Planning a small rearing shed. Want layout, ventilation and disease prevention tips.
How to build a silkworm rearing house and keep worms disease free?
SSubhash Mondal8mo ago · 304 views
4 Answers
🌾Farmer.in Krishi TeamExpert ✓7mo ago
A good silkworm rearing house is well ventilated, has cross air flow, manageable temperature and humidity, and is easy to clean and disinfect between batches, which is the single biggest factor in avoiding disease. Build it with windows for airflow, a smooth floor that can be washed, and space for rearing trays or shelf or floor rearing. Before every batch, clean and disinfect the room and equipment with recommended disinfectants and let it dry. Use only disease free layings from a certified source, maintain hygiene during feeding, remove diseased or weak worms, and apply bed disinfectant dust as advised. Avoid overcrowding and feed fresh, clean leaf on schedule. Diseases like grasserie and flacherie spread fast in dirty, hot, humid conditions, so spacing, ventilation and strict disinfection are your defence. Your state sericulture department and CSB give designs and training, follow their layout for your climate.
AAnima Das7mo ago
In our humid Malda weather, ventilation is everything. I keep windows that I can open and close and use cross airflow. I disinfect the room fully before each batch and never let outsiders walk into the rearing area. That cut my disease losses a lot.
RRabin Sarkar7mo ago
Floor and shelves must be washable. I remove sick worms immediately so they do not infect others. Bed disinfectant dust as the department recommends helps. Crowded trays cause trouble, give the worms space.
SSefali Mondal6mo ago
Keep the rearing house a bit away from the kitchen smoke and animal sheds. I made mine close to the cattle shed first and the flies and ammonia smell bothered the worms. A quiet, clean, airy spot with shade trees around worked far better for me.