1, site selection. Artificial snake farms should be located in the leeward and sunny places, with quiet environment and good sanitary conditions. There should be low-lying land, water, trees and bamboo forests, avoiding limestone caves and villages.

2. Imitate the snake garden. Fence off an area of the site. On the basis of natural conditions in the park, build snake houses (caves) suitable for foreign snakes to inhabit, breed and overwinter, dig ponds, raise fish and frogs, plant trees, bamboo forests and fruits, and create a good living environment for foreign snakes.

3. Snake Garden Architecture. There are rockeries, pools, snake houses, snake nests, wintering rooms, spawning rooms, incubation rooms and poison collection rooms in the snake farm. Rockery, pool and outdoor snake cave are all built according to topography. The spawning room, incubation room and poison collection room are built according to the scale of breeding. The house is built with L-L.5m soil and the house is built with 0.2m soil? 0.2 meters? O there are several small squares of l5 meters. There is a passage in the center of the snake house, and there are L connected ditches on both sides of the passage. The two ends of the ditch lead to the pool and the feed field respectively, which is convenient for different snakes to drink water and prey. The wintering room consists of a corridor, an observation room and a hibernation room, which are separated by doors or glass windows, and the roof is covered with soil 1- 1.5 meters for thermal insulation. The snake nest is located on the high ground of the snake garden. It is generally built in the form of a mound, surrounded by bricks and left at the entrance and exit. The internal space is 0.5- 1 m, and the height is about 0.8 m, with a movable cover of 0.2 square meters on it, and soil is piled around the brick wall.

Second, feeding management technology

1, the feeding habits of different snakes. Different snakes like rodents, birds, eggs, lizards, snakes, frogs and fish, and toads.

2. The reproduction of different snakes. The ratio of male to female snakes in the artificial snake farm is l:lO. The mating time of different snakes is May to June, and the spawning time is June to August. Each female snake can lay about 20 eggs a year. After 45-60 days (suitable temperature is 17-27 degrees Celsius and humidity is 70-90%), the young snakes hatch. In order to improve the hatching rate, a water tank can be used for hatching in the incubation room. The method is to put half a jar of wet sand in the jar, put 3-5 layers of snake eggs on the sand, do a good job of rodent control and temperature and humidity adjustment, observe the hatching situation of different snakes about 1 week before hatching, and pick up the hatched young snakes at any time for feeding.

3. Feed different snakes. After the young snake is hatched, it is artificially induced to eat with milk and egg yolk. After molting 1 time, tadpoles and suckling rats were thrown one after another. After molting for the third time, larger animals can be properly fed and handed over to adult snakes for management. Adult snakes should be kept in groups according to sex and age. Rats, frogs, loaches, eels and toads should be artificially fed 3- 14 times a month. The feeding amount should be flexibly controlled according to the age, sex and feeding period of different snakes. During the feeding period of adult snakes, the feeding amount of each snake is about 1. 5 kg per month. Pay attention to the feeding situation after each feeding, and make records for determining the feeding time and amount next time. Regularly clean and inspect the snake garden and snake nest, remove feces in time, change soil for disinfection, trim shrubs and weeds in the garden regularly, and remove dead snakes immediately if they are found.

4. Temperature is the main factor for the safe wintering of exotic snakes, and should be strictly controlled at 10- 12 degrees Celsius. When the temperature is low, steam pipes or electric heating wires should be used to raise the temperature. When it is high, you can open the top vent to introduce fresh cold air and discharge harmful gases. The humidity is controlled at 70-90%. When it is high, put charcoal to absorb water. When it is low, hang wet sacks or put basin water in the wintering room for humidification.