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Which one is more profitable, breeding centipedes or geckos?

From the current point of view, the prospect of centipede breeding is still profitable. As a medicinal animal, the price of centipedes after processing and soaking is 1.8-1.9 yuan/piece for a large centipede up to 12 cm in length in Haozhou Medicine Market, 1.2-1.3 yuan/piece for a medium centipede (length 10-12 cm), and 0.6-0.7 yuan/piece for a small centipede (length 6.7-10 cm). Please note that this is the price of the processed dried centipede. Moreover, fried centipedes are gradually accepted by some people, and the sales price is said to be 3 yuan per centipede. Centipedes were mostly caught in the wild in the past. In recent years, with the intensification of environmental pollution, people's indiscriminate capture and the continuous expansion of the scope of application, the wild centipede resources have become increasingly exhausted, and the supply is very short. From this perspective, breeding centipedes is a good way to get rich.

1. Therapeutic value

In terms of dietary therapy and nourishment, centipedes are rich in a variety of trace elements needed by the human body. They have the effects of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, maintaining beauty, and preventing cancer and dispersing knots. In major cities in my country, eating centipedes has become a trend. Centipedes can be fried, pan-fried, roasted, or cooked in soup. The pet "golden dragon fish" raised by royal relatives and wealthy people in various countries also eats golden-headed centipedes as their main food.

2. Medicinal Value

With the rapid development of science and technology, international medical institutions no longer require Chinese medicine products to be simple products with known structures, but can be mixtures with fixed ingredients, stable efficacy, and safety and reliability. As a traditional Chinese medicine, centipedes have always been favored by the international pharmaceutical market, especially developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia, which import a large number of centipedes from my country every year, making them a hot export product of Chinese animal medicinal materials.

Dried gecko, also known as Tianlong, is a Chinese medicinal material. Its therapeutic range is mainly suitable for stroke, hemiplegia, and rheumatoid arthritis. Modern medicine also uses it to fight cancer.

It takes six months for a gecko to grow from birth to commercial size, and it can be sold when its body length exceeds 12 centimeters. According to farmers, a farm of 200 square meters can sell 700,000 dried geckos a year, and after deducting the cost of labor and feed, the annual profit can reach 700,000 yuan.

Centipede breeding and management

Centipede is also known as "Sky Dragon" and "Hundred Foot", and has high medicinal value. Artificial breeding of centipede takes up little space, has low cost, does not delay work, has strong adaptability, high reproduction rate, and is easy to manage. Now I will take you to learn more about the breeding and management of centipede.

Centipede breeding management 1. Controlled breeding

To control centipedes, you can use various forms such as breeding pools, breeding tanks, and breeding tanks, but they should all be prevented from escaping. The walls of the breeding pool can be made of glass or plastic cloth, and ditches can be built around to prevent centipedes from escaping.

When breeding centipedes artificially, it is very important to ensure the survival rate of centipede larvae. Centipedes need certain environmental conditions to lay eggs, hatch and raise young, so timely strengthening of management and protection is of great significance to ensure the smooth completion of reproduction and centipede hatching.

2. Isolation of pregnant females.

Centipedes require a quiet environment for laying eggs and hatching. If disturbed, females often eat eggs or even young ones. It has been observed that in the same breeding pond, the time of female egg laying is very inconsistent. The activities of females that have not laid eggs and male centipedes often interfere with and disrupt the normal egg laying and hatching. Some even snatch eggs. Therefore, before the females lay eggs, they should be raised in separate tanks, or isolated in large breeding ponds with glass sheets, bottomless glass cups, cans, tiles, etc.

3. Strengthen feeding and increase nutrition before delivery.

Centipedes do not eat or drink water during the incubation period, and rely on consuming their own nutrients to maintain activities. Before laying eggs, the female has the habit of eating a lot to accumulate nutrients. At this time, the feeding amount should be increased, and attention should be paid to adjusting the food types to encourage the female to eat more and increase nutrition before hatching.

4. Supervision during the incubation period.

During the period of centipedes incubating eggs and raising their young, they will react to disturbance, vibration, strong light, strong sound, etc. Therefore, the breeding room must be a quiet and dark place. It is best to install red light in the room and cover the windows with cloth or bamboo curtains to prevent strong exposure. The incubation tank in the room should be placed in advance and should not be moved easily once the eggs are laid. The experimental personnel should be careful to observe and should not move the protective glass slides (tiles) casually or use flashlights to shine.

No feeding is required during the incubation period, but since it is midsummer, if the humidity in the incubation nest is too low, it will affect the normal development of the embryo, so water should be added to the incubation tank in due time. When adding water, it should be poured slowly along the wall of the tank to make the inner wall around the incubation nest slightly moist. Do not sprinkle water directly into the nest, and do not make the humidity in the nest too high.

