We all know that snakes are cold-blooded animals and can be seen in the wild, but many people keep snakes for a living because they have certain medicinal value in Chinese medicine. The following is about how to raise snakes and what boxes are suitable.
How to raise snakes 1 What boxes are suitable for? There are two ways to keep snakes: stocking and keeping snakes in wooden boxes indoors. Because the former is unsafe, it will cause a lot of interference to people living nearby, and keeping snakes in indoor wooden boxes is an indoor breeding method, which is very safe, regular and convenient for daily breeding.
For snakes that take poison before overwintering or are weak in constitution, management must be strengthened during overwintering. Winter is the key season for artificial reproduction.
Snakes should be fed and drunk before overwintering, and the feed should be of high quality, abundant and diversified, so as to reserve enough fat for overwintering. During the overwintering period of snakes, it is necessary to maintain a suitable temperature (the indoor temperature of young snakes is required to be 2℃~6℃) to prevent the indoor temperature from rising and falling, so as not to cause young snakes to wake up during hibernation, which is beneficial to overwintering.
In winter, the temperature and humidity of the snake farm should be checked regularly, and the overwintering pool of snakes should be covered with plastic film. When the temperature rises, we should open the plastic film, let the snakes out of the hole to move in the sunny place of the snake farm, and isolate or kill the sick snakes in time to prevent the whole group from being infected.
Because snakes are particularly concentrated in winter, polluting diseases are easy to spread and do great harm. There is no need to worry about the weather being too cold or too hot during transportation. Breeding snakes are generally introduced in spring. And the spawning season is also at this time. Before putting snakes into snake farms, they should be cleaned in advance and disinfected.
Snakes that have just been stung basically don't eat for the first two to three weeks, and only start to eat a little in April, and their food intake will increase greatly in May. Adequate and hygienic feed should be put in regularly, and the snake farm should have clean drinking water. At the same time, indoor snake owners should always observe the activities of snakes and record their predation, drinking water, molting, courtship, mating, reproduction, pests and diseases, and death in time.
It is also the peak season for predation, activity and growth, and summer is the main mating and breeding season for snakes. Take good care of the mother snake, collect snake eggs in time, and prepare for breeding and hatching. It is necessary to separate the female snake from the male snake to ensure sufficient and diversified food.
It is necessary to carefully observe the female snakes that lay eggs, pay attention to collecting snake eggs, and do a good job in artificial incubation of young snakes. It is hot in summer, so it is necessary to do a good job of cooling the snake nest, have clean drinking water in the snake farm, and clean up the feces in time. Therefore, the supply of snake feed in autumn requires high quality and large quantity, and autumn is the peak season for snake predation. So as to store a large amount of fat in the snake for the body to consume in winter and hibernation in the next year.
At this time, individual snakes with small food intake should be artificially fed to make them safe for the winter. Because wild snakes prey heavily in autumn and often go out for food, it is also a good time to catch snake species. Keeping snakes in wooden boxes indoors is easy to feed every day, and it is very regular, which effectively prevents precious poisonous snakes from wandering around and losing, protects the assets of snake owners, and can also classify snakes in designated boxes to prevent conflicts between different species.
How to raise snakes and what boxes are suitable? 2. How to make a wooden box for raising snakes?
1. The production of snake boxes for raising snakes in wooden boxes can be determined according to the specific number and size of snakes. It can support about 4 to 5 snakes per cubic meter, with a length of 1 meter. Under normal circumstances, only snakes of the same kind or similar size can be supported in the snake box to avoid snake biting.
2. The inner wall of the snake box needs to be smooth. The top of the box must be drilled with several air holes, sealed with iron windows and screens, and equipped with a sliding door. A fixed stake should be set in the center of the bottom of the snake box for the snake to shed its skin, and a layer of fine sand about 5 cm thick should be laid at the bottom of the snake box. In winter, straw with a thickness of about 10cm should be spread on the sand, and a basin should be placed in the corner of the snake box for snakes to drink.
3. The species of snakes in stock mainly include Agkistrodon acutus, Agkistrodon halys, cauliflower snake, etc. The main food of snakes cultured in wooden boxes is small animals. Frogs can be thrown into the box every day. The number of frogs thrown mainly depends on the amount of food eaten by snakes. If they haven't finished eating, they don't need to throw it away. Generally, five days is enough for a snake to eat a frog.
4. At the same time, always clean up the hygiene in the snake box and change the water in the basin. If you find a snake with symptoms, you should take it out for isolation treatment to avoid infecting other snakes.
The purchase time of snakes
The best time to buy seeds is May. Because most of the snakes in this period have been mated, putting the mated snakes into the indoor snake box for breeding will quickly adapt to the new environment and there will be no commotion and escape, so the snakes are relatively stable and easy to manage.
If you don't buy matching snakes and put them in a box for breeding, it is difficult to adapt to estrus for a period of time. At this time, it will refuse to eat materials, causing dissatisfaction and anxiety, knocking over the water in the pot and wetting the box. If it happens to meet cold and rainy weather and mildew and rainy season, snakes will soon suffer from skin diseases and eat less food.
If you choose to introduce in April-May, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and sometimes even the bad weather of low temperature and rainy weather will appear continuously. Therefore, no matter how many snakes are attracted, they should be placed in a stable indoor temperature to prevent the snakes from catching cold, preventing the temperature from being too high or too low, and preventing the snakes from getting sick before they arrive.
