Warning!!! Do not read if you are queasy!!!

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Is there a larger animal in the tub that could possibly be killing them? Any wheels?

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All of them were the same size. I took care to not put any one in that was too big or too small

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Originally Posted by BOBO--73

I have heard that a pest control device,( like the kind that plug into the wall), can possibly make the rodent world go nuts! Maybe you could check and see if any of your neighbors may have just plugged one in. If they have, it's worth looking into. The owner of the pet store in my town said that the motel behind him plugged one in, and all his rodents went nuts!! Just a thought.

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I live in the country no neighbors... I love it.

But I would NEVER have thought of that!

Mike

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Originally Posted by rebeccabecca

Don't get bit you'll catch it!!!! I would try to up the protine and see if that helps. I once had hamsters and the mom ate a few and left the legs in the nest and the babies were eating them!! To say the least I lost intrest in hamsters as a pet lol!

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I am researching some more food options for them. I am about to make a thread with links to the nutritional info on what I am looking at.

Mike

The only thing I can think of is a fight broke out and they were already stressed and it kinda turned into a mob.

Mike

Can they see the TV? They might be getting wierd ideas from Halo 3 or whatever it is you're playing over there! :D

Okay, you can tell, I'm really flabbergasted by this incident... I have had 1 ASF die on me when I was on vacation, but the others never ate her, instead, they buried her inches deep in substrate. I didn't believe it when Mitch was saying he gets cannibal ASFs. But, I guess it really does happen...

Could it be the water has too much chemicals? Just throwing any wild guesses out there...

Mike, recently I've been struggling with a similar situation in one of my breeder groups. I think it stems from two factors. That group is getting a tad too inbred as I'm having problems finding new ASF lines locally to me. They have started to produce less than perfect young and I believe that's where the problem started. As litters were born the adults started culling out the weaklings and there were more of them than would be expected. The other growing ASF's in the enclosure I think began to micmic the adults and consider their littermates as just another food source (even though dry food and water is available to them).

When I pull weanlings from this particular colony I notice that in the feeder/grow out enclosures, they have a far higher rate of killing off their sibs. I'm going to just feed off this entire colony. I think I have a cycle here that isn't going to end and it's both gross and a total waste of my time and space to continue with a colony that does this.

That sucks Jo, if you were any closer, or meet sometime at a Taylor show, I'd give ya a bunch of ASF.

connie are you going to be going to the swartz creek show in april.