Live African Soft Furred Rats for Feeders, Breeders and Pets

12/07/2024

Hey all! It's time for another post to let you know it's a great time to get some small and medium feeder asfs! I also have breeders!
Connect through email or messenger. Discount for feeder orders of 30 or more!

02/06/2023

If you're planning on attending the reptile expo at the Civic Center in Poughkeepsie this weekend and want ASFs I am 12 minutes drive from there. Stop by on your way home and pick up as many as you'd like. Guaranteed less expensive than buying at the show and I have many mediun, large and smalls as well as weaned and breeders if you please! Message me for address!

28/05/2023

Hey everybody! I may not be good at comunicating on the regular but I apparently had no trouble breeding more asfs than I know what to do with. This is a great time to get asfs! Pick up in Poughkeepsie NY 12603. Message me for info.

02/03/2023

Hey everyone! Haven't posted in a year plus but if you are considering some ASF feeders, this is a great weekend to drive to Poughkeepsie NY! Have many extra small and medium ASFs! Contact me through email. Thanks!

21/10/2020

21/10/2020

This may look like too many babies feeding at once but I know 18 are drinking!

21/10/2020

Fuzzy sleeps through everything!

30/08/2020

Hello ASF Rat and reptile lovers! Just a quick note and a pic. The quick note is if you are on my list you can reach out now! I'm working through it in order but some change their mind or don't respond. The pic is to prove my rats are working overtime! This is a new mother that gave birth to 16 babies and after feeding them on day 2 she actually fell asleep standing up! That's something I've never seen before! Haha!

01/07/2020

Hey Folks! Sorry I haven't kept you all updated on what's been happening here. So this is what's been happening here! I'm in process of repopulating all of my colonies and some new ones and cannot take any new orders for ASF's until further notice. My best guess is that by September 2020 I will hopefully have an over population again. I'm doing my best to grow out as many as I have space and time for without having them in overcrowded living condition. Sorry if I've inconvenienced anyone. Thanks for understanding!

26/03/2020

The white African soft furs are consistently having pure white and all brown babies as well as albinos which look just like my original Asf's! I've already seen 4 albinos from 2 different litters. They are strong breeders! I'm very happy to have this new line! Thanks again Jamie!

28/02/2020

What I previously called White Asf's are actually standard coloration with the color slowly being bred out leaving only white. Most still have a small patch of brown on their back and the rest of them all white. As this new group of white/standard African soft furs continue to populate their habitat they are birthing more fully white rats and strangely (because I don't know where this gene came from) also all brown and even almost grey rats with no white at all. I've already separated and are breeding the young from this group. Here are some photos of the original group..

11/02/2020

Almost hairless African soft furred rat!

11/02/2020

On my website (asfrats.com) I tell the story of almost hairless baby Asfs that eventually grew to be a shorter fur of a different color. This here is the first African soft fur I have seen that is this hairless although he still has the long grey fur on the bottom most part of his sides. It looks like "male pattern baldness"!

04/02/2020

After raising so many of these African soft furs for over a year and a half, I can honestly say that the 2 in this video are a rarity! I refer to them as guys but they are both females and sisters. Female Asf rats in my experience rarely get past 125 grams and the largest males I have seen were their brothers who were approximately 155 grams each. Sadly they developed tumors and recently past.
Just for fun, if anyone knows an Asf rat breeder ask them what the biggest Asf rat they have ever known of! Enjoy!

04/02/2020

23/01/2020

Here are a few photos of some my albino Asf rats!

07/01/2020

07/01/2020

Here is one video of the new Asf rats. They are already very relaxed in their new habitat. It's been less than 2 days.

07/01/2020

Good news! I always try to find "new blood" to introduce into my colonies and I found some! I was contacted by a very cool person who happens to breed "show quality" gerbils. She briefly got involved with some Asf rats but since they are still not as accepted as pets, I assume, it didn't work out, so I volunteered to take them off her hands. A special thanks to Jaimie for driving 3 hours round trip to get them to me. You can visit her page at Facebook.com/gerberadaisygerbils. Jamie is very passionate about her gerbils and has many beautiful color morphs to choose from!
Here are some photos of the new Asf's. Videos coming soon! I have never seen all white Asf rats before. Some still retain just a splash, or less, of color on their backs but there are a couple that are completely white! Then there is 1 rat that is charcoal grey! Don't know where that came from but there are a couple of fuzzies that also appear to be grey from front to back! Looking forward to watching them grow up!

07/01/2020

17/12/2019

Just a few photos of some of my African soft furred rats!

10/12/2019

Hello rat and/or reptile enthusiasts! After breeding only albino African soft furs for over a year, I acquired a few standard Asf's and this is the result of putting a standard male with albino females. Half of the babies from the first litter were all dark and half were albinos but they all have white crests on the top of their heads. I think they're cool!

10/12/2019

01/12/2019

27/11/2019

Here are some pics of this strange morph that occurred. These are all albinos. Full story on asfrats.com. I had some babies that started with very thin fur that later grew in. Then they had the thin fur just down their back like a stripe and this eventually turned into what you see below. Two different types, colors and lengths of fur. All of these traits developed over 15 months of breeding but had never occurred in the same rats until now.

24/11/2019

23/11/2019

Hello reptile and or Asf rat lovers! I want to let you all know that I have a small African soft furred rat breeding operation on the boarder of Poughkeepsie and Pleasant Valley, NY. I breed to feed my own pets but always have a surplus to be sold and those funds go for the purchase of supplies. Please check out my website AsfRats.com for more pics info and videos.