Me too!!!

Everybody also wish to have a super big chinchilla to hug for sleep.

Hair ring check is a common practise among breeding chin, if for none breeding chin, hair ring check can be done WHEN neccesary or 2 months once. It is a very simple thing, but need some 'practise' tho. Just make sure don't pull untill it break.. You can also do the check when your chin showing sign of unconfortable or keep on 'heading' there. So far I check my chins once every 2 months or so or when showing 'sign' to me.


The ugly side of chinchilla(only this chin...FLATTEN! Ugly....)

hahaha... then you do it for your future chin lor. Is very easy la. Nothing to worry.

Well, for chin, I hv not know what name to call on that position. Chin sleep in many position, some is terrible cute ! But I wont be able to capture picture easily on that, they heard me when walk close to the cage, but some is like sleeping beauty... especially pregnant chin, like a PIECE OF HUGE MEAT PILE! 1 of my female chin look like the belly going to blow...

They will struggle when you pull it, that's why must be very careful, but most of it we stay still when you pull it(afraid you break then i think! )

The belly picture I posted on top is a chin who pregnant. I dont hv the whole picture of them, cos no disturb...

Finally you put up picture! But only 1, not enough la! Show the whole cage la, show more photos la. We been waiting.

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Added on July 4, 2008, 11:44 amSome chin owner didnt do it as well. From my experience, dont worry if you didnt do checking. THINK about rancher, they have few thousands male chins, they dont do hair ring check for they male at all(unless sign appear)

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jul 4 2008, 11:44 AM

Great! That is a healthy sign of a baby chin active at night. All small animal will love alfalfa hay, but it can't be feed all the time except now when the chin still young need extra protein and calcium.

Ya, young chin is like that, but when their adult, they STILL like that.... some is more some is less, some is just sleep... like my.... They can really sleep for they life.

Flying sauce pan can only get from US/UK. Enable to use the saucer pan, you need to have your chin in air con room. If Chinchilla is rare in none AC condition, running wheel(above 15") or sauce pan is not encourage to be use in our climate without AC, even hv need to be limit.

Is normal for chin to roll on the dust and jump out again, then go in again, their playing. You just leave the bath house in there for 10mins, then take out, dont leave there entire day.

Sigh:( I also saw 3 chins in a pet shop put in the dog display shelf which expose to direct heat(I believe sunlight is coming in as well at the morning), even I tell them the chin is suffering, need to be move, they said THE CHINS BEEN THEY LONG TIME ALREADY, NO PROBLEM. They think they can fool me, sigh . Eventually before I leave, they took 2 PIECES of newspaper and cover the screen outside.

I think the ferret there also suffer much as well, but ferret not much hair tho...

To add on, I saw 6 rabbit and a GP in the SAME CAGE, SMALL cage. My.... I was thinking can we create a thread which listed out the name of the pet shop we visit who didnt take care the animal they sell.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jul 5 2008, 06:14 PM

How old is your male and female? Do you do some research first before putting your chin into breeding? Breeding, every body will hv that temptation, fully study on what you going to do and check out your chin background is very important, is your chin a breeding quality?

Lastly can you handle the consequences that will happen if your chin have problem to delivery baby, baby get stuck, mother die, can you hand feed the baby every 1 hour, day and night, even you sleep at night for 3 weeks?

Chinchilla can get pregnant at 4 months of age, that will make you young chin into total disaster if she cannot handle the baby and herself still in the growing stage.

How about you do more study first? Seperate them for now in difference cage, go to the first page of this thread, click the links that for your reading, study hard, let's learn more before try to create baby chin.

Begin a chinchilla

vincent your chin is cute . Are you putting them in an aquarium? Fish tank? those tank is not suitable to keep chinchilla, you should use cage. Tank is blocking the air and ventilate the air, even is air con room, tank is not suitable at all. Your running will make them get even faster heat up.

