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African Soft Fur rat pics

Buzzard said:
Asf's (african softfurred rat) are a smaller than normal rats. They tend to be nippy but multiple fast and provide a little more bulk as a food item(protein,fat,calcium ect..) Yes, I beleive they are illegal in CA.....
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Plus they don't smell NEARLY as much as regular mice and rats!
 
Beautiful ASF's!! We have had a clan for about 4 years now and you are right, they usually produce a lot and smell way less then regular mice. Unfortunately, I made a booboo and let my clan get too old. They stopped producing about 4 or 5 months ago. So now I have to find some fresh blood. :cry:

Wayne
 
medusacoils said:
Beautiful ASF's!! We have had a clan for about 4 years now and you are right, they usually produce a lot and smell way less then regular mice. Unfortunately, I made a booboo and let my clan get too old. They stopped producing about 4 or 5 months ago. So now I have to find some fresh blood. :cry:

Wayne
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How old is too old? Just so I have a vague idea of when to start making sure I've got another trio growing up.
 
medusacoils said:
My male is just about a year. My females are well over 2 years. I usually swap out the clan every yearish, but forgot to do it!

Wayne
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Gotcha. Well, fortunately, I've already got 2 more trios that have yet to produce anything because they're still a bit too young (a couple months for one trio, a few weeks for the other). When the original trio stop producing, I'll just set up another trio from one of those trios. :D
 
medusacoils said:
Beautiful ASF's!! We have had a clan for about 4 years now and you are right, they usually produce a lot and smell way less then regular mice. Unfortunately, I made a booboo and let my clan get too old. They stopped producing about 4 or 5 months ago. So now I have to find some fresh blood. :cry:

Wayne
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Sorry to hear that you have to hunt new Blood. I have noticed that mine slow down around 8 months or so. But it takes mine about 3-4 months to start producing.
What has been your experience Wayne, Robbie?
 
Buzzard said:
Sorry to hear that you have to hunt new Blood. I have noticed that mine slow down around 8 months or so. But it takes mine about 3-4 months to start producing.
What has been your experience Wayne, Robbie?
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Mine popped out their first littler about 3 weeks after I got them home. LOL.
 
My colony's first babies are almost old enough to start breeding. They definatly stink waaaaay less than rats or mice. I can actually keep them inside instead of on the screen porch.
 
I believe our ASFs began producing around 4 or 5 months. I have seen that when the males are old (more mature) then the females, then they produce sooner.

I absolutely love the ASFs because they have a much lower odor, they have much bigger litters and their babies are bigger. We would have more, but for some reason, they give Christine (my wife) the hives.

So while I was working through my injury, we couldn't grow and expand the clans. I'm not able to pick up an clean all the tanks, like I should. I'm hoping that in the next few weeks, I can get some new females .

Wayne
 
Golf Balls

You want to see something really funny and entertaining? Drop a good golf ball in with them. It should be one with no cuts or blemishes. It takes them a long time to finally get a knawing spot started so they spend a while trying their darndest to chew it and all they do is push it around. They will root each other out of the way to try and bite it, lol

dc
 
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