ASF fact or fiction?

Personally I would stick with regulars just because it seems like it couldn't hurt anything and that clearly works... but whatever you decide im sure will work

ASF = African Soft Fur rats

So do they give off a stronger odor? Or have a different taste? I'm assuming that as soon as you kill them and freeze them they loose all their differentiation from other rats? Sorry about this. I've heard about them, I just don't know very much about them. And why would they be illegal in some states?

so far I have lucked out and my snakes all will take them and or rats, and mice ( with no problem.s0 I mean it I got a pair of 15+ year old snakes ( native black rat and a butter corn that both will take them just as fast asthey do a small rat or a mouse.

They do take forever ( when compare to mice and reg rats) to grow up, I am wiping out a mouse colony and agoing to use that setup to house asf so I can start a 3rd colony here the next few days. I need to make one of those rodent racks so i can fit more into my limited space. but limited funds make thata future project only.

I have 24 bp's at the moment and only 2 are strictly asf's feeders everyone else eats whatever is available.

I love ASF's but they do grow sloooww. I would recomend giving them a try.

A.S.F.'s a great mom's.
They do smell less
They are evil incarnate

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Originally Posted by CRAZY

So do they give off a stronger odor? Or have a different taste? I'm assuming that as soon as you kill them and freeze them they loose all their differentiation from other rats?

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they have a different sent and killing them and freezing them only changes that fact that their not alive, other than that its just like when you put a steak and a piece of chicken in your freezer they don't come out smelling and tasting the same

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Originally Posted by CRAZY

And why would they be illegal in some states?

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because the government in those sates had nothing to do one day and had some extra paper to write out a bill