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My chinchilla is still cleaning and pulling at the hair on her belly two days after she gave birth. Is this normal?

Mark 111 days since you first let them play together and make sure you have a proper cage with no shelves and spacing of 1/2 inch or less. Sometimes you can't tell a chinchilla is pregnant until the kits are out. Do not let the male and female be together again ever or she will be pregnant...

Just wanted to update anyone who cares. Penelope gave birth this afternoon around 2:00 after a 4 hour labor. We were packing up to take her to the vet when the first kit started to come out. After all was said and done she had three kits. The first and third kit were breech births and the third...

My brother and I got chinchillas about two years ago off of craigslist because we both loved chinchillas and wanted to save some. His chinchilla was a boy(Patty) and mine was a girl(Penelope), but I always kept them separated because I didn't know their genetics and didn't want to risk anything...