Rats not breeding fast enough

I personally wouldn't want to buy an ASF fed snake.
Doing a slow conversion would be fairly difficult for me. I would have no means to feed feed the snake anyways since ASFs are illegal in my state...

Keep at it my 1.4 colony is producing like a champ now I started in late may and had terrible litters to start. Now I am getting 13-15 on a regular basis with third litters on the way. Giv ethem a little time :)

I lost most of my rats dueto heat this summer and it been a pain in the rear to get the colonies rebuilt. most of my loses were prego females and older breeders. I am just now starting to get breeding going again (4 months ) later and it killed my wallet buying rats at 5-9 bucks each and needing like 20 at a time.
I gotten lucky since some snakes are off feed in way lol.

but I know my 2 females that breed for me this year are slamming grown rats when I can get them .

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Originally Posted by satomi325

Yup!
If you feel that a female is struggling to take care of her litters from exhaustion, just give her a break time to time. I'm sure she'll appreciate it.
Other than that, healthy females should be able to breed fine for more than 2 litters.

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:) I do this myself by harem breeding (1 male to 4-5 females - in freedom breeder rodent tubs), and when a few females in a few tubs are about the same size and at the same level of being preggo (usually happens 2-3 at a time), i take out the girls and put them into a separate tub. They have a few days to get used to each other, then they end up popping both their litters around the same time, almost every time! Then they community raise them - half of they two litters is with each female, or most are piled together and they alternate feeding

This also prevents them from getting preggo in their post-labor estrus, and gives them a few weeks with their babies to relax. I wait until the babies are fully weaned, on solid food and all (after they clearly aren't nursing for a few days to a week), and then I return the female to the tub. I've read that they only estruss every so often, so the chances of her estrussing right when i put her in is highly unlikely, giving her another week at least to relax before she breeds again :)