Key points of artificial breeding techniques of snakes

Snake is a kind of animal with high medicinal value. Preying on wild snakes has been forbidden by national laws, but the demand for meat snakes in the market is astonishingly high. as far as the Guangdong market is concerned, the annual demand is conservatively estimated to have reached 7500 tons. Under the circumstances of a serious shortage of wild snake resources and prohibited by law, a large market vacuum for snakes has been formed, and in order to meet the market demand, it is undoubtedly of far-reaching social and economic significance to speed up the promotion of factory production. According to the experience of the Dadyo Snake Research Center, a cobra can be raised in a factory in 14 months and can weigh up to 2.5 jin. It can be sold at a market price of 80 yuan per jin for 200 yuan, but the cost is less than 50 yuan. The net profit of each snake can reach 150 yuan. Take this as an example, if you breed 100000 cobras, you can make a profit of more than 10 million yuan. Therefore, the return on investment in artificial snake breeding is extremely high.

I. artificial hatching

The artificial hatching of snake eggs is the premise of realizing factory breeding. The traditional artificial snake farms which imitate the wild ecological environment can not realize the self-breeding of snakes, so they can only rely on the species snakes caught from the wild for mating and breeding. Wild snakes basically "fend for themselves" and have no "eugenic consciousness". The only way to make them "eugenic" is to hatch snake eggs artificially. After years of experiments, the Dadongyang Snake Research Center independently designed a set of incubators, using temperature and humidity control technology to control temperature and humidity, controlled the temperature and humidity of the incubator within the approved range, and hatched snake eggs manually, with a success rate of 95.7%, which is the highest level in China.

2. Full-price nutritious feed

Solving the feed problem of snakes is the key to realize factory breeding. There is little research on the nutrition and feed of artificially farmed snakes at home and abroad, and there is no standard for raising snakes, and no mixed feed for snakes has been developed. According to the traditional culture method, the cost of raising snakes with active animals such as frogs and eels is too high. According to the characteristics of snakes' sensitive sense of smell, the Dadongyang Snake Research Center repeatedly screened and finally used a special odor material, mixed with other animal and plant protein feed, minerals, vitamins, etc., successfully developed a full-valent nutritional feed suitable for snake taste, and according to the different development stages of snakes, prepared four kinds of snake synthetic feed: baby snake, developmental snake, adult snake and breeder snake. Completely changed the eating habits of snake-eating active small animals. This series of feed has strong palatability and low raw material cost, which fundamentally solves the problem of snake factory breeding and reduces the breeding cost by 60% and 65%.

Third, break hibernation

Breaking the hibernation rule of snakes is a major breakthrough in the snake industry. The success of artificial breeding of snakes depends on the degree of difference between the environmental conditions of breeding and the natural ecosystem conditions of snakes. Snake is a temperature-changing animal, and its activity, predation and reproduction are all affected by temperature. Too high or too low temperature is not conducive to its activity and growth. Snakes hibernate for as long as four months a year. Without breaking the snake's hibernation, the snake will be out for as long as 18 months. The breeding cycle is lengthened and the profit is reduced invisibly. In view of this situation, the Dadongyang Snake Research Center studied painstakingly and designed a heating system with patented technology to maintain the constant temperature of the snake room, break the hibernation rule of the snake, achieve no hibernation throughout the year, and greatly shorten the breeding cycle. as a result, the listing period of adult snakes has been advanced from 18 months to 4 months, only 14 months.

IV. Disease prevention and treatment

Solving the problem of prevention and control of snake disease is the guarantee for the realization of factory breeding. The factory breeding of snakes is the same as other breeding projects, focusing on prevention rather than treatment. According to the physiological characteristics of snakes and the characteristics of seasonal diseases, Chinese herbal medicine has been used to develop a variety of drugs and needles for the prevention and treatment of snake peeling, stomatitis, parasites, skin diseases, gastroenteritis, mildew spot, cholecystitis and other diseases. The developed herbal medicine is very effective in the treatment of parasitic diseases, and the raised snakes rarely carry parasitic diseases, completely eliminating the disease genetic inheritance hidden in the body of wild snakes due to feeding on active animals, so that the survival rate of domesticated snakes is as high as 92%.

V. Industrial farming

To solve the problem of snake breeding site is the top priority to realize factory breeding. The Dadyo Snake Research Center uses a factory workshop to keep snakes in three-dimensional high-density snake boxes with patented technology. This kind of snake box has high density and large capacity, and can raise 50 snakes per cubic meter. This kind of three-dimensional high-density snake box is set up indoors, supplemented with full-price nutritious feed, and can be matched with Chinese herbal medicine to prevent seasonal diseases and parasitic diseases, so as to overcome many kinds of acute infectious diseases and special parasitic diseases. it greatly improves the survival rate of domesticated snakes and truly realizes the "factory breeding" of snakes.