The first model of raising king cobras in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - Through books, newspapers and media, Mr. Bui Trong Vinh in Quang Nhan hamlet, Quang Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district has boldly invested in building a model of raising king cobras, opening a new direction in economic development.
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| On a garden area of nearly 150 square meters, Mr. Bui Trong Vinh solidly built 19 cages, each cage is more than 2 meters wide.2, has an entrance to house 150 snakes. |
To realize the idea, Mr. Bui Trong Vinh went to snake farms to buy Golden snakes and Dry snakes (also known as Lai snakes) to release in the garden. He built a solid garden surrounded by dry tree trunks or low green trees so that the snakes could have a place to live in their natural environment. However, doing it this way was not effective, it was difficult to control when feeding, the snakes moved a lot so their weight gain was slow.
Once watching TV and seeing an introduction to the model of raising king cobras, Mr. Vinh continued to learn, study and invest in a garden area of nearly 150 m2.2, built 19 cages, each cage is more than 2 m wide2, built with bricks, concrete mortar, covered discreetly, airy, with doors, wooden floors for snakes to move easily, crawl according to the inherent nature of the species, also to spread snakes when it is time and convenient for care and monitoring.
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| The King Cobra is a very easy to raise species, gentle, non-venomous, grows fast, has few diseases and the output is currently quite stable. |
After 3 breeding batches, he currently raises 150 snakes of various types in the cages, mainly king cobras, and 5 black cobras and fat cobras for testing. The bearded cobras, small ones weigh 0.1 - 0.2 kg, the big ones are over 2 kg.
For venomous and dangerous snakes such as cobras and black cobras, Mr. Vinh is very careful, strictly follows the breeding process, and makes boxes with holes for the snakes to enter and exit, making it convenient and safe to clean the cages.
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| Box for breeding cobra, black cobra. |
According to Mr. Bui Trong Vinh's experience in raising snakes, the king cobra is a very easy species to raise, gentle, non-venomous, grows fast, has few diseases and the output is quite stable. The main food of snakes is easy to find animals such as: toads, frogs, mice or poultry that can be live or frozen. Snakes should only be fed once every 3 days, especially in winter, snakes eat less and mostly stay in their nests.
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| Mr. Vinh is planning to expand and build more cages to raise about 1,000 snakes of all kinds for breeding, providing breeding stock and commercial snake meat to the market. |
Mr. Bui Trong Vinh calculated that the cost of feeding snakes each time is only 30,000 - 50,000 VND, which can be sold in a year. Currently, the market price for breeding snakes is quite high, the selling price is about 300,000 - 400,000 VND/snake, commercial snakes cost about 700,000 - 800,000 VND/kg. In fact, the model of raising king cobras is 3 to 4 times more profitable than other wild animals.
Mr. Bui Trong Vinh added: King cobra meat is a specialty, valuable and the price of this commodity is quite stable. Seeing the effectiveness of raising king cobras, I plan to expand and build more cage systems to raise about 1,000 snakes of all kinds for both reproduction and to provide breeding stock and commercial snake meat for the market.
Mr. Tuan - Phan Hien
Yen Thanh Station
