Just a couple of fun pics of a few of our ASF's in colony #1.

These babies don't actually belong to the female you see on them. She's the dominant female of her colony though so even the babies she doesn't birth herself, she does the majority of the nursing and baby rat care. Apparently she's a Type A personality rat and believes nobody can do it as well as she can LOL.

A couple of the "big kids" are helping out and often are left to watch over the "little kids" if the adults want a break.



A rare view of the litter. Most times somebody's sitting on them but we'd just put in full food bowls so all the juveniles and adults were off busy eating for a moment.