You can get rich by raising turtles all year round in Gantang Township, Tongzhou District. Now Gantang Township has been changed to Lucheng Town. For the detailed address of turtle breeding, please consult the Lucheng Town Agricultural Service Center. The phone number is: 010-59581034

The following is a piece of news about the turtles there, which are quite famous in the local area.

Turtles are delicious, but they are too expensive, and many people dare not afford them. Soft-shelled turtles like warm temperatures, and it is cold in the north. You can only see soft-shelled turtles in summer. However, Gantang Township in Tongzhou District uses plastic greenhouses to cultivate soft-shell turtles all year round. Since 1999, more than 3,000 kilograms of commercial soft-shell turtles and 3,000 soft-shell turtle eggs have entered the capital’s wet markets and served on people’s dining tables.

The turtles in this farm were introduced by Gantang Township in 1996 when it adjusted its agricultural structure. After several years of continuous efforts, they purchased books, consulted experts, and had the courage to practice, and finally explored a complete set of breeding methods suitable for the northern environment. Zeng Ping, the director of the breeding plant, introduced the situation to us without any secret. Soft-shell turtles are also called turtles. They cannot live without water, let alone temperature. If the temperature is below 12℃, they will not eat, drink or sleep. It is between 5℃ and 35℃. Therefore, plastic greenhouses and greenhouses should be built in the farms, and heating should be installed. From May to September every year, they are cultured in Luotian Pond, and in the rest of the time they are put into greenhouses and greenhouses. Summer is their breeding season. In open-air ponds, males and females are mixed at a ratio of 6:1. Egg laying begins in June and lasts until September. During this period, a soft-shell turtle can lay twenty or thirty eggs. The turtles are hatched using the original method of burying them in sand, but they are just placed in a movable drawer box. After a day or two of laying soft-shell turtle eggs, the fertilized eggs can be separated. If half of the egg turns white and the boundary between the animal pole and the biological pole is clear, it is a colored egg. Eggs that do not change in color are white eggs and can be sold as commercial eggs. Hatching turtles is different from hatching chickens and ducks, because the male and female are not determined in the egg, but are determined by the incubation temperature. If the temperature is high, more male turtles will hatch. On the contrary, if the temperature is low, more female turtles will hatch. From the current price, we know that newly hatched turtles can only be sold for 5 yuan each in the market. After several years of experiments, more than 20,000 turtles were hatched in 1999, with a survival rate of over 90%, reaching Ideal technical indicators for maximum success.

Finally, Director Zeng introduced that this is a high-risk, high-benefit project, but it has great development prospects. Our breeding fish has expanded from the original 10,000 to 40,000, and is still expanding. Soon, the surrounding farmers will become rich together.