Breeding method of yellow edge box tortoise

To raise yellow edge box turtles, it is best to buy turtles from April to August every year, during which the number of turtles is large, the price is low, and it is suitable for domestication and breeding. During the period from January to March, the tortoise is hibernating or about to hibernate, so it is difficult to observe the turtle's activity, food, feces and so on. It is difficult to grasp the survival rate of turtles. The source of adult yellow box turtles mainly depends on the acquisition of wild turtles. Wild turtles are thin, timid and have many wrinkled skin on their limbs. Turtles can be selected from the appearance and feces of the turtles. Healthy turtles have bright eyes, no white spots on the cornea, no blood in the mouth and nose, and no mucus secretion. The skin, back nail and abdominal nail are not damaged or ulcerated. When crawling, the limbs can prop themselves up. Can run away immediately after being frightened. The feces of healthy turtles are ball-shaped, wrapped in white membrane, and the feces are egg blue or blood red, light green and so on.

The yellow edge box has miscellaneous eating habits and strong adaptability. The main bait is Tenebrio Molitor, @ # @ 254 eggs, lean pork, poultry viscera, silkworm pupa, snails and so on. The feeding point should be fixed, do not change frequently, do not disturb the turtle when feeding every day, put the food directly in front of the turtle, and then secretly observe the behavior of the tortoise. From April to September, the turtles were fed once a day, and the appropriate feeding amount was 18% of the body weight of turtles. Among them, the feeding amount from August to September should be increased accordingly, so that the nutrients stored in the tortoise body can meet the needs of tortoise hibernation. Regularly add a variety of multivitamins, the medicine mixed with human meat paste feed. Tortoises weighing about 20 to 30 grams should increase bone calcium to prevent them from suffering from osteomalacia.