It is hopeful to get rich by breeding bamboo rats.

According to Mo Yuanhua, the breeding of bamboo rats needs to pay attention to the following:

1. The floor of the rat house should be strong and smooth, which can prevent bamboo rats from climbing outside.

two。 Breeding bamboo rats should be divided into long-term and breeding period management, during the growing period, the proportion of feed should be reasonable, and during the breeding period, the temperature of the mouse house should be moderate to ensure feeding and prevent the mother from eating young rats.

3. Bamboo rats are more sensitive to the living environment, hot and cold bamboo mice will not adapt, strong light, high noise will also affect its growth, so the rat house had better be located in the sunny hillside or behind the house.

4. Attention should be paid to the prevention of "disease entering through the mouth". Bamboo rats like to eat bamboo, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, watermelons and other foods, but these foods are easy to rot and deteriorate after they have been kept for a long time. It is best to pick out the spoiled food before feeding them.

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Editor's note: in order to further promote the adjustment of the rural economic structure in our city and help farmers increase their income, this year, the "Golden Land" edition launched a special column on "Scientific planting and cultivation", introducing the characteristics of planting and breeding people in our city, as well as their development methods and sales methods. For farmers to learn. Correspondents are welcome to contribute enthusiastically or provide interview clues.

Bamboo mouse fur has a wide range of uses, the meat is rich and delicious, and the whole body is a treasure.

The little face is gray, the eyes are black, and the body is fluffy. Recently, when the author saw these "little guys" in the home of Mo Yuanhua, a bamboo rat farmer in Dazhong Village, Liubao Town, Cangwu County, they were nesting in their respective "beds" and closed their eyes. "the bamboo mouse is full of treasures." Mo Yuanhua said that the bamboo rat is commonly known as bamboo slippery, which gets its name from bamboo. Its fur is thick and can be used in the production of coats, leather shoes, gloves, handbags and other items. Moreover, it has a lot of flesh and delicious taste, so the market prospect is very broad.

Bamboo mouse has a good market prospect.

Mo Yuanhua, who is more than 60 years old this year, has tried to raise chickens and ducks, but after all, there are more people raising chickens and ducks, and the market competition is fierce. Mo Yuanhua finally gave up. By chance at the end of 2008, Mo Yuanhua came into contact with bamboo mice and became fascinated by this small animal. When he learned that bamboo rats were in great demand in the market at that time, but there were not many farmers, he came up with the idea of breeding bamboo rats.

After repeated investigation and research, Mo Yuanhua found that the local geographical environment and climatic conditions in Liubao Town were also very suitable for the growth and reproduction of bamboo rats, so he made up his mind to develop the cultivation of bamboo rats. In early 2009, he visited the bamboo rat breeding farm in Pingle County, Guilin City, and introduced several pairs of breeding rats to start bamboo rat breeding.

At first, because he did not understand the living habits of bamboo rats, although Mo Yuanhua carefully fed them every day, they grew very slowly, and the success rate of mating was very low. In order to solve these problems, Mo Yuanhua often calls friends who breed bamboo rats for advice. After the guidance of friends, coupled with his own painstaking study, Mo Yuanhua has basically mastered the living habits of bamboo rats, and summed up a set of breeding methods of bamboo rats.

Mo Yuanhua calculated for the author: if a room is transformed into a rat house, 610 pairs of bamboo rats can be raised. Each pair of breeding mice can produce 4 to 5 young mice a year, and 3 to 6 babies a year. After 2 to 3 months, the baby mice weigh 1.5 kilograms and can be sold on the market. According to the 2010 market price of about 100 yuan per kilogram, there will be an income of tens of thousands of yuan a year.

Make use of the network to expand the marketing

Mo Yuanhua has now made a splendid breeding of bamboo rats, and the scale has also gone up, but in order to have higher efficiency, in addition to selling in local farm restaurants, he also has to expand his sales to other places. Mo Yuanhua began to use the Internet to sell bamboo rats. When he put the sales information on the Internet, soon customers in the counties and cities around Wuzhou called to inquire.

Talking about the current bamboo mouse market, Mo Yuanhua said with a smile: "now people call to buy every day, basically in short supply, and the little bamboo mouse has been booked before it is weaned." As the market opened, Mo Yuanhua became more energetic and continued to expand the scale of breeding. At the end of last year, he also built more than 70 square meters of bamboo and rat houses, which can store 2000 bamboo rats.

Due to the small area, simple equipment, low investment, short cycle, and bamboo rats drink less water, less dry urine, there is no fishy smell, so the breeding project has been loved by more and more people. Now many farmers in Liubao Town have also begun to try to cultivate bamboo rats. Villagers in large and medium-sized villages have come to Mo Yuanhua for advice on breeding methods. Mo Yuanhua is also willing to sell seedlings at low prices or on credit to help surrounding farmers grow bamboo rats to get rich.