Quote Originally Posted by Deborah View Post
You can stretch to 3 weeks but I never found it necessary. The only thing make sure you start your second male 1 weeks after the first so it give you a consistent production of 2 females birthing every week for 6 weeks rather than 4 birthing each week for 3 weeks.

I think 12 tubs at this point will be more than enough.
So if I did it every 2 weeks, wouldn't the first tub have females with 0-2 week old babies? I looked too much into breeding asf so now I can't remember if adding new rats into a tub with a mom and babies is a good idea or if I'm mixing up species.

I think you've made up my mind though, I wanted to avoid having 2 of those racks but those two will give me a full rack of breeders and I could always use 3 tubs from the other rack for more breeders if I had to. And once I have a clutch it'll be nice to have that extra rack space since I'll pretty much have to expand.