First litter...

[FlowRock]

After frustrating weeks of waiting my ASF girl recently gave birth to her first litter, which was quite a suprise, because there were no signs of pregnancy at all.
It is a small litter, but it came to the right time. Because my mice juvies were too big for my corn, I tried two ASF pinks for him and he took them without trouble, a week later he took a fuzzy like a champ. Now there a three ASF babies left, which I will leave to grow up.
Hope the next litter will be a little bigger and my ASF project will work out as good as my mice breeding.

[frankykeno]

Congrats on your first ASF litter. They are great little producers of feeders. I see you have a 1.1 pair. Normally a 1.2 or 1.3 is preferred as the best production set up but if 1.1 is giving you what you need, that's great. Just remember though if you want to go to 1.2 or 1.3 to either let a female grow up to breeding age within that "home colony" or start a new colony. Never introduce a new ASF into a pre-existing breeding colony. They don't generally survive the experience.

[FlowRock]

Thanks, I think i will do what you have mentioned and keep one little girl for breeding.
I have started 1.1. because of my rather small collection of snakes and I did not want to stand knee deep in rodents, especially as long as I also breed mice.

[frankykeno]

Sounds like a good plan. You may end up switching from those mice to the ASF's since in my own experience anyways, ASF's to not have the strong smell that mice do. They can grow larger than mice but grow slow enough that generally you are able to feed them off before they might outgrown a certain size you need. They also don't seem to have as many issues with eating their own young as I've often heard mice do. Other than their extremely rigid social structure and their tendency to nip you if they think they need to protect their young, I can't think of anything really that makes them difficult to manage.