African Soft-Furred Rats: Fostering mouse babies
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Uploaded by RodentUniversity on Apr 9, 2010
After my ASFs self-culled two of their 7 pups (leaving 5 left), I decided to take all 5 remaining pups and foster them to a well-behaved mouse who had her litter within days of the ASFs. The mouse mom also has a very well behaved nanny (see additional video of the mice with the ASF fosters), so I'm hoping the ASF aggressive nature will be altered by rearing from well behaved pet mice.
Most of my ASFs are not aggressive. Only the mom, the largest cinnamon pied, is slightly nervous when I deal with her "babies". She hasn't bitten yet, but I can read her reactions very clearly. I am altering their cage daily and making sure she has to deal with my hands in her "space" regularly so I can de-sensitize her nervousness.
After removing her 5 ASF pups and fostering them with the mice, my ASFs began getting quite nervous. Since both of my current mouse litters are rather large (13 pups in one litter, 16 in another), I gave them three mouse pups to raise to settle themselves after I removed their ASF babies. All I did was remove them from the cage, put the mouse pups in the nest, and dabbed a bit of eucalyptus essential oil on each of the adult ASF's heads so they couldn't smell the "strangeness" when they returned to their nest.
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Birthdate: 4/7/2010
Mother: Cinnabon
Father: unknown
Colony: Junior, Brownie, Speckle, Theatrix
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is their any way you ould ship asf to me indanipolis in does nt have any
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mmmm snake food!
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where did u get ue ASF's?
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man mine love cheerios they will now run to me when i put my hands in the tank......lol
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they look same color fur seem same family ???
limdaf 1 year ago
@limdaf Three of the small ASFs are siblings, but the two big ones are not related. The babies are mouse babies, not ASF babies.
RodentUniversity 1 year ago