temps for breeding asf's

Im gonna begin breeding asf's in my basement,its in the 60-70 degree range most of the time maybe even as low as 55 in the winter months.will this affect their breeding in anyway?

Those temps should be fine. I have been breeding them for a couple years now and in the winter my heated rat room will get down to 50 when its really cold outside and in the summer I turn on the air conditioner and keep it at 70 to 75. They do tend to breed more when it is around 70 to 75. My rat room is in an insulated 10' x 6' room in my building with an oil heater and a wall A/C unit. Shouldn't have a problem, good luck.

Josh

I would suggest that you place an oil heater by them in the winter to keep them breeding. They tend to slow down on breeding when it gets to cold. Mine actually breed better when it's around 80 but I keep my rats out there also and they do better around 70 to 75.

At what temp is it to cold for them to survive, as far as the grow outs not breeders. here the thing I have my breeders in the basement (65/75 deg) but i would like to keep my grow outs in my rabbitry where they temps could drop as low as 30 over night. I know that this will slow growth, and I can take that hit, but dont want to freeze anyone to dead prematurely either.

Before I built my rat room in my building I was housing all my rats in my garage. In the summer I would hang plastic up around them and put a window AC unit through the plastic to keep them cool. And during the winter a few times it got down to the single digits outside so I had two self contained oil heaters (they look like radiators) sitting by them and I just kept a close I on them. I did not have any die on me but the breeding was almost non existant during the winter. I would suggest you place one of those oil heaters out there by the rats and they should be ok. The other problem you will have is freezing water. Just keep an I on them and they should do ok.

Link to oil heater

http://www.walmart.com/ip/World-Mark...eater/13141908

mine breed year round. no heater or air conditioner. Only an exhaust fan. In the summer time the garage they are in gets up to 95 degrees. In the winter it gets as low as high 50's low 60's.

Man must be nice living in Florida and not needing a heater in the winter or an A/C in the summer. Last summer I lost 106 ASF's on a day that got to 116 heat index. And they had a total of six fans going on them. That sucked. And when it gets into the negatives several times in the winter here a heater is a must.

The weaners that you put in the rabbitry place a heater wth them in the winter and they will be fine.

Josh

Mine are in the screened-in patio in Florida. But, I take them inside when the weatherman says night temps would go down to the 30's.

I was not producing very well last winter. I was averaging only 12 a litter. I let my breeders get too old. They were all well over a year old. So, I couldn't tell you if the cold temps did anything to production.

We definitely need ac in the summer and sometimes heaters in the winter trust me spend a summer here in swfl and you will really feel the need for ac.

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Originally Posted by UltimatePythons

Man must be nice living in Florida and not needing a heater in the winter or an A/C in the summer. Last summer I lost 106 ASF's on a day that got to 116 heat index. And they had a total of six fans going on them. That sucked. And when it gets into the negatives several times in the winter here a heater is a must.

The weaners that you put in the rabbitry place a heater wth them in the winter and they will be fine.

Josh

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