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How to save money on snapping turtle farming this year!

2022-02-23 / 452 Read

With the price of snapping turtles plummeting this year, have you ever thought about how to breed them to save money on the feed of snapping turtles? In turtle farming, according to different seasons and conditions, By adopting the following five feed cost management methods, the feed cost can be saved by 20% to 40%, and the breeding efficiency can be increased by about 20%.

How

Choose bait according to the season. When other bait is less in spring, contact the cold storage farm (factory) and restaurant to buy one or two yuan at a low price 1 bucket of chicken heads, chicken intestines, mutton scraps, leftovers, etc. are fed to snapping turtles, and flies and earthworms are raised at very low or no cost in summer and autumn, and snails and small fish are caught or purchased. , can reduce feed investment by 30% to 40%.

Change the baiting method and change the water baiting to shore baiting, so as to prevent the water baiting from sinking to the bottom, the snapping turtles cannot pick up food cleanly, causing waste and polluting the water quality and endangering the turtle's health. Putting the bait on the shore and letting the snapping turtles climb ashore to feed will help breeders to observe and understand the feeding habits and feed intake of the turtles. Type cycle, which can save 5% to 15% of bait investment.

There are four types of breeding methods: turtle and fish, turtle, frog and loach, turtle and earthworm, turtle and mandarin duck in the same pool. Save 50% on pool facilities.

Incandescent lamps installed on the pool surface can be used in summer and autumn to attract various insects to fly into the pool water continuously for feeding turtles. This method must be adhered to for a long time, so that the turtles develop the habit of feeding at night, which can reduce the amount of feeding during the day by 20% to 50%.

According to statistics, the best effect is to mix and feed 20% earthworms, 20% fly maggots, 40% snail meat and 20% small trash fish. Use livestock and poultry slaughtering scraps of 75%, bone meal 1%, rice (corn flour, cooked sweet potato can be) 24%, antibiotics and conventional livestock and poultry growth hormones are appropriate, after mixing, use a meat grinder to grind into shredded meat, and put it in Allowing turtles to feed on the shore or on the bait platform can make the daily weight gain rate of snapping turtle hatchlings reach 2.8%, and young turtles can reach 1.5%. This method saves more than 10% of concentrate compared to feeding a single variety bait.