The king snake, whose scientific name is Wang Jin snake, is a kind of large snake that is very common in temperate zone. It is non-toxic and feeds on its own strong body and strong winding force. It's named because it has a pattern like a king on its head. The snake has many advantages, such as large size, cold tolerance, strong adaptability, fast growth, short feeding cycle, easy feeding and hatching, etc. Many snake farms or snake farmers, especially the northern provinces and regions, mostly regard it as the breeding object of non-poisonous snakes. Let me share the breeding technology of King Snake for you!

First, the living habits of the king snake

The king snake has a wide diet, preys on frogs, birds, rats and eggs for a living, and even devours its own young snakes or similar ones when food is scarce. Because the king snake has the habit of eating snakes, some places call him the king snake. Although the king snake doesn't specialize in snakes like the king cobra, it needs to be paid attention to when raising, and it should be kept in columns in time to avoid the tragedy of the big snake eating the little king snake. In our daily management, we need to pay attention to their food, add food to the king snake in time, and ensure the sufficiency and diversification of its bait. This is also the main reason why the artificially bred king snake must be raised alone and cannot be mixed with other non-toxic snakes.

Snakes' teeth generally grow on the teeth bones of maxilla, palate and mandible, and lower snakes also have teeth on their premolars, which are generally conical and help bite food. Non-poisonous snakes have two or four rows of sharp solid teeth, which can be hooked after biting food, and cooperate with the rotation of the mandible to send food to the pharynx. All snakes do not have the function of chewing, but swallow directly. In addition to solid teeth, some poisonous snakes have one or several pairs of long tubular teeth or fluted teeth at the front or rear end of the maxilla. When this kind of snake preys, it injects venom into the wound of the bitten object, and then slowly swallows it after the bitten object is poisoned to death.

Breeding technology of king snake

Except for the lower burrowing snakes, most snakes have the ability to swallow food several times larger than their own diameter or four or five times larger than their heads. For example, pythons can swallow whole pigs, lambs or calves. It turns out that the snake's mandible is connected by a movable square bone, and the left and right mandibles are connected by ligaments at the chin. Therefore, the snake's mouth can not only be extremely wide up and down, but also reach 130. A man's mouth can only be opened by 30. ), it can also enlarge the mandible to the left and right respectively, which is a special function that many other animals do not have.

Second, the breeding density of the king snake

Appropriate feeding density is beneficial to the growth of Agkistrodon halys. Young snakes just hatched are small, with a body length of 25 ~ 35 cm and poor mobility. At this time, the feeding density can be higher, and 80 ~100 (about one per square meter of snake house can be stocked. After 15 days,15 of the total number of young snakes is picked out, and the density is appropriately reduced to 60-80. When the young snake molts for three times, the density can be reduced to about 45 ~ 55 per square meter. When the young snake grows to about 50 grams, the stocking density can be reduced to 0/0 per square meter. For some fast-growing snakes, when the weight reaches about 800 grams, it is appropriate to have about 5 snakes per square meter. Under the condition of three-dimensional culture, the stocking density can be greatly increased, for example, it is appropriate to raise about 20 young snakes with a weight of 500 grams per square meter.

Another point to note is that although the snake is non-venomous, it is fierce, aggressive and aggressive, and dares to compete with Agkistrodon acutus and Cobra among poisonous snakes. More importantly, it has the habit of cannibalizing the same kind or other snakes. Therefore, the snake can only be cultured alone and cannot be mixed with other non-venomous snakes. It is not advisable to mix several kinds of snakes simply to improve the breeding density.

In a word, the feeding density of Agkistrodon halys depends on the management experience of the breeder, the environment of the farm and the supply of bait. On the premise that all conditions can be met, the density can be increased a little and the space utilization rate can be improved. If the conditions are not ripe, the density must be reduced, so as to prevent the tragedy that the big snake eats the small snake and the strong snake eats the weak snake, and reduce the loss of breeding as much as possible from the management means.