Cultivation of polecats – difficult and responsible process which demands knowledge of fundamentals of genetics and selection skills. Horyata are born premature, behind them thorough leaving is necessary.
Instruction
1. Study literature on cultivation of polecats, talk to experienced manufacturers. Buy a strong cage in pet-shop or build a box with high walls. Polecats sleep for 15 hours a day. Let out them at the time of wakefulness, then pets will be able to play. Do not leave a cage in the sun, it is better if it is in a shadow. Inside build one more small lodge from plywood or plates, make in it an opening not less than 10 cm in the diameter. In a corner place a tray for a toilet, only reliably fix it, otherwise the polecat will turn capacity. You do not feed an animal in a lodge, get it better from there and give food separately, and here a drinking bowl, on the contrary, it is necessary to hang up in a cage. Pour drinking water cleaned by means of the filter, spring.
2. Give to an adult polecat 2-3 times a day animal food (meat, fish, crude eggs), porridges on meat broth, vegetables, kefir, cottage cheese, butter, cheese, sour cream. Pets of monthly age have to eat 4 times. The female eats less male approximately on 400 grams a day. River fish and pork boil, scald heart and a liver boiled water. Buy for polecats of flour hearts, larvae of dragonflies, crayfish in pet-shop. In order to avoid a diarrhea, do not milk to small animals, mollusks, snakes and frogs. Sometimes it is possible a fresh mouse, fruit. On "holidays" you enter pastries into a diet of polecats, it is impossible for a thicket as at them diseases can develop (for example, conjunctivitis). All polecats need vitamins, especially pregnant. At the feeding females the need for liquid dairy products is increased. Buy chloride calcium in pharmacy and add 3 ml to every portion of kefir, give the calcinated cottage cheese of any fat content.
3. Rutting begins in the middle of March — the beginning of April, 2-3 days last, but also longer time can proceed. The ovulation is provoked by pairing which lasts of 10 minutes till 5 o'clock. Per day the male can impregnate several females. One more rutting is carried out in the summer, at the end of June — in July. These terms are caused by the fact that it is the best of all to remove young growth in warm time.
4. Choosing the partner for a female, consider experience experience of both partners. If both small animals for the first time undergo through this the procedure, at them nothing can turn out. Adhere to one color at both producers. Acquaint polecats in the territory of a male. Process of pairing has to take place in the same place, it very painful, but you should not interrupt it. In most cases fertilization happens from the first.
5. Observe a female after pairing, she can become uneasier, nipples on a body bulk up. Pregnancy usually takes place quietly, at a female the appetite increases, do not limit it in food, you bring to the street, it can be done, placing an animal in a box. In the same time transplant a male.
6. Equip a nest, its height has to be safe that puppies could not get out. On a bottom put hay, unnecessary rags. Change a laying in 2-3 weeks prior to childbirth, you watch that the horikha did not hide under it food pieces.
7. Control process of childbirth. If appearance of puppies on light happens normally, the first pet can be expected already in half an hour after an otkhozhdeniye of waters. Polecats can have at the same time about 10 puppies, they appear at an interval of 20-30 minutes. When the posterity cannot get out - address the veterinarian. The dung is born the blind person, with the closed ear openings, at the same time there is no wool, they see and weigh nothing no more than 10 grams.
8. Observe behavior of a female. She will begin to feed kids only after the birth of the last puppy. Milk comes at once, mother curls up around an issue and embraces puppies. Prick up the ears if after the delivery passed almost day, and the female ignores cubs. Put her to yourself on knees a back down, bring a little polecat to mother's nipple, wait, the puppy has to begin to suck milk. Try to limit movement of pets, at least temporarily.
9. Consult the veterinarian, some females have hereditary pathologies and therefore at them patrimonial activity is complicated or impossible. Before taking a female polecat on cultivation - take an interest whether is not present at maternal problems.
10. Give to the feeding female liquid food: broth meat, kefir. You watch purity of a drinking bowl, add there regularly water. For strengthening of a lactation, females can offer a little water with honey, dogrose broth, slightly added some salt meat and vegetable broths.
11. Begin to feed up kids for the 20th day after their birth. Take low-fat forcemeat, it is better beef or chicken, also indyushiny will approach, part it with 1.5% cow's milk to consistence of liquid gruel. Spread out in a plateau and give to little polecats. Put a small piece of food to a puppy for a cheek, he has to begin to swallow. For the period of a feeding up close a female separately from posterity, otherwise she will eat what is prepared for them. After the procedure, return an issue to mother. Begin with a feeding up once a day, in a day do it in the morning and in the evening. Develop the schedule of feeding and in the next days increase meal to 4 times. As soon as polecats are one month old, give meat in pure form. In the same time they open eyes. "from a table" accustom to food gradually. Smoked and fat products are dangerous to polecats.
12. Examine polecats in process of their growth, by a month length of a body reaches 25 cm, skin acquires short wool, kids begin to eat actively without assistance. If he is already 1.5 months old - can take away from mother. Try that kids moved more, so you will be able to prevent diseases of legs which at polecats very often arise from overeating. In half a year they will begin to eat smaller portions, at the same time remaining active, and by 10 months will reach puberty.