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It's not uncommon for breeders to breed bv to bv. I have a somavia black that has almost complete velvet to velvet pairings on both sides of the pedigree all the way back three generations. With the whites tending to have lazy fur, breeding white to white would produce even worse fur and is...

Cheryl you just found the select stuff. They have cheaper pine boards.

Here is my vet in Columbus. Dr. Burton is excellent and the other vets have Chinchilla experience. Animal Care Unlimited 2665 Billingsley Rd. Columbus, Ohio 43235 (614) 766-2317

This is really strange. I just took in a pink white rescue that was dropped of at a pet store. She was doing the same thing....... Constantly. I have her in an isolation/quarantine room in a smaller cage untill she will go to her new home. I thought maybe that she couldn't distinguish the...

I think the article was refering to rattle snakes of all things. Seems a little far fetched to me but it is always interesting to read about the early days of the chinchilla breeding industry.

reprinted from 1937

I am at work and don't have access to the article now or I would post the section. Maybe other MCBA members have it handy.

MCBA news volume 51 no. 2 It's in the M.C.B.A. news article titled "the rodent that's worth more than gold" by John Angus Haig.

I think the fn and cn cages are quiet by nature compared to a martins cage or the like. No rings to jingle. I have a fn142 with the metal pans from bass and I have no problems with noise. But the chins fling the shaveings all over. The difference in the ferret nation and the critter nation...

I got a new group of chinchillas that you can't seperate with a crowbar. They are just too stinking cute. I had too make bigger shelves so they could all fit together.

Here is a few more. I just cant help myself.

Here are my girls Sam and Voodoo. I have been waiting on them since they were born. It seems like it took forever. Voodo is the ebony Sam is not.

Thanks for clearing that up lauralynne, I was going to add to my post but I was running for the door late for work. Sumikos site has really good photos of tovs and. Cheryl from chechinchillas has several different tov animals on her site and in her breeding program as well...

TOV = touch of velvet.

Got me!!! I didn't even think of the day. Clever. Well played mods, well played.........