1. Characteristics
Pearl badger is native to the northern part of South America and other regions, weighing about 0.3 ~ 0.4 kilograms, the body length of about 18 ~ 25 centimeters, the head is small, slightly flattened, the neck is short, oval at the end of the mouth, the mouth side of the sparse long whiskers, the upper and lower jaws have a pair of long and sharp incisors, the limbs are short.
2. Sexual cycle
Under good breeding management conditions, it can reproduce normally throughout the year and is basically similar to other mammals. The vagina is engorged and swollen before estrus. The female badger takes the initiative to approach the male badger. Its sexual cycle is 9 to 10 days, estrus time can last 8 to 10 hours, mostly from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next day, generally female badgers 30 days old, male badgers 40 days old can reach sexual maturity. Although badgers have early maturity characteristics, but should not be too early to mate, to wait for both male and female to reach the mating time and then delayed 5 to 10 days to mate for the best time. Badgers have a lifespan of 8 years and an optimal breeding period of 5 years.
3. Feeding management
To raise a good pearl badger and make it meet the nutritional and pharmacological needs of the market, it is necessary to reasonably match the feed according to its different stages of growth and development.
The first stage: the first feeding badger cubs: corn 32%, soybean cake 24%, salt 0.5%;
The second stage: the weight of 100 ~ 150 grams of young badgers: corn 30.5%, soybean cake 22%, bran 23.9%, peanut vines (grass meal) 21.3%, bone meal 1.8%, salt 0.5%;
The third stage: the weight of 150 ~ 200 grams of young badgers. 150 to 200 grams of young badgers: corn 31.2%, soybean cake 20.3, wheat bran 20%, peanut vines (grass flour) 26.5%, bone meal 1.5%, salt 0.5%.
Feed the above mixture with warm water, also need to feed some juicy green fodder, such as carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, pasture, etc. (but should not be fed too much, too much is easy to cause diarrhea)
4. Rapid fattening
This method makes full use of the advantages of pearl badger's early growth and development of fast, and take measures to make it out of the barn in a short time.
5. Main features:
First, high nutrition, badger cubs 12 to 14 days after weaning male and female cages directly transferred to the fattening group, take free feeding.
Second, each square meter of cage bottom area to raise about 40, in order to reduce the amount of activity, improve feed efficiency.
Third, control temperature and humidity. The temperature is 15 to 25 degrees Celsius, humidity between 60% and 65%, keep the air clear.
6. Disease prevention
To do a good job of cage trough disinfection, available 0.01% to 0.05% potassium permanganate solution or 0.05% neosporin solution soak: the cub box can be used to 5% Lysol or 0.3% agrofoo solution disinfection; walls, floors and playgrounds can be used to 10% to 20% quicklime, 5% to 20% bleach disinfection; mosquitoes, flies, etc. can be used to 1-2% trichlorfon solution or bromethalin solution. Mosquitoes and flies can be sprayed with 1% to 2% trichlorfon solution or cypermethrin solution. Disinfected farm buildings and the environment generally can not allow idle people to go in, to prevent the disease will be brought in. Pearl badger is small, fat and lovely, gentle, well-behaved pearl badger is a set of game, ornamental, medicinal, health care, fur
equal to one of the special economic animals, is a favorite family pet and delicious food.
Pearl badger meat is tender and flavorful, is low-fat, low-cholesterol meat, by the latest research shows that the pearl badger contains zinc and selenium and other anti-cancer
substances, is an ideal nutritional tonic health food in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, a box of roasted pearl badger price of 90 yuan. Badger oil can be used to treat
burns, internal use has the effect of stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis, but also to make high-grade cosmetics, the liver and gallbladder can be directly into the medicine, with the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification
use. The bladder to cure enuresis, claws soak wine can cure neurasthenia, tonic kidney, bone can be extracted chitin and other scarce pharmaceutical raw materials for the production of yak
Strong Bone Powder, Gaiten Force, etc., is an unparalleled health care products. The pearl badger is also a widely used experimental animal for modern research.
Pearl badger fur by the chemical kneading system after the hair color bright and close, can make high-grade fur coat, hat collar, etc., after hair removal and kneading out of the soft surface
leather can be done in a variety of leather bags, fur toys, gloves, known as the new century's hottest gold farming, with a wide range of market development
prospects. According to reports, at present, the products processed with pearl badger is a hot commodity in the international market, the domestic popular in Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou, Fu
Jian, Shenzhen, Haikou and other large and medium-sized cities, the gap is large, and the demand exceeds the supply.
Pearl badger is omnivorous animals, by the Jiangsu Province, Rugao City, Rugao City, Snowbank Town, South Ling breeding service center selection, improvement, far line purification, cultivation
Breeding weight up to 600-800 grams of the new strain, beyond the original species of 500 grams of conventional weight. Feed for a variety of weeds, vegetable leaves, plant stems
leaves, root pieces, crop stalks, feed costs are extremely low, adaptable to the environment, year-round breeding. China from south to north, from east
to west, can be cultured pearl badger. The reproduction rate is high, the litter size is 12-18, the growth of badger cubs is fast, and they can be sold in about 2 months. It is a new breed of badger with the features of quick release
and high efficiency.