What do you give your ASF's to chew on?

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Originally Posted by Mike Cavanaugh

rib bones and chicken wing bones are the favorites of my colony when available.

I don't provide any permanent chew toys any more. I just use pine that has enough chunky pieces to chew on. Of course my motto is "Keep it simple stupid"

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don't the rib and chicken bones add to the smell?

wood.
pine chips...

yep. thats it.

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Originally Posted by pliskin

don't the rib and chicken bones add to the smell?

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surprisingly not much. A lot of the time they vanish without a trace.

I have tons of ziplock bags in my deep freez with my veggi mix i use to feed my tortoise. Every now and then i toss the frozen chunk into the rats cages and they go NUTZ over it. Its got greens,butternutt squash, carrots.

We save our toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls and let them chew them up.

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Originally Posted by singingtothewheat

We save our toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls and let them chew them up.

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yeah, I just started putting those in and they seems to like 'em . I think they prefer chewing up cardboard better than the chunks of wood I put in.

I made the mistake of tossing a frito in one of the ASF tanks. It was all holy hell in there! I couldnt get the frito out without risking life and limb so to put a stop to the war that had broken out and avoid a rat massacre, I had to add enough pieces of frito so each rat could have one.

Thats one treat they wont get again LOL

As for chew toys. They have wood, those brown hamster chew caves you get at walmart, little colored wood sticks and each tank has a large wheel that they never stop running on.

mine get anythign and everythig when I remember ot give it to them. from tp/pt tubes, to dinner scrapes at times. Yes they draw blood when they bite skin. I took a scrap piece of plywood and 4 small 2x3 legs and make them a table ot hide under chew on crap on lol. they loved it ( so do the larger rats) ANd the littleb buggercan chew though metal I had to replace 4 bottleholders in the first six weeks I had my collection lol they chew unti lthe bottle fell out or would no longer hang on the side of the tank. I told mom I was gonigotgive them a cat one day and see howlong it take ot vanish ... SHE gave me an evil eye and been counting cats every morning since .. ( that wa 8 months ago..)


I bet if gavethem a cd/dvd of data you don't want recovered /fall into the wrong hands it be gone in a night ( with glittery bedding in the morning .)

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Originally Posted by Jenn

Rats will eat just about anything. The only thing I've ever heard of that you shouldn't feed a rat is oranges. Even then, I think it's just males you can't feed oranges to. Mine love sunflower seeds and pizza crust.

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why should you not feed them oranges?
will it kill them ?