African soft furs

[CosmicOwl]

There is a breeder I'm looking at who sells African soft fur rats for a pretty good price and I was wondering if anybody had experience with them. If you have, has it been feeding them to anything other than ball pythons? I was thinking of feeding them to my corn/rat snakes interchangeably with regular rats.

[Big_V]

The only prey item all my Green Tree pythons get. The bone mass isnt the same as normal rats, a bit more mass than large adult mice and the hair seems to be much easier on the digestive system. They are a great prey item and my chondros have never looked better or defecated more regularly than they do now on the ASFs.

[toddnbecka]

I'm still breeding/feeding mice, but when my snakes grow large enough for rats I'll definitely be farming the ASF's. I'd start them now but the corn snake is still taking pinky mice.

[Minkness]

Aren't ASFs aggressive?

[CosmicOwl]

Aren't ASFs aggressive?

Doesn't really matter when they're dead lol.

[Minkness]

Well people still have to handle them don't they?

[CosmicOwl]

Well people still have to handle them don't they?

I don't think that has any relevance. I'm not thinking about breeding them.

[millertime89]

Well people still have to handle them don't they?

Gas 'em or whack 'em. As long as they're dead.

I don't think that has any relevance. I'm not thinking about breeding them.

Exactly. If someone else is doing all of the work and you're not feeding live, who cares how aggressive they are?

[Minkness]

I was under the impression they wanted to breed a colony lol

My bad!

[toddnbecka]

I'll be breeding them eventually, but I don't imagine aggressive rodents will be any danger. If I'm not smarter than they are it's time to give it up anyway, lol.

[CosmicOwl]

I'll be breeding them eventually, but I don't imagine aggressive rodents will be any danger. If I'm not smarter than they are it's time to give it up anyway, lol.

I have read that ASFs are more protective of their young and likely to bite than domestic rats.