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Free Information On Grasscutter Farming In Nigeria
The grasscutter (Cane Rat) belongs to the order Rodentia. It is only second to the crested porcupine.
The grasscutter has the emulating attributes which make it's agriculture (for livelihood or revenue) profitable.
1. Social acceptability:
No religious alternatively cultural taboo.
2. Carcas: (Meat)
- Mature live weight is between 4 – 10 kg.
- Average clothes percent is between 65% excluding the head and entrails.
- Lean Meat (less fat % than in meat, mutton, and meat ).
3. Husbandary:
- The droppings (faeces) do no have offensive smell compared to those of Rabbit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],Pigs etc.
4. Litter size:
Average litter size of 8
(litters Between 1—10 youngs at one pregnancy).
Generation Interval:
- Short interval.
However,It is value mentioning that the cane-rat was taken out of the Wild(bush) for domestication to behalf man.Thus, the hostage cane–rat is solely dependent on the custodian for its survival, and rendition in the absence of free-ranging alternative.
THE GRASSCUTTER HOUSING:
i) Where to locate the cane- rat housing
-Far from very loud context to lest stress.
- Far from wrong odour to discourage illness
- Close to the residence of the breeder to ensure security,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], close monitoring and supervision.
ii) Features of cage:
There are two main types of cages
1) Colony Cages: Used for rearing grasscutter in groups
2) Individual circumstance : accustomed for rearing Uncastrated adult male grasscutter and also a quarantine space for sick or impaired grasscutters.
Colony cages dimension:
L * W * H : 2 * 1 * 0.40Metre
Entrance : - L * W : 30 * 25 cm
Two entrances ashore each side is suggested.
Individual cages :
Dimension :- L * W * H : 0.5 * 0.45 * 0.30 Metre
Entrance :- L * W 18 *18
Both the colony and individual cages can be superposed one on top the other (up to 3 tiers)to form a compact Battery Cage.
Animal density per cage : -
1. Production Animals
1 male + 5 female (This numeric = A COLONY)
2. Weaned grasscutter (6 to 8 weeks old).
18 to 24 grasscutters
3. Young animals (3 to 4 months )
8 to 15 animals
NUTRITION :
Feeding Characteristics
First and foremost the grasscutter is a herbivore. However, forage is generally their best choice, but meager in potein, yet provides the animal with raw fibre and stamina.
Hence, in its natural habitat, the grasscutter, in increase to the consumption of forage, resorts to other nutritional elements (like agricultural by production) which abound within its natural milieu to complete its meal course in order to grow and remain healthy.
Therefore, in close confinement, it is obligatory for the grasscutter breeder to cater these supplementary feed with the required amounts a great many and quality as necessitated for the animal's growth , good health and reproduction.
Grasscutters pick feed with their jaws and use their [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] incisors to bite into the edible (forage or agro by-product similarly) to some extent that a "tailor' seaming machine" like sound is produced.
Characteristically, the grasscutter is constantly depicted as a prodigal client for it normally takes afflict to remove (for its expense) the tender interior chapter of the stalk of any forage which is succulent.
When the supplementary is also served, it offers to elect out the maize grains or other choice elements which it cherishes most. The grasscutter almost empties the feed via, in this course, a lot of the other feed units in the combination is lost and cannot be regained by the animals except in the hutch.
It is important to also memorandum that grasscutters,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like rabbits, practice coprophagy (that is the re-ingestion of their faeces). Contrary to some faiths born out of ignorance of their habits, grasscutters do consume water. Grasscutters lap up water with their tongue when served in a trough. But when industrial drinkers with nipples are used,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], grasscutters re-adapt and suck at the drinkers.
3. NUTRIENTS
It has been earlier said that though grasscutters are effectively herbivores, favor additional rodents they also consume agricultural by–products, like grains, tubers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rhizomes.
When raised in closed confinement, grasscutters should be provided with the upon, as well as other necessary ore elements which constitute their supplementary feed.
Agricultural by Products:
a. Grains:-
- Maize (corn grain)
- Millet
- Sorghum
- Groundnut etc.
- Wheat
b. Tubers:
- Cassava
- Yam
- Potatoes
SUPPLEMENTARY FEED:
Proteins:
- roasted cowpea
- barbecued soya beans
- cassava leaves
- groundnut tops
- cowpea tops
- fish meal
- leucaena leucocephala.
