Six points for injection of sick turtles

In recent years, the temperature of artificial@#@238@#@gradually increased, but the disease also had a tendency of local spread. There are many ways to prevent turtle diseases, such as medicine feeding, medicine application, injection, medicine bath, etc. Once a turtle is sick, the treatment is very different from that of other animals, mainly because turtles have very hard armor. According to the author's breeding practice for more than ten years, injection is the most effective method, because the liquid medicine is directly injected into the turtle body to absorb quickly. However, the author reminds the majority of turtle farmers to pay attention to the following points when giving turtle injections:

1. Do not use long needles, thick needles. Tortoise body exposed muscle less, generally only the front and rear limb base muscle slightly larger, but not large. So choose a thinner and shorter needle. The injection depth is generally 0.5 cm for small turtles, 0.8 cm for medium turtles and 1.2-1.8 cm for large turtles.

2. The injection angle should be correct. When the turtle limbs are retracted into the shell, it is difficult to enter the needle, so first pull out the turtle limbs, straighten them, and then make the needle enter at a 45-degree angle with the limbs. Needle angle should not be too large, otherwise it will be hard injected into the bone fascia, resulting in limb mutilation.

3. It is not advisable to stick needles in the neck. The turtle neck has the telescopic function of supporting the glans, and the internal fascia, nerves and blood vessels are densely distributed. Once the neck is pierced, it is easy to distort the neck or shrink, and sometimes the glans cannot be lifted or even paralyzed, thus affecting its feeding. Sometimes a swollen neck can cause asphyxiation.

4. Strict disinfection. To achieve better and faster results, the turtle must be disinfected when injected. Some suffering from pneumonia, hepatitis, enteritis and other serious diseases of turtles, if necessary, drugs can be injected into its abdominal cavity. In advance, the turtle body should be locally disinfected with iodine tincture, and the syringes and needles should be disinfected at high temperature to avoid bringing germs into the turtle body.

5. Inject medicine into turtle mouth skillfully. In winter and spring, tortoises do not eat during hibernation. If internal medicine is used, the method of injecting medicine into tortoises mouth can be adopted. After dissolving solid medicinal warm water, then use a syringe with a needle removed to suck the liquid medicine into the turtle mouth. The action should be slow, so that the liquid medicine can be swallowed into the abdomen. Do not inject too hard, in case the drug enters the trachea and causes asphyxiation.

6. The dosage of liquid medicine should not be too much. Due to the small muscles of turtles, the total dose of drugs in the same injection point should not be injected too much. In principle, the muscles of the injection point should not be obviously raised. If the dose is large, it can be divided into several injection points to avoid causing local muscle damage.