Culture techniques of wild bamboo rodents

At present, there are more and more wild bamboo rats, and they are also favored by breeders, because the direct cultivation of wild bamboo rats can save a lot of cost. As many breeders do not understand the living habits and laws of wild bamboo rats, the key to the unsuccessful cultivation of wild bamboo rats is often that wild bamboo rats are locked up to fight and do not eat food. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the living habits of wild bamboo rats and master scientific breeding methods.

Selection of wild bamboo rat

The healthy wild bamboo mouse without disease or injury was selected as the object of domestication.

Small group temporary rearing

In order to prevent fighting, wild bamboo rats caught or purchased should be kept in a litter for a period of time to adapt to the environment of artificial breeding. On the 1st-3rd day, bamboo rats may not eat, which is a normal phenomenon. After adapting to the environment, bamboo rats will slowly eat and start activities, and the temporary feeding time is 5-7 days.

Domestication and feeding

This is the key to the success or failure of breeding bamboo rats. For wild bamboo rats, their living environment should be studied before domestication. When buying in the market, ask the seller where it was captured. If it is captured in the bamboo forest, domestication will first use tender bamboo branches and bamboo shoots as bait, while adding awn stalk and corn stalk, which will gradually expand to other foods. If it is captured in the producing area of mango grass, it will first be eaten by Baomang grass and corn stalk. After the food inducement is successful, the single food used can be gradually reduced, and then the transition to a variety of feed, and the addition of concentrate to enable bamboo rats to get full nutrition. When domesticating, you should be patient and meticulous. If you can't understand the eating habits of bamboo rats, you can try to feed them with all kinds of wild food. When domesticating, it can be fed according to the principle of gradually changing from wild mango grass, bamboo branch and thatch root to artificially planted sugarcane stem, elephant grass stalk, sweet potato, corn kernels and other miscellaneous grains, and then to compound feed. It should be noted that after the provision of wild food, bamboo rats must not be fed with formula feed before they are fed. After such domestication, it is generally possible to domesticate successfully.

Optimized group

After the successful domestication of wild bamboo rodents, the group must be further optimized in order to improve the reproduction rate and the body weight of their offspring. The breeding mice of different nests, strong physique and the same size are grouped according to the proportion of 1 male and 1 female or 1 male and 2 females, and the female bamboo rats will soon become pregnant. The mother rats must be kept in isolation in the later stage of pregnancy, and the lactating mother rats must be put back to the original group after weaning. Such groups can prevent inbreeding and obtain excellent offspring.