草龟的养殖（Grass turtle farming）.doc

草龟的养殖（Grass turtle farming） The tortoise is commonly known as the grass tortoise, which is the most widely distributed among Chinese turtles. Its body is a treasure, has higher edible, medicinal and ornamental value. The tortoise is long elliptic, the back a slightly uplifted, has 3 longitudinal edges, the ridge is obvious. The head is black olive, the front skin is smooth, the rear is fine scales. The abdomen is flat and the back end is lacking. The neck, limbs, and exposed skin are grey or black olive. Males are small, long and smelly. Female carapace from light brown to dark brown, dark brown belly armor, a short tail, no peculiar smell. The grass turtle strong adaptability to the environment, water quality requirement is lower, have greater tolerance to poor water quality, high density cultivation, without killing each other phenomenon, low prevalence. A turtles life habit 1. Amphibious The tortoise is breathing in the lungs, the body surface has the horniness of the nail film, can reduce the water evaporation. The sexually mature turtle lays its eggs on land and does not need to go through a complete aquatic phase. 2. The universality of food Tortoises are omnivorous animals. In nature, animal feed mainly includes worms, fish, shrimp, snails, clams, clams, earthworms and animal carcasses and viscera, hot pig blood, etc. Plant feed is mainly plant stem, melon peel, wheat bran and so on. 3. Obvious stages One is the feeding phase. In late April, the food intake (15 degrees of water temperature began to be taken, more than 18 degrees of normal feeding), about 2 to 3 percent of the weight of the tortoise. 6-8 months of high food intake, about 5 to 6 percent; In October, the food intake fell, about 1 to 2 percent. The second is the dormant stage. The turtle is a warming animal whose body temperature changes with the temperature of the outside world. From November to April, when the temperature is below 10 degrees, the tortoise dives into the bottom of the pool or li