Excuse me, does anyone keep bamboo rats in Huaihua, Hunan? What are the prospects?

The bamboo rat, also known as the winter mang raccoon, is small in size and has strong reproductive ability. It feeds on bamboo, wood, stems and stems. It takes Miscanthus, bamboo, bamboo roots, grass roots, sweet potatoes and some weed seeds as its staple food, and likes to eat corn, sorghum, wheat, sugar cane and so on. After artificial domestication, they especially like compound feed and rice. With the increasing market demand, it is difficult to meet the market demand only by catching wild bamboo rats. The upsurge of raising bamboo rats by domestic workers is on the rise, and the prices of bamboo rats vary from place to place. This paper makes a brief introduction to this.

The breeding environment of 1 is cold-resistant, timid and dark, and likes to grow in a dark, cool, quiet and pollution-free environment. The feeding place should be selected in a place with high geothermal energy, good drainage, facing south, surrounded by bamboo forests and fruit trees, and fresh air. It is best to stay away from places where people and animals are densely populated and there are feces around, so as not to pollute food and feed and cause infectious diseases.

2 site and nest room

Small-scale farming can be built under the fence of one's own yard or in the open space, or a mouse nest can be built by using idle old houses and abandoned warehouses. The nest room requires dark light, solid ground and smooth inner walls. According to different purposes, different types of breeding ponds can be built. (1) Large pool with cement area over 2m2. Several hollow cement pipes and tile pipes can be placed for bamboo rats to hide. The large cement pool is suitable for weaned young rats and for young rats to live in groups. ② The culture pond consists of two small ponds, namely an inner pond and an outer pond. The inner pool is used as a nest room, and the outer pool is used as a breeding room and a sports ground. A communicating hole with a diameter of about 12cm is opened at the bottom of the inner and outer tanks for access. The size of the inner chamber is 30×25 cm in length and width. Small area is not conducive to the mating of big bamboo rats, and big bamboo rats will not automatically remove indoor feces and food residues. Specification of external chamber: length, width and height are 70×40×700n respectively. The bottom of the pond should be leveled with cement to prevent the bamboo rats from escaping by digging holes, and special attention should be paid to the flatness of the pond angle to prevent the bamboo rats from escaping from the pond by using the reaction force of the included angle of the pond wall.

3 Selection and Reproduction At present, the individual size and reproductive rate of bamboo rats raised in different places are quite different, which does not mean that the larger the individual, the higher the reproductive rate. The basic requirements of excellent breeding mice are: female mice, medium fat and thin, with exposed nipples, mild temperament and strong feeding ability, with an adult weight of about 65438±0.5kg; Male rats are required to be strong, their testicles are exposed, they do not fight, and their weight is slightly larger than that of female rats. Pairing male and female rats according to 1: 1 can ensure the reproductive rate of 3 ~ 4 fetuses per year.

Female rats are in estrus in spring and autumn. In the early estrus, the pubic hair of female rats gradually separated, swollen, smooth and round, pink, with a movable tail and everted genitals; In the middle of estrus, female rats have pink and red mucus secretion in their genitals; The late stage is similar to the early stage. Most female bamboo rats have a high pregnancy rate when mating in the middle estrus. Female bamboo rats are excited in estrus, crawling around in the cage, making a "goo goo" cry and increasing the number of urination. When the male rat crawls over to mate, the female rat's tail tilts, stays and meekly accepts mating. Sometimes, female rats will take the initiative to tease and tease male rats, and bamboo rats mostly mate at night.

Female rats give birth about 60 days after mating and pregnancy, and most fetal rats give birth to 2 ~ 5; Many can produce 8 ~ 10. After the mother mouse gives birth, feed it lightly, so as not to disturb the mother mouse, to prevent it from abandoning and biting the young mouse, or even eating the young mouse after being angered, and not to touch or scratch the bamboo mouse with a wooden stick. Young bamboo rats are weaned in 30 ~ 50 days.

4 Daily feed management Bamboo rats are resistant to coarse feed, have strong digestion ability for plant feed, and can digest crude fiber and lignin. Corn, rice and sweet potato can be used as cereal feed, which contains a lot of carbohydrates and is the main feed for bamboo rats, accounting for 50-60% of their daily diet, with an average daily requirement of 30-50g. Grass roots and bamboo feed account for10 ~ 20% of the daily diet; Fruit and vegetable feed includes carrot, water chestnut and sugarcane, accounting for 10%-20% of the daily diet. If possible, chickens, ducks, pigs, etc. can be fed with granular feed with comprehensive nutrition. Bamboo rats have no habit of drinking water, and their body water supplement mainly depends on eating. Feed 1 time every morning and evening.

Prevention and treatment of common diseases Bamboo rats have strong disease resistance and high survival rate, but epidemic prevention work still needs to be carried out in large groups. The following diseases are mainly common. (1) Trauma often bites each other due to cannibalism, mixing of bamboo and rats and fighting for nests, or scratches the iron wire head of iron cage during transportation, and the wounds are mostly in the mouth, head, forehead, waist and limbs. If not treated in time, you will die of septicemia caused by septicemia. Sulfur wine is used to prevent infection for minor injuries, and anti-inflammatory water is used for serious injuries. Clean the wound, spread anti-inflammatory powder after applying iodine, and feed separately to prevent re-injury. If necessary, intramuscular injection100 ~ 200,000 units of penicillin. ② Gastroenteritis is mostly caused by unclean feed, excessive intake of water-containing fruit and vegetable feed or some infectious diseases, which are manifested as loss of appetite, listlessness, diarrhea and wet fur on the abdomen and tail. The disease is usually diagnosed by observing feces. The feces of rats with gastroenteritis usually stick to particles. Normal fecal texture should be loose and will disperse when stressed. The disease can be cured if it is found early, and the mortality rate is high in the middle and late stages. Early treatment, oxytetracycline 1 tablet can be mashed and mixed with corn flour or rice twice a day, and it can be cured in 2 ~ 3 days. (3) The cold is caused by the sudden change of weather, and the bamboo mouse is caught by the wind and rain. Sick mice have accelerated breathing, chills, runny noses, and reduced or no food. The treatment can be intramuscular injection of compound aminopyrine, 0.5m 1 each time, twice a day. ④ Heatstroke is mainly caused by high temperature, characterized by restlessness, shortness of breath and unstable walking, such as drunkenness. After treatment, the diseased rats can be taken out and buried in wet sand, and their heads are exposed, and they can wake up in about 15 minutes.