Is better to see each one sleep happily alone rather then see no more either one. Yes, chinchilla cannot get pregnant easily and THEY CAN get pregnant very easily as well. Some more your friend buying the same colour, SAME BATCH, just difference tone, and your friend do not know the background of that 2 chin at all, it very very high possibility is from same parent or same father. In result your friend will create inbreed which she do not know.

If your friend have levels cage, just seperate them 1st n 2nd floor, of cause you may need to modified the cage yourself a little.

Chinchilla, u allow ppl to visit la... Or u do some gathering or talk like hun.. haha educate others!!!

Wow... there are somemore new Chins at Ikano, colour very nice... But some chin not so healthy, got fungus on the feet. Some Chins's tail got something not right, less hair I guess... donno how to say, just feel like not right. >< too bad I am not a Chin Expert.

This post has been edited by shingin: Jun 1 2008, 12:48 PM

yea i saw them yesterday! there was a mosaic coloured one which i really like! and a couple of chins looked really really young...

visitation not available yet. Gathering...hmm... to talk like hun, I think I prefer post thread on internet.

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Added on June 1, 2008, 4:44 pmFungus on the feet? so fast ah... last week I see seem ok, now already got fungus ah..sigh. If the tail no hair, that is not just happen once, I think Ikano that side carry some bacteria that causing this, I always see and heard chin have this problem from there. They need to wash their cage and disinfect.

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Added on June 1, 2008, 9:42 pmA photo speak thousands words...



This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 1 2008, 09:42 PM

Chinchilla: ohhh... the feet not so black like that... I saw the chin's feet only left a patch of hair, others all drop off (botak). Is it because of funges infection? My rabbit did encounter the same problem when I purchased from the pet shop and the vet told me that those are fungus infection. >< Rabbit and Chin might not be the same huh.

Jan11: As I mentioned earlier, the following are the pic of my fren's chins, that she bought a week ago from pet safari... pebble [female, black] and rocky [male, cinamon]... hope u will enjoy it.



This is the pic that we took before my fren bought it. Wow, there are so lovely.









Chinchilla: Finally two of them are now separated, rocky is staying down stair and pebble is staying upstair. And my fren has bought the house (made from hay) to replace the bird house (made from unknown wood material)...

This post has been edited by shingin: Jun 1 2008, 11:02 PM

can u take a full picture of how to cage look like??
i wish to take picture but i dont have a nice camera..
sigh...
today i saw a mosaic in ikano...
i almost want to buy it..
but think properly.. i decided not to buy it.. cos he is abt 7 month old..
and futuremore, i scare i dont have much financial support.. as i already bought one last week.. and i also scare they will mate and breed when the mother is not old enough...

at this moment, i also have to find an appropriate cage for her.. i dont know mine is consider appropriate or not..
sigh~~
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Shingin, they are soooo cute!!! now you make me wanna go buy chins!!

Helena, i saw that mosaic too. very nice, right? i really like mosaics

Chinchillas, is it hard to treat fungus on chins?

Ya,it's really nice.My rm850 almost gone when i saw da mosaics.Haha

Ow.... you bough this 2 chin. Glad that you separated them, well done. What feed you using now?

Which one have the whole patch missing fur, can you take a picture to show me? Fungus is very easy to attack chin or any furry animal here due to our climate. If you have a rabbit near by, i suggest you place it else where or dont put in same room. Wash your hand with soap each time BEFORE you touch your chin and wash your hand with soap each time after you touch your chin. That will avoid bacteria spread.

The hay house look ok to me. Your chin will love it, he will chew it down in no time...

Since you using newspaper as a base for your chin, that can save some cost, but make sure each day you change it for them. Place a bit thick paper, pee can wet the whole paper very fast if your paper is to thin, it cos a big mess.

Just to add a note for you, your chin is a medium Ebony and a light tan.

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Added on June 2, 2008, 11:11 amCan i have a look of you chin? Must be lovely.

Well, you did the right thing not rush into buying! I can truly understand the POWER OF CHINCHILLA will surely draw your heart to buy them when you first saw them. It is a wise choise you have make, count your cost that you can only commit to certain level. GOOD!

About the cage, chinchilla have many cage can be use over here, just be creative, at the same time make sure cage is save. Flat bottom cage is always the best, high level cage is also good, but not too high for young chin, thirdly is make sure is easy cleaning for you. Chin will have rocket poo every where due to their active at night, kick all the poo all over... Get a 2 feet in width and high min. cage , should do a good job. Think about your chin will grow big.

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Added on June 2, 2008, 11:16 amNo, is it very easy to fight with fungus provided you must be very patience to treat them. Fungus build up due to humid and hot weather, expecially after rain in our country. Fungus can be treated within 2 weeks. usually once the right treatment is given, you can see great result in 1 week.

