Students benefit from raising wild rats in school

By Vijit Choonhakijkhajorn
The Nation

 

 

Students at Thakong secondary in the northeast province of Surin are running a small farm in the school compound, learning the skills in raising livestock, especially prairie voles or wild rats, for a living.

 

Students and their teachers have been making good returns from selling wild rats with a couple of rodent breeders fetching Bt1,000.

 

Farmers, planning for their own farms, often seek rat breeders from the school. Mature rodents could also be sold for meat at Bt120 per kilogram.

People in rural areas of Thailand traditionally consume rodent meat.

 

Raising rodents is relatively easier than other livestock, requiring only a small enclsoure. Charuvith Charoensup, 12 grade, said the rodents feed on grass, rice grain, maize and other vegetable.

 

Surapong Rattanakot, principle at Thakongwithaya school in Thakong township in Sangkha district, who supervises the trial farming said the school also provides experiment course for students to raise cattle, goats and fish.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30375069

 

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What day to they have a BBQ?

 

They eat them in Isaan, barbecued. 

I wish they would stop releasing them on Pattaya Beach Road...... LOL

"He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: death, or victory."

That's what the backpackers should do on sukhumvit, catch them big fat rats and butcher them for the locals! 120 baht a kg is the villageprice, triple it and there's no more need to beg or dance.

"Hey! Let go of my tail. You should be studying English. Or some 4.0 thing."

 

I wonder how about veterinary precautions, since rats produce an invrfedible amount of deseases ...