how many litters?

[bobbi]

on average how many litters do you let your ASF's have before retireing them and starting up a new trio? Mine have only had 3 litters the second of which was HUGE and this last litter was pretty darn SMALL. do you think that that last litter of 32 pinks (between 2 mamas) tired them out, makeing this litter smaller (11 pinks between mamas) or are they just past their prime? sorry if this is a newb question but im new to this whole thing. any help will be greatfully accepted

[Kevin_Hornby]

Are you sure they both had babies this time?

[bobbi]

im pretty sure it was just the one mama but im not totaly sure. neither one of them look preggo right now ither and the litter in there is already almost 2 weeks. every litter in the past they have looked pretty darn "knocked up" by now. i dunno if i get another really small litter outta them i might just start up a new trio. what do you think?

[Geo2008]

I have a trio that only one mom gave birth and the other didn't look prego until 2 days before she gave birth. The babies were just smaller in size, she had 10 though. Also, the other babies were around 1 1/2 weeks old by then. Overall, most of mine give birth usuaully around the same time.

[bobbi]

in all previous litters both mothers always delivered within hours of each other. so i dunno if the 11 that i got this time around came from the same mom or if only one delivered.

[RichsBallPythons]

My asf are retired after 13 litters each. Or when i see litter numbers plummet then i retire them