Today I will continue to talk about the breeding guide of the honey bag shrew, but let's talk about an interesting thing before that.
Whether it is cats, dogs, or hamsters, rabbits, chubby is always a big cute point for animals, like the giant panda, which is famous for its fat cuteness, and people have been nicknamed "rolling", which is simply fatter and more likable.
But look at us humans, whether boys or girls, obesity is not a popular feature in most contexts and situations, and the offensive words "dead fat man" and "dead fat house" do not know how many obese people have been hurt.
This is also one of the differences between humans and animals, as the saying goes, cute is justice, plush animals are cute even if they are fat, but if people are too fat, they seem to become criticized shortcomings, sometimes even children.
Well, back to the point, many shovelers will fall into a thinking misunderstanding in the process of raising pets, that is, they think that the fatter the pet, the better, maybe they think that the fatter the pet means the better life and the better the conditions.
In fact, if it is in a healthy range, fat point is indeed better than thin point, but once it exceeds this range, it is excessive obesity, which affects health and life expectancy.
Although the honey bag shrew is very small, but there are often shovelers to raise them particularly fat, overweight honey bag shrew in the mouth of enthusiasts often called "honey bag pig", but it is also quite image. For example, the following picture is an overweight honey bag shrew.
Through the past few years of pet and animal science popularization work, I have also seen all kinds of shovelers.
There is such a kind of shoveler, they are not willing to believe those theories and views that are contrary to their previous understanding, or do not think that they are wrong, do not accept the correct science. "How do I keep a pet, can you take care of it?" is their mantra.
But there are still more rational shovelers in this world, who really love their pets and are willing to learn some breeding methods and theoretical knowledge that they may not have mastered.
So this article is only suitable for responsible shovelers who really want to raise honey bag shrews well and follow the science of breeding.
Excessive obesity is mostly eaten, we need to first talk about what the honey bag shrew should eat, what should not eat.
Wild honey marsappers are omnivores that prefer to eat leaves, shoots, nectar, honey, spotted flowers, fruits, sap, mollusks and arthropods, which are essential foods for them. As a pet, we need to restore the honey bag shrew's wild diet as much as possible.
Although things like sap, nectar, and young leaves are not easy to do, the honey bag shrew has an alternative food, which is their staple food, the honey bag shrew brewed staple food.
Honey bag squid brewed food is divided into many kinds, some are powdery, some are paste-like, the ingredients are different, including fresh juice powder, high-protein nutritional powder, egg powder, cereal flour, wheat germ, honey (eucalyptus honey), vitamin powder, baby food supplement rice flour, etc., made into easy to preserve powder or paste, paste if you need to freeze preservation, when needed to brew with warm water.
In addition to brewing grains, honeydews need to eat fresh fruits, vegetables and live insects every day.
Fruits and vegetables can be checked for the types that pets can eat and are not allergens, such as onions, grapes, mangoes, "vegetables and fruits that dogs can't eat", and honey bag shrews basically can't eat.
Live insects are very necessary, and honey bag shrews that are not fed live insects will have some problems more or less, one is that the insects themselves contain different protein types from other meats, and there are ingredients that other meats such as chitin and chitin do not contain.
Shovelers can buy live bread worms, barley worms, crickets, Dobia, corn worms, etc. online to raise at home, these bugs are raised as feed, so they also need high-quality food to become better feed, bringing honey bag shrews stronger physique and more adequate nutritional needs.
During the day, honey bag shrews need to sleep, so the best time to feed each day is at night when the honey bag shrews just come out to move.
The amount of food needs to be grasped by the shoveler himself, and the amount of food can be tried several times at the beginning, so that the honey bag can be eaten twice as the best. Because every night after the first fullness of the honey bag, it will rest quietly for a while and then play, digest and digest and continue to eat the grain that has not been eaten just now.
If the amount is too small, it will be eaten at one time, which is not enough to consume the activities in the middle of the night; too much is a waste on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will make the honey bag shrew overnutrition.
If the honey bag shrew wakes up during the day and crawls out of the nest to move, then the shoveler can feed it some fruit or live insects at this time, and if it is not awake, don't argue with it.
Female honey marsaches during the nursery period need to adjust the diet composition, give more fruit and high-protein foods, and increase the supply of live insects.
Because taking a child is actually a very energy-consuming process, it will also lose a lot of nutrients through breastfeeding, so it is necessary to increase the supplementation of nutrition, so that the health of the cubs can also be guaranteed. But usually it is best not to do this, overnutrition is not a good thing, it is easy to become fat.
Honey bag shrew is a very much need for movement of animals, so the cage must be a metal cage with a grid, it is best to add some silent running wheels, rope knots, rope ladders, hammocks and other toys in the cage, so that the honey bag shrew can be fully exercised, consuming excess energy and energy.
Obese honey bag shrew can not be cute first put aside, first of all, their action will become very difficult, fat will accumulate under the skin and internal organs, cardiovascular and organ burden increases, easy to induce hypertension, high blood lipids, heart disease, arthritis and other diseases, serious will also lead to organ failure, breathing difficulties, cardiac emergency stop.
Difficulty in moving makes it impossible to climb the cage freely, let alone glide, resulting in less exercise and becoming more obese, which is a vicious circle.
And if the honey bag shrew is excessively obese, then when the danger comes (it is possible that you do not feel dangerous, but the honey bag shrew is afraid) they cannot escape quickly, which may lead to acute stress disorder.
So health is the most important thing, excessive obesity, although cute, but not at all good for pets.