Hygiene Management of Fox Farm

Sanitary and epidemic prevention measures in fox farm

It is of great significance to improve the quality of fox skin and economic benefits for fox farms to formulate effective hygiene and epidemic prevention measures to reduce or eliminate the incidence of foxes. Therefore, in the daily feeding and management, we must adhere to the principle that prevention is more important than cure.

I. Sanitary measures

Feed hygiene. It is absolutely forbidden to purchase feed from epidemic areas. Many infectious diseases are common to domestic animals and foxes. If foxes eat meat feed made from diseased livestock, the disease will occur.

Control the mildew of feed. Do not feed stale and spoiled feed. Practice has proved that foxes eat rotten and deteriorated fodder, the light ones are anorexic, refuse to eat, are infected with diseases, and the serious ones cause death.

To remove harmful substances in feed, fish and meat feed should remove impurities, such as sediment and deteriorated fat, before processing, and then rinse thoroughly with clean water before further processing.

Drinking water should be clean and pollution-free. The management of water sources should be strictly strengthened and sewage and harmful substances should not flow into them. Drinking water utensils should be washed and disinfected frequently to prevent the breeding of molds.

The cage is sanitary. The feces under the cage should be removed in time every day, and the ground should be washed. When foxes give birth, the mat grass in the wooden box should be changed frequently. The mat grass should be used for cold protection and heat preservation. It must be soft, dry, pollution-free and mildew-free.

Hygiene of breeding utensils. Feeding utensils should be disinfected frequently, wash buckets, pots and processing utensils with 0.1% potassium permanganate solution, etc., and can also be steamed and sterilized.

II. Epidemic prevention measures

Cut off all routes of infection. When introducing foxes, ask the veterinary department for quarantine. In order to prevent the introduction of infectious disease, the newly introduced foxes must be isolated and reared for about half a month after arriving at the field, observed and confirmed to be disease-free.

Other animals such as dogs are strictly prohibited from entering the farm. Other animals should not be mixed with foxes in the same field to prevent transmission.

Regular vaccination and prevention. Regular vaccination to enhance the specific immunity of foxes is an effective measure to prevent epidemic diseases. Vaccination should be carried out twice a year (when the seed is kept in December, 2 weeks after the offspring are separated from their nests in July), such as canine distemper vaccine and viral enteritis vaccine.

Drug prophylaxis. Adding some drugs to the feed can effectively prevent the occurrence of some epidemic diseases. For example, in the feed, one tablet of oxytetracycline is given each week, which can not only prevent feed rancidity, but also prevent the occurrence of intestinal diseases.

Disinfect regularly. Disinfection is one of the important measures to prevent or eliminate infectious diseases. Therefore, every month, the farm should be sprayed with peracetic acid or peracetic acid to prevent and disinfect the whole farm in order to control the occurrence of the epidemic disease.