Baby born Saturday/Sunday

[ChinchillaOwner]

Sunday night I was surprised with a baby walking around the cage. What is her colour? It is similar to it's dad which is a beige but it is more grey than he is or atleast right now it is.
Mom is a Black Velvet.
Here are a few pictures of her on Sunday night. She weighed 53g on Sunday and on Monday she weighted 55g. Last night (Thursday) she was 71g already. Here are a couple of pictures. I am not 100% positve but I think it is a girl. It is so hard to get a good picture so you can all help me tell her sex.
She is already trying to master the wheel!!!

 

[Stackie]

Congrats. Looks like a standard to me.

 

[ChinchillaOwner]

Do you agree that she is a beige? Her colour is different than her dad and obviously differnt than mom too.

 

[alli713]

No the baby is not beige. I think it also looks like a standard

 

[addictedtochins]

Soo cute, I've never seen a little baby on the wheel. Congratulations.

 

[Dragonflye]

The baby is a standard. Genetically, with a beige and BV combo, you have a 1 in 4 chance of producing a standard baby. Congrats!

 

[ChinchillaOwner]

I thought she was a dark beige because of her very light tail and underbelly. Thanks for your help

 

[ChinchillaOwner]

Soo cute, I've never seen a little baby on the wheel. Congratulations.

She jumped up there on her own. And ocassionally she will take a few steps and then jump off the wheel. I thought it was cute...

 

[alli713]

Beige chins would have pink ears, which she doesn't. You could also get a brown velvet out of that pairing, but they also have pink ears. You could also get a black velvet out of the pairing, but the baby doesn't really have a mask, veiling, or the stripe on the paws.

As far as the wheel and shelves in the cage are concerned, just be careful that the baby chin doesn't hurt itself, or for the mom to jump off and land on the baby. Many breeders leave the cages rather sparse when the babies are little to prevent any accidents.

 

[Essentia]

Very cute baby. Just as an FYI, you may want to remove the wheel. If mom decides to run on the wheel while the baby is on there, there can be dire consequences. Also babies are CRAZY and can cause themselves injury on a wheel. The general consensus is no wheel until 6 months old.

 

[ChinchillaOwner]

I have since removed the wheel. She really is a little monkey, loves to try and climb the cage walls.

 

[Essentia]

Told ya they were crazy.

 

[brittiny]

=o CUTE~~~

 

[VolunteerChin22]

There is a sticky posted at the top of this section with photos to help you sex kits...It might be easier to look at those and compare rather than trying to take a picture...Cute baby

 

[ann1]

Yep definately a standard

 

[ChinchillaOwner]

The baby is growing like crazy, she is just over 2 weeks old and has almost doubled her weight. As of last night she is 103g now. She is looking more and more like a light standard everyday with the exception of her tail.

 

[Riven]

Many standards are born with white tips on the hairs on their tails, that is normal.

 

[ChinchillaOwner]

Here is a picture of her I took yesterady. She is growing so quiclkly. As of yesterday she was 112g. She doesn't seem to know how to have a dust bath, I can put her in the dust but she just jumps back out of it. Any pointers? She has seen mom do it but will not do anything when she goes in there or is put in there. This little monkey loves to climb..

 

[arf2184]

She's still young. She'll figure out the dust bath in the next few weeks by just watching her mom.

 

[addictedtochins]

Oh, how cute is that!