Bamboo rat meat is served on the table; how much can you earn from farming bamboo rats at home?
Bamboo ratmeat is served on the table; how much can you really earn from farming bamboo rats at home?" inline="0">
Nowadays, people have more and more choices when it comes to food, and bamboo rat meat is gradually becoming popular on the table. Many rural farmers think that bamboo rat farming is a good way to make a fortune, so they plunge into the bamboo rat farming industry. But many people work hard for several years and still do not even recover their costs, so there are also claims that bamboo rat farming is a scam. Whether it is true or false, let us explain.
In bamboo rat farming, the biggest part of the cost is buying breeding rats. At current market prices, a pair of breeding rats costs between 300 and 400. If a farm buys 20 pairs for free-range raising, it will cost nearly 8,000 yuan.
To save costs, an abandoned house can be used as the farming site. A pair of breeding rats gives birth once a year, with 3 to 5 pups per litter. Excluding some other factors that cause infertility or failure to give birth, under normal conditions about 70 young rats can be obtained in a year. And the cost of raising the young rats is very low. Because bamboo rats feed on bamboo, corn, and so on, the cost of feed for one bamboo rat by the time it is sold is only about 30 yuan.
Calculating it all together, based on a bamboo rat selling price of 80 yuan per jin, one bamboo rat weighs about 4 jin and can bring 320 yuan, so 70 rats can bring 22,400 yuan in total. After deducting the cost of buying breeding rats and the farming cost, a profit of more than 10,000 yuan can be made.
However, this is only the situation for small household farming, where labor and site costs can be ignored. For many rural farmers who want to make big money and casually invest hundreds of thousands, they must be cautious. It is advisable to start with small-scale farming first, and after thoroughly understanding the rules and characteristics of bamboo rat farming, expand the farming according to actual conditions.
It is true that bamboo rat farming can make money, but entering rashly with large costs also carries great risks. You should know that as the scale expands, site costs and labor costs will all increase accordingly. If you do not have certain farming experience, one careless move will definitely leave you with nothing and you will not recover your costs for several years.
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