Recent content by Koshka

I am considering not breeding her anymore as well... but she had a kit before and she was a wonderful mom. I actually have her daughter who is one of the sweetest chinchillas I have ever had. The mom never bit me too and she seems OK now that they are not with her. The kits did bite me when I...

Thank you! Here is the Brown Velvet girl picture:

You were right! He is Hetero Beige. I had a Brown Velvet born the other day and I can see the mask and the stripes on paws. Here is the picture update of the baby as he is 1 month old now. Isn't he a cutie :) Someone reserved him already but I so want to keep him now.....

Yes I am afraid that me picking them up to weigh was a bit too soon perhaps, well at least in this case (other times it's been totally fine). The only other reason I see was that the babies are relatively big (55 and 52 grams) and I noticed they were fighting each other a little so may be mother...

She has always been a good mommy but this time she was trying to kill her kits. Grabbing them with her teeth shaking left and right, jumping on them, pinning them down while they were screaming. I am not risking it anymore. I decided to split them and put to 2 different moms who had 1 kit each...

I am relatively experienced hobby breeder however I have never had this happen before. This morning I found one of my females with 2 perfect babies. As usual I weighted them and put them back. Everything seemed fine, but all over sudden the mom started chasing and biting her babies. I took them...

Yes, I saw that chin color calculator, but wasn't sure if it was 100% accurate. It's too light to be a Black Velvet and seems a bit too dark to be a Beige. He looks smoky, so like tan. I don't have much experience with Velvets (just bought a few of them 2 months ago from a retiring breeder) so I...

Mom: Homo Beige Dad: Black Velvet Does the baby look like dark tan, light tan, TOV tan, may be a beige that will lighten up later? What do you guys think? Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/eudym