Routine management of meat dogs

1 kennel environment

The kennel must be cleaned every day. Remove faeces and wet mattresses from the house and replace them with new hay. Clean and disinfect once a month, thoroughly disinfect twice a year in spring and autumn, wash and dry the house with clean water, and bring the dog into the house. Burn faeces and bedding in one place or bury them deeply.

The kennel should be well ventilated and exposed to sunlight; keep the air fresh and not moist.

Maintain the right temperature and humidity. The temperature in the house should change slowly, and the body can be adjusted moderately within a certain range. However, when the change is too big or too rapid, it will have an adverse effect on the body. The standard temperature in the house is 13: 15 ℃ in winter and 21: 24 ℃ in summer. Strengthen thermal insulation facilities in winter; summer to prevent heat and cool down, because the dog's sweat glands are underdeveloped, so cooling is very important. The humidity in the kennel is required to be kept at 50%-60%.

Food utensils should be regularly detoxified. The utensils used for feeding and drinking water should be disinfected once a week, which can be boiled for 20 minutes, soaked in 0.1% bromogeramine solution for 20 minutes, or washed with 2%-3% hot alkali water, and finally washed with clean water. After each meal, the utensils should be washed clean, it is best to ration food to reduce the rest of the food. If there is any leftover food, it should be poured out, so as not to affect the dog's later eating.

The use of activity space should be reasonable, for breeding dogs, the larger the space, the better; for dogs out of the fence, the younger the better with the passage of age.

2 the living space of dogs

The active area occupied by meat dogs can be controlled in the range of 22.5 square meters.

The canine bed is made of sheet in the kennel, which is not in direct contact with the ground. The floor bed can also be irrigated with cement and sand, and there should be mattresses or bedding grass on the bed to prevent moisture. The activity ground in the house is also irrigated with cement and sand, which should form a certain angle to facilitate the cleaning of dog droppings and sundries, and to make the water wash the kennel out of the kennel and keep the kennel dry.

The periphery of the house can be fenced with iron net and steel bar to form a small cottage so that breeding dogs can be raised alone. Reduce direct contact with outsiders and reduce the spread of disease.

In winter, we should pay attention to the temperature change, take good care of each dog, so that the temperature in the house will not change greatly, and the dog will not be affected. If there is a big change, the dog does not adapt to the temperature, it will produce disease.

Attention must be paid to the disinfection of the kennel in each season.

3 inspection requirements during the nursing care of meat breeder dogs

Check the general condition (such as fat condition, gloss of coat, change of hair removal) and various parts and organs every day. Check for pathological changes during feeding and brushing, record or explain to the management veterinarian.

Eyes: the overall functional condition of the dog can be judged to a certain extent according to the eyes, cheerful expression and color changes of the mucous membrane.

Ears: Brown and some small foreign bodies can sometimes be found in the ear, especially on the auricle of a drooping dog. When you get sick in the ear, there may be beige secretions coming out of the ear and its smell is unpleasant.

Foot: pay attention to the state, presence or absence of thorns and trauma.

Nose: with or without abrasions, mucous and purulent secretions, dry and cracked, etc.

Oral cavity: pay attention to the condition of teeth, small bones and other foreign bodies, etc.

Special care is required during the examination, sometimes due to the dog's self-defense response to occasional pain stimuli may bite the owner (if the dog has rabies, the consequences are adverse to people).

4 Group management of dogs

When a large number of puppies are weaned at the same time, according to the procedure, 6-10 weaned puppies are put into a group, one or more groups for management. And make the puppies survive independently. But within the group, there is an interdependent relationship between puppies and larger dogs. Although the time goes by from 3 and a half months to 4 months, we should choose a breeding dog or a hurdle dog, because the ontogeny changes obviously at this time. The breeding dogs were selected again at 5 or 6 months, and were raised and managed separately in the cottage. In the process of feeding and management, if the puppy is cured of a serious illness, it must be turned into a fenced dog, and the rest of the puppies will be kept. All the other puppies were released at the age of 6 to 7 months.

However, groups should have certain practical management means to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, which should pay attention to the following aspects:

4.1 train each puppy to defecate in the defecation place, manage the environmental hygiene in the house, and let the puppies develop good hygiene habits to reduce the spread of disease.

4.2 if it is found that the individual has pathological changes, the heavy ones should be raised in groups and should not be used for breeding. when the disease is cured, it will be used as a meat dog.

4.3 epidemic prevention should be done well, the vaccine should be injected regularly according to the requirements, never carelessly, and the puppies should be carefully cared for to ensure the improvement of the survival rate.

4.4 newly introduced breed dogs should not be in direct contact with the original group. It must be quarantined for a period of time and must be managed by special personnel to reduce the spread of the disease.

4.5 create bathing places for dogs in summer to keep the kennel clean and hygienic, which is conducive to growth and development, disease prevention and treatment.

4.6 adjust the food of meat dogs according to the conditions of different seasons, so as to save feed and increase the growth rate of hurdle dogs.

5 the feeding mode of dogs

5.1 the amount of food eaten by dogs. Dogs should be fed regularly and in a fixed amount. It is related to its variety, age, sex and activity. Food intake varies with different stages of development. Dogs at the developmental stage eat more than adult dogs, and dogs engaged in outdoor activities eat more than dogs raised indoors. For dogs weighing 15 to 25 kilograms, the basic daily ration is 300 to 500 grams (90 to 250 grams for dry powder and 90 to 400 grams for wet feed). The amount of feed is calculated according to the dog's weight, which is calculated according to 20 grams per kilogram of body weight.

5.2 Water supply. The amount of water of adult dogs is 150ml / kg body weight per day, and that of adult dogs is 100ml / kg body weight. They should drink by themselves throughout the day.

5.3 the amount of food intake should also be determined according to the weather, exercise and other conditions, increase or decrease food intake, in order to increase the utilization rate of feed.

5.4 times of feeding. The puppies of 1 month old, 2 months old, 3 months old, 1 year old and adult dogs were 6 times a day, 5 times a day, 4 times a day, 3 times a day, 3 times a day and 2 times a day, respectively.

5.5 carrots and green vegetables. Wash and cut into vegetable soup or mix with meat soup to feed. Carrots and green vegetables can be chopped and bone soup can be boiled for a short time to make it into vegetable soup for feeding.

The way of rationing meat soup: adults and puppies are fed once at noon. Fattening dogs can be fed twice. This equipment is to reduce the amount of food, not only save feed, but also speed up the growth of fattening dogs.

5.6 increase the sleep of fattening dogs. Is to put in sleep Chinese medicine (preparation of adjusted drugs) regular and quantitative feeding, so that the dog after eating food to form a semi-sleep state, in order to reduce the amount of exercise, which can save feed and increase the utilization rate of feed.