What if the mortality rate of bamboo mouse cubs is high?

At present, according to the relevant statistics, the survival rate of "bamboo mouse cubs" is relatively low, so what is the reason? Why is it that bamboo rat farming is not as easy to use as raising pigs? There are mainly the following aspects.

The mother bamboo mouse doesn't take the baby mice.

Some female bamboo mice do not take their cubs and die from those who do not have colostrum. So what is the reason why the mother bamboo mouse can not take care of the baby mice very well? Like humans and other animals, it is natural for bamboo mice to feed their young, but like some new mothers, bamboo rats give birth for the first time and do not know how to feed their children, but people are advanced animals and know how to ask for help and consultation. The same is true of bamboo mice. If the new mother does not breast-feed newborn bamboo mice, the keeper should assist the mother to feed the cubs. It is worth noting that it must be the feeder who is familiar with the taste of the new mother, otherwise it will be counterproductive. Therefore, try to let the mother of bamboo mice feed for the first time.

The mother of bamboo mouse eats her cub.

There are many reasons for this. First, environmental effects, such as setting off fireworks during the Spring Festival, cause environmental noise and make female bamboo rats feel unsafe. In this case, female bamboo rats may kill and eat their newborn bamboo mice. The second point: the bamboo mouse cub has a taste unfamiliar to its mother, and the mother bamboo mouse has a very keen sense of smell, and it is also used to identify enemies and friends, as mentioned in the reason, if the smell of a stranger is left on the bamboo mouse cub, the bamboo mouse mother will think that this is not her cub and kill them all.

The death of bamboo rat cubs caused by dystocia

When bamboo rats are pregnant, some bamboo mouse breeders do not know how to scientifically feed the expectant mother of bamboo mice during pregnancy, thinking that bamboo mice will soon be born, thinking that the prescription should eat well for the mother bamboo mice, resulting in the obesity of the mother bamboo mice. The young bamboo mice have such a high weight during their development that when the mother bamboo rats give birth, they are unable to give birth to their cubs, resulting in the death of the mother bamboo mice and their cubs. You only need to pay attention to scientific feeding during pregnancy.

Stillbirth and false death of bamboo mouse cubs

Bamboo mice will also cause stillbirth of their cubs due to unscientific feeding during pregnancy. There is nothing we can do about the death of young bamboo rats caused by this situation. Therefore, here I would like to focus on the phenomenon of "fake death of bamboo mice". Some young bamboo mice will not move when they are born, and some are caused by the fact that the fetal coat of young bamboo mice has not been peeled off. in general, the mother bamboo rat will give the bamboo mouse cub treatment by herself, but sometimes, because the bamboo mouse mother is not timely or inexperienced, the bamboo rat cub can not breathe, resulting in the death of the bamboo mouse cub. Bamboo rat breeders can use artificial mouth-to-mouth breathing method to save newborn bamboo rat cubs, through scientific artificial methods, most bamboo rat cubs can be rescued.

Death caused by malnutrition of bamboo mouse cubs

In the process of growing up, in addition to the feeding of the mother bamboo mouse, the young bamboo rat will be slowly raised by the bamboo rat breeders, while the bamboo rat breeders lack scientific management in the process of feeding, resulting in insufficient nutritional intake of bamboo rats. the resistance of young bamboo rats is weak, resulting in the death of bamboo rats.

Of course, there are many other reasons for the death of bamboo mouse cubs, such as the accidental death of bamboo rats by natural predators such as weasels.