Generally, the base area is 50 cm x 40 cm, with a height of about 30-40 cm. Too small tanks cannot hold many creatures, while too large tanks are difficult to move. A layer of crushed gravel should be placed at the bottom of the tank, covered by a 5-15 cm layer of breeding soil. Tiles should be stacked on the soil surface, with the tile height being 10-15 cm lower than the tank opening. The tank opening should be covered with an iron mesh. When breeding in small quantities, tank breeding can be used, but it has poor ventilation. According to the Zigong centipede breeding website, water easily accumulates at the bottom, and centipedes are prone to green stiff disease. Therefore, the breeding density should be controlled during breeding. Additionally, the humidity of the breeding soil should be monitored, and dry breeding soil should replace it when the humidity exceeds 20%.
The main methods of breeding centipedes at the Nongke惠民 breeding base include box breeding, tank breeding, and pool breeding. Regardless of the method chosen, gaps and nests for centipedes to hide must be created, appropriately sized to ensure that centipedes have space to move while also ensuring convenience for the breeders to manage.
A wooden box can be made by nailing fiberboard with 1.5 cm thick wooden strips. Generally, the box is 50 cm wide, 100 cm long, and 40 cm high. An iron or plastic mesh lid should be configured on the box opening. A layer of plastic film used for food packaging should be attached inside the box to keep the inner wall smooth. A 5-15 cm layer of breeding soil should be placed at the bottom of the box, with 20 tiles (five tiles per stack) placed inside the box. The tiles should be cleaned and fully hydrated. A gap of about 2 cm should be left in the middle for the centipedes to rest. The middle of the box should not have tiles; this area serves as both the centipede's dining hall and its nighttime activity area. Such a wooden box can house 200-300 medium-sized centipedes or 100-150 large centipedes per square meter. The surrounding fiberboards can also be replaced with ethylene flat-woven nets, forming a cage similar to a mosquito net. This type of cage is relatively light and can be stacked into a three-dimensional cage, saving space.
Hubei Centipede Breeding Comprehensive Processing Hubei Centipede Breeding Promotion Center Nongke惠民 Breeding Base uses glass tanks or earthenware tanks.
1. Location Selection
The location for the breeding pool should be selected on a sunny slope, avoiding water accumulation during the rainy season and preventing direct exposure to winter northern winds, ensuring a relatively warm microclimate.
2. General Construction of the Breeding Pool
The common breeding pool is rectangular, with the size determined based on specific conditions. The bottom is preferably built with bricks and cement-sand joints, as brick bottoms have better water permeability compared to concrete floors. The walls of the pool are constructed with bricks, and a layer of "virgin soil" is filled inside the brick bottom. The inner wall of the enclosure is smoothed with cement and embedded with glass or plastic film. Adding smooth materials effectively prevents centipedes from climbing the walls and escaping. Therefore, each seam between the glass or film must be carefully handled; otherwise, centipedes might climb the smooth surfaces or use rough longitudinal seams to escape. The "virgin soil" inside the breeding pool should not contain excessive amounts of farmyard manure, making it cleaner and less likely to cause pollution. Some people add cow dung and chicken feathers or bones to generate insects as food for centipedes, which is not a good method because these substances are not essential nutrients for centipedes but instead create conditions for microbial proliferation, harming the hygiene of the pool and causing pollution. Black mold disease in centipedes is related to environmental pollution. The height of the embedded glass inner walls should reach 30-40 cm. Currently, the height of the breeding pool walls (the height above the external ground level) is designed to be either 40 cm or up to 75-100 cm. Increasing the wall height is to prevent rat invasions. Some breeding pools have a 15-20 cm wide feeding circle around the inner walls and a 12 cm wide, 1.5 cm deep shallow water ditch outside the feeding circle, providing centipedes with a place to drink water and eat. Simultaneously, setting up a shallow water ditch can also prevent centipedes from escaping.
Hubei Centipede Breeding Comprehensive Processing Hubei Centipede Breeding Promotion Center Nongke惠民 Breeding Base 3. Construction of Resting Beds
In the past, the method was simply to pile up some soil blocks inside the walls. Later, broken bricks and tiles were used as resting beds for centipedes. Recently, there has been an improvement with the use of whole bricks to construct more regular centipede nests (resting beds). This is a significant advancement. In one breeding pool, vertical nests can simultaneously adopt two construction forms: full horizontal brick style and horizontal-vertical brick style. However, according to experimental observations, there is always a noticeable difference in the number of centipedes leaving the nest at night, with significantly more coming out from the full horizontal brick nest and fewer from the horizontal-vertical brick nest. It is speculated that this may be related to the different utilization areas of the two types of nests. Since the effective utilization area of the full horizontal brick nest is larger, lying down is energy-saving and safe, thus accommodating more residents, whereas the effective utilization area of the horizontal-vertical brick nest is much smaller, with limited vertical space only suitable for crawling, making it unsuitable for living. Therefore, it is preferable to use the full horizontal brick style when constructing vertical nests. As the old-style nests require higher costs and additional facilities for shading, rain protection, and rodent prevention, a new-style nest with lower costs and no need for additional facilities has been designed. The cross-section of this new-style nest is tower-shaped, using bricks and adobe as materials, adopting the horizontal brick style in structure as shown in Figure 4-1(C). The outer layer uses bricks (24 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm), and the inner layer uses equally sized adobes, which can build nests of different sizes and multiple layers. The outer brick layer is waterproof, with narrow gaps of about 1 cm allowing centipedes to enter and exit while preventing rodent invasion. Using adobe inside not only reduces costs but also improves thermal insulation. During the cooling season, centipedes can move inward or downward, gathering at the bottom of the nest. When winter comes, rice straw can be laid over the outside. During hibernation, insulating materials can be added outside again. This tower-shaped nest can be made in various sizes, with larger ones being better for outdoor mass breeding.
Supported by Huazhong Agricultural University: As a key university under the national "211 Project", Huazhong Agricultural University collaborates with Wuhan Nongke惠民 Bioengineering Co., Ltd. to jointly research and promote scientific farming and technology-enriched agriculture through centipede breeding techniques: Humin No. 2 Golden-headed Centipede.
Advanced Technology Advantages: Through years of breeding observation, multiple biological experts and professors of bioengineering from Wuhan Nongke惠民 Bioengineering Co., Ltd. and Huazhong Agricultural University have cultivated a new generation of varieties - Humin No. 2 Golden-headed Centipede - using gene modification engineering and preferred purification technology. Observations show that this variety is easy to breed, gentle in nature, strong in adaptability, fast-growing, highly reproductive, with better medicinal value and more significant economic value, making it an ideal investment breeding project for many breeders.
Complete Breeding Facilities: With agricultural science as an advantage and life science as a feature, the company relies on experts and scholars from the College of Animal Science and Technology, focusing on modern bioengineering, special animal breeding, and insect resource development. It is a high-tech enterprise integrating research, breeding, teaching, promotion, technical services, production, sales, and import-export trade. It owns large-scale ecological breeding zones, solar house breeding zones, greenhouse breeding zones, and separate technical training centers, seedling cultivation centers, seed source rooms, incubation rooms, and gene conversion rooms, with excellent foundations and complete systems.
Wuhan Nongke惠民 Company: Upholding the tradition of "diligent reading and hard work, achieving self-improvement and helping others," our company aims at "scientific farming" as its purpose, promoting the industrial development of centipede resources with the business philosophy of "integrity, dedication, realism, innovation, and win-win." We will strive to provide our fellow farmers with higher quality, high-yield seedlings, advanced technology, and comprehensive services, keeping pace with the times and creating a more brilliant future together.
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