during the snake's activities.

3. Breeding techniques: most of the five-step snakes mate in estrus after they are stung. A male snake can mate with 5 or 8 females, and the two snakes are tightly entangled during mating. After mating, the female and male snakes are raised separately. The female snake lays eggs from June to September and lays 629 eggs. The snake egg is oval, and the egg shell is soft and tough, milky white. After spawning, the female snake often lies on the egg in the shape of a plate, does not eat, incubates the eggs for 24 to 30 days, and then leaves after hatching. Female snakes should pay attention to nursing before and after birth, provide adequate feed and water, meet nutrition and ensure health, otherwise they are easy to die because of weakness during the winter.

Management of the five-step snake in the four seasons

1. Spring management: comprehensive disinfection and discharge work should be carried out in the whole snake factory before stinging, water source facilities should be strengthened, no pollution should be kept, appliances are not damaged, feed should be kept adequate, pay attention to observation, as long as snake stings are found (usually, hibernation can be finished within three days), we should make good preparation for feeding, first of all, do not throw too much, too much feed, should be gradually strengthened In order to make snakes recover faster and better, we must add nourishing elements, first of all, let snakes drink enough water (that is, appetizer soup + digestive agent). After eating, prepare for mating in summer, close the snake nest, and go into the nest to conduct a comprehensive inventory to see if there are any dead and sick snakes left in the nest.

2. Summer management: summer is generally the season with high incidence of snakes, and it is also the peak period for snake mating. If it is not managed properly, it will cause serious economic losses. In order to maintain the serenity of the snake, it is found that there is a snake mating to make a good mating record. Generally, the snake begins to lay eggs on 28 days. It is necessary to start the inspection, take out the eggs and store them for safekeeping. If a snake is found to protect the eggs, it is necessary to blow the snake away to take the eggs and prepare for hatching. The main snake diseases that are easy to occur are pneumonia, skin diseases, discontinuation of production, and enteritis. Cleaning should be carried out after feeding the snake factory, so that Rain Water will not wash away the feces and pollute the entire snake factory. If you find an escape, you should promptly inform the surrounding residents to take precautions to prevent more serious accidents.

3. Autumn management: autumn is the golden season for the growth of snakes. The movement of snakes should be observed at any time, and the appetite should be significantly increased. Efforts to fatten and caress the young should be strengthened to ensure the physical protection before entering the sting. Snake eggs should not be stored, should be hatched, strengthen fattening efforts, so that the snake body strong, ready for hibernation. To strengthen the epidemic prevention of diseases, the viruses that are prone to occur are stomatitis, hepatocholelitis, skin diseases, diarrhea, and so on.

4. Winter management: the temperature of the five-step snake is low during the hibernation period, which is generally controlled between 5: 8 ℃ and 60: 70%. Before hibernation, it is necessary to do a good job in the hygiene of the snake nest, disinfection thoroughly, and a comprehensive search of the factory site to see if any snake has not entered the nest and find out the reasons why it did not enter the nest. if too many snakes are found in the nest, it is necessary to prevent crush or death, and to carry out manual separation, because the five-step snake is ferocious. Let them make a comprehensive physical examination after hibernation, eliminate weakness, disease, disability, deficiency and business, and keep enough snakes to make full preparations for breeding in the coming year. The disinfection of the activity site and the removal of weeds can be ploughed with fresh lime, complete facilities, do a good job of killing rats and prevent rats from eating snakes.