Raccoon's fur is of high value and is a good raw material for making fur coats. However, some people keep raccoons not only for their fur, but for their valuable medicinal value. A raccoon looks a bit like a fox, but it is smaller than a fox. Native to eastern Siberia, it is very hardy and suitable for breeding in northern China. There are two common raccoons: Ussuri raccoon and white raccoon. Lao Wang in Shunyi District of Beijing has raised raccoons for more than 20 years, and his income has increased a lot in recent years. He used to make money from raccoons, but now it's different. In addition to the income brought by raccoons, raccoon oil and raccoon bones also brought him a lot of economic benefits. Although raccoons have so many medicinal values, Lao Wang told us that the highest medicinal value of raccoons is its fat, which is raccoon oil. Raccoon oil has the function of promoting cell regeneration and is an excellent medicinal material for treating scald. Raccoon oil is the basic ingredient of commonly used scald drugs in hospitals. Now the value of raccoon oil has increased in all aspects and the price has also increased. At present, the price is about one catty in 20 yuan. When Lao Wang chooses raccoons, he first chooses raccoons with large size, long waist, good mental state, strong appetite and good coat color as raccoons. Although parents choose the best among the best, Lao Wang stressed that cultured raccoons should not be eaten at will like other raccoons, and they should control their food intake and lose weight before mating. When a female raccoon is pregnant, it is necessary to treat it differently. During this period, we should not only lose weight, but also supplement some feeds with high protein content, such as milk and eggs. When Lao Wang feeds the female raccoon, he adds a fresh egg to every meal. Only in this way can the fetus grow up healthily in the mother. Lao Wang said that if we don't pay attention to their nutrition, we will lose more than we gain. In the process of feeding, Lao Wang pays special attention to the feeding of raccoons during pregnancy to ensure the healthy development of raccoons in his mother's stomach. Raccoons belong to mammals, and raccoon mothers are the hardest after giving birth to cubs. If it wants to take better care of the young raccoon, it must let the mother raccoon eat nutritious feed to ensure that it can produce more milk and meet the growth needs of each young raccoon. After 45 to 60 days of happy life with their mother, raccoons will live alone and start feeding after weaning. But problems also follow. What kind of feed can raccoons who are used to breast milk eat to ensure safe weaning and healthy growth? It's better to make artificial ingredients for raccoons that have just split their nests. Grains should be ground and cooked. Because the little raccoon's stomach is soft and easy to digest after cooking, otherwise the little raccoon is easy to have diarrhea. Therefore, it is necessary to add 10% ~ 20% animal protein and animal oil to feed. Although Lao Wang's purpose is to get more raccoon oil, he doesn't fatten young raccoons as soon as they are in a nest. At this time, raccoons are still in infancy, and it is time to grow up, so they should be replenished in time. For example, supplement meat powder, milk powder, fish meal and so on. To meet their growth needs. Raccoons in the growing period start to move, and their energy consumption is relatively high. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement the nutrition needed by the body in time and feed it with complete feed, including animal feed 30%, grain feed 65% and plant feed 5%. In the process of feeding, Lao Wang not only makes them grow tall and strong, but also supplements some vitamins to raccoons in time and often feeds them some vegetable feed. In the usual breeding, you can also add some wild vegetables, such as bitter vegetables and "horsetooth vegetables", which can prevent raccoons from getting red claw disease, and "horsetooth vegetables" can also prevent small raccoons from having diarrhea and so on. Raccoons themselves have the characteristics of miscellaneous eating habits, and the growing raccoons pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables. Eating wild vegetables not only meets the growth needs of raccoons in the growing period, but also plays a role in preventing diseases, and the quality of raccoon oil produced is more guaranteed. Although Lao Wang carefully matches the feed, raccoons still have times when they are not appetizing. In summer, the food intake will be reduced, because the growth stage of raccoons just catches up with the hot summer, and raccoons belong to fur animals, which are not afraid of cold but are particularly afraid of heat, thus affecting their appetite. Therefore, various measures should be taken to prevent heatstroke and reduce losses. After raccoons spent their worst summer safely, Lao Wang strengthened their fattening efforts. This is also a key link in the fattening process. Short-term fattening before peeling requires raccoons to gain weight and accumulate fat in a short time, and foods with high fat content should be added to the feed. After being busy for so long, Lao Wang is waiting for a bumper harvest of raccoon oil, but the raccoon oil usually used to treat burns is not directly degreased, but boiled. The most important thing in cooking raccoon oil is that it has a low melting point and is easy to paste, so it is necessary to add water to it and boil it in water, so the boiled raccoon oil can meet the requirements of the manufacturer. Proper fattening, scientific management and correct edible oil methods, every link of Lao Wang's raccoon breeding is the guarantee of healthy breeding. The medicinal value of his raccoon breeding is getting higher and higher, and the economic returns are of course increasing. Breeding of medicinal animal raccoons