Ground turtle is a wild insect herb, the medicinal value is extremely high, wild ground turtle like to live in dark, damp, humus-rich loose soil, generally in some soil, wooden house wall roots can be seen, but with the progress of society, their living environment is destroyed, coupled with a large number of catches, so the wild is extremely rare. However, the market demand is extremely large, so the artificial breeding of turtles is gradually rising, especially after israeli scientists introduced turtles in China, after scientific induction, let its eating habits be further improved, becoming a special digestion of kitchen waste environmental protection insects, let's learn the breeding technology of Israeli turtles.
1. Site construction
Israeli turtles like to live in dark, damp, humus-rich loose soil, so there are higher requirements for soil when rearing, first of all, choose humus-rich, loose and fertile garden soil or sandy loam soil, add some chicken manure, pig manure or grass and wood ash, placed in the sun exposure can be made. Afraid of light, so it is generally diurnal and nocturnal, the most suitable growth temperature at 28-30 degrees, below 0 degrees or higher than 38 degrees will cause a large number of deaths. Therefore, in the breeding to build a suitable environment for its growth, breeding methods such as pot culture, cabinet culture, box culture can be.
2. Management of Israeli turtle larvae
Larval rearing is a very critical step in breeding, in the incubation to keep the humidity of the feeding soil at about 40%, the temperature is between 25-30 degrees, after a month of incubation, the larvae break the shell. The larvae and the mother are kept separately during the incubator and larval rearing period, as the mother often eats the larvae and eggs. When the larvae are 1-4 days old, it is the juvenile stage, when the body is weak, the feeding is mainly intensive feeding, and the feed is evenly sprinkled on the feeding soil, and then turned into the soil layer 2-3cm to prevent the larvae from escaping.
3. Breeding and management of Israeli turtles
Israeli turtles are omnivorous animals, kitchen waste, plant feed such as wheat bran, rice bran, cake meal, and a variety of melons, fruits and vegetables, animal earthworms, crickets, etc., feed sources are wide. There are strict requirements for temperature and humidity, in the suitable growth temperature of 25-30 degrees, 8 degrees below the hibernation, 10 degrees to start active eating, below 0 degrees will freeze to death, above 28 degrees will heat death. Therefore, in the summer breeding time to supply sufficient drinking water, often spray water to the breeding production area, maintain the humidity of the feeding soil, reduce the temperature, in the winter to keep dry, feed semi-dry wet material, when the low temperature can be used straw and other warm measures, spring to maintain humidity in 70%-80%, let it grow rapidly. In the breeding time should also pay attention to the breeding density, generally 1 day old per square meter can be raised 1.5 kg, with the increase of day-to-day age, the daily decrease of 0.1-0.2 kg.
4. Insect pests and diseases of the Israeli turtle and natural enemies
In the feeding will suffer from a variety of diseases and insect pests and natural enemies of the harm, the main diseases are belly disease and fungal infection disease, belly disease prevention and control method is to adjust the dry humidity of feed and feeding soil, moisture should not exceed 10%; and fungal infection disease prevention and control method is to change the feeding soil, timely disinfection and sterilization, and then use 0.25 grams of tetracycline grinding powder after mixing feeding can be cured. Insect pests have mites, ants and rats, cats, snakes, etc., in the breeding time to pay attention to the blockade of the breeding site, do not have other insect pests can take advantage of the opportunity, for ants and mites this small pest, you can apply tung oil, sticky substances on the pool wall, mites can be controlled with drugs.