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Chinchillas Fighting over female I run a chinchilla rescue in greater Boston. I own one female chinchilla and I am having a problem with male chins at the rescue. It seems that the male chins, no matter how long they are paired, and how close they are, my current two rescues Zen and Cloud are...

Hello I run chinchillaplace.com and one of my contributing writers in Florida has made the difficult decision to sell her herd. The web page she runs http://www.chinchillaplace.com/chinchillas-tampa/ gets a lot of traffic and several people inquiring about chinchilla adoption in the...

I live in Massachusetts and I am looking for a local bulk feed supplier. I used http://www.ryersonchinchilla.com/ before but they are out of Ohio and shipping is extremely pricey. I am on a waiting list for the next time the owner makes a run to MA, but does anyone know where to get quality bulk...

She is already nibbling hay and food pellets in between nursing and running around the cage. It's so cute how quickly they pick up on things.

She is a chubby little thing! growing so quickly and loves mom :)

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Great Article Great website. This article was very helpful I just sent it to my twitter network and added your website to my chinchilla links page! :thumbsup:

both as well, but I also have allergic reactions to loose hay so my husband hay's the chins

ok just want to have an idea of what is a normal range.

gotcha guess I was just lucky before. We had 13 sets born to different parents, 11 with no problem and the last two not so lucky. I guess complications were bound to happen eventually just nature I guess. How often do people normally experience complications with kits. 1/20 1/150? more less?

not this time. I could tell she was pregnant, but I didn't realize how far along she was. I separated her and the live kit into a baby safe cage immediately, the dead kit that was laying stretched out did not seem trampled, I looked him over pretty thoroughly to try and figure out what could...

Thank you for your quick response. I am not positive it was still born as I saw it shortly after she had given birth. It was laying flat and stretched out in the cage with mom standing over it like she was trying to keep it warm. I did not see any damage and it looked fully formed. Both mom and...

This is great advise. I had a similar question as I have two females with kits currently.

I usually separate mine for a month or two before putting them back together. It gives mom a chance to be with her kit and relax. My mated pairs are always excited to see each other again after a long break I keep the cages close enough that they can still see one another.

I have had several successful litters over the last 4 years, but recently I had 2 stillborn kits from two separate females. Both of the females had 2 kits and one of each were stillborn. I am wondering what went wrong and if anyone has any advise. The live kits are both healthy and doing well...