After the incubation, the young centipedes will temporarily form a group, but they can also move around and forage alone. At this time, the females will gradually leave the incubation nest and move around alone. Because centipedes compete for food and the big ones eat the small ones, the females should be removed in time or the young ones should be raised separately.

5. Individual growth laws.

Under artificial feeding conditions, centipedes can reach the standard of small medicinal strips (8 cm) in two years, and close to the standard of large strips two years later. Therefore, it can be inferred that it takes 2-3 years for artificial breeding of centipedes, from the laying of eggs and hatching of captured adult centipedes to the provision of medicinal purposes.

Centipede egg laying and hatching Centipedes are oviparous. Every year in late spring and early summer, the eggs in the ovaries gradually develop and mature. Generally, the number of eggs laid is 20 to 60, mostly 40 to 50, and some less than 10. The egg-laying season is from late June to early August, that is, from the summer solstice to the beginning of autumn, and the peak egg-laying period is early and mid-July. Before laying eggs, the centipede's abdomen is almost close to the ground, and it digs a shallow cave by itself. When laying eggs, the centipede's body is bent into an S shape, the back legs are propped up, the tail legs are upturned, and the antennae are stretched forward, and then the strings of eggs are discharged from the reproductive opening one by one. If there is no external disturbance, the smooth egg-laying process takes about 2 to 3 hours. After laying eggs, the centipede then cleverly turns its body sideways, uses its legs to hold the eggs together into a ball, and holds them in its arms to hatch. If disturbed during egg laying, the centipede will stop laying eggs or eat all the eggs being hatched. This is the so-called protective reaction of the centipede. The incubation period of the centipede is as long as 43 to 50 days. During this period, the female centipede will not leave the eggs or larvae, and will carefully guard them. Sometimes the lower body and antennae will swing and sweep from time to time to drive away small insects close to it, and often use its claws to fiddle with or suck the egg mass and larvae. It is speculated that the centipede may be secreting some secretions from the oral glands and basal glands to prevent the egg mass from being invaded by bacteria or other dirt.

The eggs are oval and vary in size. The diameter of the eggs is about 3 to 3.5 meters, beige and translucent. The egg membrane is elastic, and the egg mass hatches slowly. There is no significant change in the first 5 days, but it gradually turns from beige to white; half a month later, the egg grows into a kidney shape, splits in the middle, and the egg grows to 5 mm; 20 days later, it becomes a crescent shape, with tiny claws faintly visible, and the egg is about 7 mm; 1 month later, it begins to take on the shape of a juvenile, with a body length of about 1.2 cm, and can wriggle in the arms of the mother centipede; 35 to 40 days later, the juvenile centipede grows to 1.5 cm and can crawl up and down, but it does not leave the mother. After 43 to 45 days, it grows to 2 to 2.5 cm, and the larvae leave the mother and move alone to prolong their life and forage. During the incubation period, the mother has accumulated enough nutrients, so there is no need to feed, otherwise it will cause the eggs to be contaminated by food and eat themselves.

Centipedes need to molt several times from hatching eggs to larval development and growth until they become adults. They grow significantly larger each time they molt. Adult centipedes generally molt once a year, and some may molt twice. Before molting, the dorsal wings of adult centipedes become dull, their body color changes from dark green to light green with a hint of burnt yellow, their legs change from red to yellow, their bodies become thick and slow, they do not eat, their vision and sense of touch decrease, and they cannot escape quickly after being prodded.

When molting, the centipede uses the front of its head to push against a stone wall or a mud wall, and then pushes up the head plate. Then it sheds its skin segment by segment by segment, and the body and legs are shed from front to back. When the 7th or 8th segment is shed, the antennae are shed. Finally, the tail is shed. The shed old skin is wrinkled, and when it is straightened, it is a complete centipede shell. Adult centipedes generally shed one segment every 4-6 minutes, and it takes about 2 hours to shed all of them. Avoid disturbing them when molting, otherwise it will prolong the molting time. When the centipede is molting, it is even more important to prevent groups of ants from attacking it, because the centipede has no ability to resist when molting, and the new skin is fresh and tender, which is easy to be bitten by ants.

Centipedes do not grow fast. They only grow to 3-4 cm from the time the eggs hatch into larvae in the first year to before hibernation in the same year. Before coming out of hibernation in the second year, there is plenty of food, but they only grow to about 3.5-6 cm. They only grow to more than 10 cm in the third year. Therefore, it takes a full 3-4 years for centipedes to grow from eggs to adults and lay eggs again. The size of the larvae of centipedes laid in the early and late stages of egg laying is very different in the same year. The growth rate of the year is closely related to whether there is enough food and the length of the feeding period. In artificial breeding, it was found that centipedes born in the same year did not grow as fast as those fed artificially indoors if they were raised naturally on an isolated island.

