asf's and mice nursing

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

I had given rat pups to an ASF mom and she treated them like her own. Unfortunately, the ASF could not produce enough milk to sustain the pups and they died.

This is very true.. In the case of rats, no more than 1 or 2 should ever be put with a nursing ASF in an emergency situation or you'll endanger the lives of all her babies as well. They can handle baby mice easily tho.


I had an older ASF colony that wasn't producing much and when they did, babies would disappear. I eventually figured one of them must be killing babies for some reason. I allowed the pregnant female to have her last litter and gave them all to a different colony to raise before cycling out that old colony.

ASfs are great fosters.