Capybaras Breeding

COST: 250 reais per array

MINIMUM CREATION: five females and one male

INITIAL INVESTMENT: 8000 reais

RETURN: two years

There are 3 types of cultivation system:

Extensive

Semi-extensive

Intensive

Extensive

Animals live released into the wild, this requires a large tract of land. The handling is done with only supply cevas, or food supplements providing predetermined points in order to attract the animals and facilitate relationship. The cost of the system is an economic good, two are enough to care for animals in 1000. In this system, the animal should be handled regularly. By virtue of the laws and territorial characteristics of the country, this makes the method less suitable for the creation of roedor.O Animal Control is difficult, poaching and uncertainties of the existence of a management history become the main drawbacks.

Semi-extensive

The semi-extensive and intensive systems are the most common in Brazil, consist of fully enclosed environments, the first one, but has a larger area thus less human interference, since there is a greater availability of food.

The semi-extensive system is the most efficient, especially indicated when the property has favorable natural conditions for the progress of creation.

Ë then necessary to build a broad breeding that has its closest to the natural habitat of the animal characteristics. On average, for this system property must have 70% of pastures, 15% water and 15% of woods and / or poultry. The grass served as a shelter to the animal when it feels threatened.

The recommended capacity is 12 to 15 animals per hectare. pasture.

In this system the food interference is 40%, the other 60% remains in the animal's stress account.

The main drawback of the system is the high cost of facilities, besides the reproductive rate which decreases because the animals are relatively loose reproducing less frequently.

Intensive

The animals are confined, ideal for small properties. The high cost facilities, labor, work and power, are the greatest enemies of the methodology.

For this system, the family must have a male for each group of six females, 30 meters in the shape of a rectangle or square is enough for each confined family.

Structure

Playback bay - area of ​​120 m2, where they are a male and six females (one family), for mating.

Parenting - area of ​​40 m2. Serves to house the female from a few days prior to farrowing until weaning.

Picket growth - After weaning, generally to sixty days, the chicks are transferred to the paddock, with about 1,000 m2 (holds up to thirty animals). They get up to between 10 and 12 months, slaughter weight (about 40 kg); or to be selected for playback.

All facilities must be made in greenhouse surrounded with wire, 1.40 m high, to prevent capybaras jump and equipped with a shelter masonry (10 m2) covered with common tile to protect the sun animals, and a tank of water for bathing (at least 2.00 x 1.50 x 0.50 m).

Food

Grass to be green and tender, becomes the main food of the capybara. An animal eats about 10% of their body weight per day (grass). In their natural environment, the capybara fattening daily about 600-800 g in captivity this measure reaches 150g. This becomes obvious there be to think that they will be protected from predators and have guaranteed food.

It is interesting to also put in the troughs, a food supplement to increase weight gain, and of course to facilitate the animal's relationship with the handler. This supplement can be made from corn grain, which in addition to nourish, serves as "exercise" for the rodent. Two hundred grams daily per animal is enough, mineral salt will is another requirement. The adults they can consume 120 g of salt monthly.

Reproduction

PREGNANCY: gestation period varies 119-125 days; 4-6 pups per year, reaching 8

CIO: the heat is repeated between 14 and 121 days and lasts twenty to 26 hours.

REPRODUCTIVE AGE: around 14 months, the female can now breed and your life as a parent arrives to 4 years. The male also begins his interest in the female at 14 months but becomes mature only at 18 months. Serves as the player to about 5 years.

At the time of mating, the capybara prefers dating in not very deep water. And the tongue cover comes to fifteen times followed females in less than five minutes. Although playback happen all year, there is a greater concentration of pregnant females in the first months of the rainy season. The herds, usually thirty animals - when they live in freedom - are composed of adults and pups of both sexes. But there is always a male who dominates the army and conquer the females. Others can become submissive and will even help create.

Puppies

They are born with open eyes, formed hair, full dentition. Smart in three days already feed on forage and follow their parents to the rest and the sidewalks. Want to swim in the first week of life, but the mother only allows the water is not deep. Suck ninety days and become independent, they may form new herds. In the creations customary to wean at 60 days for the mother mate again. Females, very careful, teach discover new foods, to swim and to overcome obstacles. And the puppies pay much attention. If any, by the way, if you lose the group, then asks for help, with strong and shrill cries, heard from afar.

Mortality rate

Is among the newborns with higher mortality rate among individuals in the group. The first three years of the experimental creation of capybaras in the mortality rate of pups until weaning, reached 30%, on account of certain characteristics and requirements of these animals