The breeding prospect of bamboo rat

The cultivation of bamboo rats in our country began after the successful domestication of bamboo rats in the early 1990s, and at the present stage, it has become a new breeding industry with high development value, large market demand, low investment risk and high economic benefits. the main reasons for promoting the rapid development of bamboo rat culture are as follows.

The Edible ability of Bamboo Rat

Bamboo rodents have clean eating habits, delicate and lean meat and delicious taste. It is the top grade of game. It is a kind of meat food with high nutritional value, low fat and low cholesterol. According to the determination, it contains 57.78% crude protein, 2.54% crude fat, 17.36% crude ash, 0.84% crude fiber and 0.05% cholesterol. It is also rich in phosphorus, iron, calcium, vitamin E, amino acids and steroids. The contents of lysine, leucine and methionine are even higher than those of chicken, duck, goose, pig, cow, sheep, fish, shrimp and crab.

The medicinal properties of bamboo squirrel

Modern medicine has proved that bamboo rat meat can promote the growth of human white blood cells and hair, enhance liver function and prevent vascular sclerosis, fight aging and delay puberty. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the gall, liver, heart, brain, testis and kidney of bamboo rats can be used as medicine. Gallbladder can be clear-sighted, refreshing and invigorating the brain, can treat eye diseases and deafness; kidney can treat scabies, beriberi; liver, heart, brain can treat palpitation, palpitation, insomnia and other diseases; testes stir-fried with a little borneol, swallowed with boiling water can treat high fever, vomiting and rheumatism; bone soaking wine can treat rheumatism and rheumatism.

Bamboo rat hair has always been regarded as a good raw material for medicine in the medical field of our country. Because the hair of bamboo mouse is mainly composed of hard protein, after hydrolysis, it can be made into important drugs such as hydrolyzed protein, cystine and cysteine. Folk is usually used to treat infantile leprosy and vaccinia. Biochemical drugs such as glycyrrhizic acid, thymic peptide and brain phospholipid can be extracted from the viscera of bamboo rats. The linear white tendons in the tail of bamboo mice, which can be used for surgical sutures.

Raw materials for making fur

Bamboo mouse skin is fine and soft, glossy and oily, the bottom is thick, the thickness of the skin plate is moderate, easy to tanning, the hair base is gray, easy to dye, it is the first-class raw material for making fur clothes.

As a result of the above points, the demand for bamboo rats in the market is increasing, and the economic benefits of bamboo rat culture are getting higher and higher. thus it can be seen that the prospect of bamboo rat culture is still very bright.

Culture benefit of bamboo rat

Bamboo rat culture has the characteristics of wide adaptability, grain saving, strong fecundity, fast growth, easy to raise and easy to manage, rich profits and so on. It can not only be developed vigorously in rural areas, but also suitable for family breeding and factory scale breeding of urban residents.

1. Staple food straw: bamboo rat's feed is mainly crop straw and plant root, such as corn stalk, sorghum stalk, soybean stalk, sugarcane root, Reed, mango and so on. Do not compete for food with people, livestock and poultry. Also do not compete with cattle and sheep, cattle and sheep eat the tender branches and leaves of the plant, while bamboo rats only eat the old roots of the plant. In order to ensure the nutrition needed for the growth and development of bamboo rats, it is necessary to feed some concentrate feed.

2. No need for sunlight and water: bamboo rats like to live in a dark, cool, dry, clean environment with a temperature of-8: 35 ℃, and have the characteristics of absorbing water from feed without drinking water directly. Therefore, it can not only build caves in hillsides and caves in remote rural areas, but also build nest ponds indoors and basements in cities and towns to carry out factory three-dimensional culture, and it is more suitable for breeding in arid and water-deficient mountain areas rich in bamboo forests and corn and sorghum.

3. Easy to raise and manage: the feeding and management of bamboo rats is simple, only once a day or once a day. Bamboo mouse urine less feces dry, no odor, clear once in summer, winter can be cleaned once every 3-4 days. The workload of raising a pair of bamboo rats is 10% of raising a pig, and a labor force can raise 200 pairs of breeding mice.

4. Strong fecundity: a female bamboo rat reproduces 20 mice per year, and 120 mice per year under good feeding conditions, which is much higher than the reproduction multiple of pigs, cattle and sheep, and its production level is incomparable to other livestock breeds.

5. The benefit is considerable: the body weight of young mice can reach more than 1 kg after 3 months. The current market purchase price of commercial bamboo rats is 60 yuan per kilogram of bamboo rats, and the annual income of raising a pair of bamboo rats is more than 2000 yuan. A farmer uses half an acre of pig house to turn into a rat pond and keeps 6-10 pairs of bamboo rats in captivity, which can get rid of poverty in one year. Laid-off workers and urban residents use spare houses to raise four or six pairs of bamboo rats in three-dimensional cages or enclosed ponds, and their income is also considerable.

Thus it can be seen that bamboo rat culture is a new type of aquaculture industry with high development value, high market demand, high yield, high efficiency, low consumption, grain saving and low risk.