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01-15-15, 12:45 PM
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African soft furs
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.
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01-15-15, 01:45 PM
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Re: African soft furs
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.
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01-16-15, 01:15 AM
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Re: African soft furs
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.
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01-16-15, 01:17 AM
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Re: African soft furs
Aren't ASFs aggressive?
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01-16-15, 01:20 AM
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Re: African soft furs
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Originally Posted by Minkness
Aren't ASFs aggressive?
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Doesn't really matter when they're dead lol.
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01-16-15, 01:31 AM
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Re: African soft furs
Well people still have to handle them don't they?
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01-16-15, 03:24 AM
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Re: African soft furs
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Originally Posted by Minkness
Well people still have to handle them don't they?
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I don't think that has any relevance. I'm not thinking about breeding them.
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01-16-15, 07:53 AM
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Re: African soft furs
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Originally Posted by Minkness
Well people still have to handle them don't they?
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Gas 'em or whack 'em. As long as they're dead.
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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl
I don't think that has any relevance. I'm not thinking about breeding them.
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Exactly. If someone else is doing all of the work and you're not feeding live, who cares how aggressive they are?
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01-16-15, 12:53 PM
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Re: African soft furs
I was under the impression they wanted to breed a colony lol
My bad!
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01-17-15, 01:38 AM
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Re: African soft furs
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.
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7.6.26 Dominican red mountain boas, 1.1 carpet pythons, 3 ATB, 1.1 climacophora, 1.1 Russian rats, 1.1 prasina, 1.1 speckled kings, 3.3.1 corns, 1.1.1 black rats, 1.1 savu, 1.1 Stimson's, 1 spotted python, 1.1 Boiga nigriceps, 3 Olive house snakes, 1 Sonoran mountain king, 0.1 Sinoloan milk snake, 1.1 Dione rat snake.
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01-17-15, 10:03 AM
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Re: African soft furs
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Originally Posted by 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.
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I have read that ASFs are more protective of their young and likely to bite than domestic rats.
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