Asf's have a completely different kind of hair. The individual hair looks to be thinner then rats (making it much softer) , but overall the number of hairs seems to be much thicker. They seem to be much higher strung then rats or mice. Their build, especialy the females after giving birth is very muscular and healthy. My females are all having back to back to back to back to back litters, and after every single litter, they are a little bigger, a little fatter, and overall a little more healthy looking. They don't sneeze like my rats used to do... but they are constantly cleaning themselves. The females are I believe the only ones in the rodent family that have fully functional prostate glands.

What does this all mean? who knows. I would think though that they probably have a completely different nutritional makeup then rats or mice. Obviously just the fact that females have a prostate tells me that their fat, protein, ect is going to be different then a normal female rat, who does not have a prostate.

I saw somewhere the average nutritional breakdown of a rat... it showed fat grams, protein grams ect. 1.) I wonder how accurate that chart is. 2) can they make a similar chart for ASF's?


mike