Breeding technology of muskrat

Musk rat is a very lovely animal, in recent years more and more people began to breed musk rat, then musk rat in the end how to breed? What should we pay attention to? Why breed muskrats? What are the prospects for muskrat farming? With these questions, follow the editor to popularize science.

Musk rat breeding technology video

1. Cage preparation

At present, most of the muskrats artificially raised are raised in outdoor pens. The pens for artificially raising muskrats in various places include flat pens, vertical pens, floor pens, juvenile pens and simple pens. There are also individual indoor caged. Outdoor enclosure type breeding is more economical and practical, easy to raise in rural households, but covers a large area, breeding pool in winter is also easy to freeze. Indoor cage rearing density is large, suitable for Urban area or experimental breeding.

When adopting outdoor enclosure type breeding, it is necessary to have a breeding ground, surrounded by walls, covered with a simple shed to shield from rain, snow and sun exposure, and then put the enclosure for muskrat breeding in the shed. Breeding sites should be selected in sufficient water, leeward, quiet environment, free from human and animal interference, far away from the highway. In order to avoid mutual infection, muskrat breeding places should be far away from livestock farms and poultry farms, generally required to be 500m away, preferably in the upper wind or upstream of water sources.

When raising at home, you can also make full use of the existing conditions, using the spare blocks in front of and behind the house, but try to avoid roads, railways, machine houses, animal houses, etc. to ensure the quiet environment. Farms must also be built where a wide range of feed sources are available or where a variety of feeds can be purchased nearby.

The enclosure of the breeding ground can be surrounded by masonry, thin iron plates or barbed wire. The wall height should be 1.2m, because muskrat can climb along the wall to escape, so the inner wall should be as smooth as possible, do not have angle. Simple shed can cover herringbone shape, also can cover a slope type, generally made of wood, angle iron, bamboo, etc. support, above with asbestos tile, linoleum paper or covered with a room. The canopy height is 1.1~ 1.5 m, the width of single row house is 2m, and the length of double row house is about 4m. The length depends on the feeding conditions, the number and scale of feeding heads and the size of the site. Winter can also use vegetable cellar or plastic shed for feeding.

From the overall structure, the enclosure is mainly composed of three parts: the nest room, which is the place for muskrat to rest and give birth and protect its young. It is divided into two parts: the inner room is larger and the outer room is smaller. The playground is where muskrats move, eat and mate. The pool is a place for muskrats to bathe and mate. It must be a watertight container. The upper cover of both the nest and the enclosure must be covered with barbed wire, and small doors or holes for feeding, catching or observation must be set aside, and their size should be convenient for operation.

2. Preparation of feed

Musk rat feed sources are very wide, cheap and easily available. Concentrate is mainly grain, such as corn flour, barley flour, bean cake powder, wheat bran, etc.; root vegetables include carrots, radishes, beets and potatoes, etc.; melons, such as squash and horned melons; vegetables, such as cabbage, cabbage, green vegetables, etc.; in addition, all kinds of fresh aquatic plants, such as calla, bulrush, water barnyard grass and other weeds, wild vegetables, tender leaves, etc. can be used as green feed.

Of course, in captive mice, a certain amount of animal feed (fish meal, milk powder) and yeast powder, bone meal, salt, etc. should be added to ensure the nutritional needs of each developmental stage. Musk rat feed should be based on the principle of complete nutrition and diversification, usually in spring and summer to green feed mainly, adult rats about 300 grams per day, supplemented by about 50 grams of concentrate; winter food consumption sharply reduced, carrots, radish diet mainly, with vegetables and concentrate about 200 grams, but should be supplied with green hay.

Concentrate feed can be made into granules, blocks or corn kernels according to the proportion, or can be prepared into semi-dry and semi-wet state, but must be cooked and fed. Feeding time should be fixed, fixed times.

Necessary conditions for muskrat breeding

Musk rat also known as green root mink, musk mink is an amphibious herbivore. Under the condition of market economy, any project should be decided according to market conditions. To prepare for raising muskrat, we should understand the biological habits of muskrat thoroughly before breeding muskrat. Farmers should adapt to the local market and their own conditions such as technology, capital, labor and feed. Scale benefit is to want to consider, but cannot break away from oneself condition, blind pursuit does large-scale farm. Musk rat breeding varieties are the most critical, we must choose hybrid fine varieties.

Musk rat feeding requirements:

First, when preparing concentrate mixture, it is necessary to understand the various nutrients and their contents in the green, coarse and juicy feeds consumed by muskrats using this concentrate mixture, and supplement the insufficient or deficient nutrients in the feed to ensure that the animals absorb sufficient nutrients.

Second, according to the different biological stages of muskrat to determine the appropriate feeding standards, combined with feeding practice, and constantly improve and supplement.

Third, when preparing rations, we should consider the types and quantities of local existing feed resources, as well as the physical and chemical characteristics and nutritional value of various feeds, so as to achieve comprehensive nutrition, stable ingredients and good palatability.

Development prospect of muskrat

Musk rat is an efficient special economic animal, the whole body is a treasure, the use is very wide, very precious, whether in the domestic market or in the international market, there are broad prospects for development, mainly in the following aspects:

1. Musk is a kind of precious animal fragrance. The animal fragrance required for domestic and international high-grade cosmetics and related drugs depends on musk secreted by musk and civet. Musk has become an endangered animal, and its raw materials and products have been banned. Civets are not only difficult to reproduce, civets have very little fragrance, and there are many impurities, which are limited in the scope of application. Musk rats, on the other hand, are naturally an important supplement to animal spices that are on the verge of exhaustion. The medicine developed by the invention has good curative effect on treating high and low blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart overload, cardiac hypertrophy, atherosclerosis and other diseases, and the health care cosmetics developed by the invention have obvious anti-inflammatory and bacteriostatic effects, increase skin activity and reduce the activity power of lipid peroxide and lipofuscin content, and have strong competitiveness among cosmetics in the world today.

2. Musk rat fur is an excellent raw material for making high-grade fur clothing. Its fur is rich and soft, elastic and strong, rich and shiny. Its warmth and drainage are second only to otter skin. People in western economically developed countries regard wearing musk rat skin as a symbol of social status. The supply is in short supply, and the gap between domestic and foreign countries is about 70%.

3. Musk rat meat is a kind of game meat food with high protein, low fat and extremely rich nutrition. Its meat is tender and delicious. It can be processed into canned food, sausage, fried food, etc. It is the best meat food, especially in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and economically developed countries. The price is high.

4. Musk rat feces have the effect of repelling mosquitoes and flies, which is the best material for making mosquito-repellent incense.

5. Musk rat has high ornamental value because of its odorless, odorless, clean, hygienic, aquatic, underwater, jumping and making people love to see it.

Xiao Bian has compiled some relevant information about muskrats, so I probably have a certain understanding. Musk rat because of its wide use value, whether it is cosmetic industry, meat processing industry, etc. can be developed and utilized. Therefore, it can be seen that the prospect of muskrat breeding is still very large.