Success! And we have Pinky ASF Rats

[Deleted]

Yay babies! One of my females looks massive so I'm expecting her to pop within the week

[msav]

I only had a 1:3 group. One of my females was bleeding out the rear. so I dispatched and fed her.

so the original breeding group is down to 1:2

I guess the should have read "the Tan female of the 2 surviving females"

[msav]

The tan female is eating her own babies as they are being born. I have heard they will do this if they do not have enough protein in their diet when it is cold out.

I am giving them protein and they are in a 70 degree house.

I am at a loss. Maybe she is a bad mother and needs to become a meal.


edit:

looks like she ate the first couple, then she did not eat anymore. perhaps the were born dead or some other defect. 

[Deleted]

I hope she doesn't eat more :/ have you tried feeding egg? Mine didn't eat much of it when I put it out.

[bitbyter]

They can also do it if they are stressed or new mothers. I suspect that one of my female mice either didn't get pregnant the first time round, had a really small litter or ate them. We'll have to see what happens during round 2 (currently being started now ).

[msav]

Another update.

I had mixed the males from the 1st 2nd and 3rd litter together. The coexisted fine for over a month. The other day I put the 7 males from the last litter in with them. Almost instantly I see a twitching dying rat. It was one of the medium ones from the 3rd litter that had lived together for the past month. I took him out and fed him to Mogwai. I then sat and watched. One of the larger males looked as if to be mounting the medium males and then biting them in the neck and instantly killing them.

I expected the smaller ones to be the ones in danger. I then thought maybe one of the smaller ones may have been a female mistakenly taken for a male. I double checked, they were all males.

Once I removed that larger attacking male and all was peaceful again. He is now in the freezer, as Mogwai has had way to much ASF rats the past few days and I think he is now holding out for them

Now I know what the ball python owners are experiencing. LOL.

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[bitbyter]

Yeah, as far as I know, each litter has to be grown out separately or you run into problems.

[msav]

Now My babies are having babies.

Here comes the flood

[Deleted]

Uh oh! I'm picking up a 1:2 group of those pretty tan ones in a month! So excited!!! My first litter just opened their eyes a couple days ago :boing:

[msav]

I am up to 3 litters born and the 4th is ready to pop any day now.





I think I have more coming I got some chubby females in the groups.


She Popped