The advantages of keeping snakes
Snakes can be said to be full of treasures, and the market for snake meat and snake products is very good. Therefore, artificial snake breeding has also become a good way for farmers' friends and laid-off workers to get rid of poverty and become rich. However, in order to protect rare wild animals and maintain the ecological balance of nature, the state promulgated and implemented the Wildlife Protection Law. Dozens of poisonous snakes, such as bungarus multicinctus, cobra and king cobra, are included in the scope of legal protection.
Due to the increasing protection of this kind of snake species by law enforcement departments all over the country, many farmers have incomplete licenses and raise without licenses, so they have become targets of attack. Faced with this phenomenon, snake experts reminded that vegetable snake is an edible variety outside the scope of national legal protection, and its nutritional value and taste are equivalent to those of protected snakes such as Bungarus multicinctus.
Under the premise of national efforts to protect rare poisonous snakes, vegetable snakes are bound to become popular in the market and become a substitute for protecting snake species. Its large sales volume, broad prospects and high benefits are predictable. In addition, vegetable snakes are all non-toxic or low-toxic varieties, with gentle temperament, wide feeding habits, strong cold resistance and disease resistance, high reproduction rate and fast growth of young snakes.
Will not bring unexpected personal injury to farmers. It can be seen that the cultivation of vegetable snakes is the key to avoid stepping into misunderstanding and success, which not only protects rare snakes, but also meets the market demand, and can also bring high efficiency and success to farmers.
How to get a kind of snake by raising snakes artificially?
First, capture in the wild.
After obtaining the relevant certificates and the permission of the relevant departments to raise snakes, you can go to the wild to catch snakes yourself, and then carry out strict screening before you can raise and breed. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the best season to catch all kinds of snakes every year. When the outside temperature rises to above 18℃, snakes will crawl out of their hibernating places to bask in the sun, because they have just finished hibernating for several months and their physical strength has not fully recovered, so they look lazy and have no resistance at all.
So snakes are easy to catch at this time. In addition, the snake in this situation is not in a hurry to find food to eat after leaving the nest, but concentrates on finding a mate to mate. Once the mated snakes are caught, they will lay eggs or give birth in June and July soon after entering the farm. The first young snake after screening is suitable for breeding when it grows up.
Second, introduce snake farms.
If the local wild resources are scarce, it is necessary to directly introduce and cultivate snakes in snake farms with long time, large scale, mature technology and good reputation. In the process of introduction, we must check the relevant certificates of the snake farm, carefully ask about the age, specific feeding habits and related management methods of the snakes to be introduced, do a good job in feeding standard for planting snakes, minimize the phenomenon of "acclimatization" caused by introduction in different places, and let the snakes adapt to the new environment as soon as possible.
How to raise snakes and what boxes are suitable for raising snakes 3. Well-ventilated wooden boxes, plastic boxes and glass boxes are used as feeding containers. It is suggested to put newspapers, blankets or pebbles in the box, which can make the box easy to clean and make the snake live relatively comfortably.
Tips: Wild snakes belong to wild protected animals. Protect wild animals from themselves, refuse to buy and sell wild animal products, and do not interfere with the free life of wild animals. At present, the consumption of precious and endangered wild animals in society is not only a bad social atmosphere, but also one of the reasons why illegal hunting and killing of precious and endangered wild animals are repeatedly prohibited. If you don't buy or sell, you won't be killed. Put an end to eating wild animals. They don't belong to the table.
Treatment of poisonous snake bite
The local routine treatment of poisonous snake bites refers to taking emergency rescue measures in the shortest time after being bitten by poisonous snakes, including early ligation, debridement and detoxification, cauterization, acupuncture, cupping and detoxification, closed treatment and local medication.
Local routine treatment should be carried out at the scene of snake injury, and the faster the treatment, the better the effect. If a person is bitten by a snake, he should immediately burn the wound with 5-7 matchsticks to destroy the local snake venom. He can also use acupuncture or cupping to remove venom from wounds or surrounding areas. In order to delay the absorption of snake venom by the wound
Tie it with a belt 3-5 cm near the heart. It should be tight enough to block lymphatic and venous reflux without disturbing arterial blood flow, and then relax every 15-20 minutes, each time 1-2 minutes. In order to avoid limb necrosis caused by blood circulation disorder for too long, it should not be more than 2 hours after emergency treatment, and the ligation should be lifted immediately.
Within 1 ~ 2 hours after being bitten by a snake, make a cross incision at the wound, with a length of 2-3cm and a depth below the dermis, which can reach 2-3cm if no important nerves and blood vessels pass through. If there is any poisonous tooth residue in the wound, it should be taken out. After washing the wound repeatedly, put the injured limb in a drooping posture and put an ice pack around it to reduce the absorption of snake venom. It should be noted that it is not advisable to expand detoxification for venomous snake bites with blood circulation, so as to avoid wound bleeding, and tetanus antitoxin is routinely used for treatment.
Within 0.5- 1 hour after being bitten by a snake, local sealing should be done as soon as possible if possible, and 2 ml of corresponding serum or 2000U trypsin or 4ml 10- 15% disodium EDTA should be mixed with 5-20 ml of 0.25-0.5% procaine solution and dehydrating agent respectively.
Swelling limbs can be externally applied with traditional Chinese medicines with the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain, such as using Shuangbai powder, Platycladus orientalis leaves, rhubarb, phellodendron amurense, mint and Zezhi, and adding water and honey for hot compress, which will have a good effect. Patients with local necrosis and ulcer should be treated by surgical treatment of traditional Chinese and western medicine.
Raising snakes requires more professional knowledge. Everyone must choose the right way to raise snakes, because it may hurt you. It is a good way to raise snakes in wooden boxes. The specific situation of making wooden boxes depends on the number and size of snakes. But the quality of wooden cases must be good to prevent snakes from escaping.