Seems like theres a different problem every week with these rats. yep, the big litters that these young mothers have will kill them, seems like all the babies just suck the mother dry. I pull the mothers to raise their babies alone and when you try to put the mother back into the breeding group she came from....trouble. the mothers will deciede to kill the babies when they are half grown for no obvious reason. gonna just feed off all these ASF rats and focus on the regular rats.
Quote Originally Posted by Larry Suttles
Another observation I've noticed with Asf's. I've had a litter or two where the mother Asf died so I orphaned the babies off to rat mommies each time the Asf's turned out tame as a kitten in adulthood.

Dunno rats moms must be a strong influence on aggressiveness because all the offspring have been calm and very tame.