Cost and risk of bamboo rat culture

Bamboo rats feed on bamboo, mango grass, plant stalks and so on. It gets its name from eating bamboo. The species lives mainly in tropical and subtropical forests, thickets and bamboo forests in eastern Africa and southern Asia. Today, let's discuss the cost and risk of bamboo rat breeding.

Cost accounting method for the first year

1. The cost of building a pool. The cost of each rat pool is 12 yuan (including labor), and the cost of building the pool is about 1200 yuan based on 100 rat pools.

2. Seed and seedling cost. Seedling is the largest cost in the initial stage of bamboo and mouse breeding investment, and the market unit price is generally in the range of 260mi 460 due to regional differences. The seedling price of 50 pairs of bamboo rats was calculated at the median price of 360yuan per pair. 18000 yuan.

3. Annual feed cost. The cost of feed is concentrate and coarse feed, and the average annual consumption of concentrate is about 0.16 yuan per mouse per day, totaling 5840 yuan a year. The feeding cost of coarse feed is about 0.1yuan / day, and a total of 3650 yuan a year. Concentrate + coarse material = 9490 yuan

4. Loss value. Death or elimination due to various reasons shall be calculated on the basis of an average loss of 20%. There are still 40 pairs of bamboo rats left.

5. Reproductive status in the first year. According to the purchase of about 1 jin of seedlings, the breeding period is about 7 months to start reproduction. The pregnancy cycle of bamboo mouse is 45 days, and the cycle of carrying offspring is 40 days. Take a rest for 10 days. You can basically have one child in the first year. The reproduction rate of 40 female rats is 90%, so only 36 mice can reproduce. Each of them gave birth to 3 babies, with a total of 108 cubs. But beginners in the face of first-birth survival rate due to lack of feeding experience, eating, abandoning, milk deficiency loss often reached 50% or more, the remaining 54 weaned mice. Compared with the previous loss, the annual surplus of about 134 rats and mice.

6. Miscellaneous expenses. Including water, electricity, medicine, transportation, about 2000 yuan.

To sum up, the cost of investing 50 pairs in part-time farming in the first year is about 30690 yuan.

Profit and risk coexist

Aquaculture is an industry with both profits and risks, so new bamboo rat breeders should reasonably analyze whether they are suitable for breeding bamboo rats according to local conditions and their own conditions, and should not breed them blindly. The selection of healthy and good offspring of bamboo mice is the key to the success of breeding. The price of excellent bamboo mice seedlings must not be cheap, but expensive ones are not necessarily good, so you need to keep your eyes open. Bamboo rat culture technology is based on the experience of usual practice, summed up step by step, only theoretical knowledge combined with breeding practice can be unimpeded, so the early bamboo rat culture scale should be appropriate, for this new type of special culture, supply exceeds demand, of course, should not, should find out the market demand before breeding, make a good breeding cost budget.