Infighting

[Jessica Loesch]

Lmao, not really, as she ate her babies. Still too young, don't wanna take care of them.. ugh, teen rats.

[Jessica Loesch]

6 weeks is a little early. Sometimes they don't produce until they are 12 weeks old, but it is common for them to go around 8 weeks (get preggo).

Oh and I need to clarify this post so no one gets their panties in a bunch ....
In case it was read wrong.

[rperry03]

Oh and I need to clarify this post so no one gets their panties in a bunch ....
In case it was read wrong.

Too late, I can't get mine un-bunched now

[Shadera]

Nobody has their undies in a bunch, I'm just correcting misinformation based on my own experience, and that of other breeders who have bred thousands of these rats. There's way too much of that that goes around. Look back thorugh past posts and you'll see that 4 months is the "norm" for first litters. I'm not just pulling the number out of my hind end. Once you've been breeding them longer than a month, you'll understand. It's a newbie mistake, no biggie.

Your breeder was off on his estimation of their age. No other explanation.

And with that I'm done in here. No sense in bickering over silly stuff.

[Jessica Loesch]

Nobody has their undies in a bunch, I'm just correcting misinformation based on my own experience, and that of other breeders who have bred thousands of these rats. There's way too much of that that goes around. Look back thorugh past posts and you'll see that 4 months is the "norm" for first litters. I'm not just pulling the number out of my hind end. Once you've been breeding them longer than a month, you'll understand. It's a newbie mistake, no biggie.

Your breeder was off on his estimation of their age. No other explanation.

And with that I'm done in here. No sense in bickering over silly stuff.

Well, see, that's my point. I'm not trying to fight with you, but you came off defensive. "I must have been doing it wrong for 4 years." No need for that. Thus my comment about undies.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how long I have been doing it, I just am going off of what others have told me. And really, our answers are not too far off from each other. Some ASF's get preggo around 8 weeks and have babies around 11 or 12. Some get preggo around 12 weeks and have babies around 15 or 16 (which is your 4 month production number). Some go in between. One of mine happened to be noticably preggo around 7 weeks.
Just because it isn't common for you doesn't mean it doesn't happen often.

I didn't claim I was right, I just claimed I had a rat go early I am pretty sure I made that clear. All I said was that it was common for them to go earlier ... which I have heard of happening often.

[Mike Cavanaugh]

You should never keep adult males together in a breeding group. It does not do any good to do it and the majority of the time it causes problems.