VITAMIN:
- Got from the pineapple leaves.(this will upset the milieu) the absorbent organ set up, will be argued after.
MINERAL:
- Salt lick and cooked raw bone of the cattle's (Femur bone - boiling sterilizes the bone).
However, it is all sagacious to sprinkle the mix up with Brewer's yeast liquefied in water. This adds aroma that is extremely favoured by the grasscutter.
WATER CONSUMPTION:
This is resolved by an environmental factor (the amount of water in the atmosphere) low temperature and less forage, leads to high rate of water been consumed, and vice versa.
REPRODUCTION IN GRASSCUTTER:
The headmaster objectives of a grasscutter breeder would be to clone good quality animals with a low rate of mortality, observed in either the kindled litters and the nursing doe.
However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], It is worth mentioning for clear knowing some important terms used even now ;
A male grasscutter (cane-rat ) is otherwise referred to as A BUCK. (for in rabbits )
A female grasscutter (cane- rat ) " " " " ------ A DOE.
A newly kindled juvenile are referred to as ------- LITTERS.
An ideally recommended group of 1 male to 4 female is referred to as -------- A COLONY.
SELETION OF BREEDING STOCK:
Selection of foundation breeding stock have to be based on the grasscutter's agreeable health (free from injury and deformities). Equally, it ought be made from domesticated stock that has a history of tall prolificity as doe selection and nice virility because bucks'. Secondly,breeding stocks should be elected an month behind weaning (2—3 months antique), then the post weaning stress ambition have subsided.
SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR :
At about 7 months of old the members of a colony must have been closing the old of adolescence. The bucks when rised together, become often offensive and hostile to each other and could fight each other to death, when the Does are silence, accommodating and friendly to each other,accordingly the strap rat husbandary supports a polygamous culture (as in their natural habitat). So, a Buck could be put into a harem of 4 -5 Does. The Buck will then service the the Does one after the other. It is therefore momentous to state here that servicing or mating tin merely take place whether the Doe is on heat.
FACTORS THAT AIDS THE APPEARANCE OF HEAT IN GRASSCUTTER DOE :
The following elements provokes heat and equally triggers ovulation in the Cane-rat Does
1. Persistant courting by the buck
2. Prolong sunshine
3. Nutrition.
4. Isolation into unique and sudden re-introduction of Buck.
SEXUAL CYCLE:
The sexual cycle of the grasscutter is made up of Two cardinal phases namely ;
a. Diestrus / Rest period
b. Estrus /sexually athletic period.
SERVICING THE DOE :
In mandate to nourish the grasscutter polygamus culture, as available in their natural milieu, for reproduction purpose. It is advisable to house a colony of 4 Does to be serviced by a Buck.
SERVICING METHOD :
Two likely methods are observed in the servicing of the grasscutter Doe
a Permanent /adlib mating means
b. Controlled mating method.
GESTATION AND KINDERLING :
As long as a Doe has accepted a Buck to mate, experience and observation made in our farm shows that there is a 95% opportunity that the Doe becomes Pregnant. Rarely one casual abortion may occur. The gestation period of the grasscutter Doe is 154 +/- 2 days (5 months approximately). At the end of which, the Doe kindles.
Average litter size is usually from Four (4) to ten (10). The young litters are born with their eyes broad open and their wrap well formed and are prepared to suckle now after parturition.
LACTATION AND WEANING :
The grasscutter Doe has three couples of teats hanging by the side rather than the underbelly. Funny enough the Does are quite tolerant, any trash from itself, or the entire trash in the colony could be suckled by only a Doe at a time and another period any other Doe will do the same . This explains the cause why there is always a quite low mortality rate (if only zero) and why they grow faster.
Weaning usually takes place when the young ones are six to eight weeks old, by about this time the Does could start practicing cannibalism.
MANAGEMENT OF A GRASSCUTTER FARM FOR PROFIT :
a. Stock operation
b. Hygiene in the grasscutter distant.
c. Practicing good Breeding stock selection progamme.
d. Proper records keeping etc.
For beyond assist on Grasscutter ploughing,contact:
Ismail AbdulAzeez,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
The Managing Consultant,
The Thy Consulting,
Website:? [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

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