Cage for silver fox: cage (house, stairs, kettle, food bowl, turntable), generally use ALEX brand quality is better, more styles. Price: 40-60 dollars for large, small in 25-30 dollars.
Cat litter: general cat litter and crystal cat litter. (Never use wood shavings, even if often change will stink, with cat litter will not use the problem). Price: general cat litter 10-12 yuan a bag (10 pounds); crystal cat litter 17-20 yuan a bag (3.6L), crystal cat litter to buy like a small finger nail size particles.
Grain: (brand: ALEX), a bag of 15-20 yuan (is a plastic package, 2 pounds).
Depending on what you like (and what you can afford) you can also buy some bath sand (for bathing, which comes in many different flavors < lemon, lavender, etc. >) for $10/bag, and teething bars (for eating and playing with, not a staple food) for $8-10/bottle.
(Remember to return the price)
Servicing silver foxes need to pay attention to:
1. Diet: (1) every day to give them one to two times to feed (do not forget). (2) The water inside the water bottle can not be broken, give them to drink mineral water or cold boiled water. (3) They love to eat melon seeds and peanuts and things like that, which are in the plastic package you bought.
2. Hygiene: Change the cat litter for three days and the crystal litter for five days. (Every time you change the sand at the same time, the food bowl, kettle to be removed and cleaned, the attic and turntable to be wiped clean with a damp cloth. The ground where the cat sand is placed is washed and wiped dry before putting the cat sand.
3. Temperature: Don't put them in the air-conditioned room where the temperature is very high or very low. In the heat of the day put in a cool place. In winter, do not air-conditioning under the blowing all the time, can be placed in the corner of the air-conditioning room, where the temperature will not be too high, the home is not too open air-conditioning friends also does not matter, during the day placed in the indoor sun shines to get the place, and at night with a towel and other warm items wrapped up. (You can put some cotton thicker cloth in their nest, the size of the cloth is bigger than the palm of an adult's hand and then a circle).
4. Medical: If they are accidentally injured while playing, use the head cell powder to sprinkle on the wound, that is, it can be anti-inflammatory, and the wound is fast.
1. Young fox period. Weaning 2 to 3 weeks, in a cage to raise 2 to 3 young foxes, 3 months of age can be single-cage rearing. Young foxes should be guaranteed to be supplied with enough nutrients needed for growth and development and fleece growth, and supplied with fresh, high-quality feed. Examples of adult fox diets are as follows: 52% sea fish, 5% meat, 14.5% grains, 2.4% soy flour, 12.6% cabbage, 13.5% water. Add 1.5 grams of salt, 4 grams of bone meal, 7 grams of yeast, 700 units of vitamin A, 120 units of vitamin D, and 14.8 milligrams of vitamin B? Young fox from the beginning of September to take the skin before the appropriate increase in dietary fat and sulfur-amino acid-rich feed (animal blood), in order to facilitate the growth of winter hair and body fat accumulation. The size of young foxes in the breeding period is uneven, the amount of food is large and small, should be treated differently, to ensure that they are full and eat well. Young fox period of hot weather, pay attention to the prevention of heatstroke, in addition to strengthening the supply of water, but also the cage shade, to prevent direct sunlight. At the same time, do a good job of hygiene and epidemic prevention, in order to prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases.
2. Breeding period male and female foxes due to the impact of libido appetite, physical exertion, especially male foxes frequent mating, nutritional consumption is greater. Therefore, this period should be supplied with high-quality, full-price, highly palatable, easily digestible feed. Appropriately increase the proportion of fresh animal feed, so that the male fox has a vigorous, long-lasting breeding ability and good semen quality; female foxes can be normal estrus, timely breeding. Example of dietary formula: 55% sea fish, 10% meat, 5% eggs, 1% milk powder, 8% grains, 1% soybean meal, 8% cabbage, 12% water. Add 1.5 grams of salt, 7 grams of yeast, 4 grams of bone meal, 5 grams of garlic, 2,000 units of cod liver oil, 25 milligrams of vitamin C, 25 milligrams of vitamin E. The male foxes participating in the mating should also be given a supplemental feeding at noon, with appropriate amounts of meat, liver, egg yolk, milk, brain and other high-quality feeds. This period every day to keep the water basin with clean drinking water or crushed ice, to often remove the feces and urine in the small room, and change the bedding grass.
3. Pregnancy. Silver fox pregnancy must be supplied with high-quality fresh feed, is strictly prohibited to feed the feed stored for too long, the type of feed should be diversified, diet with example: 52% of the sea fish, meat 7%, 5% eggs, milk powder 3%, soybean meal 2%, pellet feed 9%, cabbage 10%, 12% water. Add 2.5 grams of salt, 8 grams of yeast, 6 grams of bone meal, 1500 units of cod liver oil, vitamin C 35 mg, vitamin E 4 mg. Pregnant female fox appetite generally increase, but the initial can not immediately increase the amount of the first period to maintain the middle and upper body condition is appropriate. The mother fox before and after the general decline in appetite, diets should be reduced by one-fifth of the total, and the feed will be thinned out, at this time the increase in drinking water, should be enough clean drinking water. At the same time, keep the cage dry, clean, pay attention to feed hygiene, food utensils strictly disinfected, keep the feedlot quiet.
4. Laying and nursing period. The diet during the period of littering and nursing should be maintained at the level of the pregnancy period, and the types of feed should be diversified as much as possible, with appropriate increase in eggs, dairy and liver and other easy-to-digest full-value feeds. Example of formula: 50% sea fish, 6% meat, 7% eggs, 5% milk powder, 2% soybean meal, 6% pellet feed, 10% cabbage, 14% water. Add 2.5 grams of salt 8 grams of yeast, 6 grams of bone meal, 1500 units of cod liver oil, vitamin C 30 mg. Litter 1 week or so female fox appetite increases rapidly, should be based on the number of litter and litter age as well as the mother's appetite, increase the amount of feed proportionally every day. Foxes generally start to eat the mother fox in 20 to 28 days after birth into the box of feed, so this period of the mother fox feed processing to be finely chopped, and easy to digest and absorb. 4 to 5 weeks of age, the fox can be climbed from the box to the cage to eat, in order to avoid grabbing food, the feed can be placed in a basin for supplemental feeding. At this time, the mother fox is still constantly in the birth box to take the feed, so it should be often good birth box health, to ensure the safety of mothers and children.