I just wanted to give a positive review of these sweeties, with regular handling from an early age, they will turn out to be wonderful pets.
Common brands of feed for ASF’s include Harlan Teklad, Mazuri, LabDiet, Zeigler and Kent rodent feeds. Do not take your ASF out in public, as it is simply too easy to lose them and if taken to a pet store they could easily pick up diseases from animals there. http://asfrats.info (no longer available), Russell Toft’s Article on ASF’s (A good read, although may be outdated.) Scoops are your best friend for the pinks, scoop those babies and put them in the bedding where the females usually place their nest. The tumor development can be very fast and spontaneous. Live or Frozen. 3. It does seem possible to breed away from this issue through outbreeding with other rats from different sources. The young will sit in one big pile in a corner with an adult spread eagle over the whole group. Each female has a litter every 4-5 weeks, and if you have 2 or 3 females, that’s the very real possibility of having 32-54 rats born every 4-5 weeks, that need to be “grown up” for a little over a month just to reach a common feeding size. They love to explore new toys in their cage but eventually will all pile into one hide/corner to sleep. I’ve decided I should probably put in a little note about cleaning the ASF tubs when there are pinks and pups, I often forget that people are new to breeding rats when they read this page, so I should try to cover all aspects. There are a few important rules to be aware of. Simply by putting them together in a group, you don’t have to do anything other than provide good husbandry and remove the babies as they reach 4 weeks of age. I no longer needed them to produce and put him into an empty spare maternity tub. many people have been using an unmedicated hog feed in their colonies. http://www.metalmonkeyexotics.com/blog/?page_id=1212. Praomys Natalensis – African Soft Furred Rats are quickly becoming a favorite as feeders for small to medium sized snakes, birds of prey, and carnivorous lizards and amphibians. http://asfrats.info (No longer available), Russell Toft’s Article on ASF’s (A good read, although may be outdated.) If you want to create a new group of rats, you can take your adult male, and two or three of his daughters to start a new colony, while leaving a young male offspring in the original colony to take over his spot. I’ll try to match this to some fancy rat terms, but I do like the word Pied and can’t think of anything similar from the rat fancy world. I recommend these rats to anyone that doesn’t have the space or time to devote for large Norway rats, but still wants a steady supply of feeder animals they can depend on.
Once the ASF are approx 4 weeks old, remove the young from the group and place them into a different cage/tub. I sell them as pets and also to many Ball Python owners as they are the Ball's native food. • They BITE!!! All of our soft furs at TGR are pretty laid back and love cuddling together in big piles. From then on I let them do their own thing and understood that my little family of ASF’s were growing up and didn’t care much for me trying to hold them. They were so interesting and a lot of fun to watch. I had at least one Amber colored female not develope any tumors until close to her second year. Can you clean an ASF cage when there are babies? Other snakes we own that are eating these Asf rats aggressively are a Bull Snake, California King, a young Red Tail Boa and a Carpet Python. They do have that strong maternal instinct to protect their young, but I think she’ll quickly drop the biting tendency with no pups to protect and daily positive interaction. The rats you call pieds I know as panda phase.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/j…84058/abstract If you’ve heard about these animals, you would probably have been told a few key things about them. This animal shows a head spot, it can be short or long and almost like a blaze on a horse. Product type: Frozen Rats.
The females will kill him upon reintroduction. The very badly affected ones use their front legs to drag themselves around, or will actually roll sideways where they want to go.
We currently only have cinnamon saddleback ASF. http://www.biomedexperts.com/Abstrac…nship_of_a_rod, Rudolph R, Müller H Average Lifespan: 2-3 years in captivity The female can give birth to as few as 4 pinks, or as many as 20+ her first time. I am always curious about the genetics with rats, and I bred my original male to two of his daughters. ASF’s are incredibly protective of their young, keep this in mind when working with them, they are highly motivated to protect their young. Since they are still commonly referred to as Mastomys Natalensis, be sure to use both search terms when trying to find information about these animals. http://inas-dragons-lair.de/images/stories/vzm/VZM_Weisse.jpg. African Soft Furs Our ASF Personalities: ... Also known as soft fur rats, these guys are really neither rat nor mouse. Got her from a feeding mice breeder, going to see him tomorrow again, and will take a carefull look at his animals again. Tags: African Soft Fur, African Soft Furs, amphibians, ASF, birds of prey, Feeders, Frozen, Frozen ASF, snakes. After the female has given birth, she will go into heat a few hours later and will be impregnated again. Praomys natalensis. To ensure that all packages arrive by Friday, including the ones with three day transit, we ship on Mondays and Tuesdays. Their small adult size compared to the Norway rat makes them ideal to keep, because they are often the perfect feeding size for months and will not outgrow the feeding limits for most carnivores like a Norway rat will. They lasted quite a long time, and once they become small little pegs or stained orange yellow from pee, they were replaced. I have confirmed in a few different litters that the Ruby Eyed is a different gene than the Cinnamon. tumors known as keratoacanthomas and squamous carcinomas, are associated with a papillomavirus (. Sexual Maturity: 54-63 days 1976 Mar;23(2):143-50. Praomys Natalensis – African Soft Furred Rats are quickly becoming a favorite as feeders for small to medium sized snakes, birds of prey, and carnivorous lizards and amphibians. Always make sure to supervise during free-roam time and remember that ASF prefer quiet areas, and can get spooked easily. It’s also not a bad idea to leave some of the old shavings with the pinks, because they are very in tune to the smell of their surroundings. When picked up, they would try to jump straight off my hand without even batting an eye. I've been breeding rats, mice and ASF for quite a few months now and the ASF don't have babies very often and the growth of the babies is super slow!
They don’t burrow, either, and, unlike gerbils, they don’t rip paper products to shreds as soon as it hits the bottom of the enclosure. Average litter (in number): About a dozen. Father and son, or fraternal relationships seem to not have the same intolerance. The litter consisted of the lighter Cinnamons and Rubys (difficult to tell apart when very young), a couple of Ambers, and one Agouti.