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Hi All, I hope you are doing well. I have a quick question re chinchilla housing needs. My cages do not have chinchilla houses in them. Chinchillas sleep on the ledges or hammocks. Over night during autumn and winter the temperatures on the ground floor are about 17-18 Celsius. I was thinking...

Hi All, I hope you are well. My ~2 years old female stopped eating. She is losing weight at a rate of about 5g a day. I have introduced apple juice so she gets some calories this way. I have also noticed that she is no peeing much so she isn't drinking much of water or apple juice. Her poo is...

Hi All, I hope you are well. I think the cleverest chinchilla behavior I come across is when one of the bigger chins got stuck in the hay feeder head down and the other chins were showing distress to the owner to indicate that something isn't right and their fellow chin needs a rescue. The...

Hi All, I hope you are doing well. Bulk of food my chinchilla eat is actually Science Selective Chinchilla. I would say it's 65-70% of the pellet they eat. The rest is Oxbow Chinchilla Deluxe. I have noticed that from last year the price of Science Selective has ballooned by about 30% from £4.3...

Hi All, I wanted to hear your opinion about a chinchillas who manage to make the exit. Mine has managed to go into the garden area but I don't think she ventured far but as expected she didn't respond to my calls. I reckon males would behave differently once in the open. I don't think...

Hi All, I am in the process of rehoming two of my chinchillas and I have been contacted by some people who run business where they take animals to schools and care homes to provide some therapy. I have been contacted twice by such individuals and I am quite reluctant knowing that chinchillas...

Hi again, I was thinking about this behavior. It is a female trait. I have a female who is a type of a bully to other chins. She is naturally bigger I think about 700g of weight and not a type that makes way for other chins. I don't think this behavior has anything to do with mistreatment. She...

Hi All, I was wondering if chins eat more food during winter when it's cooler and I reckon they use more energy to maintain body temperature. Best regards

Hi All, Does this exist in the chinchilla world? I have a male chin who behaves like he is missing his wife. Best regards

Hi All, I hope you are well. Do you know if a daily activity of a chinchilla owner and related noise makes the chinchilla more tired and then less active at night or it does not matter? e.g. young kids who will not let the chins sleep. They normally wake up around 6-7pm. Kids won't wait that...

Hi All, I use TicTac Wheels made in UK however the fixing bracket and the cage vibrates too much to my liking. Have you come across any way of reinforcing the bracket to the cage?\ Thanks

Hi All, Do you have any ideas for DIY wooden toys I could make for them? Best

Hi All, What is the % of timothy hay waste you get from chinchillas. I have noticed that males are quite wasteful. I order timothy hay from HayBox.club https://haybox.club/collections/frontpage/products/timothy-hay I go for Blend but they also have Coarse Cut...

Hi All, I hope you are doing well. I have a problem with chins making holes in the plastic water bottles. They were on some frenzy because I lost 7 bottles in a month while it was OK before. I reckon when the ball gets stuck then chins tend to nip the edge of the bottle making a hole. Would you...

Hi Al, I wanted to know your opinion about chinchilla sleeping. Does it require a house to sleep in it? I see 2 or 3 chinchillas cuddle together when they sleep on the shelf. I was thinking maybe it's too cold for them and they should sleep in a wooden house? I mean the temperature in the room...

Hi All, I hope you are doing well during these peculiar times. I wanted to ask you if you have been successful in pairing two female strangers. I only tried once but taking into account that females are very territorial I think it's impossible or at least detrimental to the health of one of...

Hi All, Not sure if you feed your chins with this by I have noticed my chins don't eat the standard pellet that is part of this mix. https://www.vetuk.co.uk/small-animals-chinchilla-food-c-671_2351/supreme-tiny-friends-farm-tiny-charlie-chinchilla-tasty-mix-p-2121 They really go after carrots...

Hi All, Have you come across any good automatic food dispensers for chinchillas or similar animals? The ones for cats and dogs are too big and not suitable for cages. I tried the gravitational feeders but I found chinchillas to be clever enough and empty these in no time. I reckon they consider...

Hi All, Due to the fact that the globalists are ramping up energy prices through the world (at least in the countries under their strict control US, Canada, UK, EU, Australia, NZ, Japan). As far as I know electricity for residential properties in Mexico is free. Anyway I have two boys who cover...

Hi, I would like to know your opinion on that. I have been using sand for their baths, it's definitely not a dust or there is some small amount of dust in the sand but if I reuse the sand after couple of uses the dust is no longer there. I see people on videos using only fine dust but I heard...