Breeding of White Snake in Guangdong Province

The climate is suitable for warm and humid climate, like shade and afraid of sunshine. The optimum temperature is 25: 30 ℃. When the temperature drops below 10 ℃, it goes into hibernation and likes to live in the near-water environment with grass and shrubs. Nighttime activities. Breeding site to choose leeward to the sun, warm in winter and cool in summer on the hillside, build a rectangular or circular wall, the wall is 1.7 meters high, the inside is smooth, leaving no holes to prevent escape. Build snake rooms and pools in the walls, and leave a playground. The size of the snake room depends on the number of animals. It is generally 1.5 square meters long and 0.6 square meters wide, with bricks underneath, and built into snake rooms of different sizes. The room leaves holes for snakes to enter and exit, and the above room is covered with a soil layer about 1 meter thick, showing the shape of a grave. The pool should be shaded, with an area of 1 square meter and a water depth of about 0.5 meters. It should have a slope to facilitate the entry and exit of snakes. The area of the activity area should be 4-5 times the area of the snake room, and the open space should plant crawling grass for observation. Trees should be planted around the snake farm, especially on the west side to keep out the scorching sun.

Bungarus bungaroides feed on tadpoles, small frogs, eels, @ # @ 237 snakes, small snakes and other animals. Materials are usually fed in the evening. During the active period, each snake was fed 3 to 5 times a month, ranging from 100 to 500 grams each time. Eel and Loach can also be raised in the pool for snakes to find food. The water quality in the pool should be kept clean. During the overwintering period, the temperature should be kept above 10 ℃. If it is difficult to control the outdoor temperature, you can also put the snake in the indoor breeding pond to warm up through the winter.

The breeding method Bungarus bungaroides is generally sexually mature for 3 years. The breeding snake with strong and normal activity was selected, and the ratio of male to female was 4 ∶ 1. The night from late August to late November is the time for mating. Are you in a panic? After that, the young snakes can be fertilized and laid eggs without mating for 3 years, and the young snakes can be hatched. The female snake carries eggs through the winter, lays eggs between Qingming Festival and the Summer Solstice the following year, and hatches the eggs in tile jars or wooden boxes. The soil mixed with sediment is first loaded into the bottom of the tile jar or wooden box, and the humidity is held by hand without water seepage. The thickness of the sediment is about 20 centimeters, and the eggs are placed flat on the sand surface. The eggs are about 3 to 4 layers, which should not be too many. The egg layer is about 15 centimeters high, and the cylinder (box) is covered with wet sacks, keeping the temperature 25-32 ℃ and the relative humidity about 75%. During the incubation period to check every other day, the mud and sand layer can only be wet, not water, sacks to wet but not dripping for the degree, but can not be dry. Turn the eggs every 10 days. After 40-50 days, the baby snake broke out of its shell.

Enemy damage and disease prevention and control the enemy is mainly rats. During the incubation period, the mouth of the incubator (box) must be covered with wet sacks to prevent mice from eating eggs. The disease is mainly due to dry and hot erosion of the corners of the mouth; it is easy to suffer from intestinal fever due to the influence of dry and hot climate in summer. after the disease, the skin of the tail is dull and dark, and it will die in 2 or 3 days. At present, the main preventive method is to set up a shed to cover the pool, so that the water temperature of the pool in summer should not be overheated, and at the same time, keep the long running water clean and not feed dead animals.