Bamboo rats like to eat food based on crop stalks and plant basal roots. So corn stalks, sorghum stalks, soybean stalks, sugarcane roots, reeds, and manzanita can be used to feed bamboo rats.

Secondly, the bamboo rat is named bamboo rat precisely because it likes to eat bamboo. Keepers can throw in their favor and prepare some fresh and tender green bamboo to feed it. It should be noted that the bamboo rat has its own suitable food. It is different from human beings, and different from other pigs, horses, cows and sheep. So don't try to feed bamboo rats with other foods. This feeding method is not scientific, for the breeder, suitable, meet the needs of the bamboo rat food is the most healthy and best.