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Many comments on how rats smell much less than mice, but not one on how ASFs smell much, much less than rats.

Re smell at end of 5 days: ASF's don't smell after 15 days.

Re ASFs producing slowly: we've seen this before when they were fed lab block. Given high protein/low fat dog food they are unstoppable (and their soft fur looks beautiful & shiny, not greasy & matted like it was on lab block). Mastomys natalensis are carnivores which consume plant matter only when animal matter is not available. Rattus norvegicus are herbivores which consume animal matter only when plant matter is not available.

I would breed them but they're not something I can get locally. I called and dug around with no success. Half of these Mom & Pop shops within 60 miles never even heard of them. I actually showed a picture to a few shop owners and they new nothing.
I will check the next show I go to.. If they produced well I wouldn't have a problem feeding several to the burm but I also hear they fight eachother terrible and im not into worrying about that. Rats are much more relaxed it seems.