A Detailed Guide to Common Medicines and Their Uses in Bamboo Rat Farming

Diseases commonly seen in bamboo rat farming include external injuries, fungal infections, soft stool or constipation, so we should always keep some basic medicines on hand for use when needed.

Essential Medicines for Farming Bamboo Rats

Calcium tablets, lactobacillus tablets, 75% medical alcohol, iodine tincture, Dag Ning ointment, anti-inflammatory powder, potassium permanganate.

How to Use the Essential Medicines

1. Feeding calcium tablets: choose the kind with a good taste, and feed them together with lactobacillus tablets once every two days, one tablet of each each time.

2. Fungal infection: when the bamboo rat's skin turns red in a local area and hair loss occurs, it can basically be judged as a fungal infection, and in severe cases there is flaking skin on the affected area. At this time, apply alcohol or iodine tincture to the affected area of the bamboo rat to disinfect it, and after disinfection apply Dag Ning ointment.

3. Soft stool and constipation: both belong to indigestion, and are mainly treated with dietary therapy, not feeding dry feed, switching instead to feeding a single type of hay, with lactobacillus tablets as an auxiliary treatment.

4. External injuries in bamboo rats: after disinfecting with alcohol, apply anti-inflammatory powder.

5. Disinfectant medicines: potassium permanganate is commonly used to disinfect nests, cages and feeding utensils, ensuring the health of the bamboo rats.