Centipede's life characteristics 1. Habitat Centipedes are afraid of sunlight, hide during the day and come out at night, and like to live in dark, warm, rain-proof and well-ventilated places. They prefer to live in low mountain areas with more soil and less soil. Although they are distributed in plains, the number is small.

Centipedes have a strong ability to drill into cracks. They often use their sensitive antennae and flat head plates to probe cracks. They can pass through or live in most cracks in rocks and land. When the density is too high or there are too many disturbances, they may fight each other and die. However, under artificial breeding conditions, if there is sufficient bait and drinking water, dozens of centipedes can live together.

2. Activities and diet

Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals with fierce natures. They eat a wide range of food, especially small insects. They have jaws that can shoot out venom, and can even kill animals larger than themselves. There are also cases of poisoning and death among the same species. The insects eaten by centipedes include crickets, locusts, beetles, cicadas, grasshoppers, and various flies and bees. They can even eat spiders, earthworms, snails, and frogs, mice, sparrows, lizards, and snakes that are much larger than their bodies. When food is scarce in early spring, they can also eat a small amount of grass and young shoots of moss. When raised artificially, some are fed loaches, fresh fish, frogs, shrimps, crabs, etc., but they require the food to be fresh and will not eat if it is slightly rotten.

Processing of Medicinal Centipede Medicinal centipede is dried whole. After catching, scald it with boiling water, then use a thin bamboo stick with two sharpened ends to insert it into the head and tail, and use the elasticity of the bamboo stick to straighten it, and place it in the sun to dry. The processed centipede is flat and long, about 14-16 cm long and about 0.6-1.0 cm wide, with 22 segments, the last segment is small, called the tail; the head is reddish brown, with a pair of tactile and poison hooks; the back is black-brown and shiny, with two protruding ridges; the abdomen is yellow-brown and shrunken; each segment has a pair of legs, yellow-red, bent backwards, and the last segment is like a thorn. It is said to have a fishy smell, and a special pungent odor, spicy and slightly salty.

The centipede's body contains two toxic components similar to bee venom, namely histamine-like substances and hemolytic proteins; in addition, it also contains tyrosine, leucine, formic acid, fatty oil, cholesterol, etc.

Medicinal centipedes have the functions of extinguishing wind and relieving spasms, reducing swelling and detoxifying. They are mainly used to treat infantile convulsions, tetanus, convulsions, facial paralysis, lymph node tuberculosis, swelling and ulcers, etc. In recent years, centipedes have been found to have the effect of treating tumors.

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Centipede breeding method:

1. The breeding box is made of wooden boards, and its size is more suitable for 55 cm long, 45 cm wide and 30 cm high. A layer of non-toxic plastic film is pasted on the inner wall of the box, and the box mouth is equipped with a box cover with iron mesh.

After the box is made, it is placed in an appropriate location indoors. Multiple boxes can be arranged in a row, with multiple layers of tiles placed at the bottom of the box. The distance between the tiles is about 1.5 cm. Cement is used to pad the edges, usually 5 to 6 tiles in a stack. The gaps between the tiles can be used for centipedes to live.

Before putting the tiles into the box, they should be washed with water and absorb enough water to create a humid environment for centipedes. And a new batch of tiles should be replaced after a certain period of time to keep them moist and clean.

2. Ceramic jars are usually used for jar culture. Choose a 50-60 cm wide and 80-100 cm high jar. Place it in a suitable position indoors, and put a layer of gravel or broken tiles at the bottom of the jar. Cover it with a 30 cm thick layer of fertile garden soil, slightly level it, and stack tiles on the soil surface in the box culture way. The top layer of tiles is about 20 cm away from the jar mouth. Cover the jar mouth with a wire gauze cover to prevent the centipede from escaping.

3. Pond culture is to build a pond indoors or outdoors for breeding. The pond is made of brick and cement. The environment in the pond should be warm, cool, humid and quiet. Generally, each indoor pond is about 2 square meters in size, rectangular, 50 to 60 cm high, and the inner wall is smoothed with cement without any gaps, and lined with agricultural film, or a circle of 20 cm wide glass is inlaid above the pond.

The bottom of the pond is not paved with cement. First, a layer of small soil blocks about 10 cm thick is laid, and then 5 to 6 layers of tiles are piled on top, leaving a 1.5 cm gap between the tiles for centipedes to live and lay eggs and hatch.

In areas with cold weather, you can dig a 50-60 cm deep pit on the inside of the pool wall at a certain distance from the wall. Pile stones, broken bricks and tiles in the pit to create gaps for centipedes to overwinter. Cover the pool mouth tightly with iron gauze or plastic gauze.