The three steps of snake breeding

Strengthening the artificial breeding of snakes is of great significance to improve the survival rate, growth and development speed, product quality and economic benefits of snakes. It is a work that can not be ignored in the field, which must be carried out all the year round. In breeding, we should pay attention to the following three points:

I. selection of eggs

Hatched eggs must be fresh and high quality. The eggs stored for a long time had low hatching rate, high mortality, weak body and slow growth and development. Therefore, female snakes should often check before laying eggs and find that when the eggs are close to the anus, they should be shut in the snake box or spawning room in time to lay eggs under comfortable conditions, and the eggs laid should be put into the incubator to hatch in time. Choose a large, oval, normal color and undamaged egg as the egg.

2. Cultivation and breeding of young (young) snake

1. The cultivation of young (young) snakes. After the baby snake is born, it should provide a suitable living environment for it. Can be temporarily raised in the snake box, and maintain appropriate humidity, so that its smooth molting. Provide high-quality and digestible feed, and feed some liquid food to the young snakes with weak or non-feeding ability. Strengthen the domestication of young snakes, enhance their adaptability, broaden their feeding habits, shorten the hibernation time as far as possible, and prolong their growth period.

two。 Breeding of young (young) snake. We must pay attention to the selection at the young (young) snake stage, observe the growth and development rate of the young (young) snake, select individuals with fast growth and development, wide appetite, exuberant appetite, strong adaptability and strong resistance as backup species, and strengthen management and domestication, so that it can well adapt to the environmental conditions of artificial breeding.

Third, to strengthen the breeding of adult snakes, the selection of snakes should be combined with stinging and stinging in spring and autumn every year.

1. Spring choice. Snakes enter the estrus mating period soon after stinging in spring, and a strict selection of male and female snakes should be made before mating. Individuals with large size, strong physique, normal appetite, lively and active, without disability and disease, especially snakes with normal oestrus and mating behavior should be selected to form the breeding core group and mate together. For the selection of poisonous snakes for the purpose of producing snake venom, emphasis should be placed on the amount of venom secreted and the quality of venom, while for snakes injected into the whole body, important indexes such as size, color and pattern should be emphasized.

two。 Fall choice. Before entering the sting, the snake's appetite soars, the activity is frequent, the body is strong, and the body stores a lot of nutrients. In order to survive the winter safely, we should not only maintain the overwintering place, but also make a choice for the overwintering snakes. Select individuals with fat, no disability, no disease, high toxin secretion and good quality, create suitable environmental conditions for them to survive the winter safely, and eliminate thin and sick individuals so as to avoid death or transmission of diseases during hibernation. During the overwintering period, it should be strictly managed to prevent the harm of natural enemies.