Baby eating... what causes this issue!

[SnakeDoc]

Dont do either of those things.

If you have to clean, you can remove the babies, change the bedding and put the babies back with no issue in regards to foreign scents on the baby...just did that today with 1day old pinkies.

NEVER remove the male.


Dont trouble yourself removing the female either. You can add and remove females at will, but why? Any of those previous reasons are why your babies are getting eaten, not because the female's in there or whatever. They just do it sometimes, and it's something that you have to accept with breeding rodents.

They cull off deformed or unhealthy babies on their own as well, so maybe you have some breeders that arent throwing healthy litters. Either way, moving breeders around or being paranoid about accidentally touching the litter isnt the way to go about it.

ASFs are extremely easy to breed, dont overcomplicate it for yourself.

Thank you for your time and input pavlovk1025 but I beg to differ....

As for the removing of the male I understand and like to leave the litter in for several days to allow him to breed back to the mom of the new litter. By the time she drops the 2nd litter, the 1st will be up enough to move them to a different area for growing up. This is one of the reasons my ASF stock soared over 300 last spring/summer. The other reason was as mentioned before placing the female or females, depending on the litter size as to how many females will be added to the tank with pinks. Little hint if you don't know which female had the babies just pick the females up and look for the wet nipples...LOL!
Sometimes I guess it does help to note and keep records of my ASF as well.

[Mike Cavanaugh]

Thank you for your time and input pavlovk1025 but I beg to differ....

Something stinks around here.....

[SnakeDoc]

Something stinks around here.....

Well it would help if you cleaned your ASFs more than once every 7 days. The males tend to pee a lot more. Also it may have something to do with your food, mix it up some that should take care of YOUR STINK!