What are the reasons why female bamboo rats eat their offspring?

Many farmers have encountered the phenomenon of female bamboo rats eating young, why they eat young, as long as find out the reason, find the root cause, there are ways to deal with it, female bamboo rats eat young for the following reasons.

The act of protecting a cub

In fact, tiger poison does not eat cubs, bamboo mice are no exception, bamboo mice eat cubs, the starting point is good, its nature is right, bamboo rats eat cubs mainly to protect their own cubs, when outsiders invade or are disturbed, the mother rat thinks that she needs to protect her cub and eat it into her belly, so that her cub will not be taken away by others, and the mother mouse also thinks that the cub is born from her belly. If you eat it, you can still regenerate it. After all, it is an animal with low intelligence. Unexpectedly, if you eat the baby into your stomach, you will kill him. Therefore, the mother rat eats the baby in order to protect her own child. People who don't know much about it think that bamboo rats are so cruel that they even eat their own cubs.

The nutrition of the mother mouse is not enough.

When the baby is breast-fed, there is no milk in the nipple, and the baby is constantly allowed to eat the nipple, the mother mouse will be in pain, which will infuriate the mother mouse, and it will also lead to eating the cub, after all, it is an animal, and its intelligence is not high, thus making such an unbenevolent behavior. Even if it is a person, the mother does not have milk, it will be very uncomfortable, but people have a way to artificially feed milk to their children, which can solve this problem. Therefore, the nutrition of the mother bamboo rat during the lactation period is very important, adding some concentrate to the mother rat, or intermittently feeding some milk powder to the mother rat, as long as there is milk, the baby can grow well.

Be disturbed and frightened from the outside

In fact, this is the main reason, when mu bamboo rats are disturbed, their temperament is irritable, not only their own young will be threatened, they will also be threatened, a combination of a variety of factors, leading to the occurrence of eating. I have heard many farmers say that my bamboo rats are purely domesticated and are not afraid of being frightened by people, so they can take people to see them at will. I object to this view. Some of the more docile mother rats may not be frightened, but most of them are still afraid of shock. If you want the mother and baby to grow well and improve the survival rate, it is better to keep the environment as quiet as possible, and do not take people to see it casually. The habits and instincts of animals cannot be changed, and they must adapt to the natural growth environment.