Artificial culture technology of soft-shelled turtle

Soft-shelled turtle is also called soft-shelled turtle. Commonly known as soft-shelled turtle and son of a bitch, it is cultured in various areas of our country. It has high nutritional and medicinal value, and is a better nutrition and health food. Due to the huge market demand, the number of wild soft-shelled turtles is becoming more and more scarce, so artificial breeding of soft-shelled turtles is on the rise, so how to cultivate soft-shelled turtles? Let's take a look at the detailed introduction.

1. Build a pool

Soft-shelled turtle is an egg-laying animal that lives in the water. It lives in cool places under the water and has certain requirements for the culture environment. It is afraid of wind, fear and mess. So in the robust culture pond to choose in the leeward to the sun, close to the water source and convenient drainage and irrigation areas, away from the driveway, so as not to frighten it by the sound of the siren. The size of the pond depends on the scale of the culture. it is required to build a slope of stone and cement to facilitate the crawling of soft-shelled turtles, lay a layer of fine sand on the pond ground and edge, and build activity and spawning places. Barbed wire should be built around the culture pond to prevent the soft-shelled turtle from escaping. If possible, it can be cultured in separate ponds, and the parent soft-shelled turtle, juvenile turtle and adult soft-shelled turtle can be raised to facilitate management.

2. Seed selection and stocking

When selecting species, you can choose to choose flat and thick board, brown or dark green abdomen milky white or light red, so that the soft-shelled turtle is easier to breed and has strong fecundity. If you want to be self-rearing, you should choose soft-shelled turtles that weigh up to 2kg, are strong, disease-free and injury-free. Before stocking, the pond should be disinfected and sterilized, emptying the pond water first, and then disinfecting it with disinfectant. If it is a cement pool, it can be disinfected with strong hydantoin plus water, and if it is an outdoor soil pool, it can be sprinkled with lime solution throughout the pond. When stocking, we should also pay attention to the density, generally stocking 2-3-year-old young soft-shelled turtle 100-150kg per mu, no more than 200kg, with the soft-shelled turtle culture density decreasing gradually in the later stage.

3. Feeding management

When the soft-shelled turtle is omnivorous animals, like to eat animal bait, soft-shelled turtle seedlings generally eat insects in the water, earthworms, etc., adult soft-shelled turtles like to eat fish, shrimp, field snails and other animals, but also eat some vegetables and fruits and cereals and other plant feed. Generally, an appropriate amount of corn meal, bean dregs, melons and trace elements are added to the feed, which can achieve business balance and make the soft-shelled turtle grow rapidly without nutritional problems. When feeding, it is necessary to ensure the freshness of feeding. Animal bait had better be fed after disinfection, and the four principles of fixed quality, fixed point, timing and quantity should be followed when feeding, three times a day, once in the morning, once in the morning, once in the evening, according to the growth and food intake of soft-shelled turtles, feed less and increase slowly.

4. Disease control

Soft-shelled turtle is afraid of dirty animals, so it is necessary to keep the breeding site clean and hygienic, as well as regular disinfection, especially outdoor breeding, which is more likely to be exposed to germs and susceptible to diseases. At the same time, the management of water quality and sediment should be strengthened. The remaining bait and excreta of soft-shelled turtle in feeding water will deteriorate water quality and sediment. They accumulate and ferment, produce toxic substances and affect the growth of soft-shelled turtle. Therefore, it is necessary to check regularly and find that the water quality and the bottom quality are getting worse, so it is necessary to change the water and improve the bottom quality in time.

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