. Bamboo underground stems, roots, shoots and stems as food.1. Straw as staple food.　The bamboo rat's feed is based on crop stalks and plant basal roots, such as corn stalks, sorghum stalks, soybean stalks, sugarcane roots, reeds, mango grass and so on. It does not compete with humans, animals or poultry for food. They also do not compete with cows and sheep for food. Cows and sheep eat the young branches and leaves of plants, while bamboo rats only eat the old roots and stems of plants. In order to ensure the growth and development of bamboo rats need nutrition, need to feed some concentrate feed.　2. No sunlight and water.　The bamboo rat likes to live in a dark, cool, dry, clean environment with a temperature of -8～35℃, and has the characteristic of taking water from feed without drinking directly. Therefore, it can be in the remote rural slopes, rocky caves to create a nest breeding, but also in towns and cities indoor, basement construction of nests for the implementation of three-dimensional factory farming, but also more suitable for bamboo forests in abundance, and maize, sorghum and water-scarce mountainous areas of the arid culture.　3. Easy to raise and manage.　Bamboo rat feeding management is simple, feeding only once a day, can also be fed once every 3 days. Bamboo rat urine less feces dry, no odor, summer clean 1 time, winter can be 3 ~ 4 days to clean 1 time. The workload of raising 1 pair of bamboo rats is 1/10 of raising 1 pig, and a laborer can raise 200 pairs of rats.　4. Strong reproduction.　One female bamboo rat can breed 20～30 rats per year, and 120～160 rats per year under good feeding conditions, which is much higher than the multiplication of pigs, cows and sheep, and its production level is incomparable to that of other livestock species.　5. The benefits are considerable.　The weight of young rats can reach more than 1 kilogram in 3 months. The current market price of commercial bamboo rats is 50 to 60 yuan per kilogram, generally raising 1 pair of bamboo rats with an annual income of more than 1,000 yuan. A farmer using half an acre of pigsty converted into a rat pool, captive breeding 6 to 10 pairs of bamboo rats, a year can be out of poverty. Laid-off workers, urban residents to use the free house to implement three-dimensional cage or pool raising 4 to 6 pairs of bamboo rats, its income is also considerable. It can be seen that bamboo rat breeding is a new type of breeding industry with high development value, high market demand, high yield, high efficiency, low consumption, food saving and low risk, which is worth developing. [Edit] Breeding cycle The first year: seed introduction - growth - maturity - estrus mating - litter feeding.　1, during this period of time there are eating the litter, there will also be abandoned female rats appear; 2, due to temperament problems do not breed the male and female will also be there, those will usually be more fierce, repeated offenses; 3, sexual ability is not good male rats can also be included in the elimination of the ranks.　The second year: Entering the period of vigorous production - the second selection 1, those eating, abandoning or producing fewer litters are eliminated; 2, those with poor physique are also eliminated; 3, those with poor reproductive ability are also among them.　The third, fourth and fifth years: the selected good adult breeding rats start to have good economic benefits, but during this period, we must consider the problem of reserve breeding rats, or else the farm will have the problem of "cooking out" after two or three years.　Sixth year: the sexual ability of the breeding rats begins to decline, and the back-up breeding rats slowly eliminate these rats as commercial rats to ensure the number of high-yield breeding rats.　From the above analysis of the six-year cycle, the following conclusions for your reference: 1, the bamboo rat industry is not an investment can immediately see the benefits, to put it simply is to do this industry needs a bit of long-term vision and boldness.　2, the initial introduction of seeds, we suggest that twenty pairs or seven groups (two male and three female) or more. Because only in this way, there is a second selection of the base; of course, you can also go to other farms through the future for the second introduction.　When introducing seeds, first, you can consider to have "two certificates" (i.e., "Wildlife Domestication License", "Wildlife Business Utilization License") in the farm to introduce seeds; second, you can also go to their own familiar, trusted with many years of experience in domestication of breeding in the farm to introduce seeds. In this way, one can ensure the quality of the seed source, the second can get the corresponding technical support.　3, once on the track of normal development, each year should set aside the appropriate backup breeding rats to fill the capacity gap left after the breeding rats are sold as commercial rats. Expanded reading: 1. Bamboo rat breeding status and breeding bamboo rat ten reasons: /zhifu/view.asp?id=1274