I saw the top is cover with wire, weather or not, the tank is not suitable for chinchilla. Vincent, I can only advice you study what chinchilla is and need before you go into breeding. Your whole tank setting speak to me you didnt do enough research or not reading of what the article is saying from the website you visited, not even need to talk about breeding. From what you reply, no matter what i advice you, you still will put your chin together and breed them.

I am very glad you willing to remove something that is not suitable for chinchilla to use and I am glad you does not like others chin owner who when ppl give advice they feel offended and run away.

11 Jan have give you very good pointer there to remove something. The plastic house, the wheel, and the stick is not the right material to place in your chin 'tank', so all have to remove. You can look for the right material and decorate it as you desire, but make sure ALL IS SAFE FOR YOU GORGEOUS CHINCHILLA. Your can get a ceremic house or wooden house.(save wood house for your chin, if you can't get a untreated Pine wood house, PM me, you can purchased from me.) For the wheel, min 15" is the suggestion for chinchilla, actually is also too small, you need at least 18" wheel with SIDE COVER. For the 'stick', you can get some jumping platform from pet store, look around Pet safari, you should get some there. For the cage, you can get quality Tommy cage from Marchioro, is very good cage for keeping chinchilla, need to spend a bit tho.

When you have proper CAGE, you can do a lot of thing in it with the space available, why not get a 2 storey cage and do a nice mention, some toys, hammock, some chew block for your chins? They can hv lots of fun living in it. The block if it is too hard, hard like cement, mean you get the wrong type, dont use, you will spoil your chin teeth, get some chew block like Sluis or Puik.

You can also do a search on google image, 'chinchilla cage', you can get lot of ideal how ppl place item in they chin cage.

For the pregnant part of your chin, some chin doesnt get pregnant at all, no matter how you place them, they can stay together for years and not have kits. Secondly is the health of the female, if she know she is not in good shape, she will not pregnant, even she had, she will abort it. You need to check the weight of your chin, min weight of 600gram-650gram to be a guide line for female to place in breeding and the chin quality(fur and shape) is up for breeding. POOR chin + POOR chin = VERY POOR CHIN.

To seperate the 2 chins, you can get 2 smaller cage with your budget, not too small that they cannot run and jump and place them side by side.

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Added on July 9, 2008, 12:55 pmI am growing big~!



This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jul 9 2008, 12:55 PM

Ya is a Boy!

Vincent, when a chin begin move to a new place, they will need time to get use to the new place again, that will make them more calm. Chinchilla hv no problem staying alone. The tank still not the right place to keep any of them, save some money buy a proper cage.

What kind of balance food you feed them? and if you use tank, how you put your water bottle? feed them from bowl will cause them to jump on it and over turn it.

Lastly, i suggest you continue to do what ever reading you think you lack, is good for you and your chin. Here have 2 links for you to read.

http://www.petmag.co.uk/chinchilla/care.html

http://www.huggablepets.com/huggablepets/chininfo.shtml

You can get a proper chew toy from 11jan. PM her.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jul 9 2008, 06:41 PM

Vincent, If the food with lots of colouring 'food' inside if yes, you can throw away right away. You need to change to plain pellet, no other colouring stuff in there. You shouldn't listen to your friend who did not have any chinchilla or listen to any of the pet shop ppl, this will show if you do research and study properly on care fact of chinchilla.

Look for PLAIN pellet brand like kaytee, you can get easily from pet shop. You no need to control feeding toward chinchilla, they wont over eat, just fill the bowl with pellet, a handful of timothy hay, a little bit of alfalfa hay, clean water, that's all.

The dog drinking bottle is suitable, those that can fit in any mineral bottle.

Please BROWSE through this thread , and read the conversation, you sound very raw.

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Added on July 10, 2008, 11:20 amDo you willing to travel down to KL to get a good one 1 day?

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jul 10 2008, 11:20 AM

Kaytee plain pellet dont hv any other size but 2lb. My chin is in their own room.

Leo looking great! The video kind of dark.... You have a quality Tommy cage from Marchioro! Great!