Dust bath is the key to avoid fungus, for those that not putting their chin is air con room, you need to give your chin 3 times a week dust bath. Get DUST bath, NOT SAND bath. The best enviroment for chin is always, COLD, DRY, QUITE, PLACE TO HIDE.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 2 2008, 03:41 PM

Finally i made up my mind to get a chin..

will start off doing research and readings..

will strike back here soon!

Read hard, study hard, you will be very relax enjoying your chin when you buy it.

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Added on June 2, 2008, 3:38 pmCLOSE UP!



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[quote=Chinchillas,Jun 2 2008, 11:05 AM]
Ow.... you bough this 2 chin. Glad that you separated them, well done. What feed you using now?

Which one have the whole patch missing fur, can you take a picture to show me? Fungus is very easy to attack chin or any furry animal here due to our climate. If you have a rabbit near by, i suggest you place it else where or dont put in same room. Wash your hand with soap each time BEFORE you touch your chin and wash your hand with soap each time after you touch your chin. That will avoid bacteria spread.

The hay house look ok to me. Your chin will love it, he will chew it down in no time...

Since you using newspaper as a base for your chin, that can save some cost, but make sure each day you change it for them. Place a bit thick paper, pee can wet the whole paper very fast if your paper is to thin, it cos a big mess.

Just to add a note for you, your chin is a medium Ebony and a light tan.





This is the bird cage that I mentioned earlier (smaller gap and 3 stories high), RM280 (5% discount if you are member). These two small one are separated as per Chin's advise... but they still chat during nite time, long chat they are not lonely at all.

tiles is added... for cooling effect, sometimes during the day time... they will take a short nap on the tiles.

Feeding material: Timothy hay (majority), a little bit of alfafa leaves (approx. 1 tablespoon, small grab) and 1 teaspoon of chinchilla pellet. Feed twice a day, 8am and evening (ranges from 7-9pm, depends on what time they wake up). They will stand at the gate or make some noise if they want food. However, timothy is always left behind (my chin dun really like timothy) and I have even see before they pick up the timothy from the bowl and throw it away... like a small kid like that. However, they are quiet ok with timothy if my fren hand feed them. My housemate really spend a lot of time with her chins.

Rocky and Pebbles got no fungus, the one that I saw got fungus is in pet safari (lastest batch of chinchilla). Today I went there and notice that chin is missing... I think someone bought it oledi. Sometimes it is not so easy to notice, I am just so lucky to notice only. But the medium enbony's ear, near the edge got a small needle hole and I suspect it is a lable tag hole. And the edge of the ear not smooth, quite mild and not serious la (chinese use to say kena gigit by anjing). The worst thing is the misai kena trimmed (left about 1.5inches but still got split end) Thank god the light tan is perfect to me... ears, legs and hair are alright, just a bit too active... like to be spider man.

Thanks for your info... try to search for the colour name and not sure whether is tan or beige and enbony or black. Haha luckily you have given me the answer.

This post has been edited by shingin: Jun 3 2008, 12:42 AM

shingin, where u get ur cage? haha.. nice chins u have there.. i saw many chins b4.. nut nver ever touch one actually.. scared will get poison by their cuteness n their soo-soft fur.. hehe

Feeding chin is very simple, just do whatever is suit your time frame and set on that, they love routine feed. About the timothy, soon they will start eating, continue feed them, sometime they eat but you can't see.

Misai kena trim is normal, because 1 of the chin in his group want to be leader, they will trim off other's whisker to show his is the boss. Misai will grow back soon.

You now should go buy a digital scale, to weight your chin once 2 weeks, write it down, this can help you to monitor your chin grow stage and health.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 3 2008, 12:23 PM

thats cute

They are!

they are cuper cute

How about show us your chin? Have'nt see your. Love to meet your chinchilla.

Wow a bit shock to hear that? but the enbony chin's misai got split end woh, still can grow ar? me and my housemate try to trim off the split end but very/super difficuilt and finally we gave up. We can't even trim one misai ar... scared the scissors might accidentally hurt the chin. BTW, Chin without long misai looks so weird

Good Suggestion, I will get the digital scale... may be next month, this month me and my housemate broke already... any good suggestion where can I get a reasonable price one?

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Added on June 3, 2008, 6:44 pmFrom Ikano Pet Safari... Chin's fur is super super nice to touch ... Ermmm, u can go to the pet shop and ask them to let you hold. I still remember the 1st time I hold it, scared but excited. (Scared got bitten by Chin)

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Added on June 3, 2008, 6:47 pmYea yea, helena can I look at your chin... I miss that little tan chin. If I have no mistaken, helena own a very light tan chin and ahve a very nice colour.

This post has been edited by shingin: Jun 3 2008, 06:58 PM