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1. Breeding environment choice
Flowering rodents like a ventilated, dry environment with no direct light, it is more appropriate to choose indoor balconies, terraces, doors and windows around the ventilated place as the feeding place of the flowering rodent, try not to contact the sunlight directly, the flowering rodent is afraid of heat. In the hot summer, heat sinks and ice packs are usually used to cool them down, and they should be kept in a cage of two of the same sex, so that they are healthy and active. For breeding rats, cage them in pairs of males and females. There is no need to place a running wheel in the cage, as it can injure the tail of the mice. The mice should be let out of the cage to exercise and play for 1~2 hours every day. The mice have a strong bond, and even if they are not supervised, they will still move around the cage and will not scurry around.
2. Cage selection
Florid mice need more space to move around, the bigger the cage, the better, don't keep them in too small cages. The cage should have at least a drinking bottle, food bowl, a small nesting room and other facilities, usually a cage of 2~3 same sex rats. For juvenile rats, use smaller cages, and for adult rats, use larger cages such as encrypted rabbit cages, squirrel cages, three-layer chinchilla cages, and Dayang R50/60 series. For bottom plate wire mesh cages, be sure to put a layer of foot pads to avoid avian palpitis. Do not choose wooden jumping boards and nests, which are prone to urine seepage, difficult to clean and have a foul odor. When free-ranging in the home, the flowering branch rats will damage the curtains in the home, gnawing on wires, etc., so it is not recommended to free-ranging in the home.
3. Selection of bedding
The principles of bedding selection are environmentally friendly, warm, breathable and easy to clean and deodorize. Flowering rodent feces and urine smell unpleasant, bedding preferred wood particles, aspen dust-free wood chips, KT paper cotton, pet diapers, tofu block fiber paper, aspen wood silk, free forest paper, etc., do not choose wood shavings, old clothes and fabrics and other dusty materials for bedding. Clean towel is also a good bedding for flower branch rats, both environmental protection and warmth, deodorization effect.
4. Feed selection
As far as possible, use branded feeds that are rich in grains for chipmunks. Young rats and pregnant rats should choose high-protein rat-specific food, while adult rats should not eat high-protein rat food, and should choose low-protein rat-specific food to prevent the breeding of tumors. It is forbidden to feed hamster or golden bear feed, these feeds are not nutritionally comprehensive, and long-term consumption will cause malnutrition in flowering branch rats.
5. Feeding Methods
(1) Cleaning of Food Utensils
Before feeding, clean the leftover food residue in the food bowl, and replace it with a disinfected, sterilized and cleaned food bowl.
(2) Feeding
Based on the age of the rats, put the right amount of rats' special food or homemade feed in the food bowl, not too much at a time, about 10-20g is appropriate, 2-3 times a day, each time, subject to consumption. When feeding vegetables and fruits feed, you need to use water to wash the vegetables and fruits repeatedly before feeding, this can reduce pesticide residues. Do not feed too much at one time, otherwise it will easily cause the death of the flowering branch mouse with diarrhea.
(3) Selection and feeding of snacks
According to the principle of "staple food as the mainstay, snacks as a supplement", it is not advisable to feed too many snacks, or else it will be easy to get fat and sick. There are many snacks for mice, mainly sunflower seeds, dried vegetables (dried eggplant, dried radish, etc.), and dried fruit slices (dried apples, dried mangoes, dried white potatoes, etc.). Low-sugar, low-fat and fiber-rich foods should be used as snacks for mice and rats. Sunflower seeds are the favorite snacks of mice, moderate feeding of sunflower seeds or high-calorie food, pay attention to not too much, otherwise mice will easily get fat, skin fat is too thick, easy to hair loss, easy to heat stroke in summer. In summer, sunflower seeds are usually used as reward food for training mice, about 3~5 pills per week. In winter, the mouse has less movement, less activity, more fat hoarding, easy to get fat, 2~3 grains per week can be, or try not to feed sunflower melon seeds.
6. Scientific drinking water
(1) Drinking water apparatus selection
Choose transparent and clean glass, plastic containers, or choose to use the rat professional drinking water as a drinking water apparatus for mice and rats. Drinking utensils should be used exclusively for rats, and should not be used by many rats to avoid mutual infection, and keep the drinking pots clean.
(2) Principles of drinking water
Choose bucket water or cool water as the water for rats, and keep clean water quality. The water temperature is based on room temperature, and can be kept between 15℃~20℃. Every day to clean the drinking utensils, keep the drinking utensils have water. Before giving water each time, pour out the remaining residual water and add an appropriate amount of purified water for human use, cool boiled water or bucket water. Pour into 2/3 of the container. Change the water 1~2 times a day.
(3) Regular disinfection of drinking utensils
①Sterilizer disinfection. Every 1~2 days on the drinking utensils with a concentration of 1% ~ 2% of the Edifo soak, and finally rinsed with water. ② high temperature sterilization. For high temperature drinking utensils in boiling water boiling 20.min before use.